Warning: serious bitching ahead.
I really don’t know how much more of my job I can take. I rarely have any work. I could complete all the work I’ve don’t this week in about 20 min. Unfortunately, the higher ups have realized that we’re very very slow. There are 3 FT che.mists in the lab that do the work that 1 very PT employee could do. They have already laid off 5 people in other departments. There have been threats of “head.count red.uctions” in our department over the past few weeks that would take is from 3 to 1. This is bad for me because 1. My boss’ boss is a douche (the one that would be making the decision of who to keep) and is incredibly se.xist. Females aren’t provided training, taken on business trips, etc. We were told that females don’t get invited because the guys enjoy s trip clubs and it’s cheaper to pay out for discrimination than it is for harassment. Nice, eh.
2. I was the last one of us hired.
3. My skill set is almost identical to one of the other che.mists. He has a pe.nis and has been there the longest of the 3 of us.
4. I don’t have a P h D and the other guy does. This may initially sound like a plus for me since they have to pay the P h D more but it’s really a negative because they like to brag to customers that we have a P h D in our dept.
Of course this couldn’t come at a worse time for us. They are offering severence packages but they depend on your length of employment. I started my job 1 year ago today so I don’t expect I’d get much. I’m also having surgery on the 18th of Sept (assuming I still have a job then). We are planning to start trying with my uterus in Nov assuming I still have a job and health insurance. If I don’t have insurance and a job in Nov but R does we will go back to her body around the same time.
