Month: February 2022

I worked at a big corporation. Long story short they were trying to deny people the use of the bathroom, unless they were on break. I didn't like how they were running things, so I put in my notice. I looked at my last pay-check, it shows I did not get paid for my last 2 days. I thought maybe that was a simple mistake and it would come on the next pay period. It did not. That day, I emailed HR and the store director that I did not get paid for time worked. I got no response. Because of not getting paid I was not able to pay for my oil, I ran out in the middle of a big snow storm. I had to ask for help from others to be able to pay. This put a lot of strain and distress on us. Advice?

As teachers, we're so used to giving away our knowledge for free. About 10 years ago, I wrote some lesson content for an online educational company, trying to supplement my income with a side gig. My contract paid $50/lesson. I soon realized that it took me the better part of a Saturday or Sunday to write each lesson to the company's standards, do all the wiki formatting, include an assessment for each lesson, and input any required edits. So, I only wrote about 7 or 8 lessons for them before deciding it wasn't a good use of my time. Recently, I visited the site to grab some published writing samples of my work to use for another job application. I was shocked to see that some of the lessons I wrote have been monetized hundreds of thousands of times! Now I'm even saltier that they only paid me $50/lesson! It…

I am so sick of these which the purpose is to have everyone spending all day Sunday prepping and planning. done!

I am reviewing our 800+ training catalogue at work so we can organize it and hide old trainings. Training #425: Building Your Influence as a Leader uses MLK Jr's I Have a Dream Speech as a lead-in to 60 minutes on corporate leadership. It feels so gross. I can't believe people have had to sit through thelat bullshit. In the defense of my work, we contract out our trainings and I doubt my boss will leave it up after she sees my recommendation to take it down, but Jesus. Nothing is sacred in the business world. God forbid we have some ethics.

Hi guys My former employer won’t notify my retirement (fidelity) that I’m gone. They keep telling they’ll have it done by the end of the week but it’s been a month now. Fidelity isn’t much help either because when I call they just start lecturing me about keeping my funds in there. What are my options? I’m to the point where I’m just going to send nasty emails and harass them but I’m really not wanting to do that. They have a habit of doing this to old employees. Any advice would be helpful.

So for the last 5 years I have worked for a before and after school program affiliated with my county's Parks and Rec. I work around 20 hours a week and almost 40 in the summers. The first summer was fine if not stressful and busy (anyone who has worked with children will tell you this). Then into my first school year things began to go downhill. I was constantly being talked to about stupid things. I stuck it out and into the second summer things again got worse. I was accused of being inappropriate with the little girls. This was because they liked me and would climb on me/sit in my lap to play and hug me. Those accusations made me physically sick. Of course it was unfounded bullshit. The female staff (I am the only guy) would do the same things with no consequence. Even the mere accusation…

Long story short…. my dad went into the hospital late last night, after dealing with that I went into work this morning to run a workshop that I volunteered to do bc the two others I work with are on boarding new staff and are scheduled to run the other workshops today. After I ran it I went to meet up with mum at the hospital and now we are heading home with my dad Was I wrong to not just right in and say that I couldn't make it today even though nobody would have seen it until 30 minutes before the workshop and would had to scramble?

I know I’m probably being foolish right now but I just left my job without putting in 2 weeks (I live in an at-will state) and I left without another job offer in hand. I was a bit scared at first because I’ve never left a job abruptly like this but the work environment was chipping away at my happiness and I felt so much anxiety being there everyday. After the initial scared feelings of leaving my job, I feel better and a bit of relief. I feel that life is too short to spend it being miserable somewhere. I figure I can work some temp/contract jobs until I can find something permanent that I like. It brings me comfort to know that others are leaving their current jobs for better jobs with better pay, work flexibility and to escape terrible work environments.