Month: April 2022

I’m a secretary for our department and I hate parties. I don’t know how to plan them or what they should even really look like. A prominent member of our department is retiring and I have been dragged into the party planning process by default. Current covid restrictions have effectively diminished any kind of celebration to a glorified children’s party. It will be in a park, with no alcohol, cake from Costco, and whatever else anybody wants to bring. This was largely decided by my boss and his boss, but more and more keeps getting dumped on me. I was corresponding about dates and places and then abruptly got an email from one of them “We want you to pick a date and reserve the park before ______ goes on vacation.” It’s not that easy. The logistics of spending any kind of money at my job are an absolute nightmare.…

It’s clear at least 1 of my 2 jobs ‘just don’t give a fuck’ and did my neighbor a favor by getting me in LOL (11 years experience) Meanwhile, that came off the wrong way when he told me that to my face yesterday literally & i never let people talk to me like that. i need the money, but don’t know what to do do. I’m too honest, hard-working, and caring to be treated and to feel this way… Any advice appreciated (nothing i say is taken serious, i’m one of the only males at the job, and i know this means QUIT.) But i need it right now, thank you all, i miss the OG sub

Part rant, part looking for advice. I was recently hired for a remote WFH data entry job. Or at least that's what I thought. I applied through Indeed for data entry with this company. I was interviewed twice for the data entry position and was offered the job, which I accepted. The next day they called and informed me the position had been placed on hold. Annoying, but it happens. The day after that they came back and said nevermind! We'd like to hire you after all. Okay, neato! The verbal agreement was data entry, the contract I signed says data entry, but 3.5 hours into onboarding and I found out it's an outbound call center to try to talk medical providers into joining Medicaid. I'm working with two other people who were also lied to about the position. When we contacted HR they completely blew us off and my…

I have been severely homesick for years. Out of nowhere my in-laws asked me to come with them on a vacation to my home town. it was two weeks away. So i got tickets and the day before my flight i called off sick with covid. They still begged me to come in the next day!!! I told them my “symptoms” and they said “without a note or test you can't not show up”. Funny enough i did have a note and test!! My in-laws are very prepared people (and did the same tbh). I sent via email it all even though my manager had begged me to come in person. She originally said she would have to “get back to me after coorpate responds). Then they left me alone until i came back. Best vacation.

I come from midclass family that became low midclass as life got more experience. Since childhood I was awre of our bad financial situation at the point of hearing I should study a lot to be someone and help mom (I was 4 y.o). Have always been dedicated to school. My spanish teacher said in front of whole class he wished his son was like me. . Money was short and paying school was priority (public schools here are lame, many private are as well) over social life, reason I was heavily bullied at school for years (still have issues to socialize today). Went to university and for so many nights I was up after 2 a.m doing tasks and studying for exams. At some point I had 12h/day of classes. During my university life I even studied other stuff like Geology, Organic Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry .. After this I…

I need to vent. I’m working for the county and all new employees have to be in a 6 month probation period. I can’t take PTO at all but still accumulate PTO. I have sick time but can’t use it often. I have follow up medical appointments so they have to deal with it. I can’t use VTO because it looks bad. I like the job I do but it gets mentally exhausting. (I work for the public defender) I wish I could take time off at least a day to recharge. I get jealous when I see another employee send their email to everyone in the office that they’ll be out of office. Must be nice. Since I’m new I have to backup my team if they decide to go on vacation. Someone is taking 2-3 weeks in June. These 6 months seem to drag. I get more anxiety…

I'm of a petite figure. My boss (36M) has always been someone with extremely low EQ and is generally an unpleasant person. He approached me today at work to ask me that question and proceed to comment that I have a STICK FIGURE. I find this extremely rude and inappropriate but I didn't dare to react when it happened.

“The customer is always right” While I do think management should care about our customers and clients since they are the ones bringing the money to the company (which is the harsh truth), it baffles me why do we not have this labor law where employees or workers are protected from customers who can be verbally, physically, and financially abusive especially people who worked at retail or customer service. I've seen tons of videos of workers being verbally abusive like cursing and saying rude words to workers to the point it is going overboard. Then you also have customers/clients being financially abusive by saying “Can I speak to your manager?” just to get some free sh*t or high discount even though workers/employees just committed a minimal error. Then the physically abusive ones are the worst. Sure they could be pressed charges but in all honesty does our labor law (depending…