00:00Are you happy here, Veronica? Am I happy here? I mean, I'm here to get a paycheck, I guess. I know that's not a popular answer, but that's the truth.
00:09When you first started here, you seemed happy. You seemed to like it. I mean, I know I was happy when I first started. I really liked the environment. I enjoyed my coworkers. I've made some really good friends here, but I'm just not in tune with the culture anymore because I came to you guys in a time of need.
00:27And you guys showed me that this really is just a job, not a family. I feel like this was a chance for you to be the bigger person. I feel like, um, you know, you, you really had a chance here to demonstrate, you know, those, those skills of being the bigger person. I had the chance to be the bigger person. I don't mean to laugh. I know that's a little disrespectful. Um, I'm not the bigger person. I'm not. I like to match energy and I like to give what's given to me.
00:53And I, and I, I still don't understand why this is such a big deal because you were asking me to do something on my own time, like outside of work hours. And that's not something that's required of me. So I don't know why this is even still a topic of conversation. This is my third meeting now about this same topic.
01:11Tell me honestly, um, how do you think you look right now? How do you think you look to us, the leadership? Honestly, tell me.
01:17How do I think I look to you? I mean, if I can be a hundred percent honest, I, I'm not worried about that. That's, that's not important to me. I don't care how I look to you. You should care about how you look to me and your other employees by turning your back on an employee when they needed you. You guys make exceptions all the time for the people you want to make exceptions for. Okay. Because the same way you're asking me to do work from home now is the same way you could have let me do work from home a year ago, but it wasn't beneficial to you back then.
01:42What you have to understand is that we have to make decisions based on the needs of the company based on the needs of the company. Yeah, I know you needing me to do that. Wasn't based on my personal needs. I don't need to dedicate any time to you. Even if it's overtime outside of this building, you're welcome to pull me out of my regular duties between nine and five and tell me, Hey, we need you to translate this. But outside during my personal time, that's not, I don't have to dedicate that time to you no matter how badly you need something.
02:10Because what I needed a year ago was to not go for two weeks without pay. That's a lot of money. And you're sitting there making 150, 200,000 a year. I don't make that. I don't make that at all. Okay. So two weeks without pay is detrimental. Thank God I'm a smart girl and I have savings and I've set myself up for emergency situations, but not everybody's like that. And if you did that to me, I know you'll do it to somebody else. And just like I'm about to get up and walk out and never walk back in. I hope everybody else that you've treated this way does the same thing.
02:37I feel like you took this time as like a, ha, gotcha, you know, like a, like a kind of like retaliation, you know, like getting back at us for something. I just, I'd like to understand more of that. This wasn't a gotcha moment. This wasn't an aha moment. This wasn't retaliation. I just don't want to do it. I just don't want to do it. Even if it wasn't because of the reason that it actually is. If I don't want to do something on my personal time, I don't have to do it. And that's what I don't think you're understanding.
03:03Not to mention the retaliation came from your end because I was first denied the fact that I could go up to New York for the funeral. And I said, okay, I'll just go and not show back up. Like I can quit. That's that's I'm in the position that if something's not working for me in a job, I can go. Okay. And you guys took that as like a, Oh, she thinks she could do this. So now that she needs us, we're not going to do it. So the retaliation came from your side. So don't try to gaslight me into believing that I did something wrong. This was all you, you put yourself in this position because before this moment, you know that I was
03:33willing to do whatever I had to do to help this company succeed. Not anymore. You lost that part of a good employee. I'm so sorry for you.
