A young woman was the only young person at a business dinner when a man put his hand over her mouth to stop her from speaking.
That’s when she knew it was time to quit.
Chloe Baradinsky is a successful social media creator in Australia and is known for sharing glimpses of her corporate life.
She has gone viral many times for showing how she works 12 hour days, first at her 9-5 job and then at her clothing business, K-Juliet.
The 30-year-old quit her lucrative corporate job in December after 18 months at the company because she felt isolated and unsupported.
When she left, she claims she was offered a substantial sum not to talk about her experience, but Chloe didn’t want her former employers to have any “further control” over her, so she turned the offer down .
Instead, she took to TikTok, where she has amassed over 10 million likes and 90,000 followers, and talked about her experience.
“I didn’t get the hush money for a reason, so let’s start crying,” she said.
Chloe, who did not name her old company, said the work situation really affected her mental health and several things influenced her desire to leave.
There were things like not getting any positive feedback on her work and being scolded for working on her business even though she was doing it outside of work hours.
There were also bigger things like attending a work dinner where the man next to her kept “touching” her throughout the night, making her feel humiliated and uncomfortable.
“There was a man sitting next to me. He was very touchy with me and kept touching my hair and shoulders constantly. Every time I went to speak he would cover my mouth with his hands, which happened many times,” she said.
Chloe recalled that, at one point, someone said, “Hey dude, stop it,” but the next day, she said no one pulled the man aside and told him his behavior was inappropriate, or contacted him.
“It was that moment that I realized that we are not really a team and no one was looking for me,” she said.
The 30-year-old knows some people may think she should have told the man at dinner not to touch her again, but she said the experience was so upsetting she didn’t have the confidence to respond.
“You’re the only little female, you’re embarrassed, you’re degraded and you don’t feel like you have the confidence to say anything,” she told news.com.au.
“I expected my team to stand up for me.”
She said the environment outside of that incident was too difficult to thrive. She struggled to get any positive feedback, her confidence suffered and as a result, her work performance began to decline.
“I just felt like I was giving it my all and obviously no one is commenting on you, and I was thinking, ‘What’s the point of putting so much emotional energy into this work?’ Chloe said.
It got to the point where she was crying in the bathroom every day at work and felt like no matter how hard she tried to be positive when she walked into the office, she was just going to end up “collapsing” and crying at some point.
The worker claimed that, at one point, she was “eyeballing” a manager, but they never followed through.
Chloe believes that, if you’re a manager, it’s your job to make sure your team is “comfortable, supported and happy”.
In the end, she had a meeting at work where she said she felt like “the culture was never going to change,” to which she claims another person in the meeting said, “This team is never going to change,” so she stepped up. , left. and quit her job.
Since leaving in December, Chloe has struggled with a loss of identity because work has always been a big part of who she is.
“You climb the corporate ladder because you want to feel like you’ve accomplished something and have nothing to show for it,” she said.
She has had a hard time adjusting because she knows that talking about her experience could make her unemployable.
“Trying to find another job after what I’ve said is going to be difficult,” she said.
“I’m well aware of that and it’s something I should have realized before I said what I did because nobody’s going to touch me with a 10-foot pole now, but I’m not going to sit there and lie down.”
The Sydney native said she’s proud of herself for speaking her truth, but the flip side may be she won’t be taking a traditional corporate “job” again.
So it is oriented. Instead of treating her clothing business, K-Juliet, as a side hustle, she’s turned to making it full-time.
Although it’s a risk, Chloe is really “proud” of the work she’s doing and enjoys the freedom that comes with it.
She loves that dresses are the perfect summer outfit, and she’s proud of the product and the designs.
However, she also likes to be her own boss.
“You don’t have someone else to guide your vision, I don’t have a boss to say, ‘I think we should do it this way.’ I can do it however I want,” she explained.
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