Month: March 2022

So, I work at a sleep lab as a side job. Long story short, we put patients on a stool so we can walk around them while sticking electrodes on them. It's essential. We can put someone on the bed or a chair while doing it, but that can almost double the time it takes. This place has been going for almost 10 years, I've been there for 3 and was taught by the people that have been here for the entire 10. A co-worker does it a bit differently – because of health problems, he sits on the stool and has the patient sit on the bed. Fair enough, who cares. One day, the stool rolls out from under his body, he falls over and hits his head on the sink. Hospital, stitches, the whole procedure. When he had to tell the administration what happened, you wanna know what…

There's been a lot of talk about returning to offices recently. Which is interesting, since a TON of companies that refused employees the option to work from home sure had no actual issue making it happen. Literally overnight in a lot of cases. This makes is pretty obvious to anyone with sense that these organizations were lying to their employees, and stealing from them in the form of unpaid prep and commute times. Theft is a crime. And since time theft committed by corporations against employees is so widespread, the government should be doing something about it. Biden shouldn't be urging people to return to the office. He should be forming a new department that investigates jobs to ensure any job that claims to be “on site” actually is. Remote work should be the default, and any company caught lying about it should be getting hefty fines.

I have been at my job over a year and month now. I got promoted and now I got transitioned from my manager that I truly enjoyed and supported in me and believed in me to this new manager. Let me tell you about this NEW manager. Passive aggressive with every question I ask. Acting like I should know the answer and always questioning me why I didn’t get my work done or get the things she asked of me done. Everything I was trained throw it out the window and this is how we are doing it now. Instead of actively showing and visually giving examples to help the team out she bitches and complains about our team how we are always dead last. And it’s not just me that feels this way it’s me and another coworker that we came from the same training group to join this…

Planning on asking manager to lay me off, is there a chance they say “I’ll talk to HR and will get back to you this afternoon” only to come back with a firing notice? I have a good relationship with my manager but I heard some people are so offended about their employees leaving them that they go out of character to do shitty things just because. There are three ways my departure can end: Best case scenario, I ask nicely about the lay off, they agree it’s best for both parties and pay me severance (been there 7 years). Not so ideal but not the worst case scenario, I quit and receive no severance. Worst case scenario, they find an excuse to fire me just to give me shit for leaving them. Anything else I should take into consideration, I thank you in advance for letting me know.

For the past 3 years I worked in a role with next to no supervision. I led a small software development team that was, high performing compared to others in the company. Unfortunately for the first 2 years I had an incredibly incompetent team that required a lot of hand-holding. Eventually I was able to hire competent staff but by then I was so burnt out. Due to no supervision I was literally able to get away with 1-2 hours of actual work per day. I got bored, and for many reasons decided it was time for a change. Last year I got a new job for a company I had always wanted to work for in a different industry that I always wanted into. However excited I was, I just can’t seem to find a happy pace. I feel like I’m being overworked and have unrealistic expectations. I’m thrown…

Hey y'all. I moved to Houston Texas about a year and a half ago. Since then I've worked a couple jobs but the current one has a manager that verbally abuses me and has unstable moods. I want to quit asap but have some credit card debt (2k) and no job lined up. Would doing delivery services tide me over? Did it help anyone with stress? My current monthly expenses are at $900 flat (rent, car, food).

Two workers and their boss were having lunch at the meeting room. Suddenly a genie appeared out of a Coke ring-pull, and granted each of them a wish. Worker A said, “I would like to go on holidays at the Maldives.” The genie snapped its fingers and Worker A was gone in a puff of smoke. Worker B said, “I wish to migrate to Australia.” He too disappeared in a puff of smoke. The boss looked at the genie and said, “I expect both of them to be back at work by the end of lunch time.”

There is no stupid employee shortage. I know this has been said time and time again. My fiancé quit his job in October because he was the only employee & was being taken advantage of. We had savings, I work & thought we would be fine. It’s March, and nothing has panned out. He goes on interviews, pay is garbage, thinks “ok if they make a formal offer I’ll bite the bullet until something else” but no, just not a thing. He’s experienced, has good references from all other employers, but these jobs are like “WE NEED WORKERS” and yet, crickets. It’s frustrating- and I feel guilty for convincing him to quit. I know that his body and mind were suffering, but I just was so naive that 5 months of savings would be enough. We both thought with his skills/experience/willingness and all the “WE NEED YOU NOW” signs would…