Month: March 2022

TLDR at the Bottom. Backstory, I'm in Eastern Canada and last year I was let go without notice from a prominent printing company because the high stress environment caused by my manager aggravated my IBS and she was pressuring me to take less bathroom breaks. After my contract ended I was let go and spent the last year looking for work. I'm in Canada and I had one year of Employment Insurance which ended March 11th All throughout my unemployment I looked for work and tried to find literally anything but no one ever called me back. I even went to a temp agency and they ghosted me. Finally about a month ago I landed a job at a bakery as a cashier. I was trained in Food and Safety previously and this place was full of red flags. Washing dishes in dirty, cold sinks, they had me working before…

I have the sick time and actually got food poisoning from sashimi I had last night (oops) but I hate how the thought of calling out brings me dread DESPITE having the sick time for it. Management pulls you aside the day you return to work to remind you how calling out “leaves your coworkers with more work” and it’s like????? I have sick time, unless you want me throwing up sushi for corporate to watch during their visit, I don’t want to hear it! It’s just a shame I know I’m going to REALLY get a rant for it when I go in for work again because today happens to be a day corporate is coming. Don’t guilt trip me when I already feel gross from being sick

I was working remote for 2 years. It was glorious. I didn't have one cough or sniffle for the entire duration of the lockdown. I go back to work, bam. Instant cold. I've had a headache and backaches for the entire month of March. It seems I have two years of illnesses that I have to catch up on.

(Please delete if not allowed!) So I work at an unnamed Italian Chain restaurant in the Northeastern US. I liked it at first – decent-ish pay, nice management, etc. But like my other jobs, it has become hell. My whole reason for posting this is to ask: Am I being dramatic? Or are my concerns legitimate? First of all, my general manager (GM) bribes us into fudging 5-star reviews on Google. It's sketchy, and makes you wonder what is going on to make him use his own money for these reviews. Well… Sexual harassment, for one. I'm 19f, and within 3 weeks of working here I've been touched inappropriately already. And I don't feel very safe reporting it, as my GM said in my orientation, “if something ever makes you uncomfortable, tell me and it won't happen around you anymore”. Great, so instead of handling it like a professional, that…

Today is my last day at an employer that I have held various positions with since 2009. While it was an okay job in regards to pay, I wasn’t treated with respect or appreciated for my efforts. I feel so liberated that I fell ashamed for not making this step sooner.

Before I get into it I just want to point out that I am leaving in July. So I currently work in a UK primary school as a teaching assistant, working with children with extreme needs. I love my job and working with the children but it is exhausting. I started working with a new lad after Christmas and he was very violent and it was taking all my energy to work with him for half a day every day. I mentioned it to my boss and he agreed that it would be best to put an additional member of staff with us every morning to support me. This was great and it was working really well to the point the lads behaviour was getting better and he was really settling down. Until a few weeks back, we had a lot of staff shortages due to covid and my additional…