Month: March 2022

Normally I just dont answer calls from work on a day off so they dont have a chance to try and guilt me into working but this time there was nothing I could do my boss just changed my schedule and added me to the schedule to work on my day off without my consent and I couldn't say anything because my mom said if I did she would cancel my vacation

Tl;dr been at this company for a little under a year and now is the time for annual evaluations. Quickly after joining this company, it became readily apparent that my manager (who is new in their position) did not understand in fact how to perform routine and mildly simple responsibilities normally expected of their position, let alone evaluate me on mine. In spite of this, and several other factors (compensation, working environment) I am now searching for work elsewhere. However, in the mean time, my boss is requesting I set goals to be evaluated on during my annual evaluation, which I am at a loss for… looking for some guidance on how I can navigate this with someone who doesn’t understand what I do, or what they should be doing.

Hoping this is the right subreddit, I'm antiwork but currently having to work a call center job this year to make ends meet. At my job, we don't get paid time off, but we apparently have a 120 hr yearly limit of hours you can take off. Regardless of whether it's planned or not or what the reason for the time off is, it all goes toward your yearly total. I have had a lot of illness issues in general and from new meds, as well as doctors visits this year, which have made up the majority (90%) of my time taken off. I have bipolar depression and scoliosis and other issues that cause me a lot of problems. I understand that jobs can't just have reps calling out all the time but there must be some way there can be an allowance for my situation because it's not like…

I feel dumb for writing this but I need some piece of mind. I just got my first job as a software engineer but it doesn't start for another 3 months. However, I need to find something in the meantime to stay afloat. I hold 2 college degrees and maintain a lengthy & consistent work history in skilled positions. I have tried looking for temporary / gig type roles or openly asking businesses to consider me in the short term and I am immediately turned down. My resume has to be a reg flag to anyone hiring as I am grossly overqualified for the types of jobs that would hire immediately. My hope was to be honest about my situation and find a job I could cleanly break from when it comes time to transition, but I have now resigned myself to having to outright lie about my desire for…

I've been applying like crazy. Sending my resume to anytging that I might be qualified for. Out of 12 so far only 2 have gotten back to me.. What gives? Reaching out does nothing.

I hate working my life away. I am not a lazy individual, and have no problem putting effort into something that I deem interesting or bettering myself/family I provide for. But damn I hate living for the weekend every single week of my life. Or constantly looking forward to the few free hours I have in the afternoon after I get off work. I constantly day dream of things I would rather be doing instead of working and hope that one day I can be lucky enough that I don’t have to do this whole life style of waiting until I’m 60 to live out this dream. But until then..

First post looking for some advice. I work in It and have been doing support for the best part of a year solo, they recently gave me a 1.5k raise and now have brought on a new guy. thats great but the only issue i have is this guy is my counter part doing the same job as me but earns 1.5k more than me at a starting salary. how should i approach this. I dont want to throw this guy under the bus and ive had talks about my salary before as it hasnt met inflation in my country. I was told before that other people lost parts of their bonus to make up mine. we have the same if not similar levels of expertise.