Month: March 2022

I’ve been working at a tax office since 2020 and holy shit. My boss jumps the gun often and there are large portions of the year where I sit around doing nothing. My boss acts like it’s my fault if he walks in on me doing nothing during these months, acting like tax season doesn’t last only around 4 months. The previous two tax seasons have been extended, sure, but it’s looking like this one won’t be. My coworkers treat me like garbage, leaving my desk in complete disarray and getting upset when I ask them for help with something. Today, I broke. I made a mess on the floor with a coworker in the room. They watched me (mostly) clean it up and didn’t bother to help or offer help, and after I left, my other coworker texted me asking why I never let anyone else know about the…

Shut off my computer at noon and spent two hours straight playing with my dogs and laughing with my wife. After being told yesterday that my new position wouldn’t involve a raise, it was the least I could do to leverage things.

I was working at a statewide grocery store chain similar to Safeway or Albertson’s from November 2018 to May 2021. In 2020 when covid first happened, what they gave us in lieu of hazard pay for being essential workers was an $100 gift card each month for the store, which they then would tax us out of one of our paychecks for, in addition to the money they were getting back with the gift cards and the tax write offs for them. They didn’t tell us we were being taxed the full amount of them out of our paycheck, I had to use a third party pay stub website to look at one of my paystubs for unrelated reasons, (the only options they had for receiving wages was either a company card or direct deposit, and I had direct deposit) printed it out and asked my manager about it before…