more meeting minutes (paraphrased)
Boss: You're in trouble because you made a bad decision a month ago.
me: Oh? This is the first I'm hearing of this.
Boss: Yes well you clearly made the wrong choice to leave all the horses out that one night when it was cold and rainy.
me: Please explain how it was a bad decision? As far as I'm aware everyone was fine and none of the boarders had concerns they communicated to me—they usually don't hesitate.
Boss: Horses got wet, and cold! If the boarders had known they would've been upset!
me: ... yeah, that was unfortunate with the 14% chance of rain we had that night, but you get that the horses were fine, right? I made my decision according to company protocol that states that unless there's more than a 40% chance of rain and it's below freezing, those horses can stay out. The old and sickly ones were already inside—you know that too, right? I even went above and beyond to blanket the rest and then I checked on them at 2am.
Boss: Well you should've brought them all in at 2am because they were slightly damp!
me: Put that in the rule book then.
Boss: Excuse me???
me: I said put it in the rule book ****. Sit your cozy corporate ass down and compile a fail-safe set of weather protocols that factors in everything from humidity to wind direction to the thickness of each horse's coat on a mid-January morning and then have it tell me how to make every other minute decision I've been making on the job for 2 years and if I break the rules THEN ...you can write me up about it.
Boss: ... so you're still in trouble, and now we're just calling it 'communication issues', because actually you should've called me at 2am and asked me what to do.
me: Oh? So that's a rule now? Good to know. I'll definitely do that moving forward, since that's what you want me to do. If only you had communicated that sooner.
Boss: ...We're still writing you up for—
me: ah ah ah—
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It's a clown show. It's obvious she's just scrambling for excuses to fire me because I'm too good at this job and they can't afford me anymore. It says a lot that this is the worst dirt she's got on me. She's tried the 'you should have called me' bit before and it's hilarious because 9 times out of ten she doesn't respond and the other 1 time what happens is that I spend 30 minutes explaining the choice she needs to tell me to make to her—and then sometimes she tells me to do the wrong thing anyway. F*cking insane. Anyway, I held my own against her and the boss above her for over 60 minutes and I intentionally drew that meeting out to make harassing me more expensive.
I'm so excited to tell her I'm quitting, and I'm gonna do it the same way she told me I was losing 30% of my compensation just after Christmas. —Ring ring "Hiiiii, I don't know if you've heard but—"
