A colleague from another region was messaging me while we were attending one of our regional townhall meetings today, ranting to me about his line manager who doesn’t get what is happening. So he asked me what is really going on. Then that messaging spiraled down from there, to the usual rants about how incompetent the manager is…
So when it was time for Q&A, I asked the global head about travel. “During the presentation earlier, you said TRAVEL. Can you expound on this one? You mean there would be no restrictions on travel in terms of cost?”
The global head said, “I’m not sure what you’re talking about. We didn’t have cost restrictions before. We only had travel restrictions because of Covid. We encourage you to travel if there is a business case, like meeting sources, having our brand out there.”
And that colleague from another region said: Ha! So she doesn’t know that we had budget restrictions.
I wonder who was really keeping me from staying longer in Singapore, which is technically where my office is located, therefore I should be completing all the things I should set out to do whenever I’m there? Who is keeping me from going to Singapore this month so I can meet the sources that my colleague is passing on to me, interview candidates, and do more stories from there?
I have to confront my managers about this in the coming weeks. This shit can’t go on.
I will fight until I have nothing left to fight for. If they didn’t listen to me before and will not listen again to me this time, then it’s time to move on. I’ve been fighting to keep this team afloat despite the difficulties.
I will play this song over and over until I get some kind of enlightenment.
Yeah, Breaking Benjamin has been my voice of encouragement for more than 12 years now.
Some words of wisdom from my social media feeds today.
Hurrah for narcissists! May you destroy more lives in your wake.
Of course I’m being sarcastic. That’s the only thing you can do now after surviving narcissists, right? Being tongue-in-cheek about things that had killed you.
And this post deserves a near-perfect rendition of my favorite song of defiance.
Another Breaking Benjamin song, this time in acoustic.