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Droo
Jun 25, 2003

How much do they pay you, and how much could you make with a less annoying job elsewhere? Do you stand to inherit any kind of business ownership or whatever by staying on?

It seems like you should quantity this job compared to other things you could be doing as a first step, and then based on that decide if it is worth the extra annoyance of working for pushy family members instead of a more professional environment.

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Droo
Jun 25, 2003

life is killing me posted:

My stepmom demands to proof sold postcards and pick the neighborhood streets to which they are sent, which is reasonable, but she's rarely here, and finished postcard proofs sit in the marketing website waiting to be looked at for at least a week usually. Then she'll come in asking if I ever did them, bitching at me if they haven't been sent out, apparently forgetting she told me not to send them unless she looks at them first. I really only can work on them while she's in the office to get them proofed and sent out, but since this is next to impossible, I feel I'll get bitched at either way. So I've started just sending them out without her input and picking entire neighborhoods so at least I can say that I sent them out when she asks, which I've decided is objectively better than saying I haven't.

This is a good example of typical office people everywhere and you just have to learn to deal with them. In this case, I'd send her an email with the image attached and tell her that unless she has any comments, I will by sending it out on Tuesday at noon (or whatever date is about 24 hours away).

She might still complain about that but it's certainly not hard to win the argument at that point.

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