MissD

@TheHizzy yeah, it’s really hard.

This morning my manager asked to speak to me privately and she told me the good news that we just won a HUGE account, and specifically told me that the directors of this company chose our firm because they were impressed by my strategy. And she congratulated me on “steering the ship” with this proposal.

So, I feel like that’s an even bigger let down. We just won a big account and everyone is congratulating me and saying it’s because of me. That feels great of course, but my reward is to have my vacation denied. Greeeaaat. If that’s what I get for working hard, I have zero interest in being a leader or climbing the corporate ladder.

Anyway, as for my personal stuff, I’m not making money yet. I haven’t even started building my product yet. The last few months have been dedicated to setting up my website, getting my basic design done and writing my core lead magnets. This month I finally started my first list building campaign. I plan to start creating my course in February and hope to launch it in June. Also hoping to give my notice here in July (fingers crossed).

I need to enrol 25 students to not go broke (i.e. break even), anything above that will be a little bit of extra income to continue investing in marketing and help me make ends meet once I move to the UK (I’m obviously planning to have at LEAST 3 months salary saved up before I quit).

I’m hoping my BF will be able to come to Canada over Easter, and as soon as I get confirmation from him that he doesn’t have any conferences or work trips planned I’ll request a week off in May.

@Copa yeah, the thing about only senior management taking more than a week off, it’s not in my contract and it’s not in the employee handbook. I told my former colleague what happened today (she quit and left last week) and she said it’s bullshit and she had never heard of that policy in all her time here.

I am not sure. I just texted and told him everything, and he said we’ll talk about it later tonight. He’s in California right now for a conference tho so I’m guessing we won’t be able to talk about it til the weekend…

There were a number of reasons…

1) We’ve taken on two new big clients and they need me here to be the digital lead when we begin executing on those accounts. I need to be here in the office for presentations and meetings.

2) Because work on these accounts is expected to start in March and April, no new vacation requests are being approved for those months.

3) Only senior management are allowed to take more than one week off at a time (which I was never told and if this is true why didn’t she say so back in December when I talked to her about this?).

She told me to resubmit my request for one week for the beginning of May and we can look at the possibility of extending that time by allowing me to work remotely, depending on what’s going on in the office closer to that time.

I am pretty upset. Like really, really upset. I understand why they don’t want me to be away during that time since I’m the apparently the lead on these accounts but I’m so upset that I can’t even take one week until May. It’s really hard… my boyfriend and I have never been apart for that long, and we have been planning a trip together during that time.

I’ve gotten nowhere with this. She was gone all afternoon so no chance for me to talk to her.

I’ll guess I’ll send her a message on Slack tomorrow and request a meeting.

Thanks.