u/LetterheadFew8948

Please, let's not turn this into an AI debate. I just need to rant and get this out of my system.

For context, I come from an industry with extremely strong anti-AI sentiments. I recently switched and found myself at a different company which is currently enthralled in an AI love affair. They are implementing it everywhere and, if I may, shoving it down a lot of the employees' throats. Everyone I encounter says they hate it, it doesn't work properly, and is more time-consuming and expensive than it's worth. I've also been told that the millions they've invested into AI tools could've just gone to hiring more people on the teams that need extra help. It's this whole thing.

I'm the EA to the CEO and on a few occasions, she's asked me to review materials but later changed her mind to have Claude do it. One time I reviewed a report written almost entirely with AI...guys. It was so bad. I cannot believe the C-Suite thought it was suitable to present at a major meeting with company leadership. At one point, I gave up on trying to make it coherent because I was redlining everything. I focused on grammar and punctuation and that was it. She hasn't asked me to review anything else since.

Until today! They've recently given me more important tasks and I've never felt so proud and excited. Today, she asked me to review and edit the deck for the Board Meeting and I was so happy I got emotional. I know it sounds silly but it finally feels like I'm being trusted with important and meaningful work. I also come from a highly literary and academic background so writing is my strong suit. She gave me access and I started working on it this morning.

I feel it's important to note that we are closed today and tomorrow (yes, I will be paid for the hours I worked). But my CEO was traveling for the past week and we have not been able to meet until today. Because of the weekend and the holiday, I knew we needed to touch base and that I'd have to work a few hours before our board meeting next week. I did so willingly and happily, it's genuinely fine! I don't have plans today, only tomorrow, and I fully prepared to work a little bit today.

I was halfway through the deck when she messaged me that I was off the hook because the deck was going to get put through Claude. It felt like my bubble popped. Again, I know this doesn't mean much to them but it meant a lot to me and they are constantly asking AI to do the things a traditional EA should be doing. And not very well, mind you. Claude had already gone through the deck once before me and I found quite a few errors. Nothing life ending but enough for me to know it needed a HUMAN editor. CEO said Claude found a bunch of number errors and I was like...yes, I saw them too, but I didn't dare touch them because numbers are sensitive and I'm not familiar enough with them to know that! That's why the finance team is also in there editing and adjusting!

I don't know...I don't know if I have a future here. To be frank, I don't believe I'm cut out for an AI-first company the way this one is turning into.

I practically begged her to just message me if she needed help. I am genuinely trying to help her!!! Why is she wasting time going through a 60+ slide deck editing numbers and punctuation and grammar when I COULD BE DOING IT!!! This is time sensitive and they aren't even done yet. There isn't even an agenda yet! Like! Ugh!! Please, let me help you, I am trying to make your life easier which is what you hired me to do. You want Claude to review, fine. But delegate the editing itself to ME so that YOU don't have to spend over an hour making those manual edits! I just don't understand. I'm so tired and frustrated not to mention disappointed. Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and realize this is stupid and I shouldn't be upset anyway.

But, that's why I'm here ranting to you guys LOL.

I am not a medical professional. This is not medical advice. Please consult with a doctor.

SW: 198 lbs

CW: 120 - 125lbs

Next months marks exactly 2 years since I started my Wegovy journey. From June 2024 to May 2025 I had gone from 198lbs to 138lbs. I considered my weight loss journey complete as I had more or less hit my goal weight and was finally at a healthy BMI.

Dizziness is a common side effect of Wegovy. For the first year, I experienced it more or less the average amount as everyone else. Iron fixed it and remembering to actually eat fixed it. Simple. Until the dizziness morphed into something else.

For me, it happened any time I changed positions and got progressively worse. Think of the number of times you get up from a chair, from bed, the floor. Think of all the times you bend down, turn your head, or move too quickly. The dizzy spells were becoming debilitating. Dozens of times a day. They'd cause migraines and sometimes complete loss of vision. The dizzy spells became so intense that for the first time in my life I collapsed. I knew it wasn't normal.

I saw three different doctors and advocated for myself intensely. PCP tried all the light touch stuff first. Compression socks, more water, electrolytes, thought I was hypoglycemic or anemic again. But I wasn't. That was when my PCP realized my blood pressure was really low. They sent me to a cardiologist. Cardiologist did a CT, EKG, and sonogram of my veins. All normal, all healthy. Because I'd get migraines, they sent me to a Neurologist. Neurologist did a consultation, tested me, and was very confused as to why the Cardiologist sent me to them. According to the Neurologist, it was quite clear my problem wasn't neurological and it was cardiological. Back to the same Cardiologist.

Got tested for POTS, results were "inconclusive" in other words, negative. I was frustrated and at my wit's end. I kept telling the doctors this is not the Wegovy. I was on Wegovy for a YEAR before I started collapsing and getting so intensely dizzy I lost my vision. I know my body. It's not the weight loss and it's not the Wegovy. Neurologist had a theory that because I'd lost so much weight, maybe that was what triggered it. I'd lost around a third of my body's blood volume and now my heart was trying to adjust.

The Cardiologist really boiled my blood though. While we're in a session and I'm frustrated to the point of nearly bursting into tears he basically shrugged his shoulders at me and said, "I don't know what else to do, I don't know what else to test you for. I'll give you medicine to raise your blood pressure. Maybe it'll go away with time. This is very common for young woman of your age, height, and weight. It just happens."

No, it doesn't "just happen". There was something seriously wrong. I commute to work in a major city. I've nearly fainted near cars and train tracks. This is DANGEROUS!

I go to see a New Cardiologist for what is basically my fourth opinion at this point. She redid all the testing the First Cardiologist did AND tested me for NEW THINGS! I explained all my symptoms to her. It also came up in conversation that I had had COVID.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Wegovy Subreddit...I am suffering from Long COVID. I have Dysautonomia.

I almost cried in her office when she finally diagnosed me. I felt so relieved and so validated. Every doctor I had seen kept telling me it was the weight loss and probably a side effect of Wegovy but I KNEW it wasn't. I had already been on Wegovy a full year and I knew the difference between "oh, I feel a little lightheaded, I forgot to eat today" and "oh wow I lost my vision and now I have a migraine and oh look I just fell to my knees for the twelfth time today".

All this to say, when you feel like something is wrong, don't let the doctors dismiss you! ESPECIALLY since we're all on Wegovy! They're going to want to blame everything on the medication, the weight loss, and the side effects. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are some things that ARE directly caused by Wegovy and the amount of weight we're losing. But for me, this wasn't one of them.

I hope this was helpful. My New Cardiologist is absolutely AMAZING and is working with me on a treatment plan. Which means this isn't a forever problem and that is very comforting. Because we're on this medication, we have to be extra vigilant and aware of our bodies so we can advocated for ourselves properly!

Using fake names because even though I doubt they'll find me on Reddit, still want to cover all my bases.

I got hired as an EA at a new company in January. It was 3 months temp to perm and since then, they realized they need help (personnel changes, restructuring, etc) they just don't know where and how much. I've advocated for myself and said I don't care if my job evolves or changes. I want to be part of the Exec team, I want to support with admin and project management, I just need everyone to invest the time in me and get me up to date.

Here's where my issue comes in. I'm technically the CEO's direct report and support her 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time I support the CPO with miscellaneous ad hoc project and office management. Since January, I have been planning an exec offsite retreat with the support of one of my part-time colleagues (let's call her Jane). This whole time I was told I was going because 1. This is the CEO's offsite work retreat with direct reports only 2. I'm the CEO's EA and direct report and 3. I'm the one who's been planning and researching and they're going to need ad hoc support for those four days.

A couple of weeks ago, I sent reminders to the CPO that we needed to book flights, send the guest list over, and finish the agenda. I was told not to book MY flight yet because of "budget" and they didn't know if they'd have the money to take me yet. Mind you...we planned a trip for ten people when only SEVEN are attending. We're spending money and budgeting money for ten people regardless. Who else would go if not me...

During the planning and research process, I received support from Jane who's a part-time employee on the people team. She's great, like her a lot, none of this is her fault. She just came back from having a baby and is fully remote and on contract like me. I find out in passing from Jane that CPO asked her to attend...and then I find out via email today that she's going. An email not even addressed to me but that I was CCed on.

I'm so angry, hurt, and frustrated. I don't understand the logic behind taking an unrelated person on this trip over me when I'm ACTUALLY an exec team member. How are you going to take a part-time people team person and not THE CEO'S EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT WHO IS PLANNING THE WHOLE DAMN THING!!!

I really wanted to go on this trip because I saw it as my opportunity to finally prove myself, show off my skills, and actually LEARN ABOUT THIS COMPANY!!! I want to be fully emersed in all the initiatives and special projects especially since my role here is up in the air and they're trying to figure out where I belong. If they didn't need me, they would not have renewed my contract. They KNOW they need help. We used to have an exec operations/project manager who left months ago and that's why everyone is drowning. I can easily fill that role. I have the skills and experience I just need to be let in.

I'm already doing a lot of this work anyway!!! I have no idea what to do and how to address this situation. I officially dislike the CPO and don't like her way of working. For the last four months, she has cared more about the fancy restaurants and activities we're doing on this trip than the actual work. Like the agenda we should've had weeks ago and the guest list. Which is due already but I went back to the hotel and basically begged for another week. Mind you, this trip is in a MONTH and nothing is done. Nothing expect the hotel.

It feels like the CPO is jumping through hoops to not bring me and I don't know why. I also hate the way she works she lacks basic communication skills. Why am I the one chasing people for clarity and explanations and work when YOU are the exec, not me? I feel like all these conversations are happening about me and I'm not privy to what's going on and it's really upsetting and hurtful. I put so much time and research into this work retreat and now someone else on another team is going to go over me. It's the principle that has me absolutely seething. If Jane wasn't going, I would not give a damn. But she is and it hurts to be looked over when I did the work and I'm supposed to be there.

I don't even know if I should bring it up to my CEO or not. I wish I had the security to just say fuck it and quit I'm so mad but I obviously need a job and need the money. I am also, otherwise, very happy here and it's a great place to be. My CEO is amazing but she's constantly drowning in work and the CPO "swoops in" a lot to take work off her plate. Work that the CPO ends up just delegating to me and the other people on the people team. Our CEO is also new, hasn't even been here a year, and she relies on the CPO who's been here nearly five years. I started only a few months after my CEO so I've basically been her EA for the majority of her time here. She had one before me but they quit after less than two months (different story, too many details).

I don't know what to do. I'm so, so upset. Sorry for the long rant.