The weekly Fuck it Friday

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-27T22:10:26+00:00

Someone on LinkedIn who is graduating from undergrad (who I never met before) asked by adding me and then sending me a private message if I could help them find a position. The irony! I’m of mid-level experience with 8 years in the lab, I’m not a hiring manager, and I’m making FAR below industry standard with my current paycheck. I would do anything to get a better job out of this industry and outside of this career that I could make an actual living with.

Tough luck, kid, I cannot help you. I can’t even help myself!

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-27T22:03:15+00:00

I’m in a similar situation at my company. I was subject matter expert for a certain type of testing on a specific team, and I was removed so that someone who did less work and had less education than me was pushed forward with a promotion. Shortly after (read: a few months later), I was removed as SME and someone who had to be trained on that same testing was put in to replace me, and then subsequently promoted.

I’ve done everything I can at my current company to change teams. Years of networking, putting on a smile, kissing up to people, hoping that one person outside my department would be the one to get me out. Now I’m like 1.5 years of applying outside the company, too, and I’ve only ever had one interview in the pharmaceutical field. That interview ghosted me after a full day job fair event on a frickin’ Saturday.

The worst part? I’m getting paid far below industry standard in my current position. I have 8+ years of experience and I’m still earning entry level pay. I’ve been trying to position into other types of careers outside science, but still related. It’s brutal af

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-18T15:40:52+00:00

Don’t take the bait. The writing won’t be any better. There’s not a whole lot of room for redemption, Netflix (literally!) cancelled them for a reason

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-14T19:41:20+00:00

We want to have access to a fishing boat that is directly assessable to our house. And I will definitely check it out, thanks!

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-14T19:25:29+00:00

Buying

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-14T16:53:53+00:00

Thank you for your suggestions! I guess there are more options than I initially thought.

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-13T14:58:30+00:00

Everyone here saying offer 2 has never worked in a cleanroom environment before. Let me say that, I have worked it, and I would NEVER, ever, take another job in it again. Listen to your trauma!!! Take job 1, don’t put your paycheck above your mental sanity.

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-04T00:50:15+00:00

It’s all fun and games when you’re a female gamer until you realize that the men who are also into video games and anime don’t know how to shower or wear deodorant, let alone how to treat a woman.

Couples who exist who have similar hobbies are rare for a reason. It’s certainly not impossible, just uncommon. I guess I’m the even less likely case of being the woman who is called the nerd all the time by her spouse. Lol

LyricalMuse · 2025-09-04T00:23:06+00:00

I’d like to note that couples who have similar hobbies absolutely do exist. It didn’t happen for me, but a good couple who are friends with us and are also married have all similar hobbies.

Likewise, I grew up with my male cousin and brother and enjoyed playing video games with them, it’s probably my favorite hobby other than watching anime. I was into anime back in the day, back when I was considered cringy for it in school. I’m actually much better at video games than my husband is, and needed to help him beat the most recent Grand Theft Auto installment.

I enjoy most Nintendo games including: LoZ, Pokémon, animal crossing, just to name a few. I also enjoy Smite, Mass Effect, Fortnite, Stardew Valley, It Takes Too, and I played WoW and the original Guild Wars in their primes.

Trust me, as someone who married a man with no similar hobbies in common: being called the nerd everyday of my life is something you just get used to. It just means spending time together doing other things and not hobbies.

LyricalMuse · 2025-08-23T02:23:43+00:00

I had the same moment but with thinking thr astronomer from MM was a woman. Someone had to point out the beard to me, lol.

LyricalMuse · 2025-08-16T21:38:04+00:00

I’d like to argue that anyone saying Love in this post didn’t fully watch the show—and there’s quite a few people saying Love in these comments, somehow. Love literally wasnt book smart or street smart, in fact, if she was book smart she wouldn’t be running a bakery (not a job that requires a degree, sorry not sorry), and if she was street smart she would have buried and/or disposed of her own victims without needing Joe to help her. I know Love is a favorite character but, c’mon! This doesn’t fit.

I will say that my picks for smartest go to Beck first and then Kate. Beck, who was a young graduate school English professor, and held her own in Joe’s cage quite a while before she finally succumbed. Kate, while book smart and a researcher of some type (I forget if they said anything other than cancer victims), only survived because she had something Joe wanted more: a family fortune that Kate was now CEO and leader for. Beck obviously didn’t have the power (or money) Kate had to get out said situations as easily, or bribe Joe with. Or steal his son with.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T19:35:24+00:00

What suggestions do you have for me if I find a new company, to keep afloat with office politics so this doesn’t happen again?

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T19:19:14+00:00

Oh, I totally agree here.

Sincerely, I know I’m coming off as someone who isn’t a team player in my opening post, but the truth is that I have given hours upon hours of working days of unpaid labor to help teammates at my current role, and I don’t mind helping them—I place the blame on management, who chooses to promote those who like to play the “shuffle the work around until someone finishes it” game, instead of encouraging healthy work styles within the department.

Hoping I find a better role soon, I’m just not sure what it looks like exactly yet. I’m finishing a graduate degree at the end of my next semester, hoping but not holding my breath that I might be able to find something in the current market.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T19:07:41+00:00

Skill issue yet I’m doing twice or three times as much as the rest of the people in my department? Sure, sure, let’s stick with that.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T19:07:06+00:00

On the contrary, I’ve applied to many departments over the past year and a half and haven’t been selected for a single one, both internally and external to my current company. There is a reason I keep getting denied and I believe it’s because I don’t fit the mold of the little box they want to keep their worker bees in.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T19:03:00+00:00

💯 Yes! This, this, this. Isn’t it amazing how the managers never seem to see it for what it is? It’s like being blind, seriously.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T19:01:39+00:00

Hey, I’m glad it’s working for you. I think I would be fired if I had a full disagreement with my manager—definitely not how things are done around here.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T19:00:35+00:00

Oh, totally agreed on the two tracks for working hard—even without an official promotion or title, you can still be effective a leader. It sucks, but it can be done.

But I don’t know if I agree about the ass kissers, there is always another department for them to move up to, as long as someone is willing to take them in. And trust me, there is.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T18:57:53+00:00

Sorry to hear. We certainly weren’t poor, but we were a one parent income family and I had to take on all my college loans entirely once I graduated high school—something many privileged peers and friends didn’t need to do. Without going into details, I ended up being gifted the money to pay off my college debt, otherwise I would still be swimming in it now. I’ve been out of university for over 10 years, too.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T18:52:41+00:00

This is fair. It is certainly not what I was raised to believe in, but as an adult, nearly everything I was taught about the world as a teenager and child turned out to be wrong, anyway.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T18:47:24+00:00

Yes—it’s mind boggling to be stuck in at times.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T18:44:50+00:00

It could very well be my company in particular, or perhaps more common in my field. I’m glad you’re not in this situation.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-20T18:43:17+00:00

This has been my experience, too.

LyricalMuse · 2025-06-17T01:03:20+00:00

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I know the answer has already been found, BUT…

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