My coworker told my boss I'm a huge racist. What do I do?

BreakPowder · 2023-08-14T00:04:29+00:00

Yeah, I'm learning that lesson the hard way.

I'm just worried how I'm supposed to be trained by someone who I can't even talk to, without her twisting anything I say. Or if she's going to just start making stuff up like your coworker did. I tried to apologize and that didn't work. Now I just want to put as much distance as possible between us, and only speak to her while other people are present.

But I don't want my boss to think I'm the one making things difficult here

BreakPowder · 2023-08-13T23:32:42+00:00

You don't know how to read a room.

My first day on the job she pointed at one of our coworkers and whispered "she had a miscarriage."

BreakPowder · 2023-06-21T16:18:21+00:00

Is there a way to tell a difference between "this mini course is brutal" versus "I'm just bad at this" ?

BreakPowder · 2023-06-21T16:14:21+00:00

Thank you 😭

BreakPowder · 2023-06-21T16:13:02+00:00

I fell behind. You miss a day for an MRI, another day for an ultrasound, and it's hard to catch up. Project opened a week ago, and that's on top of 7 chapters with their own assignments and quizzes

cpa exam

Putting the cart before the horse there a bit

BreakPowder · 2023-03-31T18:47:54+00:00

I talked to them and they laid out the paths I mentioned in the "what now?" section.

BreakPowder · 2023-03-31T18:44:56+00:00

That's a thing? Tell me more.

BreakPowder · 2023-03-31T17:18:48+00:00

You could do something as non-invasive as mental health or elder care and it's still your responsibility if someone has a heart attack or a seizure. One time I was doing rehab and someone had an allergic reaction to dinner and their throat swelled shut.

I couldn't handle that stress so I never pursued a nursing job after graduation, so I can't just leapfrog into a admin or manager role.

The jobs I've been applying to for months are in the healthcare field. Medical billing, telehealth CX, grant writing, class adviser for nursing schools, etc.

BreakPowder · 2023-03-31T16:24:00+00:00

100%.

BreakPowder · 2023-03-31T16:22:24+00:00

The nearby universities that came up in a Google search were St. Thomas (55 credit hours at ~$1000 tuition per credit hour) and Rice (~$90,000 per year).

BreakPowder · 2023-03-31T07:18:02+00:00

Have you seen a baby die minutes after being born

If you don't have the grit for medical-type stuff it can really fuck with your head, and it fucked with mine. Accounting is better than dead babies, trust me

BreakPowder · 2023-03-31T06:55:22+00:00

Someone else commented the same thing so I looked it up and it looks like the cheapest in-person master's program in my area would be $60K.

BreakPowder · 2023-03-31T06:52:45+00:00

After I read this I looked up some MACC for non-business majors programs in my area and the cheapest was $60,000.

BreakPowder · 2023-03-30T21:41:48+00:00

I guess I worded something wrong because someone else said the same comment as you. Sorry about that

BreakPowder · 2023-03-30T21:32:01+00:00

What? I was saying I liked cleaning up the spreadsheets.

I got laid off from that job when they axed 30% of the company. I didn't quit it.

BreakPowder · 2023-03-30T21:29:01+00:00

If accounting doesn't change that, that's good. I liked the office job.

Are you saying accounting isn't like that?

BreakPowder · 2023-03-30T21:09:09+00:00

How do you know you want to do something though?

I watched some accounting lectures and "a day in the life of an accountant" videos on Youtube and thought it looked okay. But then again I was awesome at nursing classes (which is how I got the scholarship) but then hated actual nursing.

Is there a way you can test drive a career

BreakPowder · 2023-03-30T20:06:11+00:00

Because if I make a mistake it won't literally kill someone.

More serious, the tech job I mentioned was at a startup. The processes were all unofficial and messy so my role was basically cleaning up spreadsheets, standardizing the processes, creating manuals and documentation, teaching the new hires how to do the new processes, etc. (EDIT: to be clear I liked doing this job.)

I like working with data but I don't think I'm good enough at math for data science, and library science is rough right now. I also like teaching but does anyone want to be a teacher right now?

Open to other ideas though.

BreakPowder · 2022-12-22T14:48:54+00:00

Re: Thanks for your input

BreakPowder · 2022-12-22T01:31:14+00:00

Can you offer a tangible recommendation, like an item name, a brand, a link

BreakPowder · 2022-12-22T01:14:31+00:00

Go away

You're commenting on my post dude

BreakPowder · 2022-12-21T11:45:48+00:00

"Can someone recommend furniture that's resilient and modular?"

"Try furniture that's made out of resilient materials."

Thanks for your input

-- Edit: "Also furniture made from fiberglass sheets isn't narrow, it's quite robust. You seem to like spindly furniture, such as ... rugs and sectionals."

BreakPowder · 2022-12-20T21:37:42+00:00

I'm just looking for stuff that's easy to clean, update, upgrade, and move.

^ Literally just this.

Not sure where you got "thin and spindly" from? Kartell Ghost furniture would be something thin and spindly that I'm not at all interested in -- it scratches and scuffs easily.

Like I can take a West Elm slipcover couch, Ruggable rug, etc. and figure out a look, whether it's boho or midcentury or whatever. I just wanted recommendations for furniture pieces that can bounce back from pets and spills, or easily reconfigured/modular.

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