sure working in social is cool but it’s also overly demanding & fucked up

being attacked online for tweets you didn’t even post

replies saying to kill yourself cause of a typo

seeing people you know tweet you should be fired for something you didn’t approve/or agree with sucks
no one in the room listening or trusting when you push back on a Very Bad Social Idea that unfolds exactly as you said

being paid $45k to work 60-80 hrs/wk while taking on responsibility significantly higher than your title reflects

staring at screens all day
being told to priotize work-life balance but when you finally *do* you get yelled at for not replying to a work-free Sunday morning Slack message within 5 minutes
frequent DMs from randoms who hate your team with lame jokes, vile & sexist comments, threats...holy shit the sexism

i reported messages saying “i hope the entire team rapes you until you bleed to death” & the like, was told it’s my personal account so they can’t do anything sry
there’s so much i love about social, but being constantly overworked, significantly underpaid, dealing with harassment online & in person everyday only exacerbated my drowning mental health until i was suicidal for nearly a year. my therapist told me last week i’m dealing w ptsd.
this quickly became a personal rant that’s not what the conversation should be focused on so prob gonna delete cause you should always delete your bad tweets
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