Month: March 2022

It’s that feeling of telling my manager I can’t come in on my day off. “Why? You got other plans?” “Sure as fuck do Dan. I’ve got big plans to sit on my couch and watch tv. Why do you ask?” So this is me letting you guys know not to take these situations for granted. Time flies and one day you won’t have these opportunities anymore.

With the exception of losing a loved one (wherein I feel none of this guilt), I always feel so terrible calling out. Even for a good reason, like a horrible mental health day or vomiting. Does anyone have advice for getting past these feelings of guilt and shame for calling out? Why do I feel so much shame in missing a day at work? What can I do to manage that shame? Has anyone else learned to better cope with this? It's worth mentioning that I haven't eaten this boot either. I am the person that reminds or informs people of the Labor Wars of 1890, I am the person that tells people their rights as a worker, I am the person who speaks openly about my wages, and ask other people about there's. I am the person who cheers on unions and nips misinformation at every turn. But this…

I have my employee review coming up next week, and with it they have me doing a dumb ass self assessment. One question on the assessment is to list my current responsibilities. I work as receptionist & we are currently down one receptionist, so we are hiring for additional staff. I decided to check the company website to see the job posting, and basically copy – paste it for my self assessment. I go onto our internal website, click the current listing. I scroll to the bottom and what do you know: “salary range $17-$22”….. I make $15.50 an hour…. To say I am pissed is an understatement. Even worse: our yearly raise is 3%, which will put my upcoming salary at $15.96. Absolute bullshit. Any advice how to broach this with upper management? I suck at sticking up for myself.

I walked out and quit yesterday & my boss asked texted me asking why. I told her the job was no longer worth putting up with, wasn’t worth a 2 weeks notice, and that I would’ve liked to given input on fixing some things within the company to possibly stay, but I didn’t want to seem like I was telling her how to run her business, as I know some things were somewhat out of her reach. & I told her even if improvements were made, they don’t pay enough anyways. She responded and basically said “we can’t fix having unreliable employees. Your unreliability put a strain on your manager. I’m Sad that you burned this bridge because you were about to get a raise. And had you quit in a professional manner, I would’ve given you amazing referrals”. Note (my unreliability was me being out for a couple of…

Let's call boss's boss BB. I work for a fast-casual chain restaurant. Prep work and detailed cleaning is required on top of making orders as fast as possible. Prep work and detailing has slipped because we're spread thin during the day, and understaffed at night. Normal closings have 4 people, but we're running at 3 a night half of the week leaving us all with extra work night of and the next day. The payroll for our week totaled 500 hours, the sum of how many hours every employee worked. It was 50 less last week, and it was horrible. Detailing and prep was lacking, and BB knows it. But BB comes in, and says almost 500 is too high. So he makes my boss cut it to ~395. I cannot wait for the trouble this week will bring. BB demands the same work from less staff, and pays the…

So picture this. We pulled up in the drive through to order and we were behind someone who was just repeatedly yelling, “HELLO?” into the intercom. So I decided to park and walk around to the doors. Both of them were locked. Looked in the restuaraunt. No lights. Looked around in the parking lot. No cars. Went to leave and the guy was still yelling, “HELLO?!” into the intercom mindlessly. No tendies for me today. 🙁 TLDR: “HELLO?!”

Now, I have nothing against this coworker personally but she's 19 and has next to no work experience and yet she's making a good amount more than me and a lot of other people. People that have been with the company for much longer than she's even been allowed to work.She only makes as much as she does because our manager took a liking to her and promoted her to a manager position, which is hilarious because she kinda hates him. I don't really know what to do about it either because I don't want to cause drama and I'm afraid they'll find an excuse to fire me if I bring it up. Sorry if this isn't allowed, I just needed to vent.

About 5 years ago, I worked for a company called Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (I could care less about dropping their name) for about 8 months. 5 months in, my wife and I lost our son a few hours after he was born. I got 2 and a half weeks of bereavement leave approved through HR, the majority of which was paid using my own PTO. 2 weeks in, my supervisor (Get Fucked, Josh) started texting me, asking me if I could join meetings remotely. I was barely a functioning human being at this point, and told him as such. He responded with dismissiveness and general assholery. I went back to work after 2 1/2 weeks because we needed money to eat and my wife, very understandable, needed more time off than me. Over the next month, I was regularly blamed for missing important information during meetings while I was…