Month: March 2022

This morning we had a meeting in which Management addressed rising fuel costs. Their suggested solution to ease the burden on us was that “we find coworkers to car pool with”. It was then requested that we e-mail our suggestions. What follows is what I sent: “Per the meeting this morning I thought I would share my thoughts. For the past two years (or more) the manufacturing, service, shipping/receiving, quality, maintenance, and corresponding managers (you) have continued to commute to work 52 weeks per year. Let us use an estimated figure of $50/week on gas to commute to work. Assuming each employee is off for ~two weeks of the year for vacation/holidays, that puts fuel costs to keep [Company] alive at somewhere around $2,500.00 per year (more or less). Due to Covid, much of the company has been working from home (and continues to do so). To my neanderthal brain,…

I work at a call centre for a huge company that you’ve all heard of. I usually take 140-180 calls a day. I’m “lucky” though because I work from home so I just stream sport for 8 hours a day to get through all the bullshit. Yesterday we had our monthly meeting on teams. My webcam was off and my tv was muted. About 5 minutes into this 60 minute meeting I realised I could just play rocket league. I did this for the rest of the meeting. Meeting concluded I thought to myself I’ll just keep playing. Customers phone up they whinge for 90 seconds without me saying anything then I literally put the controller down for 3 seconds to transfer them or 30 seconds if I have to do something for them. It’s highlighted how little I actually do. I’m just a life story sponge.

I work for a huge corporation in a high demand IT field. Bc they have so many people, they do yearly reviews and put people into one of three boxes; bad, good, exceptional. This determines your annual raise. Everyone in the company in a box gets the same raise. Managers stressed they have no control past putting you in a box. I got exceptional, and was told by my manager I'm the reason this place isn't completely fucked. 3% Time to hit the button on LinkedIn.

My wife recently went through an interview process for a job worth a lot more money as an Executive Assistant role. As a mother with younger kids she has a set of needs/wants that she has been intentional on expressing early in an interview process. Mainly she seeks the flexibility to be able to be there for her kids (who’d have thought). To the story: Early in the interview process the hiring manager stated “we are a flexible company and the team you’d be assisting are all mothers as well”! – ok this is good, they would get the struggle and needs here. Next after discussions on standard hours (7:30-4:30) “ this role is a salaried position and you may need to work after these hours occasionally”- this is for sure a red flag because it was openly stated. This is effective assumed with a salaried position. If a potential…

Unless you work in a hospital or police station…or anything like that, I feel like if you sit at a computer all day then your job could be done from home. I don’t understand why the president is pushing for a return to office. And many managers are pushing for return to office (mine included) Let’s take Covid out of it (even though I think within the next few months we’ll see a new variant), I think folks like working from home simply because they don’t have to commute. I live in a major urban city. A drive that’s normally 20 min, took me over an hour to get to. I was waking up at 5:30 to leave by 6:30 in order to get there at 8 AM. Not having to commute you are saving on gas, you save money by eating at home, you could take care of more…