Month: March 2022

I'm gonna try to keep this short as this is more of a rant than anything. TL;DR : Employees working too much overtime, and it's directly causing accidents and injuries to occur. I work for a fragrance and flavor manufacturer that has been mandating overtime way too frequently like every week. I made it clear to my supervisor that I couldn't work the additional 8hrs (I work 40hrs already) which he has seemed to not have any problems with. (For now) But the problem I'm seeing is from the individuals that are actually working overtime. Accidents and injuries have been more and more frequent, last week we had two huge spills a loss of 100kilos (during an overtime shift). Two people hurt themselves today, one breaking a leg from a faulty dolly and a drum landing on it.The other slipping in a puddle of water he forgot to clean up…

As title suggests this is what happened. I am CS senior graduating in May. Went to a career fair, guy invited me to interview the next day. This is a non traditional CS job, a power plant with mostly blue collar workers and engineers in offices(applied for this). I got asked about GPA, I said 3.2, but it's 2.6. I said this as I was caught off guard and didn't think I would get the second round interview if I mentioned the low gpa. I got invited for second round, and HR asking for unofficial transcript. Honestly, I don't think I want this job, doing it to practice interviewing as this is my first “real job” interview, to practice negotiation, and to see what kind of salary they will offer – I suspect 60-70k. This way I am prepared when I interview for tech companies I want to work in.…

Posting because my boyfriend told me the way my tips are distributed is not right and my boss is stealing from me. So basically I work in a really tiny diner in a very small town. We have about 8 tables total. It is only me and four others that work here. On any given shift it is usually just me and the cook running the restaurant. At the end of the night I count the money in my tip cup. My boss has told me to split it 40/60 between the cook and I respectively. I told my boyfriend this and he was very frazzled as to why the cook would get anything over 10% as they make more $/hr than I do, and they aren’t even the ones serving the customers. This being my first serving job ever, I did not even question the way we distributed tips.…

Figured I could finally share this since I’m out of my (now previous) jobs’ hell hole. Not only is this company (a “new” startup in the states but with a backbone in the EU) creating a 1980’s slog work culture, but I was ultimately placed as a lead on a Work From Home engagement. This engagement was so WFH, that I was literally denied the ability to work from the office that I originally worked out of due to a lack of space unless we rented out a conference room (and there was only 1, so one person wouldn’t have been permitted it’s use). Recently I have had news where I need to be able to assist some family members with health concerns in another state. This office is in Michigan, my family in NC, and the entire, literally entire Sales Team for the US AND the company CEO live…

I work from home for a large corporation. I’ve been there for a year, but my coworker, who is at the same level as me, has been there for around five years. Everyday his employees are coming to me, asking for help, because he is ignoring them. I always help them and I inform my boss of this. My coworker is always rude to me, rarely talks at meetings, if they even bother attending them. He always criticizes or belittles me. It’s noticed by others how they treat me, and again, I inform my boss. Now we have to have a meeting listing things we value about each other and things we do not. We also have to list things that make the workplace better and things we’d like to see them do to make it better. I’m having a really hard time of thinking of anything positive to say.…