I should have kept my mouth shut about my counselor and just sucked it up knowing my counselor was dead weight and I've have to do extra footwork/get advice from other people.
I didn't care about them as a person, because we wouldn't interact otherwise unless we had to, but they don't help me for shit. And now that I've had to go the indignity of asking to change counselors, which involves having a impromptu meeting with said counselor and then having to keep them anyway, it's only made relations worse.
They have repeatedly thrown me under the bus in front of their supervisors (withholding information about meetings and then saying I knew what the meeting was about in said meeting), reprimanded me for not seeking them for help on things I didn't need help in, and have belittled my choices, efforts, and feelings in various slight ways that I cannot outright point out as valid reason for change in counselors (again).
It's bad enough having to deal with this person on a monthly basis for bare minimum requirements, but to have to go to them for every single thing involving my trade and any changes I need to make to it? It's horrible, and I leave feeling like a subpar student every time.
You are surrounded by a toxic environment. Take your skills and strengths where you can when you can. Hat off to you for what you have to tolerate. Hope that by sharing some of the angst a little bit in a small way gives you some small measure of relief.
I should have kept my mouth shut about my counselor and just sucked it up knowing my counselor was dead weight and I've have to do extra footwork/get advice from other people.
I didn't care about them as a person, because we wouldn't interact otherwise unless we had to, but they don't help me for shit. And now that I've had to go the indignity of asking to change counselors, which involves having a impromptu meeting with said counselor and then having to keep them anyway, it's only made relations worse.
They have repeatedly thrown me under the bus in front of their supervisors (withholding information about meetings and then saying I knew what the meeting was about in said meeting), reprimanded me for not seeking them for help on things I didn't need help in, and have belittled my choices, efforts, and feelings in various slight ways that I cannot outright point out as valid reason for change in counselors (again).
It's bad enough having to deal with this person on a monthly basis for bare minimum requirements, but to have to go to them for every single thing involving my trade and any changes I need to make to it? It's horrible, and I leave feeling like a subpar student every time.
You are surrounded by a toxic environment. Take your skills and strengths where you can when you can. Hat off to you for what you have to tolerate. Hope that by sharing some of the angst a little bit in a small way gives you some small measure of relief.