Month: March 2022

I have seen a lot of the content in here for the past months. I know that everybody has different situations, but for a lot of you people living outside the US would be a great option. Canada or Europe are good options BUT there also I have another proposition: Go south America. A lot of the countries here have a very easy going life if you have even few money. Personally I live in Colombia working half time from home as a software developer. 1.5k a month here is a lot of money. So much money in fact that is pretty good life. Health cost are almost non existent (50usd a month for the basic that covers everything and 150usd for the premium service). Going out every other day, a good car, traveling, a nice 70m2 apartment, etc. If you can work remotely this can be a game changer.…

Rant I guess – I’m so glad I found this community. My previous employer – to whom I dedicated heart and soul for 4.5 years – closed our local office and laid off/lost all employees – three resigned before the office closed, one retired, myself and one other continued to work virtually for a few months longer. That other employee left six weeks before I went on leave. I agreed to transfer to another city after returning to work following planned medical leave, but during medical leave decided that uprooting my family wasn’t worth the money or career and told them so. That effectively ended my employment before returning to work from leave. I requested unemployment which they denied. Legally they could. I lost the job in the other city when I decided not to relocate and although they paid unemployment for the other workers who requested it, they did…

I’ve worked at my store for nearly 3 years now and I used to care so much about my job. I used to literally run back to get items or whatever for customers and I was always going above and beyond whenever I was able to. Eventually I wrote a full page back and front of suggestions that I thought could improve the store. I handed it to my supervisor who promptly handed it back citing the formatting as an issue. The formatting on a scrap piece of paper containing brainstormed ideas…Anyways I digress, that was the first time in those 3 years where I felt truly unheard. Even after that I continued to try to do my best day after day working as fast as I can. Recently I had another interaction with my manager and it was in this interaction that I completed lost all drive, desire, and…

So from what I understand it requires you to choose words to describe your expected self and then choose words to describe your actual self. How the hell do I make myself seem genuine yet also what they want if I'm an introvert? It hurts my brain. Anyone ever take this? Tips?

Hi I have moved to a new city and has applied to many jobs, but three of them have asked me to join their company, all three of these jobs are close to me, Job 1 – MON to FRI 7 AM TO 3.30 PM $16 CAD Job 2 – MON to FRI 4 PM to 12 AM $18CAD Job 3 SUN to TUE 6 AM TO 7 PM 18$ CAD Please note all these jobs are general labour standards.

Today I was told by my supervisor that despite having several mental disorders, and side effects of the medications for it, that I just have to “push through” and “make it work” all for what? To make someone not have to wait an additional 30 seconds for service. I've been on the verge of a breakdown for several days and tried explaining that with that compounded with my disorders that it is making work very difficult but am met with the same “do better”

I hear people say that working for a call center can be hell. But I've also come across comments where people have 45 min break between calls, have a few calls in between, or get 5 calls a day. I don't mind doing a job like that if it were work from home but get a few calls here and there. Are remote call center jobs really that bad?

Howdy friends, I am looking to unionize the drivers for a local version of food delivery services like Uber Eats and Door Dash. I live in Ontario Canada and have spoken to CUPW a few weeks ago and will be speaking to someone from UFCW later today on the phone. Can one shop for unions to find which one is best suited for what you do? Both of these unions seem to represent workers of similar job descriptions but I would like to work with the one that would help us as drivers the most. Does anyone have experience with either of these unions or know what questions I should be asking? I know recently UFCW came to an agreement with Uber and they now represent drivers in the Toronto area recently but it seems kind of shady. However I am not well versed in this sort of stuff to…