August 24, 2004 @ 7:10 p.m.
Disposable Me

The good news is I've only eaten a banana all day cause I've gone off food.

The bad news is, the reason I'm off my food is because at work I'm being forced into a role I don't want to do.

Doesn't sound too major, but when I started there I was doing what they want me to do now and I hated it. They say that my department is now overstaffed, they've sacked one girl and moved another to customer service. There is no way I would move to customer service and they know that, so I can either go back to what I started as (a receptionist/switchboard operator) or leave. I hate the fact that I'm being forced into this. I hate the fact that I'm so disposable in my department. I hate the fact that there's people been doing my job for not as long as me and they're safe. I asked why me. My office is split into two types of administrators and in mine there are/were four of us. Apparently the other side has plenty of work so none of them need to move. But on my side there's not enough work for all of us so they've sacked one of us and moved me, because the accounts the other two take care of are more important than mine or some bullshit. And I already have the reception experience. They made me feel as if I'm supposed to consider myself lucky I'm allowed to do reception.

I actually cried in the meeting. As much as I am ashamed of letting them see me in tears, I'm glad they know how shit they've made me feel by doing this. The other girl they've moved isn't happy either. We're both going back to jobs we've moved on from. If we'd bloody liked them in the first place we'd have god damn stayed there without force!

So anyway, all this happened just as I was about to go for lunch, so when I eventually got my break I had no appetite at all and my sandwich ended up in the bin. I just feel so worthless. They can move me from my job without notice - I move tomorrow morning - and expect everything will go on as usual. The girl I sit/sat with who gets to stay put has to now take on all my accounts as well as her own so she's not happy either. Plus we're just gunna miss each other, she's my best work mate.

Fuck this, I'm getting stressed and worked up about it again so I'm gunna have to go...


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