Month: February 2022

I hate my job. I'm the oldest member in the team. I don't know how I've been able to stay so long but I just can't do it anymore. I've been applying for other jobs but have only gotten refused or ghosted completely. I'm obviously not good at what I do. I'm not an “a-player” or whatever the fuck that new catchy phrase is to describe and glorify a workaholic so I won' t find a new job easily. I can' t just quit because of course, I can't risk losing everything. So I compromise my mental health just to pay the god bills. I don't know what the point of this post was. A cry for help or just to vent. I don't know. I feel so desperate.

The so-called vacation under the pear tree or holiday allowance is a financial support that an employer may provide to its crew or former employees. However, not every company employed will receive such help. Its payment is guaranteed by the company social benefit fund (Zfśs), which collects money for various social purposes. But not all employers have to create it, and not every employee will get the same amount. The amount of support depends on the employee's life, family or financial situation.

I work with some girls who I used to be friends with. I am a white immigrant in Australia, who came here as a child. Recently I have been promoted to be in charge of these girls and they have started telling me I need to say things or do things the “right way” because I “live here now”, even though these things don’t impact them at all. Today they mocked me and laughed behind my back about me not knowing some Australian tv anchor and even encouraged a new hire I was training to do the same. I don’t know what to do. I’ve told them it bothers me and upsets me but they get angry and tell me to “let things go” and “accept that people don’t agree”.

I am sitting here, with two laptops open reading all the ‘buzz words’ and ‘key internal value phrases’ so that I can tick an imaginary box to tell a group of strangers whether I am competent enough in how I work with others to take on this job, as well as completely brainwashed into their ‘organisation ethos’. I have, seriously, had HR meetings where they have shown mr colour charts of urine to remind me to drink water. As opposed to paying me, they are educating me and almost usurping the role of the caregiver. I am sitting here a nervous wreck because of the synthetic pressure I put on myself to deliver, not only for myself but for my family and to be honest with the way wages are going, I can’t afford to not get this. One key insight I’ve had throughout the build up and the process…

I want to leave my job. I want a break. I don't just want to walk straight into another job, I want a couple of months away. I've been in my current job for 9 years. If I leave my job and don't start looking for another job until a few months later, is that gap in employment going to become an issue? How do you explain that to potential employers?

At this point I no longer work for a living, not even sure i ever did. I work now so I can afford to die. So tired.

I'm a current 3rd year computer engineering student. I am currently looking for internships (my university mandates at least 2 summer internships before we graduate). I made the mistake of applying to many different internships for companies without googling them beforehand. Then, out of nowhere, a company “Talent Acquisition Specialist” starts spamming me with phone calls non-stop (does not even email me first), with phone calls during my classes and my part-time work (don't like it but better experience than 90% of my previous employments and with an “acceptable pay”) and my project with the university. At first I panicked because I never normally answer to unknown phone calls, but when I answer, the most rude individual I have ever dealt with starts shouting at me for: 1) Not responding to her phone calls (even AFTER telling her I was at class) 2) Not responding to her email (SHE NEVER…