Woo-hoo! The first step toward freedom---I resigned as Social Media Coordinator this morning!
I emailed all the managers (4) of both stores, and I posted (totally anodyne) good-bye notices on the society's FB & IG.
Also mine:
In my resignation email, I wrote:
"I've wanted to get off social media, personally, for a while now--it kinda drives me nuts. [THIS IS TRUE]
With a new Marketing Director coming on (Ed's wife, Mary X), and with the successful conclusion of the Chauvin murder trial, and with our all having gotten our final Covid shot, now is a perfect time for me to close this chapter."
I could have said:
"I cannot work with a Marketing Director who imports the attitude of her former employer, Cargill, which in 2019 was named ‘Worst Company in the World’. (New York Times article):I'll still do books 20 hours/week. (And toys, which I inherited when a volunteer left--I resented the impossible workload, but I've come to enjoy the task, not surprisingly. TOYS!)
Feeding People by Killing the Planet.
They are doing to the Amazon what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd: choking the air out of it.
Translated here = Feeding her husband's pet project, the food bank, by screwing the workers.
I had told Big Boss last week that he should do the posting all week after the Chauvin trial. (I'd said this because he & the Mark said I had to clear anything potentially touchy with them. Wouldn't want the NYT to write us up as Worst Thrift Store in the World, now, would we?)
So I've had a week off and I can tell already that my time and energy has opened up. Social media, including blogging, is a constant presence---some thread of it is always running under my thoughts.
I like that about blogging--
The blog is like a basket to gather the mushrooms that bloom from those underground threads.
And I don't mind it on my own FB & IG (though those can be a bit of a time suck).
But giving those fruits to the store became heavier and heavier---like a holy relic that didn't want to give itself away.
Now I'll have more time and energy to look around for another job.
It's hard to be in a job that disrespects people---having our bags checked is par for the course at these sorts of jobs.
But the coworkers are such an interesting lot... I still learn a lot from them, and we share mutual respect.
I'm happy enough to be there with them, for now.
I changed my FB profile picture to a flowering artichoke--my image of myself, in this season.
