Month: March 2022

TLDR: Husband’s boss said he was observing him work because husband was talking too much and thus holding up assembly line. When approached directly boss changes story and says my husband’s team is complaining he’s working too fast and thus making them work harder. They tell husband he’s “overreacting” so husband quit on the spot. (Sorry for long post) My husband is an amazing guy. He’s not the smartest dude but he’s a hard worker and ALWAYS willing to improve on what he is doing wrong. Last year he got a job working assembly for a big company that makes boat engines. They paid great for someone who doesn’t have a college degree and the benefits were pretty good. This week my husband’s boss kept coming by his station and “observing” him. He was looking under the tables, eyeing my husband, and just being pretty intentional that he was watching…

I usually either bring my lunch and just eat in my office and take a break or go grab something and come back. If I put anything on my calendar like a lunch or out of office or a dentist appt my boss will call me during it claiming something urgent came up. And it’s never urgent. Ever. Today I went to lunch. Calendar says lunch for an hour off site. Called twice and left one voicemail. I didn’t pick up. Called back on my way back to the office and boss says “oh yeah I saw it on the calendar I just thought I would try you”. Boss trying to exercise dominance on me won’t work. I hate micro managing bosses…going to make a change soon 😉

I started a job as a nurse manager of surgical services at a small hospital recently. It was my first leadership position and my director of surgical services seemed like she was going to be a great mentor to me. So color me surprised when shortly after starting, she announced that her last day was in three weeks. Well shit… The hospital had another director lined up, but she wouldn't be starting for another 6 weeks. So here I was, a new manager with no experience and only minimal training trying to keep a ship afloat in choppy waters while doing both my job and my director's. Administration (CNO, CFO, etc.) Promised up and down that I would have all the support I needed, but it was literally the 3rd day after the director left before I had the CFO chewing me out for over staffing. fast forward to the…

I’m a legal secretary. I make $70,000 and I get 6 weeks of PTO.

I'm a writer professionally and so I make a pretty penny making sentences prettier. It's how I pay the bills. Yesterday, my partner comes to me and says her company has a advertisement for the newspaper and showed me the proposed wording. Honestly? It read like somebody ran Russian through a Japanese translator and then into English. It was, brutally speaking, illiterate and nonsensical. It was word salad with no meaning. It was borderline “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” levels of bad. And the problem with it being illiterate is my partner works for an organization that claims to be an educational institution. So the risk here is announcing to the world in an advert that you don't understand the basics of sentence structure. Anyway, I offered to rewrite the advert for her. About 10-20 minutes later I had a much better text that made sense and a…

Random tech recruiter from an agency reaches out to me. Says he works with various tech companies to help build their teams, and he has multiple opportunities that he thinks might be a fit for me. Recruiter asks if I have time to chat. I tell him that before we chat, I'd like to see the actual job descriptions and the companies for those positions. If I find any interesting, then I'd love to chat. He declines saying that he doesn't know my interests, and really wants to talk. I tell him that I don't have anything to talk about unless I see something that's interesting. He refuses to go any further and ends with that he doesn't like working this way, as “there will be no trust throughout the process.” Hey dumbass recruiter, you reached out to me first. Why don't you show a little trust instead of wasting…

For context: Marriott is worth 54.9 billion US dollars. 1000 Bonovy points costs customers about $500 to earn, when Marriott only needs to dish out about $5.50 for that same amount. So they want hourly associates, the donate the points they've earned spending money at Marriott, so that Marriott can donate whats essentially pocket change to the company AND get a tax break off of it lol. If you wanted to do a good thing, you should've just done it. https://preview.redd.it/gnl7ylrxofl81.png?width=483&format=png&auto=webp&s=387737b2debc8dcc86e79ef8d5433547ed39b3fc