Notices by Soup-Like Gender Homogenate ✅ (sanspoint@icosahedron.website), page 3

Looking back on it, nearly a decade later, I think I was right. It was a gaslighting operation, right down to how they fought my attempt to collect unemployment by sharing Twitter posts I made with the dates removed.

(I fought back. They lost.)

Decided to go through my Facebook memories today (don't judge me) and saw a post I'd made after getting shitcanned from the startup I worked at when I first moved to NYC.

Post: "The more I think about it, the more it seems I spent the last year as a victim of an extremely elaborate gaslighting operation."

In the comments, I expanded on this: "The endless promises of a buyout just over the horizon, the parade of technology and financial people walking into the office (some real, some I can't be sure of), the super-secretive hacker CTO who stymied attempts to get us health insurance by refusing to reveal his personal information, the harassment of employees who got unsolicited job offers, the lack of documentation about the equity I supposedly had in the company (which I "lost" upon being fired.), and a whole holy host of questionable and unethical behavior..."

I feel like I’m doubly fucked here because I got this job on the promise I could find ways to improve our email program. Instead, four months in, I’m burned out, have nothing to show for it, and my manager is asking what happened to the girl who came in and was raring to go make changes and fix shit.

That girl hit a fucking wall when the season started. That’s what happened to her.

Ugh. This is what I get for trying to do things right instead of half-assing it.

We have these high priority email newsletters that have to go to season ticket members, and they've just been built as big stacks of images that are unreadable on phones. I insisted we do them by coding the text into the HTML, and asked one of the coordinators to get started on rebuilding the email template for that over a week ago. She basically refused. The other email coordinator did the job (quite well), but she did it today and the email is going out _tomorrow_, and there's a bunch of mobile bugs that neither she or I can fix, and if the first coordinator had just done what I asked of her _then_, we could have sorted this out already.

Why have so many of my jobs involved a subset of our audience that is super rich and demands a super high-touch special ass-kissing email segmentation strategy? I'm so sick of fluffing the dicks of the wealthy because they're wealthy.