Month: April 2022

When I was in college I had prof that always told us that we should order our priorities as 1. Family 2. Firm 3. Friends. This last year alone I’ve had 3 coworkers die and 2 by suicide. The other night I was forced to work late due to my boss making promises to others we could not keep, but I had to prove we attempted by working outrageous hours. I noticed then not once would my work step in and offer help if I needed it. Nor would they support me if I told them I needed help or set up boundaries. If I called my friend though he would drop everything to come over. This teaching of work over friends is so fucked up. Work won’t be there for you when you need them. If anyone teaches you to put work before relationships I would ask who will…

So I worked at a huge steakhouse chain, let's call it Kansas Roadhouse. Well, one day I heard on my day off a coworker was showing nude underage girls on their phone to the line cooks. I made a comment that I “missed their little slide show” being the ass I am. 20 min go by and I'm pulled into the office that it's not only “none of my business” but that I need to leave them alone. Yes, I informed them that they were showing CP to people. Yes, I reported it to the regional manager. With proof. Nothing was done, and that manager stayed there for several more years. Call me a shit starter if you want, but I'm also in Culinary school now so I do, in fact, take my workplace seriously.

First off, I am currently working in the state of Colorado. I've been at my job for a little over a year. My 1 year anniversary date was on March 17th. At that time I had 80 hours of PTO. How it works is for every year you are with the company, they add on 40 hours to the PTO limit. For example, in the 1st year you are there employees get 40 hours. Then the 2nd year, 80 hours. 3rd year 120 hours with 120 being the limit. Around the end of March, the company decided to implement a new PTO policy where the time would accrue with every pay period instead of receiving it at the beginning of every year. So instead of letting those of us that had PTO banked, they erased everyone's PTO and started it off at 0 hours so now we have to accrue…

I’m over it. It is bad enough when you have managers that guzzle the koolaid, but coworkers that tell you to be more positive, not question anything, etc….they might actually be worse. As long as you have people that buy in like this nothing will ever change

Hi so I know this is a little odd for this sub, but it felt more related to anti-work than career advice so I thought I'd give it a shot. So the dilemma I'm having is that over the last two years, I've fully realized that I am not meant for labor, at least in the way our society has structured it. But now that I've had the epiphany that labor under capitalism is an absolute crock of shit, it's been really hard to just keep working since my survival depends on it. The way I've been coping with it is to just do the bare minimum at my job. I do things correctly, but I don't go above and beyond. However, I feel like I'm being forced to participate at a higher level than others at my company. My role is to babysit men twice my age to get…

Am I using the website incorrectly or are companies being lying cheats? I’m searching for remote work and almost EVERYTHING under “location = remote” says not remote/work from home position. Wtf? It’s almost a full time job just reporting them, maybe indeed should hire me 🤣

For 9 months I’ve been working 60 hour weeks. My overtime hours were my base wage, not time and a half, without the tips I was due for working, but paid in cash. In the beginning I agreed to it because it was only supposed to be for a short period until they hired someone new. They never really did. Whenever I tried to reduce my hours the owner’s daughter would complain because she would have had to work. Sometimes the owner would say “no I want to fire this person” etc. The owners daughter and I began texting here and there making jokes. Mostly to pass time as I was working. One day I told her it needed to stop as I was developing feelings and it was going to interfere with work. She began harassing my phone until I talked to her again. She then became cold and…

So my old boss Ran their own delivery business, whilst he was away for a week I was covering his run, I was to be paid $1000 cash for this. Weeks after he returned I got nothing. I also worked for his wife at another business and found out they were underpaying all of their workers, in the end they owed me around $3000. The couple were part owners with my current boss, I called my boss and told him they were deleting big cash orders and pocketing the money. Safe to say they were removed from the business with legal action and were both forced to struggle for months. I quit and because of what I did all the workers got a raise. Unfortunately they declared bankruptcy so I couldn't get what they owed me. But in the end I came off better.

Then re-distribute the monies amongst the people.