I don’t even know what to title this disaster
I am an 11 hour round trip from my company’s main office. This is what happened to me yesterday:
My boss, early 60’s and pretty weird tbh, had me drive 5.5 hours one way to an “important meeting” (no hotel), so that’s 11 hour round trip. All the other employees are either 10 minutes to 2.5 hours away…so I’m really getting screwed but whatever. I get to work from home so I figured I’d be compliant and just suck it up. After waking up at 3:45 am and driving 5.5 hours, our boss then surprises a (local) co-worker with a baby shower….thats why we all were there…no meeting. Panera and donuts were served, and I have a ton of food allergies so I couldn’t even eat.
Additionally, this boss had brought it upon herself to go shopping for a ton of gifts, and then sent us all (about 25 people) her Venmo so we can contribute...I never met this co-worker in my life, and neither had the vast majority of us attending as we all primarily work remotely.
Also, to emphasize how insane this woman is, my boss, she announced that two people that work in this office outside of Erie are moving down the street to another office…and she started crying in front of everyone over this. Real tears. Then she choked, “I’m sorry this is just the first time I’m saying this out loud.” She had to excuse herself for crying so badly. Everyone was silent.
The one co worker leaving to go to the other office said “we are literally just going down the street, I’ll still see you at lunch!”
This baby shower lasted less than forty minutes and I cried with a migraine while I drove 5.5 hours home. 11 hours of driving. 450 miles.
I charged the company for miles, my hours, OT, and turnpike. This boss doing this cost the company $1500 and I got nothing accomplished for work.
I’m so exhausted today and I feel like a have a fricken blood clot in my leg from sitting for so long yesterday.
Lastly, I had two miscarriages last year. I wouldn’t have gone to this if I knew the truth.