Month: April 2022

Link to original post here So I was indeed fired the next day for “no call, no show.” Applied for unemployment, and was sent a questionnaire about my side of the situation. I told them a pet had just died, and I had called in an hour after my shift was supposed to start, and that I was told to not come in for the rest of the day (I was scheduled for a double). Also told the unemployment people that I have seen multiple employees be over an hour late/not showing up at all to their shifts with no notice and not get fired, so I guess we'll see what happens. I'm never going to invest myself into a job again. I'm so glad I learned this lesson early, now I just hope that I can actually receive unemployment.

A few years back, I accepted a position at what I thought was the “dream” job. It was in my niche specialty, in the town my husband and I wanted to move too, and it paid better than any other job in be ever had. We moved seven hours away and started our new lives. At first I loved it. I loved the work, my coworkers, and the community. But it eventually became clear that my boss was on a different realm of existence then everyone else (it was a team of less than 10 people). Looking back, there were so many red flags that I missed because I was young and naive. My work load kept slowly increasing and since my job description was so vague, I felt like I couldn’t say anything. My boss couldn’t communicate her needs and would get annoyed if I asked questions. She bad…

לעבוד (pronounced Lah-ahvod) Whoever is employed by a company and works for them is also in a way…worshipping them. I don't know about you but that says quite a lot and I hate it.

I went paranoid after quitting because I thought I won’t find work for the same money again. 2 weeks later I started my work-from-home job. No more standing around for 9 hours shift while my knees ankles and muscles ache like hell. No more hearing bullshit about how “Corporate” has a plan for me which probably would have never come to fruition. Sure I’m getting the same money and not more but now I can work this job wearing nothing but my boxer shorts and ripping fat clouds on my vape all the while making money. There’s always something better out there. Pardon my french but FUCK retail.

My wife currently works for a mortage company in Michigan that has a problem with retaining employee's, especially in the IT department. So much so they thought that offering employee's a $40,000usd forgivable loan would be a great way to keep(trap) employee's. This loan is also a contract that binds you to 3 years of service. After the 3 years are up the loan is forgiven. After the 3 years, the $40k loan is added to your salary/check to tax purposes. Which they will also offer an additional 1 year/10k loan to pay for said taxes. If you leave before the 3 years are up you have to pay the loan back in full plus interest. If you are fired you have to pay it back, since we are an at will state, they can let you go for no reason. They can also just decide to terminate the contract…

I work for a municipal utility, in an affluent town that has roughly 400 employees. We got an email a few months ago that said all employees in the utilities department would be getting a 5-10% cost of living raise and anyone hired within the last year would be bumped up to 50k per year. A few weeks ago the department manager called people into his office one by one to tell us what our raise would be. That alone was already fishy. All of my coworkers and I, not being chumps, immediately discussed what our raises were and found that people who had been there the least amount of time got between a 10-15% raise whereas people who had been there longer and already made more money got a 5% raise. And anyone who already made above a certain pay grade received no raise at all. Don't get me…

I have been doing sales/cold calling for quite some time and desperately want to get out of it. The whole idea of us being a meritocracy is bullshit. I make about 50-70 calls a day/300 calls a week and any time I do have a good week, I feel like it's timing and luck in the sense that I caught someone at the right time where they actually needed our services. Makes me wonder why cold calling exists in 2022. That being said, I've had some interviews here and there but sometimes when I get out of work, I get too tired to work out, play video games, or apply for new jobs. Like I have a lot of movies, vinyl, video games, and a bass but many times I'm just too mentally exhausted to even use them. I know this is something I need to work on but the…