Talking about assumptions....... .......

Piglet

Noel



I'm not suggesting EAC is a character defect, but based on some of Ad Girl's responses, I think she's full of it.  Depression and alcoholism are too different things and you can have one without the other.  One of her reasons for coming to Bermuda, along with tax incentives and fashions (?), was "wine bars".  How many expact friends do you know who have that high on their priority lists?  It sounds like a pre-existing condition to me.

Unfortunately, I must confess, I believe I have the benefit of knowing who she is and the Ad company she is referring to.  There are always two sides to every story, and never ever forget Bermuda is a very small world.

If this is indeed the person I think it is... without giving anything away... she's Canadian.  Not that that has anything to do with the price of cheese - just saw someone suggest she may be British.

Does anyone else find it interesting that since Bermuda she's had a least 5 jobs (count 6 if "all over Europe" means > 2 places)?

The last time I checked, it was always best to find solutions to problems and she should have discussed things with her employer before jumping ship. 

I understood she had taken and been paid for vacation that wasn't earned when she planned to jump ship and that's why monies were withheld.  Plus she had booby- trapped a bunch of her website creation work which had already been billed to the client and had to be redone at her employer's expense. 

And perhaps her self declared hair problems that caused the "yelling" were in fact hygiene problems.  It didn't look like she brushed her teeth much, smelled like alchohol in the mornings and looked like she hadn't washed her hair in months. 

' Two sides to every story....


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"I planned my escape from Bermuda with weekend end flight without telling a sole."

All sounds kind of fishy to me....

Great Rant. Whether you're half to blame or not there's plenty of golden truths in them Bermudian hills.

But seriously - if you really think a Thai prison is better, you should have just said something. Plenty of that fun stuff to be found on the island. Um Um.... so I hear.... 

You byes are HARD!   

That's exactly where I'm coming from Wassup. Unfortuantely based on the few everyone gets tarnished. Tell me there aren't quite a few Civil Servants feeling the exact same way right about now. Expat and Bermudian.

Excellent first post, adgirl - thanks for taking the time to do the exit interview.

You notice things haven't changed much, as evidenced by the responses.  There are a few Bermudians who are decent people and have a bit of empathy, but most of them just want to criticize you for speaking up.  It isn't to make a counter point about what you say, but to make a personal attack on you.  They want to make it seem like the problem is yours, not theirs. 

One of the things Reality and I often discuss is how impossible to believe the stories of the Bermuda work experience are.  I'm willing to bet your story is true to the letter - and you've probably skipped tons of other fantastic details.  Unless you've been there and experienced the bullying, hatred, dishonesty and withholding of money owed you simply can't believe it could be true.

Be comforted, we have been there and we know it is.

OK!!  I will apologise about the comments tarring all Bermudians the same as what I experienced by the boss. What I should have said is that my old boss should not manage people, as well as her idiot brother who was a real nasty piece of work himself and a major racist. He ran his company in similar fashion as though all his staff were idiots. A chinese girl lasted less than six weeks. I hate racism and thought that Bermuda was different. Thankfully I met a lot of nice people who weren’t like them.  

For the pleasure of posting here I get called a smelly, stink breath, who never heard of shampoo, alcoholic deadbeat who skips out on bills, runs out on problems, can’t get laid, wrinkled, old, bitter, ugly, ignorant, hag …… thanks more abuse - guess this is Bermuda after all.  

And Canadian too - not that I’d mind going back to Canada one day but I was only on a temporary visa. I wasn’t allowed to stay but it made me want to get more international experience. England is a miserable 3rd world country after all and what do we Brits know?  We are ignorant and are all binge drinking chavs. I had the house from before and was renting it out.

Volume is all relative and I was only suggesting it that I witnessed and did more drinking than what I was used to as well as do now. I am practically tea-total these days. I had some great times in Bermuda, met some really great friends, learned how to dive and improved my golf game. The death of a close freind didn't help my mood there.  

I wish I had more holiday but nooooo...... they held the money because they insisted on paying the bills themselves and I handed the couple I had left which included one bar bill. They said they would send the remainder of the money and didn’t. I wasn’t the only one who fell for it either from what I have heard!

Grats - I also find it interesting you said ‘if’ and then ranted on about your smelly, alcoholic, depressed, hygiene challenged, ship jumping, webbie, Canadian friend that you had the ‘benefit’ of knowing ……why didn’t you help this poor girl and say something surely that is what friends do?

Web………? Hello…. I said I design ads. You know ads - the crap you see in magazines, billboards and try hard to ignore? I don't even know what 'booby' is. Uh yeah ad agencies tend to have offices in multiple countries and send people around to different offices.

You are right about one thing though there are two sides to every story but goodness deary me..................................................................... I thought this was a place to tell your ‘Bermuda sucks’ story warts and all... so we can all have a good laugh about each other’s misery. Hey some bald men are very, very sexy but perhaps I just didn’t dig his weird collection of hair pieces and stick on pony tales? Perhaps I should have fallen for his small charm and stayed - my loss then