Month: March 2022

I have severe mental issues, I wish not to fully disclose. I hope in no way I am coming across to say that I am special or unique in this, I just know that I suffer and my daily life suffers. I have never done well in a regular work setting. the amount of time I need to recover, is more then I’m ever able to work. 9-5, 5 days a week is crippling to me, I don’t like having to explain all the time to everyone why, but it is. No matter how I’ve fought to be a regular person, I’ve not been able to maintain it. When I try to explain my limitations to employers they either shy away from hiring me me or ignore accommodations I request, and treat me poorly for trying to put my foot down about up-keeping them. When I try to explain this…

I have been working auto parts retail jobs for the past few years. Was just a easy job and was good at it, never satisfied with pay but whatever. After peak COVID I got fired from a place I put my everything into, absolutely crushing my spirit and becoming jaded from the experience. A couple days after I stumbled into another auto parts store, with the manager hiring me on the spot. When I tell you he was a cool dude, I mean I've never met a manager like him in my life. Could shoot the shit, left everyone alone to do their job, was hardly at work so no pressure, always took care of his people when it came to corporate, that kinda guy. About a week ago or so he got fired out of the blue, he always told us the district manager had it out for him…

Hello, I've been a long time lurker of this sub, especially as I've used methods and tips described here to better my job prospects. I come now since this situation has not happened to me before and I am unsure how to proceed. I put in a one-week notice to my job since I accepted a higher paying one. My soon-to-be ex-manager takes me aside and starts to pester,annoy and push me into still working at this job. This job needs people to cover overnight, which I applied for, but I won't have to do that at the new location. She really thinks I want to work a 9-5 take a 2 hour break and then come back to work. What really pushed me over to the 'burn bridge' mode was the fact that there wasn't even a mention of a pay increase, especially since I mentioned that it is…

At what point in this movement are people going to honestly start discussing and agreeing on a day or week where we all decide to sacrifice a little bit to show how large this movement is and how serious we are that systemic change is necessary? Are we all going to wait forever and let the golden opportunity we have now before people get used to things again and all devolve back into apathy and complacence? The time for talking is nearing an end. I think the vast majority of us can probably agree that wages are stagnate, health care is too expensive, and politicians are bought and paid for by corporations (Looking at you Citizen's United). Let's pick and day, or preferably, a week, to put the elite on notice that we are sick and tired of the disrespect and lack of action. I propose Monday, May 2nd. This…

I started work as a stablehand nearly 4 weeks ago now. I was promised 5 shifts a week from 3:45 to 9 or 9:30, but in reality I was getting 3-4 shifts a week finishing at 8, sometimes 8:30. Beyond that, the manager was constantly telling everyone but her besties how slow they were and how lackluster of a job they were doing, even staff that had been there for years and moved really efficiently. The straw that broke the camel's back was when 6 horses came into the washbay at once, overcrowding it when there is only 2 staff. This was a direct result of poor organisation from her and the trainer, but we got yelled at and blamed for the system slowing down. Not long after, she berated me for not washing a horse's skin condition hard enough because she thought it was dirt, and told me to…

Was recommended to post this here from r/AmITheAsshole because they thought you might like this story so if you guys don’t think it’s appropriate I’m fine if it gets removed. So I came into a problem today and want to take it to the general public of work place issues and see if I am the asshole for the way I acted. I was hired at my job back in June of last year. I was told as a driver, if I skipped my lunch I could be off at 330. Once I got hired on they would sometime make me take my lunch, but other times after I worked 8 hours straight without lunch they would send me out on last minute deliveries that made me work overtime. We have a backup driver who works later than I do. These were deliveries that customers would call in 2 hours…