Month: April 2022

At my job that I’ve been at for a year, never called off before. I take off two days off a month on the same weekdays using PTO. This month they have caught on to what I usually do and they requested off on the days I usually take/combine with. Asked my supervisor for multiple days and she says that aren’t available. So I plan on just calling off on the day I originally wanted. Problem is that when I plan to call in she has off that day, what do I do? Could I get written up since they know I wouldn’t be out for a legitimate reason? And we have been talking about it recently so it’s pretty obvious that I just want off. edit: never was denied/discussed the actual day I wanted. I was just informally told that I can’t do the days I’ve been trying surrounding…

So to be fair, I have missed a bit of time in the office this past week. I had to leave early for a biopsy last week, just after lunch. The following day, I was working from home because I felt like crap from that and was coming down with a cold. Yesterday, I came down with a stomach virus. I was still at work, but honestly, I was miserable and spent most of the day in agony, barely working. My doctor sent me to the hospital when I left a voicemail to see if they could prescribe anything for pain/nausea. ​ Today, I decided to just stay home because there was less pain but more *bathroom* time. I let my team know and told them that I would check in occasionally, but wouldn't be available all day. This is very much a sick day, not a work from home…

To start, we work at a small marketing firm doing a very specific type of marketing. We as a team are incredibly close knit and I really adore the people I work with. Essentially, we work in a section of marketing that’s very specific in what we do. I don’t want to get too detailed. We definitely have competitors, but since what we do is sort of new, there’s a trial and error, learn to streamline part of the process. Our boss is very hard to read. He’s always been cool headed and kind, not aggressive or rude or demanding, but very, very hard to READ. I get nervous around people like that—you cannot tell if they mean what they say, what their real motives are, what they actually are feeling because there’s a facade of calm. I’m not sure if it’s a facade or if he’s that flat. It’s…

I've seen a few emails and texts individuals have recived after quiting their jobs. I would like to offer this up for everyone to evaluate as a possibility. “I am no longer employed by you. If you continue to contact me, you are agreeing to pay my consulting fee. Any further comunications, or questions regarding this fee will be considered billable hours.” Or something similar to this. The idea being, you keep wasting my time, I'm billing you for that time. If they contact you, then you write up an invoice for a few hundred dollars, and you send that invoice to proper channels. If you haven't heard back from, you send the invoice to their management. Maybe threaten to take them to small claims court over their lack of paying. I'm not 100% sure if that would work, but it might be fun to try.

I specified with the manager and the interviewer before starting this job that only “very occasionally” I could join after 5pm. 3 times per week don't sound like that. What would you do?

Depression rant. I’m sad because broke. I’m sure someone here can relate. My employer hired me (and 1 other person) in January of 2021. She made her hiring policy clear: first three months of untaxed paychecks. After 3 month probationary period we will be added to payroll and I’ll be getting my regular taxed direct deposits. Well, Paychex was late getting us our W-2s this year. After I got mine in late February I filed my taxes in March. Then a couple weeks later we received our 1099s for those 3 months of untaxed paychecks. Which I had completely forgotten about of course. And no one had reminded us of course. After getting my tax return of $1600, my car decided it wanted some (of course!) so there goes $900. Now I have to file an amended tax return for the additional 1099 form and figure out how much I…

My friend has worked as a receptionist/office assistant for almost 2 years with a small healthcare company. Recently her adult son passed away, as well as her best friend (all in the last few months). Between all of this she has missed a 5 days of work (using her PTO over the course of the last few months) and has also been understandably sad but still doing her job and keeping caseload and all duties where they need to be. She went into work today and her boss told her she was fired because she “wasn’t the right fit” for the job and she “can’t remember the last time she was there a full week” (which is bullshit, I have to drive past this office every day on my way to work and she’s always at work barring the last few months when she took two days off after her…