I didn’t know I was that exhausted yesterday because I slept with my lights and PC still on. It was a terrible way to end the week.

Our CEO had a townhall meeting with us in APAC and I couldn’t help but raise the question about hiring. I told him I have zero reporter in Singapore and it is ridiculous that they are not prioritizing it and are prefering to hire freelancers instead of fulltime reporters.

I got scolded by my APAC boss, like you shouldn’t tell him that we are preferring freelancers over regular hires.

Then we had a call with our cameras on and she said what happened to you? You look terrible! I said yes, I’m so stressed and I really don’t understand your point.

So it seems like they did their own hiring and already submitted their choice for an editor/reporter in Singapore with the management and it has been stuck there for 3 months. And they didn’t tell me. So what’s this all about telling me in January to double down, drop everything to do hiring and replace my colleague who left then all of a sudden they tell me we can only do freelancers?!

This is so fucked up. I’m giving up.