Green Room - Week 24 - Day 5

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The Top 50 of Season 8 are here, now we just have to navigate through the wreckage to find the track to the Top 40!

If you told me that this group of degenerates talented people would be the Top 50 – well, I don’t know what I would have done. Because it was a really talented field this season from the get-go. So, pretty much every possible scenario was, and still is, possible. Which is exciting! Or scary. Or a little bit of both.

Especially when you factor in just how brutal “Real Life” has been this time around!

Granted, what most people have been chalking up to “Real Life” has just been my increased involvement with setting traps around contestant’s houses in order to better destroy them!! You thought that thing wasn’t in the same place where you’d left it – but fortunately I was able to pump in the memory fogging gas before you could figure too much out.

*pipes more gas into your room*

Get out there and read some entries http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/560771.html and support your favorites!

Comments

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I still stand by what I say that anyone left seriously could win this thing and not surprise me. There's so much talent this season. Then again, I'm sure I say that every season because it's proven to be true.

I'm really excited to see how the rest of the season plays out and who makes it to what. Top 40? The top 20? Who wil it be?!? Only time will tell.

I may actually finish reading this week! And I want to start doing rec lists again because the entries are that dang good. We will see what happens.

I'm feeling much better today, I almost feel normal (isn't that scary?), but my job is killing me. It's went above and beyond ridiculous. I'm so done with this place. I'm hoping that the interview tomorrow leads to a promising way out so I can (politely) tell my supervisors to F' off for being asshats.

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

I hate that feeling... your job is such a big part of your waking life. I hope that you can get something else soon. I have had the satisfaction of telling my boss to fuck himself, and it was REALLY satisfying.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

It will be really satisfying, trust me. My boss may get a polite F' you because he can be somewhat decent. But there are times I get no support and he expects me to be a mind reader so there is that. But the girl known as Evil One... Now that's going to be fun.

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

I kind of wish I had told a couple people to F themselves when I left. Although in a way, I think I did just by going to the job I did.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

In reality, I won't tell them to F themselves because of burning bridges and all that. Not a good thing to do in this industry just in case I do need to get back info this field. Everyone knows everyone within these companies. So I can't totally tell them off. But I can explain why I'm leaving and why that's just wrong to treat people this way. I get no support, I'm a scapegoat, I'm supposed to be a mind reader, they pile ridiculous stuff on me and everything has to be done NOW (even the petty stuff they really don't need NOW), the way Evil One talks down to me and micromanages... The list goes on and on. I deserve better than this, really anyone does. Other admins are always telling me this, so it's not just me... And when I tell my boss that people who have had my job before (when the economy was slower) have told me they need to hire an admin to help, he rolls his eyes at me. So screw you people. I'll just say it in a nicer way as to not burn bridges.

Please let this interview be a promising lead....

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wouldn't have done it either for the same reason. My old company has a policy of never rehiring people who've left, but I still might need a reference from someone there someday.

Where I went was more or less a big F you to them, though. Several people who have been super disgruntled in the past went to the same place and I think it's kind of a well-known screw-you strategy. :-p

You really do deserve better. I sort of do wish I'd told someone WHY I was leaving, but there was no one I could trust to listen. If there had been an HR group at my company, I probably would have told them.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

Sadly, everyone knows each other in this industry. People move around a lot. If I need to stay in this industry, I might interview for a company that hired people from my company. We get people that know each other from our competitors all the time. Some people even have worked together at more than one other place before. It's not worth risking my potential interviews over my anger. But boy is it tempting.

We have HR who will hear my complaints (in a civilized manner) and I'll likely confide in my boss. My admin friends will likely know exactly why I'm leaving. I've gotten sympathy from the former Office Nazi and she goes easy on me, which is insane because everyone fears her wrath when it comes to slacking. But she does stuff for me without me asking, which is not common. But she knows my bosses are ridiculous right now. She's suggested they hire someone to help me, and even threw a comment at my boss last week that when she had her wisdom teeth removed, she got a week off work, not just a few days.

So they will get it :)

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling better and crossing my fingers that you can find a new job quickly!