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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • HowlsSophie@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Who Is The Person Bullying You At Work Right Now? How Are You Dealing With This?
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    1 year ago

    Not sure if I’d call it bullying but my boss is giving me a hard time about the fact that I’m leaving. She REALLY wants to know why I want to leave so she can try to fix it but I can’t give her the reason that started it all because it was over a year ago and there’s been a lot of little and not so little bullshit things that have happened since then. Turnover in general is definitely higher than it should be and I get that they want to address that…but I just want to slide out the back door and move on with my life.

    How am I dealing with it? I’m standing on my resignation and I have two weeks left until I’m gone. Setting boundaries and working on sitting with my feelings whenever possible.

  • HowlsSophie@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your religion and what led you to identifying with / believing in it?
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    1 year ago

    Buddhism. Was raised Christian and my parents forced me to continue going to church even when things started to not make sense in early high school. Went from “You must go to church with us,” to “You must go to church SOMEWHERE.”

    In college, I considered Islam, Taoism, and Buddhism but nothing stuck so I stayed with what was familiar. Finally came back to Buddhism a couple years ago and was like “Yep. This is it.” To me, Christianity is a constant moving target that will never be reached in terms of what you’re supposed to do and not to and it will generally always be your fault when bad things happen because reasons. It’s something you have to carry with you your whole life.

    When I first really started learning about Buddhism and learned that it’s like a raft that you use to get yourself across the river and you out it down when you don’t need it anymore, I was like YES PLEASE SOMETHING ATTAINABLE, EMPOWERING, AND MAKES SENSE.

  • HowlsSophie@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How to get over not having a good college experience?
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    1 year ago

    I can relate but lack of socializing in college didn’t bother me (I’m an introvert). Didn’t make any friends during undergrad and made some friends during my grad program that I still talk to but most of my friends are from high school.

    Everyone’s college experience is different and just because it didn’t check certain boxes (unless they’re important to YOU), that doesn’t mean you failed. I think it’s put out there to be this special time in your life but “special” is subjective.