In any other emotional, interpersonal context, like friendships or relationships, we accept that a toxic, upsetting or abusive past history necessitates healing before moving forward, often such that it's a thing we eventually divulge to new friends or partners.
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But when an employer does the same thing? Oh, well, the needs of the business come first, clearly!
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Even in creative fields, this stuff happens. Hell, it's half the reason why you end up with so many abusive douchebags remaining in powerful positions in TV and film: because even when an employee moves on, complaining about old bosses to new ones is Utterly Forbidden.
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That's an extreme example, especially in the recent context, but it also applies at other levels, too. For example: when writers who are POC talk about the constant microaggressions they have to deal with in publishing, with editors & agencies & at cons, it's the same damn thing.
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"You shouldn't complain," says the received wisdom. "Don't make waves. You'll make yourself unpublishable if you talk about this in public. You'll mark yourself out as a Difficult Author, and you don't want that, do you?" AUGH.
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Anyway. There's a lot more I could say about this, but I'm just tired. I'm at a point where I need to be marketing myself to agencies and agents and I just Can't, because I've got zero self-confidence after what happened last time. So instead, have a thread about stuff. THE END.
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