Month: March 2022

I was completely and totally dismissed. Full story: I was flagged for being absent 10 days in a 12 month period, a completely separate issue but get this, I work 10 hours overtime a week EVERY WEEK and they’re flagging me for 60 hours of sick leave, okay. Anyway, so company protocol is I have to sit down with the boss and fill out a form basically outlining the issue and he’s supposed to ask me if there’s anything going on that’s preventing my attendance. He does asks, at this point I can’t hold back the stress tears anymore and I break down. I finally get out the words “physically and emotionally fatigued” and he says “you’ve never brought this up to me before blah blah blah” (I don’t remember). After his spiel he turns to this LEGAL document that’s asking for my input: “[my name] thanksfully declines coment” yes,…

i work part time, i’m contracted 16 hours but i’m being given closer to 24-30 hours a week. i’m a student and i rely on my dad to pick me up from work as i work late hours. i cant manage working this much with my schoolwork, but i’m nervous on asking for a reduction as people have recently left and i don’t know how to approach this. my work has shit management (they haven’t paid me either) and i’m worried they’ll be mad. any advice ?

Briefly: During the pandemic, I saw all these idiotic stickers questioning vaccination. I say idiotic because they were. Most of the “arguments” were textbook examples of logical fallacies and Debate 101 mistakes. A very small number required a little more effort to realize the “gimmick” but all were equally debunkable and fundamentally insipid. I see NOTHING, zero, bupkis, nada, even close to the same level of guerilla advertising tactics from the antiwork movement. No stickers at eye level on poles at crosswalks, nothing on the sides of subway stations, nothing … And the antiwork arguments are far more logical and far more defensible. They make sense and can be shown to make sense. For example, I have never encountered a “good” argument for leaving health care in the hands of for profit organizations. I would, in fact, love to read one so that I could have that certainty that my…

Roughly equivalent to an inflation-adjusted middle class wage in the 1980s. What would you guys do to earn $150k a year? How many hours would you work? How much bullshit would you endure? Boomers think we don't want to work. I beg to differ.

I normally get somewhere between 1-2% raise every year. It has at least kept up with inflation so that I didn't get a pay cut at all, but this year is different. With the cost of living skyrocketing, and 7.5% inflation, anything less than a 7.5% pay increase is a pay cut at a time when no one can afford it. I like my job, but if they toss out another 2% raise this year, I'm going to have to make a counter offer and possibly threaten to leave. I'm an industrial electrician. I can have a new job by Monday, but that's not the point. I shouldn't have to leave and find a new job just so my pay keeps up with inflation, but I am pretty sure I'm going to have to.

It seems like every job posting these days goes on and on about how “fast-paced and exciting” their company is. I don’t want fast-paced. I want slow-paced. I want deadlines that have enough slack for me to take time and care and have a finished product I’m proud of. I want to have 15 minute conversations with my favorite coworker at the coffee machine. I want to go take a walk on a sunny day after lunch. Slow down. Breathe. And stop bragging about your stressful office culture. /rant