So yeah, I promised a life update journal a while ago, and I'm only just now getting around to it.

On a minor note, bluesky is no longer blocked, so I can get DM's on my social media again, so that's a positive.

But that's again, a minor note compared to everything else.

Like I had mentioned before, was going to leave my job.

As the job update before that was about finally getting my promotion, you have 2 guesses on how that turned out, and the first one doesn't count.

Since I have no reason to care anymore, I'll go ahead and spill the tea.

In January of last year, my boss decided to retire. Been there 21 years, long enough, good for her, adulations all around. I was fully expecting to get promoted to her position, get my own assistant, all that jazz. There was a lot of foot dragging, but it was in April of last year that I was told that they were opening it up, and go ahead and apply, and finally get this ball rolling.

Well, come July and I'm told they decided to go in a different direction and hire from outside for that position, and that I would have to train my new boss.

Never mind the fact I've been doing the boss's job, plus my own, for the last 7 months, them saying I'm not good enough to get promoted for it, but still would have to train them, and I should have quit then and there after that massive and grave insult.

The excuse they gave was this new person had more experience with people with special needs than I did, which I later found out was a lie. Their experience was they were a substitute special ed kindergarten teacher for a single semester, then 9/11 happened and she freaked out and quit the job market for 20-odd years.

So new boss comes in, and is quite possibly the worst human being I have ever met in my entire life. As a short list, in under a month:

1: Questioned why a blind student was here, saying that because they were blind they didn't deserve an education.
2: Referred to students going to humanity degrees (English, sociology, art, etc) as 'dummies who can't get into business.'
3: Changed the entire reservation system and resulted in late fees and fines quadrupling (The higher ups loved that one, soaking the student body for even more money.)
4: Got into verbal fights with at least 3 other professors.

And that's just what she did with the place, it's not including what she did to me. She did WAAAAAY worse to me. Pretty much she messed up a bunch, and it all ended up being my fault because she was the boss and didn't make mistakes.

And then in September I caught her sexually harassing a student.

I took that to HR, and I was told, paraphrasing "It's a bad look for a man to accuse a woman of sexual harassment, especially with no recorded evidence and it's not to the one reporting it, so we're just going to chalk this up to you being bad with change."

Then the next day, they told her I reported her for sexual harassment.

Then, the real abuse, bullying, and retaliation began.

The first thing that happened was I was told that I was no longer allowed to have my cell phone on the property. So there was no ability for me to record her doing any of these horrors. Then I had evidence that she had been breaking into my office and rooting through my papers and trash and moving my mail key.

But pretty much, every single day, I was abused and bullied and given no recourse to do anything about it. No allies at work, no one I could report this to since HR was taking their side, just having to sit, smile, and take the verbal, psychological, and almost physical abuse. (I don't have proof but I'm almost positive she slashed my tires and keyed my car one day in October.) It eventually got to the point where I often wished I died in my sleep so I wouldn't have to go to work and deal with her.

I eventually couldn't take it anymore and decided that I would leave this job at the start of the year, just to make sure I could get my company Christmas bonus.

Well, the one day after our busiest day of the year but the one day before they'd be on the hook to pay me for Christmas, she fired me. There's a whole crap-ton of processes and procedures that they're supposed to go through, but they didn't do any of those, but the higher-ups went with it anyway, and canned me.

Honestly, I'm glad to be gone, even though the job market around here is absolutely miserable. When I think of how I wasted 8 years of my life there, the only employee to come back after COVID, only to be tossed out for a monster, I weep for the years I threw away for nothing. And because I was tossed out like that in such a manner, it means I can't qualify for unemployment, so one more eff you from them to me. There's more I could go into, like how through her incompetence, she ended up failing an entire class, but I've wasted enough words on this place.

But, that brings us to today. That place might as well be dead and the building on fire for as much as I care anymore, I'm better than 12.70 an hour, so they can eat my ass. In a bad way. It's time to focus on tomorrow, and my eventual plans moving forward.

I plan to get my Meteorology degree, because that was my main reason for having education. Not sure where I'll go for that, since it's not offered around here, and most places require at least a year before going into a program, so that means applying once August rolls around.

But that's the future plan. If it means eventually moving, then I'll move.

So for immediate life updates, while job hunting, I've started up my Twitch channel for gaming. A lot of it is the backlog of games I never got around to because I was too busy working, but right now I'm playing Pokopia. Yeah, everyone and their brother is a streamer nowadays, but I enjoy it when I can get to it.

I've also opened up coms again. At some point I need to post up my updated com sheet because I realized my old one is from 2017. Suppose this journal can be taken as a public opening announcement but I'll make an official one later. Hopefully not in a month because I keep forgetting about journals.

I had planned to go to LVFC and FWA before all that unfortunate business with my job, but maybe one day I'll finally get to be social and go to a furcon and see/eat some of you guys.

I am planning a trip to Chicago in June for the 10 year Pokemon Go Fest event that week. Dunno if I'll see any of you there.

But, yeah, I suppose that's the most immediate life update I've had going on. Job hunting, twitch streaming, and writing. Yeah, wasting 8 years of my life hurts, but I still have a good 2 or 3 left (Old joke).

I guess that's all for now, so I'll open the floor to questions and comments.