This is just a place to get it off your chest and/or rationalize what you didn't put into words. Whether you kept silent out of fear, were too tired, not feeling confident enough, decided to take the high road, or saying something would have been wrong for the situation. Late is better than never right?

I wanted to chew out this lady who led a counseling group I'm in. Normally we talk about our own private issues, but she decided to start by playing a video clip of a couple arguing about their abusive relationship that aired on tv. I don't know what year, it just felt voyeuristic and totally detracting to the personal support aspect of our group, not to mention unnecessarily triggering. But she meant well I guess.

I'm sorry that happened :/ I'm a human services major actually, and I see a lot of people either missing the point entirely or being super insensitive when, HELLO the point here is that these issues are sensitive! It sounds like your experience was both.

I feel like I have moments where I want to speak up but don't a lot in my Lifespan Development class. The professor just over-simplifies things a lot or uses these blanket statements that I know some of my other classmates are eating up as fact when they are not and it drives me nuts! The other day in class we were discussing genders and she was saying how your chosen gender is decided by which gender roles you prefer, and I wanted to speak up and say "Oversimplification here!!" Because I prefer a lot of stereo-typically male things but identify as a female, and I know so many people that prefer X roles and X roles but identify as X gender etc., so it was just a little frustrating...

I didn't tell my coworker that I think she's taking advantage of the fact that her daughter has a higher-up position where I work and that I know she gets special privileges because of it. The worst example is when she took a week off last week even thought the schedule was already made and the other two of us up here were forced to cover for her. You don't do that to your coworkers. When a schedule comes out, that's that. You can't ask for days off unless there's an emergency. A vacation is not an emergency. Forcing people to cancel their other commitments and plans is not fair - when that schedule is made, I have every right to make plans on days I have off, and no one should be able to make me come in.

Bosslady, it also wasn't right of you to force me to cancel my volunteer job because it "isn't as important" as my paying job. You let her take the vacation, so you should cover the damn desk. And if the two of you knew about this vacation weeks before you told me about it, you should have told me then! Maybe then I would have had time to switch things around. But noooo, precious had to have her week off.

And also, Bosslady, I'm seven months overdue for my yearly review and raise. I'm going on my fourth year with this place. I wish you'd stop whining about how you have to take care of the kitchen first and there's so much you have to do before you get to that and blah fricking blah. Just woman up and do it already. I'll bet you don't know that I know that there's a stipulation in our contract that says I am owed a yearly review on the date of my hire, and if it isn't done on that date, that I am due back-pay up until the date the review is done. Have fun explaining that one to corporate, my friend.

Just because you are a resident does not give you the right to be rude to me. When I am on the phone, you do not have the right to interrupt me. It's not all ME ME ME, asshole.

I was sitting in the car, just a few hours ago. I forget what the topic was, but I went to ask a question and instead of replying, turned up the music volume. : (

Aside from that, and on more serious topics, I am normally someone who often holds back my thoughts and my words for whatever reason. Instead of doing that, today I actually managed to speak, be it in written form and verbally. Might not be as relevant to the thread, but it's a small thing to be proud of!

i didnt hear u cuck

several things tbh today

I recently went to the eye doctor and was told my eyes are basically fine, well I couldn't even see my artwork to finish it off without a pair of glasses but I am afraid to say anything on the matter because I JUST SAW SOMEONE and they said I was fine

I am honestly struggling SO hard in school and i just need 2 credits to finish off school and I can't just ask for the help because then everyone will know I haven't been doing it or doing well this whole semester and I don't wanna be seen as a failure or lazy or something so I am just sitting in CONSTANT anxiety

This happened a couple days ago and it's bugged me since: some drunk guy came in with his kid to where I work, immediately got on my case and none of us could speak up to really call him out on his bs. Because if any one of us had spoken up, it would have immediately been about race as we're white and the clearly drunk guy, endangering his kid, was a man of color. [edit]And before anyone gets on my case here about judging based on race, you could smell it. Like the couple times we've had white kids come in high as a kite, you can smell it.

The other day a woman came into my work and called me names. I wish I had said something but I didn’t for fear of losing my job.

Mostly cause I wouldn't know how to put it in words/perfect English for my bff and this has been bothering me for a while, but my lucid dreams (especially involving my tloml) have been extremely off-putting lately, and whenever I'm awake and look at whatever he posts on Insta, I just always feel there's something off about him but I don't wanna call him out on it cause it wouldn't make sense to tell him cause I'm not a mean person and he wouldn't even know what I'm talking about.

- oh wow, I can relate to so many things from your post! Reviews and family relations getting the upper hand.

I finally got a review back in August, a review that was a YEAR overdue. And after they laid off 3 people, it was like to cushion things.

I work for a smallish family owned company. The father is the CEO, mother (ex-wife) is a sales person, their daughter and son are also sales/managers. The daughter can be pretty awful to deal with. Everything is about her and her customers and accounts. I had to listen to my boss defend her own job and my whole department today for like 20mins this morning. Wasted time talking about managing time. It was a conversation my boss had with her numerous times before.

There is so much work and so many accounts and not enough people. The daughter has 2-3 (special) people dedicated to her account at all times, while the rest of us have to suffer juggling around work for multiple accounts. We are trying to take on more business and make more money, but it is stupid annoying trying to get resources to other sales managers. It is a really unfair and unbalanced situation where this 40yr old woman will stamp her feet and run to her 70yr old dad to complain make it so she gets all the resources she needs. She is really selfish and narrow sighted.

It drives me batty that it seems like her (and her dad too), after all these years working and running this company do not understand all the customers, the amount of time and work that is needed to be dedicated to each one. She has no understanding and doesn't remember about the skill sets of myself or any of the other artists or what accounts we each work on.

I go about my day keeping my mouth closed, I can't say anything.

I worry that when the CEO retires the company is going to be left to his daughter, and that will be pretty gross. I'll probably have to resign then if things get warped.

I actually have an update on the coworker situation. She quit/was fired. Family relationships just weren't enough to keep her here anymore. XDXDXD Karma.

I really hope those lovely people at your job get theirs too. I'm sorry you have to deal with them!