Ass Kicking Continued

I didn’t start out as a young woman being a feminist; in some ways I was concerned about being perceived as a bra burning nutbar. I didn’t realize that I had been a feminist from youth since I believed in myself 100% thanks to dad. 

And I believe that when a person believes in one’s self that you are empowered against bullying and denigration. I have only once been cowed into working in a job for a whole year because I was petrified of not finding another job. It was in the mid 90’s when Paul Martin said that anyone quitting their job would not receive unemployment insurance. So I stayed until I finally could not stand it any longer; I quit and shivered all the way home but at the same time vowing that never again “even if I have to starve in a ditch” would I let anyone bully or intimidate me a gain. And I have stuck by that mantra ever since. Sorry for the potty-mouth here but I do not give a flying fuck what anyone else wants of me; I will do my job at the top of my ability but don’t you mess around with me or you will get the horns. I will stand my ground on any matter that affects my job; I haven’t been around in the area of office administration for 20 years (at that time, when I decided to hold my own) without knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an office. Did I learn new things along the way, of course, that is part of keeping up with professionalism, but the basic abilities of an office administrator (secretary, clerk, what have you) were built into me in my third and in many ways my best job. Not only did I learn how to answer a telephone in a much more professional way than prior; I learned how to strengthen my secretarial abilities (and this was from my dad not my boss); I also learned absolutely everything about book keeping right up to bank reconciliation and preparing the T4’s in payroll. The only thing I didn’t learn at this time was costing but that came later. I had (have) 100% confidence that any job in an office setting is not beyond my capability.

Ass kicking is standing up for yourself even if it means defying a boss because you know you are in the right. And amazingly I never got fired for my stance.

Tomorrow I will talk about things outside of work.