#random work ramble

[painterofhorizons]

random work ramble

After almost nine years, in eight days my old work accounts get terminated. Of course I still need to do all the annoying orga around that - save emails, change several third party accounts from my work mail to my private adress and such (and of course the old project still ain't finished and published and I have not heard from my ex boss with an update from her work since my contract ended 3 months ago).

I'm fine with that chapter being over, but knowing all the digital traces will vanish, too, feels... Like those nine years will just be erased. Like they did not matter. Like I don't.

~9 years is not a good length for an employment (or in my case multiple 0.5-3 year contracts added up). It's too long to feel like "hey, this is just a limited project", and too short for real long term. Heck, this was most of my working life. And it will just - be erased.

Sigh. Fuck that, really.

[painterofhorizons]

There's this library position I'm once again technically not qualified-qualified for but close enough to apply and it's basically the very very very position I wanted to have for a decade.

😭😭😭 Please for the sake of everything sakeful, please let me get it.

[painterofhorizons]

Got a job interview mid January!!

[painterofhorizons]

Phew.

Had my first real unemployment office appointment an hour ago. Was super stressed about it, because if they want to and you get matched with the wrong person, they can make life hell for you.

Well, none of that happened. My person was very reasonable, very understanding, and the best case happened (which is she let's me try to find something on my own for now).

Also, she was very supportive of my wish to get a part time job and do art classes at the community college on the side. She was basically "that'll get you a job quicker than if you try in your field" (which lol, we live in a society where art will get me a job quicker than the thing I studied and worked in the last ten+ years).

So yeah. Will definitely try that route and even look for additional qualification things in the art area that they might pay for me to do.

Pheeeeeew.

[painterofhorizons]

Psst.

There's this job listing with my old employer that I totally really badly want.

I'm also totally really badly not qualified for said job. So it's also super duper scary.

But I think I'm gonna apply anyways.

[painterofhorizons]

✨

I'm back home and I will never. Ever. Go to the old work place again.

✨ Never. ✨

I will not have a drink on that tonight though because I had three last night and I was quite wasted after that. 😅 As it should be, mind me.

But: never. Again. To the old work place. ✨

(very unfortunately not yet free of the *** boss, but at least now it's all remote and I can go see the ocean after having to deal with her)

[painterofhorizons]

🤡

The clown pulled the ultimate clown move today. Since she asked me for discretion and I, for one, was brought up with manners, I'll keep it to private for now. (anyone feel free to pm me just saying)

But believe me when i say it is the ultimate, unbelievable, completely unexpected clown move and I hate her very much for it.

[painterofhorizons]

Let's indulge in the pure irony for a second - 🤡

Since I got this four week extension on the project, I told my boss last Friday I want to also delay the "leaving work coffee with colleagues" these four weeks.

Boss gave me the whole "boohoohoo but I already worked my schedule around the coffee drinking, also I don't want to go to the office four weeks later just to say goodbye to you" (aka I'll completely work remote the last four weeks)

I agreed.

Today boss tells me she's sick. She might still be sick on Thursday. She might not be able to come to the date she insisted I do this week.

Listen, I do hope she's still sick enough not to come, because I really don't want her to be little sick enough to come but still sick enough to hand the shit on to me, you know?

But the irony. The fucking irony.

I'll hopefully have to do my "yo folks, I'm leaving work" (forced, because contract ends) without my stupid boss.

It would be the height of the past two years. I actually laughed so hard once the phonecalls was done.