Month: March 2022

Thought this may be the best sub for this. I've just clocked into work. Been here for almost 5 years now and got a unofficial verbal warning from my manager. Our area manager had complained to him that I was late pretty much every day last week. However instead of asking why he simply said that I needed telling off for it. If he'd have asked why he'd have found out that my dad had just left hospital due to cancer and then the following day had a stroke. Planning on quitting soon anyway and sending a nice email to HR about all the issues they don't see.

Background: I’m temporarily living in a suburban area, & because I’ve lived in cities all my life, I don’t drive. This lowers the already the meager job opportunities in the area because I will have to take a lyft or Uber back and forth. I have an MA in literature from a prestigious university, 10 years of experience teaching — students from elementary to high school as well as 5 years at various universities. I decided to apply for a position at a tutoring center, and the director was excited to meet me because of”my experience.” In the interview, she tells me that I will get paid $14/hr, although she “likes to reward hard work” and there is a possibility for a raise…eventually. And she ca give me 20 hr/a week. I accepted because I feel desperate, only to realize later when I got home that I would end up…

Hi all, I will be attending a class in two weeks that is ceentered around a good work-life balance. Per this class, I am to come up with 3-4 questions (as broad as can be) that should be brought up in class. I am curious if anyone has any quick-minded or improtant questions that they would like to see answers to. ​ Extra info: I am a 24 year-old (birthday today actaully) Science Doctoral Student (Ph.D.) and the presenter is a professor that is in charge of post-doctoral admissions.

So I recently quit my terrible job (Sunday the 6th, yay!) and I get this in an email. 40 hours of accrued vacation will be paid out this week Your insurance will terminate 3/31/2022 A total of $139.08 will be deducted for insurance premiums to cover the remainder of the month You will be offer COBRA through the mail to extend your Medical, Dental and/or Vision benefits at a higher premium (watch for a plain white envelope) Life Ins and Critical Illness can be extended as well, if interested call CIGNA directly at 1-800-362-4462 We were able to collect all equipment issued except the metguards, so we will deduct $35 from this week’s check.  If you have them and return them, we would reimburse that $35.00 ​ Shouldn't I be able to cancel the insurance for this month? And get that money back? I tried looking on the DoL website…

They have never laid people off before. We did great sales numbers in Covid 2020 because of Historic rates and many people were trying to refi. 2021 was so so in sales. 2022 we are now not doing good in sales (compared to 2020) we literally harass our customers asking them if they wanna buy a house, we cal and e-mail them everyday for months because we can offer $1,000 off…. Sorry billion dollar company, no one wants to buy a house or refi with the market how it is, even with the 1,000 off buying a house and refi is not ideal right now. So my company decides to fire customer service agents and sales agents because of this. Then in the same email at the end, they brag about what our company stands for and we are ethical and reliable we are, then proceeds to brag how we…

I worked a remote part-time temporary contract job as a program assistant between undergrad and graduate school where the hours ranged from 5-20 each week. When they hired me they said it was okay to have other part time jobs since the PA hours were flexible and the work could be done whenever. So I got another part-time job working as a teaching aid part time, and when my PA supervisor checked my time sheets and saw that there were certain hours of the day I didn’t clock time, figured out I was working another job, and got upset that I wasn’t always available to answer emails immediately or whatever. Told me they hadn’t given me permission to get an actual other job and just thought I should temp teach (which would still mean I couldn’t answer/work PA all the time, except now it would be random??), despite the fact…

So, I’m sure there are certain roles where assessment tests make sense. I had a data entry job in high school that required a WPM test and that was a logical way for them to see how fast people could type without making mistakes. That being said, the line of work I’ve been doing for the past 17 years uses a handful of programs with a huge range of use and the couple of assessment tests I’ve taken were using the programs in ways that hadn’t applied to my previous jobs, however if you’ve worked with those programs for as long as I have, it’s very easy to learn those new functions on-the-job. To me, it’s incredibly rigid to expect a perspective employee to preemptively know how to do a job before they’ve even interviewed and I hard pass job postings that require I complete assessment tests anymore. If I’ve…

I fully stand with Ukraine personally, but with gas prices going through the roof, why would the current administration urge people tor eternal to work? No one can afford a commute if gas prices go through the roof again.