employers
I've noticed something...
In the past few months I've read multiple posts from one member after another talk about how miserable and mistreated they are at work.
I was about to make a post of my own along the same lines. In the past 18 months working at my job I've tried to move up in the company a dozen times in half a dozen different departments. I've tried for management positions, I've tried for entry level positions, I've tried for positions simaler in nature in different departments...
I have been turned down for all of them.
I've tried justifying their reasons many times, they try telling me a new one each time I get rejected. Is it because I don't have blonde hair, big tits and knee pads like the bitch who's been promoted three times in half the time I've been here? Is it because I don't have a vagina and a bubbly touchy feely personality like the girl with no management or classroom experience that beat me out for a company trainer position? Did I piss in the Director's Cheerios? They tell me my attendance disqualifies me from this latest position I applied for which is simple data entry.
I have to wonder if I really am being as poorly treated as paranoia dictates I should.
a good chunk of us here in this bipolar community feel they are being unjustly or poorly treated by their employers and seem to jump to the conclusion it's because they are Bipolar...but is there more to it than that? Sure, being Bipolar makes us difficult to deal with sometimes, our attitudes are extreme after all. But do we really have a right to put all the pressure on those around us and demand they be understanding and give us more of a break? The only common factor in each of these different scenarios in which we've been disappointed and dejected is US.
A dozen applications in half a dozen departments and a different reason each time. Instead of pointing around at everyone else demanding they treat me better, maybe I should rethink my own actions. I let myself slip, The disease got the better of me because of my own weakness and lack of control and I feel it's shot me in the foot permanently.
Just some food for thought. Maybe our employers aren't the only ones being unreasonable and close minded.
In the past few months I've read multiple posts from one member after another talk about how miserable and mistreated they are at work.
I was about to make a post of my own along the same lines. In the past 18 months working at my job I've tried to move up in the company a dozen times in half a dozen different departments. I've tried for management positions, I've tried for entry level positions, I've tried for positions simaler in nature in different departments...
I have been turned down for all of them.
I've tried justifying their reasons many times, they try telling me a new one each time I get rejected. Is it because I don't have blonde hair, big tits and knee pads like the bitch who's been promoted three times in half the time I've been here? Is it because I don't have a vagina and a bubbly touchy feely personality like the girl with no management or classroom experience that beat me out for a company trainer position? Did I piss in the Director's Cheerios? They tell me my attendance disqualifies me from this latest position I applied for which is simple data entry.
I have to wonder if I really am being as poorly treated as paranoia dictates I should.
a good chunk of us here in this bipolar community feel they are being unjustly or poorly treated by their employers and seem to jump to the conclusion it's because they are Bipolar...but is there more to it than that? Sure, being Bipolar makes us difficult to deal with sometimes, our attitudes are extreme after all. But do we really have a right to put all the pressure on those around us and demand they be understanding and give us more of a break? The only common factor in each of these different scenarios in which we've been disappointed and dejected is US.
A dozen applications in half a dozen departments and a different reason each time. Instead of pointing around at everyone else demanding they treat me better, maybe I should rethink my own actions. I let myself slip, The disease got the better of me because of my own weakness and lack of control and I feel it's shot me in the foot permanently.
Just some food for thought. Maybe our employers aren't the only ones being unreasonable and close minded.