Month: March 2022

Throwaway account. I started working at a new bar in my city in November. I'm a full-time student and I have another job as a bar manager but I picked up this job as a supplemental income while my other job is slow this season. It was supposed to open in November when I was hired but after about 4 or 5 opening day pushbacks and two months of useless, repetitive training, it finally opened in January even though this place is very much still under construction. The bar has a ton of issues but the money was pretty good so I stuck with it and even got my partner a job working during the week (I worked on the weekends). Mind you we both have studies and primary jobs. I'll sum up some of the core issues of the place since listing them all would be a novel. The…

So I took a job 6 months ago, as a way to earn some extra money and figure out what I wanted to do (transitioned out of higher ed). Starting pay was $17-$20, they gave me $17, which sucked, but it's on me that I didn't negotiate. In that 6 months, I've edited and written multiple documents, taken on extra hours, and assisted multiple departments with finding and fixing errors, including several accounting errors. I did all that partly because it's engrained in me to do my job well and to fix problems when I see them, and partly because any experience is useful. I've been applying to other jobs, but they were giving me more and more responsibility, including training some coworkers, and writing and designing the documentation for a new manager position. They also asked me to take on the manager duties I've got my 6 month performance…

“Your manager worked 80 hours last week. I worked 60 hours last week and you only worked 47 hours last week so I docked your pay one whole day.”

Hey guys! Quick clarification: I work at a really small company, and it is a toxic workspace. Micromanaging, criticism on minute details (and on bigger scales), a boss who is constantly annoyed and tense and seemingly so angry all the time. Add that to unpaid overtime, assignments being given just before I want to leave, personal requests being entirely forgotten – you get the picture. Conditions aren't great, but it took me 30, 40 failed applications to get this job and at the time I thought it was better than none. Anyways, this toxicity has led to my anxiety spiking, and I dread going there. Hell, I dread being there. I also constantly have fear of getting fired, getting treated like shit over mistakes… how do you guys maintain a “fuck it, do bare minimum, I leave when I leave and I don't care about criticism” attitude? I want to…

I work as a maintenance guy for a banquet hall. We do weddings and stuff like that. My job is to clean and maintain the entire property. It’s quite big and there’s a lot to do day to day. My original shifts were 8-10 hours 5 days a week. To save money the company has shortened my shifts to 6-7 hours per day and only 4 days a week. The idiot of a boss I have now asks me why I’m not getting as much work done as usual and is not happy with my work performance. I kinda want to ask have you always been this stupid or is it just recently?

What's unfortunate is that I did like this job at one point and gave 110%. However I learned over time that in this bullshit “relentless positivity” startup culture, the actual work you do matters a lot less than how you market yourself and kiss ass. After I expressed to my boss that I felt like some recent promotions/demotions weren't really fair, I became a target. My performance evaluations centered entirely around my “attitude” and not my actual work, despite zero cited instances of how my attitude was poor. The boss just somehow “knew” it was. He gave me an insulting raise at performance eval time, which I again said I wasn't thrilled about, and at that point he started micromanaging me in a way he didn't for other employees (including the one he started sleeping with lol). Then when I quit for a better, high-paying job, he asked if I…