...and my boss didn't think I was important enough to bother informing me of it.
So I got to work today, and my coworker told me to check my email. Sitting in my inbox was a little note from my boss containing the usual, insincere, copy-pasted "your contributions were appreciated" blurb. They're "restructuring" my position, and as such, everyone in my position (myself and one other) are being terminated in June. As my coworker is leaving in May anyway, that just leaves me.
Apparently my boss announced this completely out of the blue in the morning meeting today. My supervisor didn't even know about it before the meeting. The entire department was informed...except me. I got the equivalent of a text-message breakup a little later, with a little two paragraph email. I wasn't even given the dignity of a face-to-face meeting. What can I say, my boss is a classy lady.
Add to all of this the fact that we just got done (mostly) meeting one of the unreasonable demands she's become famous for, and I'm especially bitter. She assigned myself and one other person 1,000 man hours (this is the actual number, not an estimate) worth of work, to be done in under a week. We have 40 hours per week PUT TOGETHER. The other ten people in my department pitched in, and we (quietly) ditched part of her very specific and unreasonable process to make everything faster, and we got it done just barely on time. This was also extremely filthy work that was incredibly unhygenic.
So we get his done against all the odds, and instead of a "Wow guys, thanks for getting that done so promptly!" we get "Yeah, your positions are getting the axe. Go sodomize yourself with a rusty spatula." I mean, I'm used to being degraded and treated with no respect whatsoever as an intern. I don't get too angry over that. But, you're cutting the job I rely on to pay my bills (with the reasoning "It's an internship, not a part-time job" even though it's always traditionally functioned as a part-time job to get people through college) and the lack of professionalism in handling it simply doesn't fly. At least tell me, to my face, before you inform the rest of the department in a meeting. Seriously.
Of course, after all this sank in, I got a little mad. By "a little mad", I mean that a mass of burning hatred and rage condensed into a spinning singularity of pure malice in my brain. I actually gave myself a headache within 1 to 2 minutes from the blood pressure spike. It's a good thing I spent the latter half of the day alone for the most part, or I'd probably be in the slammer for homicide right now.
She's basically treated everyone like shit since she got hired. She's stunningly incompetent as well as ignorant of what it actually takes to do what we do. She's a terrible manager of people and has no personality whatsoever. The only thing she can do is spin a corporate line, and that's about it. She knows it, too, because the last couple of people to criticize her in any way were suddenly found to have breached their terms of employment and were immediately fired. Imagine that.
I had a bunch more of her negative qualities all lined up to put out there, but I don't think anyone wants to read about me bitching about the bitch (see what I did there?), so I'll leave it at that. I mean, maybe I'm overreacting, Maybe this is perfectly OK and normal; I suspect not, though.
Pic related: Me, a few hours ago
So I got to work today, and my coworker told me to check my email. Sitting in my inbox was a little note from my boss containing the usual, insincere, copy-pasted "your contributions were appreciated" blurb. They're "restructuring" my position, and as such, everyone in my position (myself and one other) are being terminated in June. As my coworker is leaving in May anyway, that just leaves me.
Apparently my boss announced this completely out of the blue in the morning meeting today. My supervisor didn't even know about it before the meeting. The entire department was informed...except me. I got the equivalent of a text-message breakup a little later, with a little two paragraph email. I wasn't even given the dignity of a face-to-face meeting. What can I say, my boss is a classy lady.
Add to all of this the fact that we just got done (mostly) meeting one of the unreasonable demands she's become famous for, and I'm especially bitter. She assigned myself and one other person 1,000 man hours (this is the actual number, not an estimate) worth of work, to be done in under a week. We have 40 hours per week PUT TOGETHER. The other ten people in my department pitched in, and we (quietly) ditched part of her very specific and unreasonable process to make everything faster, and we got it done just barely on time. This was also extremely filthy work that was incredibly unhygenic.
So we get his done against all the odds, and instead of a "Wow guys, thanks for getting that done so promptly!" we get "Yeah, your positions are getting the axe. Go sodomize yourself with a rusty spatula." I mean, I'm used to being degraded and treated with no respect whatsoever as an intern. I don't get too angry over that. But, you're cutting the job I rely on to pay my bills (with the reasoning "It's an internship, not a part-time job" even though it's always traditionally functioned as a part-time job to get people through college) and the lack of professionalism in handling it simply doesn't fly. At least tell me, to my face, before you inform the rest of the department in a meeting. Seriously.
Of course, after all this sank in, I got a little mad. By "a little mad", I mean that a mass of burning hatred and rage condensed into a spinning singularity of pure malice in my brain. I actually gave myself a headache within 1 to 2 minutes from the blood pressure spike. It's a good thing I spent the latter half of the day alone for the most part, or I'd probably be in the slammer for homicide right now.
She's basically treated everyone like shit since she got hired. She's stunningly incompetent as well as ignorant of what it actually takes to do what we do. She's a terrible manager of people and has no personality whatsoever. The only thing she can do is spin a corporate line, and that's about it. She knows it, too, because the last couple of people to criticize her in any way were suddenly found to have breached their terms of employment and were immediately fired. Imagine that.
I had a bunch more of her negative qualities all lined up to put out there, but I don't think anyone wants to read about me bitching about the bitch (see what I did there?), so I'll leave it at that. I mean, maybe I'm overreacting, Maybe this is perfectly OK and normal; I suspect not, though.
Pic related: Me, a few hours ago
I'm sorry to hear that, Thjoth 
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