Month: April 2022

This was a few years back when I used to work for this company that ran cables for various prisons. The job required travel and staying in hotel/motels for a week at a time and drive home after work on Fridays. The pecking order was the boss, the manager, team lead, and the workers. I was a worker and learned to do a lot in a short period of time. I even improved the job by bringing safety techniques from my experience from the oil and gas' field. Everything was great the first few months, living in good hotels and getting work done. We then got to a small town where they had a cheap motel and another hotel. The manager decided that we'd be better off in the cheap motel (I think he had a budget for the hotels, chose the cheaper ones, and pocketed the difference). On day…

I'm very vocal about mental health, work-life balance, and taking no bullshit from employers. All my social media is filled with stuff like this. Last year, I quit my job because I hated it. It made me anxious as hell to go to work. So I posted about it. A couple of days ago, an acquaintance I hadn't heard from in years contacted me just to tell me they had quit their job. All because they'd seen the stuff I post about. They're doing much better and work in something they like now. It felt great to be able to help someone out without even realising it. Thank you too, because this sub has helped me out a lot when it comes to how I understand my own relationship with my job.