Month: April 2022

I left a corporate role the other week and just had some emails with my leavers documents etc. and the invitation to take part in an exit interview that is… entirely a webform with free text entries? So the company do very little to ascertain or show consideration about why someone is leaving to the point it's just a 'write here if you wish' The company has a high turnover as it is, just wondered if electronic exit interviews were becoming a thing now?

Basically I have a graduate opportunity and have to complete an assessment centre at the end of April. However they’ve yet to decide on a date and my current job requires 2 weeks notice before booking a day off. Apart from pulling a sicky on this day which will be last resort what do you suggest I do?

Over the past couple of days, I've seen users share stories of older couples/families who have

So if I understand correctly the majority of the people here recognize the necessity of work, and just want better conditions/treatment as well as pay. If the previous statement is true then I'm sure you guys also recognize that while progress has been made towards said goal it still has a very long way to go for a wide range of reasons, from politicians/bosses still being resistant or inflation undoing the significance of pay rises, all efforts to make life for the worker better seems to be in vain(This is from the perspective of an American. I cannot speak on whether or not foreign nations are going through the same experience.) With this in mind I have a hypothetical scenario for you. It's nothing to take too seriously, I just find it fun discussing hypotheticals. If a group offered the proposal of joining an attempt to form a new country…

So my company(courier service in Chicago) is saying full time technically starts at 30 hours and no employee is allowed to work 40? There was no notice. Is this legal? (I mean probably but I’m curious)

I would like to hear all of your thoughts.

First off, yes I understand there are many evils in the oil and gas industry and while I’d agree with you, that’s not the point of this post. Companies want to end work from home for (insert BS reasons). Since the age of satellites and the internet, it has never been a problem for the oil and gas industry to work remotely. Day after day, across multiple states and time zones, multi-million dollar projects are being completed successfully without the worker and supervisor ever seeing each other. Personally, I’ve only ever seen my boss once in the past six months and he’s working from his house, sometimes poolside. It’s generally expected, unless you’re new, that you can accomplish your duties without supervision. If an industry that requires little more than a high school education can accomplish remote work successfully, there’s no reason your office can’t do the same.

I recently found out that my manager can’t in fact stop me from going to the bathroom as of yesterday. What are some other tips or advice you know for new employees?

Fuck my personal life I guess. I get burnt out from 5 days. How the heck am I going to do 10? OT sounds nice but time and a half is only $22.5 for me. What bothers me the most is my vacation getting denied. I requested 5 days off to see my parents and celebrate Cambodian New Years with them next week. I let them know 2 months ahead of time. Guess I won’t be celebrating with them this year.