Month: April 2022

Throwaway account as to not get in trouble at work. I've worked for a decently sized tech company for over 3 years, working for a small team of many 7-8 people (4 of which all live in my local area). A year into my working for them COVID hit and we all moved to remote work. While the company has yet to take a stance on COVID outside of “we will see,”, I do appreciate that as a response versus saying we will be fully remote or back to the office and then back peddle – like so many larger companies have done these last few years. I live in New York State and COVID cases are okay-ish right now. It has been lower but it has been alot higher. We recently got a new VP at work and was asked, entirely optionally, if we wanted to visit the local…

I just left my job after I was bullied relentless and had 0 work life balance and 0 career progression for average pay. Sadly a close family member also just died but this means I’m likely coming into a bit of money, probably enough to retrain and seriously consider a massive career change. My question is, are there any careers that can give you a happy life? I just want as much work life balance as possible (time and headspace to do my hobbies and travel and see my family) and also a workplace where I don’t feel suicidal going in. Preferably where I’m not chained to a desk and not bullied. Maybe a creative industry or anything really? I’m seriously open to any options right now. But does a good career exist? Are my expectations too high? What jobs do y’all do and do they make you happy at…

I was going to start using doordash so I talked to a friend who said the employees made most of their money off tips. I don’t believe in tipping because the employer should be paying the employee not me. So I wanted to discuss here and see what peoples thoughts and opinions were. For the record, I generally do tip but I’m trying to get into the habit of not to help create a change in the culture.

My brother in law started working for amazon recently. He believes he was wrongfully terminates and wants to file unemployment. He was fired for “Stealing time” but was he wasn’t, he was tending to his accommodation issues which he signed papers on. Does anyone have advice on his to best ask for his termination in writing? Thanks

Throw away because well you’ll get it in a minute. I have a disability and I had an episode recently that laid me out I was able to finally return to work today. I asked my work to alter my work load because I don’t want to get overworked and have another episode. I was told no we are too short staffed to do that so that won’t be happening. I provided a screen grab highlighted of the ADA and that I am protected by this. I was told my boss would reach out to HR “on my behalf to get more information for me” I told them it wasn’t for me I knew my rights. They have had me waiting for well Over two hours to make this small change. So I filed a complaint against them with the dept of Justice. I have been with my company far…

Throwaway for obvious reasons I am transferring to a new department within my company for a role that is more suited for my background. Before I met with HR to discuss my new job, I received the job description, which is a copy and paste of all the responsibilities of a level higher of my current position with some additional job responsibilities. Since I had a stellar performance review, a higher level job description, and I am finishing my masters degree in the field in May (structural engineering), I reasonably expected a pay increase and a title change for this new job. During my meeting with HR, neither a pay increase or a title change was mentioned, so at the end of the call, I respectfully asked for my merit to be reviewed along with my title. I had statatics that I was paid in the lower 10% of people…

Please be kind as I am not a fluent redditor. I am but a humble nurse. I'm posting this in hopes that I will gain some outside perspective on this situation. I work for a public health organization which allows student nurses to shadow us for two days out of the week. My position in the company is more out in the community than most. I do have a small office at one of the branches with a phone dedicated to myself (this will be important later). I have discovered that not only has my DON given the instructors my personal cell number, the instructors have given my cell number to the students to contact me and arrange meeting me for shadowing instead of contacting me at my work extension. I felt this was invasive and frankly poor boundaries. What say you people of reddit? Is this fair? Do I…

To start I work at a well know fast-food chain. we are a franchise, we own half a dozen stores in our region, I completed a class at our corporate HQ to become a General Manager. After a month of not telling me how much I am making, I have just been lowballed a salary of ≈$41,500. Right now I make ≈$38,480($18.50hrly). For only a $3000 yearly increase I will have to work 45+ hours. For approx $17.73 for the base 45 hrs a day plus i have to work as needed without additional pay. Their reasoning is we are backup GMs and we are being developed so they don't want us to make as much as their GMs that run their stores, which I perfectly understand. Yet my GM does absolutely nothing and they know this. With the increase in responsibility; dedication to keeping our times down; in our…