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Default Aug 17, 2023 at 11:08 AM
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Now I wonder since you were a good fit working with this population would you search for a job in shelters? Emergency housing?

There are jobs in homeless shelters or other emergency housing situations in my area. I’d not go through recruiters. These are not very high pay jobs but they are out there at least by me. If you are in metro area and in any proximity tk urban setting, you might have the same thing
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Default Aug 17, 2023 at 08:59 PM
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Being a receptionist can be an awful job for a person who is intelligent, unless there is enough going on to keep you actually busy answering the phone and directing people that come in with a need or appointment. It also tends to be a job where others don’t see you as having any value.

Actually, it is like being an extra on a movie set where you have no lines or any input other than just being a physical presence. It’s like being an extra on Gone with the Wind where all you do is dress as a soldier and lay on the ground dead for however long are needed to do so while they film the part needed in the movie itself. Also, you are not even noticed and are nothing but a prop. The extra that lays and moans has at least a moan, but you are less cause your dead.
I like both of your analogies, for the effects of being a receptionist when the person is very intelligent. I've never been treated as a human being with feelings or acknowledged for my soft and hard skills and other abilities during my contract work as a receptionist. This last role proving that most people view front desk workers as sub-humans who aren't real people with real feelings.

They don't believe that their behavior and mistreatment has any real consequences yet it always does and will.

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I know you can’t stand me but the way they treated you was wrong and other things I can’t say here. I’m sorry.
I'm sorry we disagreed in the past Molinit. I am sorry for what I said to you when I was hurt. I know that hurt you and I regret that. I hope that we can start over.

Thank you for your kind words. They are very comforting.

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What the…what horrible human beings. I can’t even wrap my mind around it. It would be tempting to challenge it with comment that they think you had a bad attitude because they were drunk at company event. Outrageous. I am livid on your behalf
They are horrible human beings. I agree. LOL. Thank you for being livid on my behalf, too. I'm still livid that people like them get as far as they do, the way they treat people. And they don't seem affected by their assholery.

The property manager was so dismissive (either because he didn't like me, or resented his supervisor hiring me for 2 random weeks out of the blue to "help" him and his team of assistant property managers (who have no property management experience, I found out at the company event, prior to being hired; she cleaned houses for 3 years and the other guy was a delivery driver). It made no sense to me.

Even if he didn't understand why I was there for such a short period of time, he could have chosen to treat me as a human being by interacting with me, but he didn't.

I tried to challenge Bob's stupid comeback that just because a drunk CEO and his 2 drunk assistants/who are sisters said I was mean for asking a question, doesn't mean it's true. Bob is an asshole as far as I'm concerned. Again, I think he tried to gaslight me into backing down and agreeing with him, because he doesn't like women with strong personalities. I stayed true to myself and that drove Bob bananas. How dare I have boundaries too? How dare I stand up for myself. How dare I draw a line in the proverbial sand and tell Bob, "if you cross this line, this is what happens."

Men like Bob and this CEO (who told a story at the company event of how his parents, who owned his property management business that he inherited when they retired, sent him to camp for discipline since he was such an asshole as a teenager, that he got kicked out of that camp, and laughed about it. I watched his employees force themselves to laugh and smile like automatons, like they were on a film set as background actors. It was a very cringy moment) are toxic leaders in every sense of the word.

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Now I wonder since you were a good fit working with this population would you search for a job in shelters? Emergency housing?

There are jobs in homeless shelters or other emergency housing situations in my area. I’d not go through recruiters. These are not very high pay jobs but they are out there at least by me. If you are in metro area and in any proximity tk urban setting, you might have the same thing
If I could get a job at the county level working for a non-profit as a case worker, I would totally do it. I don't have the masters in human services or social work to qualify. So, I could seek out nonprofit orgs and homeless shelters where I could help people transition into temporary housing. I could do that on weekends hopefully, so that my week is free to work. It would fulfill me spiritually and personally as I genuinely enjoyed interacting with all of the homeless people I met during those brief 8 days at that section 8 apt complex.

It's unfortunate that those types of housing are managed by assholes who just don't care about people. That seems ironic to me, too.
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