Hilary McVeigh
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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...