Month: March 2022

I got a promotion and hike last year based on all the work done in past. I worked my ass of in the new role this year as well. Employer would not give any hike this year, like literally nothing since they gave the hike last year and this year they have to deal with giving inflation adjustment related increments to other employees who didn’t receive a hike last year. I don’t get the inflation adjustment increment too which others are receiving. Basically someone who is junior to me and didn’t work as much in last two years will have same salary as me this year because of this. I MEAN, FUCK THAT!!

I started my first career job back in October. My direct boss is kind of crabby sometimes (never yelled at me) due to medical issues and generally being disgruntled by IT issues that come up in the office. When I first started I was told the job is in person, but if there’s bad weather or a doctor appointment then work from home days are fine. My boss has stated he doesn’t mind about working from home and wishes we were able to do so more often (he doesn’t make this decision) btw I’m able to do my entire job on my laptop, my bosses boss just likes to see everyone in their office working. I’ve only ran late once because of car troubles. I’ve worked from home a few snow storms this winter (once he basically told me I could because he was as well). In those days I…

I recently applied for a position online, sent my resume, cover letter, references, etc. I was chosen for an interview and given a paper application anyways and told to sit in a public spot in the business and fill it out. Is this as strange as I think it is? Why make me fill out all the information I’ve already given them? I’ve been through plenty of application and hiring processes but hadn’t experienced this. Is it just HR red tape or some sort of power play? As a side note I think the position was very low wage for the skills they expected (expecting a person taking photos/ commercial quality videos for the business to have their own camera equipment and extensive photoshop experience for $14-$18/hr in a high COL area, minimum wage is $12.55, full time position with the business ). I’m pretty solid in my decision to…

Last night I was supposed to work a regular 4pm-9 but at 7pm my manager let me and my friend go for the day. She said that we weren't busy and she doesn't have enough hours to give so she told us to go home early today. Not to mention that she's been cutting everyone's hours (used to work 4-11pm) and putting more responsibilities on other people to make it up. And the fact is that we aren't below sales, we are constantly busy and I've seen that the profits are meeting expectations. Funny part is that when we left, they got a sudden rush and since we weren't there, they didn't even have a second to breathe. My friend and I went next door to apply and since they knew us already, we got the job the next morning. Oh how funny it was watching them suffer while we…

I am still in shock. I reported a safety incident and my department harassed me. I reported to compliance hot line and they reported me to HR. HR reported me back to my department. I got written up twice last week for nonsense. The hospital wants me fired because I reported unsafe work environment for our patients.

I realised I don’t want to be working in a office and working from home made that even more apparent. Have you felt this? I know WFH is a benefit and actually work places have become more flexible but it’s put me off working corporate even more and I’d rather get a pay check focus on other things hat actually bribed me joy. Is this bad? Should I just stick at it ?

I make so little that I qualify for free healthcare. Sounds pretty good, right? Too bad the system is so incredibly flawed that it actively discourages you from using it, to the point where you'd wonder if that's the purpose anyway. A nurse friend explained it to me clearly one day. State healthcare doesn't give nearly as much money as private insurance. Doctors who are used to earning a lot of money make up for it by taking on so many patients that they can't possibly give quality care to them all. They're also incentived to add diagnostics in order to give each visit a higher payout. The end result is a private practice where you have to wait hours past your appointment time, to see someone for 5 minutes and they only see you as a means to a government check. They prescribe all sorts of tests which take…

So I called my job I had recently quit over poor management to receive the last of my tips (we receive tips in envelopes at the end of two weeks). Mind you I left this place over many immoral practices, like how many of my coworkers were lazy, if we closed any time past 9:30 PM, he would take whatever money we earned for how long, his 15 year old daughter was a shift leader and she had no idea what to do, and they were threatening to fire me because of somebody I kicked out that peed on the floor of the restaurant. My old manager took my tips. I'm apparently “not on the list” for gaining my tips that I worked for and I already know that the old manager just kept it for himself because he admits that he likes to keep a large chunk for himself.…

I worked at the corporate office for a particular chicken fast food joint as the assistant to the owner. I was bought in as a temp-to-hire, at $18.00/hr in Beverly Hills, CA. It is a “family company” which really translates to: “I get to see my family, you won’t have time to see yours”. It’s the owner (the father) and his two sons who are head of the company. All was well during that time, but I saw some signs that he was a narcissistic boss and an aloof boss. Very much the micro-manager type that valued facetime, rather than trusting somebody would get the job done. Long story short, around Sept 2021 a huge a lawsuit ensues between my boss’s marketing firm and the chicken company he worked for. Everyone on the team was pretty much fired. This started the process of him raising hell and trying to formulate…