August 2024 Wrap Up – A good month ruined
Hello Readers! I hope you’re well and had an amazing August. My August was good but it was ruined by my employer for something that wasn’t entirely my fault. Check out August in life, reading and blog in this August 2024 Wrap Up.
August 2024 Wrap Up
August 2024 Highlights
I’ll start with the positives-
My family and I, including my parents, brother, and his family, went on a 3-day trip to Mount Abu, located at the border of our state. We took our new car, and for the first time, I drove around 100 km on the state highway. It was a great experience.
My father took over for the rest of the drive, covering the remaining 100 km, including the winding mountain roads from Ambaji to Abu. I’m not experienced enough to handle those curves, especially in traffic. Since the trip coincided with a long weekend, Mount Abu was crowded, which did affect our experience. However, the weather was beautiful—rainy, foggy, and cool—which allowed us to enjoy the trip despite the crowd.
It was wonderful to spend the day after our return with family for the Rakhi festival. I spent most weekends this month with my family, which provided a welcome respite from the tiring office work.
Now for the challenges that nearly overshadowed all the good things this month-
We received behavioral complaints about my child from school, and we noticed the same issues at home, prompting us to seek therapy outside of school as well.
Work was overwhelming, leaving me with very little time for reading or blogging. The situation was made worse by my employer’s unreasonable expectations that I continue working after office hours. I managed to finish my tasks on time to prioritize my child, who has ADHD, and even mentioned in a meeting that I wouldn’t be available after 6 PM due to her therapy sessions. Unfortunately, this fell on deaf ears.
The following week, a client complained about the quality of a document, and the blame fell on me, even though it wasn’t entirely my fault. Upon reviewing the document, I found no major issues as the client claimed. Despite this, my employer insisted I fix it immediately, even though it was after office hours and during dinner time. I pushed back, asking him to recheck the document and consider the timing of his request. This didn’t sit well with him, and the next day, he nitpicked minor issues in the document and tried to place the blame on me.
He had his partner talk to me, saying that since my employer was too angry to speak without saying something regrettable, she is handling the conversation. (What a laughable line!) I was told that as the project coordinator, I’m expected to work after office hours, and they assigned someone to help rectify the mistake.
However, 1) It’s not my job to review documents in the first place. My role is to coordinate between the client and the team responsible for the files.
2) they only told if there is lot of rush and as we work with tight timeline, just check if team hasn’t missed anything and send files. Deliverable in time is most important.
I did what was asked of me, but now that the client is rejecting something that was previously acceptable before I joined, they think it’s okay to berate me.
When applied for 2 days holidays for that trip with family they denied it at first for training they did not inform me about. 12 leave they give in a year and for those rightful leaves I have to request them twice.
This is really getting on my nerves and it’s hard to handle the pressure and ungrateful remarks. Anyways, I can keep ranting but I will leave it here.
August 2024 in Reading
Book I Read : 4
Total Pages Read : 1063
Goodreads Challenge : 63/80
Books Read
Mixed Signal was a lovely heartwarming story of Layla and Caleb. It was slow burn Friends to lovers, trial dating romance with found family vibe. I enjoyed characters, their chemistry, Layla’s bakery, and above all the Inglewild town.
Business Casual was delightful, charming, and heartwarming story of Charlie and Nova. Romance was opposites attract, secret relationship with sizzling chemistry. And once again I loved Inglewild community and it’s sad to say goodbye to it with the end of the series with this book.
Starry Starry Night was well-written and realistic graphic novel with well-developed characters and a poignant exploration of loss and the journey toward healing.
How and Why Tales was a captivating collection of illustrated, imaginative folktales, thoughtfully compiled from existing myths and stories with important messages for readers of all ages.
August 2024 in Blog
How was your month in Reading and life?
What was your favorite book in August?
What do you plan to read in September?
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Hi, I'm Yesha, an Indian book blogger. Avid and eclectic reader who loves to read with a cup of tea. Not born reader but I don't think I’m going to stop reading books in this life. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
23 Comments
Carla
Oh dear, Yesha. I’m reading this a month late, so don’t know if things have gotten better or not. As women, we have a hard time turning things off. When I was a working mom, I did very little reading, as I just didn’t have the time. My son also is ADD with autistic tendencies (they didn’t recognize high functioning autism when he was young) so I totally understand that aspect. You can only do so much, but that is not what your employer wants. You are in a tough spot and I feel for you. Be strong, but be there for what is important to you. I’m glad you got to go on that mini trip and spend weekends with family. That will rejuvenate you.
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Thank you, Carla! Nope things didn’t turn out better. I will write more in my this month’s wrap up. A lot changed, school gave us ultimatum about my kid’s behavior and to resolve that she needs everyday therapy which is not possible with the job and understand employer so I put down my papers and I’m not doing job effective 1st October. Looking at past experience with job and how it was affecting my kid, I don’t regret my decision.
Carla
It is a tough decision, I’m sure, but your family has to come first.
Leah's Books
I’m so sorry that you’re dealing with such nonsense at work! A terrible work environment is such a stressful situation, and I’ve experienced that in the past. It didn’t get better until I left that job, but I hope it gets better for you.
I never heard of Mount Abu, so I googled it and the pictures that came up are stunning! It sounds like you had a great vacation, and congratulations for driving all that way on a highway for the first time. That’s a big accomplishment! Sounds like last month had some good and some bad, and I hope September brings you nothing but positives!
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Thank you, Leah. Yes, it’s really stressful and somehow I just cannot turn it off from my mind. My husband keep saying you have to leave that after office hours but I don’t know how which adds more stress and I hate that feeling.
Yes, Abu is beautiful place. As it’s near our state we used to visit it often growing up but now the place has changed a lot. It has become crowded than it was 10 years before. There are more constructions going on and roads were bad at some places but yes, it’s good place to unwind when you have just 2-3 days holidays.
Leah's Books
I hope you can find a way to leave the stress at work, somehow.
Lashaan Balasingam
Work does sound like quite the hassle. I hope September will be a better month for you, Yesha!
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Thank you, Lashaan! I hope so, I’m just going to try limit work for working hours and after that ignoring all the msg and emails.
Rebecca
Oh no! That sounds extra stressful, and I hope things either calm down and improve, or you’re able to find a better spot <3 And your family holiday sounds fun! 🙂
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Thank you, Rebecca. I hope to find something else as I don’t see things improving with this company but I will give it try till December.
Sumedha
oh no, that mess with your job sounds awful! having that piled on you out of the blue when you’ve communicated your availability and did what you’re supposed to do is not right. i hope things ease up soon. i don’t agree with the expectation that one has to work extra hours on demand because they’re a coordinator, the pay doesn’t reflect those extra hours.
glad that you had a good trip at least. hope your september turns out to be much better!
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Yes, I will give few months trial to this job and if things still stay same till December, I will find something else or be a stay-at-home parent like I was last year.
aquavenatus
It’s not as hectic as your life, but in August, I focused all of my time on work-related reading (I’m a librarian).
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I’m glad you had a good August and I hope you enjoyed work related reading.
Teri Polen
I hate your month was ruined by work issues, Yesha. Sure hope you can get them organized. Your daughter comes first.
Hoping you get this comment – none of mine have gone through on the last couple posts.
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Got your comment. I have to check spam that I haven’t for long time now. Sometimes, hosting site goes on maintenance so that might be the reason as well.
Thank you! I hope things ease up a little but I hate unreasonable demands and expectations in this job. I don’t know how long I can work like this.
Jo
Oh Yesha – I’m so sorry to hear about the work situation, that isn’t fair on you at all. I hope it gets sorted out soon x
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Thank you, Jo! I don’t if it will. I just got message, there shouldn’t be any complaints from this client and they didn’t even mention that I can have extra helping hand or support to meet client’s demand, I had to ask for it. and with the tight timeline we work in, I don’t know if that extra resource can help either. It’s just hopeless but I will give it a try.
Jo
We can only do our best – I hope that your boss comes to see that.
Cathy
I hope the work situation gets sorted out, Yesha. It sounds very unfair and absolutely unreasonable x
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I is always difficult to work in Indian company with no structure and typical mindset. My husband works in multinational company and I could see the difference.
nickimags @ Secret Library Book Blog
I’m sorry you’re having a tough time at work Yesha, it all sounds very unfair and I hope it all gets sorted out for you! xx
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I hope so too. I often thought to quit last month but I will give it try and see.