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I Was Attacked At Work Yesterday.

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I haven't read that one, no...but it sounds very much like what I was getting at. Thanks Alba. Now I've got two books to look for. Another friend suggested "the Map".
 
Just reading over your last post Alba. I was speaking with a friend online the other day and she said something similar to your sponsor. I don't seem to be able to pick assholes straight away, like many people have the ability to do. I may see some aspects in them that appear to be not my sort of person but I don't seem to recognize what others see so clearly in people. I don't know why other than it might have been my training to take people at face value...something my mother loved to mock about me.
 
I started work today, at the seediest, most dirty and unpleasant place I've ever worked in so far. It made me realize how spoiled I've been in the places I have worked in in the past. Maybe I needed the contrast to appreciate them, but it felt a little degrading when I got home tonight. I'm just so exhausted, and I need to get up tomorrow and go to art class all day. I still can't believe that woman gets to keep her job in a nice clean place, and I am in the dirtiest shithole in Melbourne, I'm pretty sure. I need to pay rent next friday and this was all I've been able to get so far at short notice.

The owner has cut corners as much as humanly possible in order to save money, and it's just...I would NEVER go for a massage in this place...EVER! I can't believe I spent a whole day there...but I needed the money. It's so unfair. I'm having this whinge now before I go to bed, and hopefully tomorrow I will not be so negative. I apologize if my current mood is too neg, but i've just been in the foulest mood all day.

How did I end up here? Last week I was in a great place, doing what I love...and then I get told I badgered a woman who was bullying me and attacked me verbally and physically, and fired...all for calling her on the fact that she was taking jobs from me and the other girl on duty...which the boss had made a specific rule a week before...upon this womans insistence?? None of it makes sense to me. I feel disgusted with myself...and with the situation.

I'm feeling majorly sorry for myself, in case anyone didn't pick up on that.
 
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It's not working fast enough! :D I want to hear about it when it does...Every. Last. Detail.

Thanks Movin'On.

I had a great day painting a mandala with lovely people out at a Swiss Chateau...or a place that resembled a swiss chateau anyway. ;) I'm feeling much better today. Looking for more work and not feeling so utterly defeated and broken today.
 
I started my new job yesterday and worked again today. It was really busy yesterday and my body was really caned this morning. I had real trouble getting up and didn't think i'd make it. Massage is so ...it's such a physically demanding job. My lower back is really giving me trouble. I need to get going with core strength exercises again...now I can afford to.

I'm not going to talk about the events of the last two weeks again...I don't want to give it any more energy. I've taken action, and now I can just let it go and concentrate on my new reality.

My new workplace is really swish and the rooms are much more luxurious, with showers and it's clean and the boss is really lovely...at least she is at the moment. It's early days I guess. I know bosses are meant to be all the same. The last one was laid back, to the point of ditzy. This new one is relaxed, but I think she is smarter. She's not a ditz, but she is asian and has that little girl voice. I get along with her at the moment though, so who knows what the future holds?

I just gave my poor feet a much needed footspa and scrub, and they feel soooooooooooooo much better. Tomorrow I will have a long bath in the morning after I get up and everyone has gone to school and work. I'll have the bathroom all to myself. Looking forward to that. So, now that I'm back on my feet work wise, stuff has a chance to process more...and I was feeling pretty sad earlier. The grief is coming up again. I have space to grieve again, and don't have to appear cheerful.

I'm listening to Lou Reed and John Cales tribute album to Andy Warhol, and it's helping. One of my fave all time albums. I also had a friend load me up with really great music this week, which brought me back from the brink of total misery, to bliss again. Amazing the healing power of music. Things are looking up, and thanks once again to all who showed support in this thread. I'm so lucky to have people online and off who I can go to and tell my story and be believed.

The reality of the craziness that went down the other week has settled in, and it all seems like a leunig cartoon now...but so does life in general I find. The world is ruled by idiots and people in charge often have such poor judgement, or get so easily charmed by sociopathic bullies...and the good ones seem to always cop the blame for their bad behavior. It makes no sense...but that's people for you.

Anyone could see, if I were to be asked to stand next to the woman who attacked me, who would be more likely to be violent...and yet it has happened TWICE in two years, that a massively tough as nails bitch has smeared me or lied to make me look like the bad, violent one, when it was them. Both of them were supposedly "healers" Lightworkers in denial of their dark side, that end up wreaking havoc while they get to point the finger at everyone else. Hypocrites.

I've realized that this is what happens when people in the wellness industry place money above their own self care...they snap at some point and take it out on whoever is there...and I seem to make a nice easy target. I don't ever want to become like them...that's what they've taught me.

I'd love to know how to stop being a target for these sort of people.
 
An update...

I have learned from an ally that the place where I was fired from, after the attack, has been a ghost town ever since! They have been totaling around 3-5 customers every day, which is shockingly bad for massage. Most people, even on a bad day will average at least 7-11. It's been 4 weeks, and it has been like this since the day I left! Interesting eh.

I received a text message from a french woman who was working there and went back to paris before all this happened. I knew immediately that the boss had put her up to it, to act as a spy. (having had a lifetime of my father doing the same thing with my brother, I was no stranger to this strategy).

She acted like we were best friends, and expected me to just swallow the story she told, that she was not speaking to the boss anymore and had found her own apartment (in one day since returning from paris). She was living with the boss up until she left, and even said to me that she had to go feed the cats. I knew that the boss had cats, so she must have thought I was pretty daft to not work it out. I'm used to people under estimating my intelligence though. I used to love playing dumb with people who would...I did the same with this chick. She actually thought she fooled me with her lies.

She tried her hardest to get me to divulge where I now am working, and asked how much money I make (which I found pretty goddamn rude to say the least) But hey...she's french, so it's to be expected. Some stereotypes are there for a reason.

I think they are very fearful of what is in motion. I can sense it. And with good reason. I intend to report her to the massage association for gross misconduct, and the tax department has already been informed of her discrepancies. She's in a world of trouble...and she knows it!

I, on the other hand, am thriving in my new workplace. I'm loving it, and it's so much better than the last place I was in. I couldn't be more content with the way things are unfolding right now...
 
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