Month: April 2022

I've realized what always sours me on a job: unnecessary shadiness. I'm quite happy to be a cashier at a big box store and deal with the lows that come with that position until they tell me to relentlessly push credit cards on the customers. They infer but don't directly state that you can take advantage of older customers being malleable and easy to manipulate. So I switch gigs. I work in hotels and they tell me about the wonders of overselling the hotel. These exhausted families arrive only to be told I'm sending them to a different hotel because my manager decided the gamble of either having a hotel at 100% occupancy or having a hotel at 100% plus a few discarded folks is so very worth it because a couple of those people might be booking longer. Because rent still exists I have to continue to work but…

Five months ago, I was offered an individual contributor position X, but have been working my tail off to perform both – position X and Management Y. Classic bait huh? I’m the only person having skillsets and experience they need, but they refused to officially recognize me with a title and fair compensation. My boss literally told me that title is not important to him. They don’t want to hire another person either, but just spent $200k for a 2-month contractor who had very minimal effort. I don’t blame that contractor since my boss has no experience in technical and management. As my boss is about to put more workload on my plate in April, I’m excited to give my 2 week notice on Monday! I was offered a leadership role at another company. Although it’s contract, it has 2 years potential and should open up to more opportunities for…

I work at an large white-glove IT helpdesk, whose office is many, many miles from my home. said large white-glove IT helpdesk sent out a “listening with employees” letter yesterday about how theyve been listening to employees concerns about the exciting return to office culture. Said letter then spent three paragraphs talking about how they understood the misconceptions of having said white-glove IT helpdesk running on decade old equipment can hinder their professionalism and issue management capabilities. NEVER THE LESS, they have replaced all in office work stations with newer ones. Not the newest ones.. just new-er ones. Said white-glove IT helpdesk is a division of Behemoth IT Hardware Corp, LLC. and they posted record profits in 2020 and 2021. — News letter mentioned just a few other things about returning to office: Their excitement about seeing everyone soon, and a reminder that the parking lot is not guarded, the…

I accepted, though no papers were signed, a job offer for a subpar hourly rate position with a major company(doesn't really matter) earlier this week. I just got offered an even better paying position today with another company. I'm supposed to go in for training for the low paying job today in an hour lol. How do I break it to the low paying job I'm no longer interested?

The job was listed at 40 hours a week and I was given a schedule four 10-hour shifts. Today after hour 3 the supervisor came over and told me to clock out, that they didn’t have enough work for everyone for the day. This wasn’t a “who wants to go home” thing like I’ve experienced at other companies, we weren’t given a choice. I inquired as to ether this was unusual, and they said it happens pretty often. So it looks like I now have a job where 4 days a week my time is “spoken for” but there’s a good chance I could get up, drive there, and be cut within a few hours, and might not actually ever see a 40 hour workweek. I have no way to determine whether I can actually pay my bills and it has nothing to do with whether I show up or…

A little background. I've worked at this place for over 25 years. Never missed a day. Always did what they ask to the best of my ability. Today i am at work, cleaning the fryer out (as usual, i'm typically the only person to go above and beyond). I accidentally knocked the bucket of old grease over and it went everywhere. My boss saw the whole thing happen. Instead of helping, he just starts laughing and lit up his cigar (it was before the restaurant opened and he often smokes indoors). That didn't really bother me until what happened next. I'm kneeling down, cleaning the grease, and suddenly i'm shoved from behind into the grease. My boss literally kicked me in the back as hard as he could. I fall into the grease. After the initial shock i attempted to stand up. But the grease was too slippery. I spent…