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Dream job

~ MaryG ~ 5 Comments

What’s your dream job?

I had a job I loved for many years and now it’s over. I worked with inspiring leaders and brilliant faculty and made great friends.

My work as a fundraiser contributed to the mission of terrific organizations that changed lives through music and the arts. The money I earned helped pay the bills and put two kids through college debt-free.

I had my dream job. I’m grateful.

Work Update 4

~ MaryG ~ 1 Comment

Today was hard. It was Friday of my last real week at work. Word has been slowly leaking out and tonight I got a call shortly after 5pm from a number I didn’t recognize. It was the Executive Director of the legacy (pre-merger) organization calling to say that he is “devastated” that I’m leaving. He said I’d done amazing work over the past 18 years and left a lasting legacy at the organization. He wanted to know the details of why I’d resigned, so I told him. He was really upset. I cried. We didn’t linger on that too long, because he really just wanted to thank me – very sincerely. I truly appreciated his call.

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Work Update 2

~ MaryG ~ 2 Comments

The update is that there’s really no update. I haven’t heard anything since Monday, when I told Laura that I think Suzanne should be fired.

Laura says she’s going to call me tomorrow to “check-in.”

I really just want to know that my claim of a toxic work environment is being taken seriously — like they’re really looking into it. Because it was very real to me. Suzanne has been such a royal pain in the ass for the past SIX years. I’ve endured the worst boss of my life for six whole years, in my fifties for godsakes.

I want to know that HR connected all the dots from past complaints about Suzanne to my situation. She’s had angry outbursts and run-ins with many people and I want HR to talk to them to get the whole picture of how she acts at work. And I want them to take a look at the exit interviews of Kathy’s three predecessors.

At one point, I remember the organization paid for Suzanne to attend a really expensive management training program, because so many people were having problems with her. (It didn’t work.)

I want her toxicity noted/documented over a period of time.

For my part, I’ve already quit Suzanne. I just decline all meetings she’s attending and have stopped all contact with her. I’m just doing my own work and not worrying about her.

But my ear is still ringing loudly. This is stressful.