Hilary McVeigh

And I would tell like my partner the stories of what happened.

And he's like, that's not okay.

I later found out that most people only lasted about two months under her.

I lasted two years under her.

Because again, like my perfectionism, my trying to prove myself, no, I can get her to love me.

I can get her to love me.

And yeah, one day I just had my, I think of 20 seconds of courage of, I got to change.

I got to do this.

And I never will forget like exactly where I was.

And I made the phone call.

I was too scared to do it in person.

I made the phone call to the HR department and I remember her actually being almost proud of me.

Because she even said to me, she was lovely.

And she said, you're a different woman to the one that walked in.

It actually gets me a bit teary thinking about it.

I was just like a shell of myself.

And I think I walked in so like bright eyed and with like bushy tail, so like excited for what I thought it was going to give me because I loved uni.

And yeah, she was, because I remember being so scared.

And yeah, she reflected back to me that she like saw something else in me, that it wasn't law and that I was almost just like fading away in the office.

And so...