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Welcome to the Trap House

I remember being on my last dime and getting a call to start a new job somewhere on a part of time where I have never been on before. I remember getting excited about starting the position and I pull up to the new place to work. It was in the hood, “yes I am from the hood myself”.

My first day I remember pulling up in the parking lot trying to find somewhere to park and the parking lot was full. It smelled like weed, sex, and stanky thrash. I pull up to the first spot I see and I see people in their car smoking weed. I got high by just smelling it in my car so I decided to find another spot where I felt comfortable. I get out of the car and walk in the front door. I see that they are interviewing on the spot and hiring on the spot so I realized that it was call center. I have never worked at one before, this one was such a rememberable place to work at.

As I went inside of the building, this place had such a bad odor and it was very dirt. People had all sort of stuff sitting at their desk. I remember walking in the bathroom and it smelted awful.

I meet my manager that day and the people on my team. The two guys that were on the team loved to argue about unnecessary stuff that would get them in a heated argument. That’s another story you will hear at another time. I sat at a nasty desk where men needed to clean up after themselves. I could not complain about the work conditions because I needed the money that I did not have in my account.

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Horrible Bosses

Have you ever had an horrible boss?

Today, I am going to go down memory line on this on. I really could not stand this person and how superior this person though they were. No one should be taking on any mental abuse at work like this. He would come in and change the whole mood of the whole room from happy smiling to I am in a bad mood. If you have such a bad energy or not in a good mood do not kill anyone’s vibe.

One of the lessons that I learned from this situation is to not let someone have that much power over your life. Negativity can easily be distributed to other’s quickly than positivity.

Dealing with this person had me dealing with health issues as well because of dealing with the mental stress. Sometimes it would make me sick to my stomach on how horrible this person was.

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My Thoughts Are Not In A Good Place

One thing a lot of people do not talk about is depression. Depression does exist and it is real. People deal with this everyday and do not have much support to lean on if others do not understand what you are going through and can not relate with your feelings or thought.

Yes, I have been through depression and it has been an easy road to deal with because I did not grow up in an easy home. I remember when I was in High School, I got made fun of because I had Eczema at that moment and not much was known about this growing up. I also dealt with the not being the prettiest girl in the whole. I got tired of dealing with the pressure of what I was dealing with and wanted to end my life because I never thought I was worthy of living.

As I got older I started to begin to drink very heavily when I was in college to get rid of all the pain that I was going through as a person. I was going through family issues, stress of school, toxic relationships, and trying to fit in. I was so gone in my mind that I was hoping to one day not to wake up.

One day I was talking to mutual friend that cared about me and suggested I go talk to a counselor. I decided to go talk to a counselor and started to heal. Never be afraid to go to counseling. Just know each one of us has purpose in life. If you ever have those types of feeling never be scared to tell someone who cares. If you do not feel that person exist be sure to contact a counselor or a program that can help you.

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Coming Soon

Sorry everyone that I have not made a post in awhile but life happened. New Blogs are coming soon in June 2022. I hope you ready for some comedy, tears, learning etc. I am super excited about the new stories I have and experience to share with you all.

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No Church In The Wild

Story from the Trap House, I remember when I first started working here. It was so different from what I was used to working at. The people were from another planet that I had once been in before. My first day was crazy when I met the team for the first time. It was already too much drama between 2 of the co workers who were working there at the moment.

I remember it was last day at the Trap House and I just got in to work my last day. Guess what! The drama took place because of the 2 people could not agree and the other person was tired of dealing with the mental abuse. As they argued and voices started to escalate. I asked one of the guys to go take a walk and I got ignored. So the other guy got upset about the other guy talking about his car. Bam, he hit the desk sectional and started aiming at the other guy. It got so loud that HR had came to the scene and the security guard ran up to separate the guys. Both guys were let go based on their actions and how they dealt with the situation.

It opened up the door for me to get hired on full time. I learned from the situation that you can have toxic coworkers in your workplace who are not in your corner. Also to keep you personal and private life at home.

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Is Society Uncomfortable with Confident Women?

I recently saw this last week and was glad that these women were willing to talk about this topic.

It’s okay to be confident in the office place and speak your mind about things you are not comfortable about. We live in a world where men in the office just want us to be seen and heard. Times have changed and Women have a voice to say what they want to now.

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Scream

AWW

The workplace can be such a toxic place when it comes to dealing with mental abuse. Here are a few heart breaking things that people had said to me at the workplace. Trust me it has made me a stronger person. Let’s all Scream together and get all of this off our chest.

“I have had a manager tell me before that I did not deserve a raise or promotion.”

“A guy has told me before at an interview that “I would not be a good a fit”.

“My manager striped my pride by demoting me”.

“Why do not women want to be in and Information technology field”.

“Can you lift 75 lbs by yourself and push this cart around”.

What is something hurtful someone has said to you at workplace?

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Can’t Hold Us Down

No one likes having conflict at work, I know I do not. This industry can be stressful especially for a woman in Information Technology. We have to keep continuing to fight for our rights to be in this industry.

Working in a field that can be referred to as a “Good Ole Boys Club” or “It’s a Man’s World” industry. Women often face issues with trying to find our place in this industry where men dominant this field. I can relate to the growing pains of this industry from being discriminated against, put down, lied on, cheated on, abused, scorn, ganged up on, up and down.

I have been through so much in my industry that I have had several mental break downs because of the industry. It’s hard to just be the only woman on your team with whole lot of men. Not having anyone to relate to who you work with. Sometimes I would do my work and be so overwhelmed at times I would go to the restroom to go cry to relive myself from the hurt and pain I am feeling from my job. Superwoman also has her days when she has to still put that cape on and hold the world down. I still put on my big girl panties at the end of the day to make it through all of this.

Women have been fighting for equal rights for along time and still continuing to fight the good fight. Stand your ground and let your voices be heard. We have arrived and are not going anywhere. We deserve respect, equal pay opportunities, raises and promotions.

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Stealing My Peace of Mind

Sexually harassment is never a topic people want to talk about in the workplace. Yes it happens! Sexual harassment can leave to working in an hostile environment. A lot of companies tend to over look the situation because people are used to getting sexual favors in the office from someone who is not their spouse.

I was working my first internship at a company that I was excited about working for. I was the only woman on my team as usual. Yes, I was approached by older men on a regular basis trying to shoot their shots at me. I would would get invites to go to happy hours, lunch, to go look at something, etc. Not knowing at the time that this was a form of sexually harassment. The main thing they would come over was to look at my boobs at my desk. Of course sexual harassment is not being taught about in college and of course I was young and naive.

One day I was approached by a lady who worked at the site. She wanted to talk to me woman to woman. I was like what did I do. So I went to go to her office to meetup with me. She starts to talk about my suit and how revealing some of my clothes were and the rumors she has been hearing about the intern being fine. She asked me was all of this going on in the workplace and I told her yes. One thing that she had offered to do was go take me shopping to go buy some better clothes to cover up my boobs more and she paid for the clothes. Also my desk space was removed from the directory to stop the old dirt men who used to come by and bother me.

More real life harassment stories will be coming soon… stay tuned.

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Cece’s Goodie Cart

Yes, I have changed my name to fit the blog but this one takes me down memory lane and was deemed the name “Cece” by the those who worked at the Trap House. Yes, a lot of my friends know about the Trap House and knows anything goes down at this place.

I named my cart the Goodie cart because it was loaded with plenty of equipment for me to setup a center area. When I would have the cart walking around I would have people begging for something but these people were happy about these second hand and out of date equipment. Sometimes I would walk around and play the Goodies song just for fun to see who saw that I was making my rounds.

I was also the first Female IT person to have ever worked at this place ever. I am proud that I did I go good and opened up the place to people see that women can do the work in this field. The people of site gave me the name CeCe. I also loved working here because it was never a dull moment. Stay tuned for more stories about the Trap House coming soon.

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