Responding to a comment

Someone recently left a comment for me, and I thought it would be best if I answered it in a new post.

Anonymous said…

yes, your ex-boss will get what’s coming to him. probably a small handslap and a new title. in the meantime, he’ll badmouth you all over town.

the more i read about this, the more i suspect that there is quite a bit you are not telling, and you are very good at playing the victim.

given your overwhelming sense of self-entitlement (really, you blew your budget at the spa because you had a bad day at work? how responsible!), i would not be surprised to see the new job turn sour quickly.

the reality is – you are low on the totem pole. no one really cares, and you need to stop acting like a spoiled brat. people have it a whole lot worse than you, and they deal with it.

You’re right. There is a lot of information I’m not sharing. Not because I want you to all feel sorry for me, and not because I think I’m the victim, but because it’s not appropriate to share that kind of information on the internet. Nine people have quit since January, and out of those nine people, all nine of them have said that my boss was one of the reasons why they were leaving.

This job that I’m leaving is the only job I’ve ever had where I’ve had to deal with these kinds of problems. And I have no doubt my boss is going to badmouth me. He’s unprofessional and immature, but there’s nothing I can do about that.

I don’t think I have an overwhelming sense of entitlement. I never said that I couldn’t afford to go to the spa. It would be different if I were going, but I couldn’t afford it. Yes, one of the reasons why I’m going is because I’ve had a pretty rough week at work, but also because I feel like this is a transition point in my life, and having this week off, I want to relax and feel better about myself. I want to let all my stress go. Plus, I’ve never been before, so why not? People go to the spa all the time.

How am I acting like a spoiled brat? If you think I’m spoiled, then you’re entitled to your opinion. But I’ve worked hard for everything that I’ve ever gotten. This is my personal blog, and sure there are millions of people who have it worse than me, but if I were to write about all of them, then it wouldn’t really be a personal finance blog anymore, would it?

Anyway, I always like getting comments – negative or positive. Although I’m finding that as my readership grows, I’m getting more and more negative ones. :) And that’s okay. It helps me learn, and it makes it interesting, and I really enjoy the conversations and thoughts that you take the time to post. Sometimes the really negative ones get me down for a while, but you can’t please everyone.