My last 2 weeks have been a bit rough:

first there was an insurance issue I am still dealing with because my employer failed to submit relevant information on time. Payment will be effective only after employer submits correct information.

Then my employer claimed that someone had seen me using my cell phone while at work (theoretically, that’s not allowed, but everyone checks the time now and then, and normally it doesn’t affect the quality of the work). They claimed this happened eight weeks ago. I simply replied that I couldn’t remember anything like that.

This week I received a ticket from the transportation authority, where they claim I boarded a ship without a valid ticket, something I am appealing. I’ve never done this before but my friends are helping me. It’s not so much about the amount as it is about the feeling of being trampled on. I even showed the employee a copy of my ticket I had on my phone with my whole name, address and price I paid, but he ignored it. I already sent my side of the story to the authority and I’m waiting for an answer.

The thought of being forced to pay for a ticket I paid and showed as a copy of weighs heavily on me. I know I shouldn’t give it more importance that it deserves, but they way that employee treated me, the employee ignoring me, my explanations and the copy I had on my phone gives me an eerie feeling of injustice, that something is broken. I’ve been using that boat for 5 years and never had such an issue before.

If you are more resilient than me, how? I feel lost and as much as I’d like to forget about it I flash back to it, I cannot concentrate and I’m not sleeping very well.

I’d like to be stronger but I’m not.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    18 小时前

    I have no idea if this is helpful or not (and sorry if it isn’t) but I generally tend to approach things as like:

    Can I do anything about it right now?

    If YES —> Do the thing ----> Don’t worry about it.

    If NO ----> There’s nothing to do ----> Don’t worry about it.

    Obviously that’s super simplified and doesn’t apply to everything, but I find it helps to just sift out the small-medium sized annoyances.

    So for example with your boat ticket:

    If you have proof you paid ----> Send proof -----> Nothing more to do.

    Could they reject it anyway? ----> Maybe but you can’t control that -----> Nothing more to do.

    And then if they do reject it, you can start the loop again from there, which I guess would either be escalate or just let it go etc.