Month: April 2022

Hello everyone! Long time reader, first time poster. I had a question regarding my employment struggles I guess you could call them. Currently I work in a plant setting, the pay is good, the hours are shit. I need more family time as I am a new husband and a new father. I want to make the most out of these precious times, but working 12 hour rotating shifts gives me no time to do that. I have experience in Sales, Customer Interaction face to face and over the phone, but it seems like that gets me nowhere in the world of sales and marketing. I don’t have a college degree (which doesn’t help my case), but I don’t understand why my experience doesn’t trump a degree. I suppose my question is whether or not it’s better to take the low paying sales gigs that I’m offered and try to…

My instincts are telling me to back out. I really need the money, but I’ve already gotten bad vibes from him (the manager). He’s already shown that he isn’t willing to compromise on matters that will help promote a healthy work-life balance (trying to schedule me for more days than I asked for, was very visibly angry when I told him about asking for two shifts off next week for a wedding), and I’ve heard from a number of servers that “that’s just the way he is- don’t take it personally”, which is a huge red flag for me. Money and my time at work is, and always has been, a support system for my actual life. Not the other way around. And this isn’t the first time a manger or supervisor has tried to cross that boundary. I don’t know if I’m just exhausted from today’s shift, but I…

This is a long one, so let me apologize. About a year ago, I was fired from my senior position at a (moderately toxic) local butcher shop, because I left after I agreed to stay for 2 hours overtime. Now, let me explain: It was a busy Friday afternoon, we had two clerks call out of work that night. I was scheduled to work 5am-1:30pm, at 1:30 sharp HR and the store director came down to ask me if I could stay a couple of hours late. I said “sure, just let me take a quick break to let my wife know what's going on.” I get on my phone, and I see a lot of missed calls from my mom. So I decide to call her back, it would only take a minute and it seemed important. I call her, she informs me my step-dad (the man who raised…

I have no intentions of leaving Utah, unless I'm absolutely forced to. It's my home, I've made too many friends, I was born here, I love the public transportation here in Salt Lake, I love the outdoors, and I love camping. However, since 2006, my parent's home went from being worth $350k to now being valued at well over $1.2 million. And the same goes for most the state, especially in the populated areas. And rent isn't a whole lot better, as rent here is hovering around $2,000 for a studio apartment in Salt Lake City, unless of course I want to live in an extremely dangerous area of the city, or if I want to live in an apartment from 1920… At this point, most millionaires can hardly afford to buy a home here. I did the math, and assuming I wanted to be a rent slave, I'd need…

I started in April of 2003. This month is my 19th year anniversary. The past 11 years I put up with a lot of shit at work from a dicknose boss, because I was raising my two sons as a single father. Now my sons are grown and I am finally in a financial place where I can quit. It's scary, but I'm glad I'm doing it. I met with my boss today at 4pm and submitted my letter of resignation, effective April 8, 2022. He thinks its a 2 week notice. He didn't realize its a 1 week notice. I didn't correct him. Plus I'm on approved leave next Thursday and Friday, going to ride down to Arizona Bike Week with my buddy and have a good time. So I'm actually only working 3 more days, haha. Fuck him. I'm fucking done. The pay is good, the benefits are…