Month: April 2022

This coming from the Dean of the faculty I work in. Now in certain situations I would agree that it is possible for someone to have more work to do than others. But to use this as a blanket statement whenever someone brings up the insane workload or is unable to attend an online meeting relevant to only 8-10 out of 25 staff while some are having classes or are on their lunch break, just drives me up the wall. This is just a short list of what i do beyond my role as an academician in my faculty Faculty writer & co-editor of newsletter – I write the Dean's forward for our every 2 monthly newsletter. I also write marketing articles for newspaper ads for the faculty. Even though the university has a Group Communication Dept & Enrollment Ctr. When i asked why can't the marketing dept of the…

The supervisors and the manager at the place I work at still have the pre-pandemic mentality. What I mean by this is that unlike others, the labor shortage didn’t give them a reality check of how important employees are and how awoke most employees became to shitty management to the point where they don’t care about quitting in the drop of a hat. We had like 4 people leave within a month and these fools still don’t get the picture. They still treat us like the same old typical crappy type managers. The only reason I continue to work here is because I basically make my own schedule. They still write people up for call-offs, are quick to write us for the smallest thing, get pissy when we ask them to train us on something, etc etc. I find it very interesting that these idiots, after so many quit, still…

So, I'm a technical designer in my work and since the pandemic hit, I've been learning more motion/graphic design work in hopes to slightly change my career. Before I start, my company has been very good to me with pay rises and career boosts and 99% of the time, my manager is amazing. So our graphic designer is leaving and I said I'm very interested in the position. So I verbally apply and they said they shall consider it. The next day I speak again and ask if there's anything else I need for applying. I get sat down and told, I'm far too valuable to the company to leave my current job, so we can't offer it to you. You're more than qualified but if you wait over a year for us to hire one of the directors sons when he finishes school, you can have an apprentice and…

A 9 year old article that talks about how payments and power structure in academia resembles a drug gang. I believe it has gotten only worse and spread everywhere to the society. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/

I have been working in this company for three years and Ive been promoted twice, latest one being a team leader. I hace not received ever any training for it, just learning from others and working very hard everyday. Now, after a restructure, the team lead role is going to change. Now me and my other 11 colleagues that I adore must compete for the 8 team lead jobs. As the role apparently requires “more” they have chosen to do a sudden recruitmen process among us which looks more like the hunger games. The 4 people who do not pass the exam will be relocated to other jobs and taken out of their current teams that they manage. I feel exhausted, I have not asked for any change, never asked to be promoted, not looking for a job, yet I must do this process exam and interview with the company…

I was working for a cooperate barbershop. I put in my two weeks notice today (really 18 days) because I received a new job offer from a completely out of beauty industry company. The company decided that they would except my resignation, but effective immediately. Is this considered involuntary termination? To the best of my knowledge, they haven’t given me an option for a severance package or are going to be paying me for the two weeks Edit l: I’m currently in the US, more specifically Colorado if that matters

I work at a Builder Merchant in the UK, and they got a new manager in October. He’s an absolute cockend I won’t lie. Constant stupid decisions that we told him will not work, but he doesn’t listen to anyone and just has to try them. For instance, moving all 30 pallets of the small sand bags 10ft to the left. This meant they moved over into car parking spaces, but it’s okay because ‘they look nicer’. Naturally customers kept using them as brakes and damaged them. So of course, we had to spend another hour of our lives moving them back to the right. ‘I had to try the idea, the yard looked better that way but customers ruined it.’ No, it looked shit and you put sand in the parking spaces. Fast forward to Tuesday, he takes me in for a ‘chat’, told me that in his grand…