My biggest nightmare since a while now is my so called new job. It seems I’m terrible when it comes to judging people and workplaces. My nightmare started on the 15th last month when I first joined my new company. From the first day I felt something was off about the company or shall I say factory since working there is like working in a factory and people there are treated like sheep. I had to deal with various issues when I first joined the team. I had to beg for a desk which was given to me like 5 days after joining and I had to beg for my own decent mac which was given to me a few days ago with a scratched up crappy screen. I will have to call that the least of my problems for the moment though and the reason to that is the following. Last tuesday we were asked to paint the office and fix it up since some important people were coming to visit the company which was a total mess. Painting sounded fun but it was very exhausting and we had to leave work late and completely drained out for 2 days.

Next came thursday, we were asked to stay late to work on a campaign and a presentation, I ended up staying till 8.30 pm (usually it’s 1.30). That was still not a problem but then we were also asked to come friday to work and work on another campaign, to that I had to say a definite NO. Friday is the only day I get to see my husband and spend time with him. Everybody else showed up to work and were quite intrigued I didn’t want to show up. It didn’t stop here noooo. Then came saturday, we were also asked to stay and work overtime on some logos and a campaign in 1 day. I ended up leaving work totally drained out at 10.30 pm. The other designers (whom are all philippinos) ended up staying at the office till 4 am in the morning trying to finish up the work!! Sunday came and I was like WTF cuz we were asked to stay late again and work on another campaign and on another rebranding project. I also ended up staying till 10.30 pm that night and I couldn’t even see straight when driving back home. The other philippino designers stayed till 4am in the morning AGAIN. I was starting to think that my boss is totally inhumane and is a monster for abusing her employees like this and it still didn’t stop here. Monday came then tuesday and I left work at 9 pm , the other designers stayed till 4am in the morning, one of them even slept and stayed there till 8 am before going home!

I was going insane, I mean WTF is this place all about? AND IT STILL DIDN’T END HERE.

Yesterday I managed to sneak out at 5.40 pm (my working hours are from 8-30 till 5.30) without letting anybody see me, the others stayed up working till 5 fucking am!! I couldn’t believe my ears when they told me this morning. Today I also managed to sneak out at 1.40pm, told everybody I had a lunch engagement. The unimaginable happened then. The senior Art director calls me and was like I have good news Nat, the boss wants everybody to come to work tomorrow (on a friday!) to work on a campaign. I didn’t even wait for him to finish up his line, I told him immediately no I can’t I have plans. He then tried the guilt approach by telling me that all of them were going to cancel there engagements and were going to be there and that it was requested by the boss. I still told him NO I can’t. He then told me that work should be a priority, I told him yeah it is but not when we have impossible deadlines to meet which had been the case for the pass 8, 9 days. He then told me ok I will tell that to the boss, told him to make sure he does.

Now I really don’t know what to think of my boss besides that she’s totally inhumane for keeping her staff up all week trying to achieve the impossible and still asking for more without giving anything in return, not even a thank you. No appreciation whatsoever for any of her staff. I really despise people like this. I cannot put all the blame on her though. The rest of the staff are also to blame for giving her what she wants and putting up with her orders. If everybody is willing to jump off the window when asked to, I will definitely not follow even if it will cost me my lousy job.

I think my boss has been trying to call me for the past hour to make me come tomorrow (friday), I decided not to answer my phone. I will be expecting the worse on saturday, i even see myself getting fired for not fulfilling my managements requests. But, I have no other alternative, I could either stand up for myself and for my rights as an employee or get stepped on and treated like dog shit like everybody else.

Nevertheless I might have another nice job waiting for me at the end of the month with a friend of mine and Mark’s. I would rather not say much about this for the moment though. My old jobs seems like a paradise now compared to the shit hole I’m currently stuck in.