For those of you who don’t know, I had been unemployed after the company worked for employed me on a 6 month contract. The reason I took on a 6 month contracat was due to the fact that I needed a job, it was a great opportunity and also because the company pretty much guaranteed me a full time position.
At my previous job was where I encountered the High Priestess of Rudeness, and Evil and totally UNATTRACTIVE old scrubber who’s main goal in life was to make mine miserable. I shouldn’t flatter myself like that, the evil o’ scrubber treated another lady at work the same, so I wasn’t that special.
I really do not enjoy being spiteful and bitter about this woman, but she truly is that awful that she makes me coin the phrase “wouldn’t piss on her to put her out if she was on fire”. How can one person be that mean????
Enough of that old scrubber. The simple truth is that I was royally shafted at my last job. After my husband was told by everyone at the Christmas function that I was amazing and that they were so lucky to have found me, to then be told in February, nah sorry, change of plan, we don’t need ya anymore, even my husband was in shock.
So I managed to find myself like a dream job. It is another 6 month contract but the beauty of this one is simply that I am getting paid so much money, I can afford to save a truck load of cash and be able to survive when the assignment finishes in 6 months time.
I love my new role, and hopefully they love me. I am very pathetic about it though. I am still so fragile from my last job that I keep waiting for them to tell me that I am no longer needed and to go. So everyday I just wait for the inevitable.
I honestly did not realise how miserable I was at my last job until I started working where I am now. Whilst everyone at my new job is very much in their own little cocoons doing only what their job description advises to the absolute letter, people are much nicer to me and I am actually part of a team. Something I have not actually been for years.
Imagine my surprise when I got asked to go out for lunch with a bunch of the staff here. I nearly fell over! And people genuinely meant it. There is no whispering and snide comments made or being excluded from conversations even though I sit a few metres away. No feeling like I am the smelly kid that no one likes. No being told off if i ate something that was sweet or chippies or something that was fried. And no having to make the entire office a cup of tea, and having to refrain from spitting in someones tea because they were just the awful to me.
As my husband said, welcome to the normal office environment!!