A young Australian woman took to social media to complain about the treatment she received while working in corporate offices.
Influencer Chloe Baradinsky, from Sydney, said in the video posted on TikTok that she was making a ‘corporate trauma salad edit’ by tossing various sweets into a bowl while listing her negative experiences.
“A man in the industry told me that they only hired me because I check two diversity boxes: I’m a woman and I’m Asian,” Ms. Baradinsky began.
Baradinsky, who works in the financial industry, said a colleague was “super handsy” with her at a work dinner before putting his hand over her mouth every time she went to speak to silence her.
“They yelled at me that I wasn’t working hard enough even though I had worked until nine at night every night for the last few weeks and weekends,” he continued.
“I was at an industry event and a man said to my old boss, ‘We all know why you hired her, because of her looks.’
‘I once was vomiting all day due to food poisoning and my boss gave me an early 5:30 pm mark. Or when a boss invited me to dinner on Valentine’s Day.
She ended the video by describing an incident where she had pneumonia and her team “didn’t think she was sick enough to not work,” so she got out of bed “for the first time in a week” and went to the office.
Influencer Chloe Baradinsky (pictured) shared her negative corporate experiences in a video on TikTok after leaving the industry to start her own business.
Commenters on the video mostly supported Ms. Baradinsky, with some calling corporate workplaces “toxic” and saying “this is why we need unions.”
‘YO I once worked at a company where my boss told me that my main job was to make sure there was a banana on his desk every morning. Which wasn’t actually part of my job,” one person said.
‘I worked for a global IT company in Sydney and let me tell you, I have millions of stories like this. I quit after 5 years and never looked back,” said another.
‘This is discouraging. I hope these are all previous work situations,” added a third.
However, other commentators said Baradinsky was being overly dramatic.
“It’s ridiculous to call this trauma,” one person said.
“What’s the other option? Have everyone socially distance themselves from you and treat you like a disease in case you get offended,” said another.
Baradinsky, who left the industry to start his own clothing business k.julietapublished another video in which he expanded on his corporate problems.
Workplace platform WorkL this week published a list of the happiest companies to work for in the world based on more than one million surveys completed by users (pictured, Sydney CBD).
She said that after the dinner where her male colleague was being “super hands-on,” no one on her team called him the next day or checked to see if she was okay.
‘I’m not a sensitive person. I want to make that clear. I’m not sensitive. You’re in a work environment, you already feel stupid because you’re young, you’re the only woman there, you’re the youngest. I would expect my team to defend me. “I would expect my boss to say something to that person the next day,” he said.
“My performance from the beginning of last year to the end of last year was completely different.”
Baradinsky said her confidence had decreased due to the treatment she received at work and that she cried in the bathroom regularly.
‘I am very capable. “I’m not an idiot, even though I’ve basically been told in more or less ways that I’m an idiot,” she explained.
‘Someone on the team yelled at me. I had never been spoken to like that before. He said, you shouldn’t take lunch breaks. You’re not working hard enough. I had been working until 9 or 10 every night and weekend. If I work long hours, I expect flexibility in return. “There was no flexibility.”
Baradinsky said he eventually had a confrontation with senior officials.
“I snapped and said, ‘You saw me cry and no one did anything about it,’ and the senior person said, ‘I asked other people how I should handle it.'” This is a high-level person who should know how to manage his own staff.
“I said I know nothing will change and there was silence and then someone said ‘this team will never change’ so there you go. I got up and left and never spoke to anyone on that team again. There’s a lot more to it.” another video,” he said.
On Tuesday, job platform WorkL published a list of the happiest companies to work for in the world based on more than a million surveys completed by users.
In Australia, Bunnings, MECCA, CommBank, the Queensland government and Google topped the list.