She Works In Tech And Is Terrified Of Being Laid Off, But After She Revealed Her Fears To Her Dad, How He Reacted Made Her Cry
This 26-year-old woman currently works in the tech industry as a product manager, and she’s honestly terrified of being laid off, considering the state of the industry.
Several months back, the company she is employed with had a round of layoffs, and since then, she’s been left worried that she’s going to be next.
The layoffs made her feel like she had no power over her career at all, and she still can’t shake her feelings of extreme anxiety.
She also happens to be someone at her company with not a whole lot of experience, so that adds to her thinking she might be part of another round of layoffs since everyone is convinced that’s coming soon.
Anyway, this weekend, she was supposed to go on a little road trip with her dad, so she drove to his house to have dinner with him beforehand.
While having dinner with her dad, he questioned her about how things with her job are, and she revealed to him that she’s terrified she’s going to lose her job.
While her stepmom was sensitive and compassionate towards her, her dad was the total opposite.
“I feel like he reacted really dismissively (“you’re blowing it out of proportion; here have been many downturns before, and it ended up fine,” “you need to be more chill,” “women overworry so much,” etc.),” she explained.
“I tried to explain to him that I know my anxiety about the situation might be out of proportion, but it’s how I’m feeling and it’s just been bothering me a lot.”
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“I don’t feel like he even heard me because he started talking about how I’m creating this own narrative in my head that’s over-exaggerating everything and that I’m freaking out over nothing.”
She then began to cry. In hindsight, she thinks that perhaps her dad was attempting to help, but his reaction to her feelings only made her feel worse.
She wishes that her dad had just accepted her feelings and tried to show her sympathy in lieu of a lecture.
She got up, left her dad’s house, and got in her car to head home. On her drive, her dad and stepmom called her several times, though she did not pick up.
“He left a couple of voicemails which I listened to when I got home, but none of them had any actual apology from him,” she said.
“He asked me to please call him back because he’s worried about me, and then he said he thinks it’s petty I walked out and am not answering because it ruined the weekend we were all supposed to have together.”
She’s left wondering if it was rude of her to leave after all. What do you think?
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