Month: March 2022

So in short. Boss wants dinner with me and other colleague (who is a true kiss ass by the way)..he wants dinner after work. I dont want to because for one) i dont like my boss he only cares about production and money and this meeting is probably just a way to ask me to work longer. Second reason) it takes me 1.5 hour to get home, I dont want to sacrifice my whole evening by having dinner with them. I want to see my parents and just do stuff in my own time. He messaged me today what date would be convenient for me. What is a proper way for me to decline it?

A few weeks ago I started working in a lab doing stuff related to what I studied in college. Since starting, I haven't exactly fallen in love with the job – I don't quite get along with my coworkers, the work isn't what I thought it was going to be, and I find myself dreading going to work most days. This past Friday both of my supervisors were out of town, and because I'm still considered a trainee I can't do anything on my own and need to be accompanied by a real employee. So since there was no one in my lab for me to work with, they threw me in with another group in a totally different lab doing different work, just to help out for the day. When I tell you, I felt totally opposite working in this lab than I did working in the one I…

I often see people complaining about their incomes. I would like to know what you are doing, why you were taking that job and why don’t you change? I hope this doesn’t sound judgmental. I’m genuinely curious about your stories. Just to provide some information from my side: I am a System Engineer (for 4 years already) living in a European country (not Germany) with an middle class income somewhere in the upper average of the country. I tried to put a lot of effort into my studies because I always considered this the only way to escape the poverty which I knew from my parents. What is your story? Did you study hard enough? Did you have an incident in your life? Did you follow your dreams? Where you just unfortunate?

Technically, surfing Reddit during office time qualifies.