Guh

So the receptionist at work came in and told me that she was purposefully NOT invited to the holiday party at Red Lobster today.

She felt safe to come chat because she and I were the only ones working. Everyone else was at the party.

She wanted to know why I had not gone, and I explained to her that I voted for the in-house pot luck, rather than the outing to Red Lobster.

One, I did it for money reasons, I can't spend money right now..... and two, I refuse to set foot in Red Lobster restaurants, anywhere in the country, period....as I got seriously ill a few years ago by eating there.

I mean REALLY, REALLY ill. Thought I'd need to call 9-1-1 at 3 in the morning because I had been vomiting steadily for 10 hours type of sick.

Anyway, she said that, without a doubt, this is the worst place she's ever worked. The politics are vicious (thus her being excluded from the party everyone else was invited to), and the organization is horrible, among other things.

She's been there just one year, and in that year, she has seen no less than 20 employees come and go through the business office, where I work. It's been like a revolving door.

Charming.

She said people are hired, they have good intentions, and then they find out what the place is really like, and they quit....OR...they get fired because they can't do things the screwed up way upper management wants things done!

I told her that I am just going to bide my time, and follow my usual course of keeping my head down and doing my work.
I said that I have seen signs that the place is indeed the most screwed up place I have ever worked, but that I can't afford to just jump ship.

Yet.

She said good luck.