not sure how i feel about this actually. on one hand, FUCK YEAH, on the other, my boss is a terrifying two-faced bitch

haha i am in no way even remotely qualified to train hundreds of people at a pharmaceutical company but...

lol i have no idea, and i have no idea

i have gotten zero info

but it would probalby be next month

they want 1000 people on 5 continents trained before the end of the year and we have like... 7 employees

this is either a great opportunity or something that's going to be a disaster

she's a terrible boss and she's breaking laws and undepaying us but... damn that's a good opportunity

nah, just do introductions in czech and japanese and then train in english

she's not even sure if it's czech yet but she figures "all of those languages are the same right?"

n-no

yaaaaah she had me translating swedish medical records

i don't speak swedish

neither does she

but you know how americans are

i don't want to be in a foreign country with her

i don't trust her at all

there's something sorta shady about her company... i dunno what it is but i get a bad feeling

cripes. as great as going to japan and eastern europe might be (czech republic is a beautiful, beautiful country), it... mrm, it might not be quite worth it, especially if you don't feel safe.

yeah she's the head trainer but there are so many people that they need sub trainers

that's definitely an instinct worth heeding

well, i don't fear for my physical safety or anything but she's been going through employees at a terrifying rate. i've been the "favorite" for a few months but i know how that can change

and i'm not qualified for what she wants me to do. like, at alllll ahahaha. but she has no one else and i have a linguistics degree so i guess she's like what the hell

yeah the rumor is that she's bipolar and i really do believe it

her moods are kind of dangerously variable

she doesn't scream at me but i've heard horror stories from other employees who work at the main office

it's one thing to work with her, but being with her almost constantly overseas...

yeah, hence the incredibly mixed feelings

four people (soon to be five when my friend quits) have left in the uh, 8-9 months that i've been there

and it's a very small company

she's going through employees like toilet paper

so far things have been good for me but i am very aware that my fortunes could change in an instant

mrmm... I think as great as the countries are, having to deal with her will provide for you a good amount of stress. Even if it was your best friend, staying with them for a long time is testing.

also we're being paid illegally... that kinda bothers me. she pays us as "contractors" to avoid paying taxes or benefits

haha well it's not like i can refuse... it depends on whether we get the contract or not

i really hope we don't

as much as i want to go to europe and japan

i can go on my own time

ahh, so that's it... yeah, well... hopefully it doesn't come to that, really. sounds like you'll be called on to make some difficult choices in the future

yeah i know i can't trust her. everyone is afraid of her and it's causing problems at work... no one can say no to her or correct her unrealistic expectations

but she bullies us into underbilling our hours (another bonus of having everyone as a "contractor")

and i found out that those of with equivalent education/experience who were all hired at about the same time make wildly different salaries

she like, pulls a number out of a hat

haha well at least mine is gainful

but we're all working on this big cancer study even though cancer is NOT her company's area of expertise. my boss had little to do with training or preparing us. we were thrown into this very complex study

with almost no preparation. and we're all newbies

i got lucky and got some easy sites but not everyone was lucky

we've talked to people at other companies and this is just not how things are done at other places

but my boss cuts corners

well i want to have at least a year not counting the internship i had with them, so... six months i guess?

but if she turns on me the way she turned on my friend i will be looking to clear out sooner

and if the project manager ever quits we are all fucked. that poor girl is so nice and so abused.

>: thank you. i really don't want my friend to quit. we keep each other sane

although we've never met

since i rarely leave the house

whenever she can get another job

at least she has some experience now... she started a few months before i did

ah, she lives far away. divides her time between florida and detroit. we've never met irl

but i did go cozy up to people at a local hospital where we have a transplant study going

it was so gross though... a pig died for science. it was messy

i don't think i want to do that kind of work

yeah, at least i found a field that i honestly like. i don't have to even leave my house. i really want to go back to school to specialize in organ transplants... i find them fascinating

haha well they can't really outsource research. fda regulations. i don't want to actually do medicine because it's gross but i like the logistics of it all

the one study we're working on could really increase the number of successful transplants... it's neat stuff

yeah, it's cool stuff