Month: April 2022

In the 2010s I worked from home for several years and loved it. I had some bad experiences in an office environment and swore I'd never go back. It was an introvert's dream. A few years back circumstances changed and I started working in an office and it was…..Okay. Then the pandemic hit and I got so sick of the inside of my house and avoiding everyone in public like the plague (Literally). Even though I'm still an introvert and need alone time to recharge my batteries, I suddenly didn't mind being in an office. Of course, I did have cool co-workers, so my experiences may be different than yours. I'm starting a new job soon that's hybrid and I'm actually glad to have to go in ~twice a week. It beats going to a sterile library or noisy coffee house if I need to get away.

Background, I am a underage casual worker under Australian law in a family owned establishment. The owner relies on her children to work and maintain the shop, and she doesn’t want to pay non family, as the business does not make all too much. Two of her children want to leave the cafe in the next month or so, and have been training to do the ‘senior’ positions in the cafe. Her management of staff is frankly poor. She does not respond to leave request emails, rosters you after acknowledging your leave, quick to anger and does not release the roster 4-1 days before the next business week. It is impossible to plan a life without a roster, we have an insane staff turn over rate, with all of the fully trained staff I talk to having other job offers in the mail box. She has illegal business practices as…

I (23nb) went in to talk to my manager today about receiving a raise because it's becoming increasingly hard to live on the little amount of money that I've been getting an hour. I went to ask my manager for a raise and I laid out all of the reasons as well as telling her that my co-workers who do less work than me are still receiving more. She was very annoyed at the fact that I was just discussing my pay with my coworkers. And then ended the meeting by telling me and another one of my co-workers that sometimes you just have to work two jobs to get by. But apparently we are people she wants in management positions and would hate to see leave. So long story short I'm looking for a new job. Not a second job a new job

So my work tracks points that we get for being tardy (1 point), a no call/no show (10 points), and partial absence (5 points) and if you get 30, you're fired. Not only that, but if you have zero for a year in a row, you get a “perfect attendance bonus”. I had 2 points that would, according to them, “drop off after 9 months”, and I was 4 months away. Normally I don't care for stuff like this, but it was free money if I made it, so whatever. One last note is I work 4 pm to 2:30 am Monday through Thursday, and last Wednesday I was out for covid symptoms, which is covered without using PTO because I work in healthcare. So obviously I let my boss know my symptoms, and I specifically tell them it feels more like a headache and bad allergies, but they say…

I work in IT. I do a job that's definitely not entry level. It involves skills that are not easily acquired. Recently I obtained a certification that isn't particularly hard to get, but can be costly. (My current employer paid for it.) For some reason, this certification is very valuable in the IT field. My current employer is not paying me what I was worth before obtaining the certification, much less now. That's fine, I'll hit the job market. I've had several recruiters reach out to me and scheduled a few interviews. I've noticed when a recruiter reaches out to me they quote me a very high annual salary offer. In truth, a salary that my experience does not warrant at this time. But I tell them I'm interested, because if they're going to pay me that I'll take it. Invariably, every time I send my resume in and they…