Instead of taking my yoga class today (there’s a great one Saturday afternoons at 2pm) I decided to use the treadmill. I haven’t done it in a while and it felt really good. I ran for 38 of the 45 minutes and it always shocks me how my body naturally remembers how to run and although I haven’t gone for a run in months, I have the fitness to not stop and continue consistently. I registered for a 5K run with one of my besties; it’s called the Butterfly Run and it’s to raise money for assisting families who have lost a child. It’s in a few weeks so I need to get into shape and not let her down. Running helps with positive endorphins and mood increase which I need lately.

I had a nice lunch yesterday with my friend and we took our doggies! We went to Nook, it’s super yummy. We went for happy hour and were on the patio and it was pouring rain outside. I love taking Hanky with me whenever I can, spending time with him makes me happy.

We were talking about our new work and jobs. I’m so proud of my friend. Her members have sought her out and she’s already up to $7M is assets and should be at $8M by the end of the month. She’s so smart and a great advisor. It’s truly hard to wrap our heads about what happened and the layoffs and the people chosen. It’s hard to understand a business decision when you’re laying off people who generate lots of revenue, and cost so little to maintain. You paid us to leave and are upset that members are upset and want to continue working with us? We are so close to our members and they trust and share such personal information and are disgusted, like we are, with these poor choices. And for some, you’re offering more money just to stay. The plan for you to take our members and transfer them to people unable to get business on their own, in a separate division of wealth, has completely failed and instead now you’re trying to pay members to stay and introducing them to advisors who cost more than we did. The amount of dollars your personal, one-sided vendetta against us is growing and will continue to grow, so thumbs up to your business decisions. My husband and I have a list of all the terrible business choices and plans that the VP has come up with over the years, it’s extensive. They will preach to anyone who will listen that they are so supportive of women, and they’re always looking to hire women, etc. Their definition of support is not in the dictionary. Let me lay out the people who were laid off as advisors. 4 women, 3 men. One of the men is young, with a new baby, asian with language skills which they are always saying they need and is hard to come by, super smart, a hustler and a nice human to have on your team. Oh and his wife still works for the company, so we are in a similar situation there. The other man has been doing this for over 20 years, his clients love him, he is married with 2 kids with disabilities. He works extremely hard for his family and has a big heart and was so devoted to the organization. The third man is a single dad, in the middle of a divorce and identifies as gay; he is intelligent and brilliant at his work. The first woman is the most experienced, a single mom, asian and her members love her. She’s been killing it since the layoff and her members are devoted to her. The second, she’s teamed up with the first and is a newly single mom of two young kids, going through a battle of a divorce, has lost a baby, is so loving and has the best personality. The third woman is a beautiful soul, a widow with two young girls she’s raising by herself, received the least support in her role of anybody, speaks punjabi which they are constantly looking to find, grew her assets the fastest and is so trusting and amazing. The fourth woman is me, who started without assets as well and grew a nice sized book of assets, recently came back from a leave of absence after dealing with harassment by another coworker, and my husband still works there. So these people do not care about DEI, they just say so to sound better and want to feel good about themselves. There’s no way to justify their decisions as business. Especially since the day we were laid off, they hired 8 new people without experience to take over for us. In another moment of lacking planning, they are not licensed and are so inexperienced, they need a lot of help and learning and there’s no way these people can replace the skillsets and knowledge that the 7 of us bring. I’m happy to not still be there, I can’t imagine what it would be like to work there still with that much lack of empathy or care or honesty or kindness in the “leadership” that exists. It’s frustrating in the sense that there’s no other reason for our layoff other than these people just don’t like us. And now they are threatening remaining staff to find out what we are doing and how our members are finding us and moving with us. These people remaining, who are not our friends, are chatting around desperately trying to find the answers for management to try and save their own face. It’s pathetic. Also, one of your employees decided to email all clients in the cc instead of bcc spot so you actually gave out all member contact information yourself by violently breaching privacy for the members. And our relationships with our members are so close, I have email addresses memorized. I know where they live because I work so closely with them, same with the others. Plus, let me remind you that you laid us off, so we didn’t have time or knowledge or ability to take any client information. You lured us to locations so you could confiscate our phones and laptops immediately. Nobody was prepared to be laid off. Again, we brought in tons of revenue and cost little. Why would we ever assume we would be laid off?? We were all devoted employees, we worked so hard to grow our assets and do right by the company. This is the thanks and treatment we get. The director physically blocked one of us from being able to say goodbye to staff, she got such pleasure out of laying this person off, she’s awful. She’s also the person I confided in about the reasons I had to take a personal leave and the panic attacks I was suffering from and the harassment I was dealing with by a coworker and she showed zero emotion because she lacks any and all empathy as a human and she hates women, she does not support women and went out of her way to never speak to me again after my confession and after I begged her for help and support in my return to work. That is the leadership who is left and safe in their job and that is the kind of person the organization admires. So I wish them well. I’m moving on, I’m happy to be past it and I don’t want anything to do with these people again, I won’t talk to them in public if I happen to see them. I don’t have to. They are obsessed and trying to track us all on social media. They won’t stop viewing our profiles. Leave us alone. Haven’t you done enough?

Christopher and I went on a date night at the Keg in Yaletown. We haven’t been to Yaletown in a while. We looked at the Banter Room but no reservations were available and we were able to snag one at the Keg. What I love about the Keg is that it’s always good, it’s consistent. We had a super nice waitress named Paulina – we left a nice review for her 🙂 instead of dessert, we ordered another round of drinks. Shown above is my dessert – their aperol spritz. Chris drank beer, two Canadians and a Heineken. I started with the Mai Tai and then tried the Whiskey Sour before the Aperol Spritz. So I’m living dangerously mixing and matching liquors. I told Chris how I’ve been feeling insecure lately and he’s so reassuring about how gorgeous he thinks I am and it’s crazy to him that I could ever feel anything less than stunning. He’s the sweetest. He’s out walking Hanky right now. We brought back some of Chris’ steak for Hanky and he was so happy. Now we will watch a movie or documentary. Tomorrow he wants to get croissants from Beaucoup and coffee from La Citadella and then grab some items from Whole Foods for football Sunday. Happy weekend!