I posted a while back in r/notmycat about a stray mama I had been feeding. Well she had her babies on April 2nd and they're almost 7 weeks old.
I'm keeping one of the kittens and Mama now named Shadow and working with a rescue to get everyone vetted and fixed. One of the black kittens I named Salem.
I have a situation at work. First let me just start off by saying I'm a fat woman.Not my 600 pound life fat but in the 200s. Not that it matters.
I work as a caregiver/resident assistant at a facility for Alzheimer's and dementia care. It's a small place about 45 beds so I can't ask to transfer to anothe nursingr unit because there is no other unit. All the caregivers work together.
I don't expect to receive a lot of empathy maybe no empathy at all because I am fat and people use that as an excuse to be shitty or dismiss concerns sometimes. Before anyone says "just lose weight" or "fat is unhealthy" or "you should t be fat" save it. I'm not going to get thinner overnite, I have a Dr and I know my own personal health history.
Anyway a coworker of mine is making comments about my weight that is making very uncomfortable. She stood up beside me the other day and stated I was 3x her size. A bit of an exaggeration on her part but I probably am twice her size. She's in the low 100s..a taller slender lady. She has made other comments to me about if I fall down they'll need a "crane to pick me up", she calls me "Big Woman" instead of my name and I'm am.so tired of it. To further complicate matters I was a victim of childhood bullying due to my weight and appearance at the time. I had a metabolic medical condition, and even tho it was 30-35 years ago I'm still affected by it to this day. The bullying I'm going through at work is bringing all the old stuff up all over again and it's terrible for my mental health.
This particular lady is a management favorite and I'm reluctant to say anything because I don't think I'll get much empathy and I'm afraid it may make my day to day interactions harder. I asked to change shifts to limit my interaction with this person while I look for another job.
What she is doing is creating a hostile work environment for sure. But as my childhood experiences taught me and I never forgot there's not much help for the victims of bullying.
Hope to have a new job soon.