Ms Elizabeth's Journal, 24 May 2017

Everyone repeat after me.. maybe if we chant this I will listen to it and not do it. "I will not stress eat. I will not hyperventilate. I will not crawl under my desk and suck my thumb.. or crawl under my desk with a bag of Fritos. I will not stress eat." Ok I will probably hyperventilate. That part might be inevitable.

A couple weeks ago I ran into one of the upper management guys at my old company. He asked me if I would come back for a senior position. At first I said no. I'm happy where I am. Then my current job imploded. I still have a job. I have 4 actually. I am expected to do 4 jobs, make other people "look good" for the sake of making them look good, I'm supposed to do my original job, and become a narrator, and then... The person I'm supposed to make "look good" came into my office and demanded I say something I didn't believe was true. Literally stood in my desk and yelled and repeated what she wanted me to say. I just sat there and watched her. I'm sorry.. I'm a minion but I'm not a puppet. I submitted my resume to the old company the next day.

The good news is.. they called me within a day and did a phone interview and then set up a 4 hour onsite interview a week later. Looking good so far right?

This morning she sent me the itinerary. I'm meeting with 5 people for about 45 minutes each. I know all of them already. I've already worked with them and I know I've impressed all but 1 of them. That 1 person being my previous boss who supposedly retired. Apparently she is retiring. Not retired. Retiring. Do you think she still hates me for that day that I quit while she was in the middle of her European vacation and then the next day the only other writer quit too? Or do you think she still hates me for calling her the worst manager in the history of managers in my exit interview?

Tomorrow should be very very interesting. If you never hear from me again then the manager killed me and stuffed my body into the recycling bin. All I can do is keep telling myself that if I get this job the increase in pay that should go with it will get me that much closer to other things I want in life. Like a cabin in the middle of no where away from people who want to kill me.