Month: April 2022

Went to a popular little resturant in town with some really cheap boneless wings that taste pretty good. Did my order in the internet and go to pick it up. Woman behind the counter tells me, “I gave you some extra sauce and fries. It's a little fuller than it normally is. The owner's in Florida, so I gave you a little extra.” Side note: snow flurries were coming down as I was walking out. Thank you! The wings were delicious!

I’m just curious what your thoughts are. For me it’s an exhausting process and kind of a thankless task. It’s not the fault of the people I train it’s just my job requires about 5 weeks of shadowing before someone is really ready to work on their own. And even then it’s still a lot of questions that I get back that I’m helping them with. The people I train are on the same level as me. I kind of had a little bit of an anger spell come over me this week. I’m just now getting done with training someone and then out of the blue I get the message that I’ve been assigned to train our other new hire. I had been told this was going to be done by someone else a few weeks ago but now that’s my task. To say I was furious might be…

After getting a stimulus check from the state for being a “low wage earner”.

I've been living off unemployment for 6 months now and I've been applying for jobs the entire time. I have over five years relevant experience and I can't get so much as an entry level position. I've had tons of interviews, sure. Even some second interviews. I've followed up, offered work samples, references, letters of recommendation… I can't get hired. I've got some glowing rejection letters though. I live in a mid sized city. I'm qualified. I interview well. But I'm not getting offers. I can't even take part time work in the meantime because if I'd make less than unemployment, and I already can't cover all my bills. Oh, also, I'm trans. That couldn't possibly have anything to do with it though, right? Happy Trans Day of Visibility. 🙁

It the roles were reversed and you could interrogate your future employer at an interview, what would be the one question you would ask that they had to answer and you couldn’t be judged for?

Throwaway account for obvious reason. I own a franchise fast food business. It is currently in escrow with another franchisee and expected to close in a month or so. I’m neutral on all accounts but I’ve seen most of your arguments about employers who has their business sold and had to lay off staff. I’m not doing that. The new owner will legally hire our current staff. My staff does not know about this yet. And we are waiting until a week before escrow closes. My only concern is that I wanted to wait until the day of transfer. The reason being is that I’m afraid some of the staff will quit within a week before transfer. I don’t know how the new owner runs their business with scheduling. But I know they are by the book. While I am by the book, I’m flexible with my employees because I’m…

I don’t really know where to go to talk about this except here. This is less of a complaint and more of a story. I just need to get this off my chest. Tw; mentions of suicide, ED, alcoholism, and self harm I’m a 25 F working and living in a major US city. I moved here less than a year ago originally for grad school, but after a series of losses (including the sudden death of my best friend) I found I was unable to cope with the insane pressure and workload. Grief, loneliness at living in a new city not knowing anyone, imposter syndrome with grad school, all of it eventually turned into a horrific depressive episode that was only solved with coping mechanisms that eventually developed into alcoholism and anorexia. By December I was ready to end it all, but managed to hang on until Christmas when…

I'm from a university with a very toxic dean of faculty. Yesterday, the students had an invited speaker talking about law enforcement in pharmacy practice. At the end, the dean decided to say a few words and well, read it for yourself. This is a word for word breakdown, not corrected for grammar, and she also very often says the same thing to the staff especially about the 9-5 and frog in a shell, it's her favourite go to phrase. Side note: PRP is provisionally registered pharmacist, a provisional 1 year training after graduation before being able to fully register as a pharmacist) “I'd like to thank our speaker. You can see the dynamism in her that most graduates now do not have, unfortunately i'm telling the truth ya Nowadays, people are like I would like to take this much of salary, i'd like to work this many hours 9-5…

A few months ago, our Board of Directors sold the company out by allowing a third party company take over daily management. All employees were retained and pay stayed the same, but benefits were cut. Insurance doubled but provided better coverage (if you actually use it); vacation time rolled over but with a 6-month vesting before you can cash it out if you leave; 401k matching was cut in half. Inflation has spiked, but none of us have seen more than a 3% raise in almost a year. I actually make slightly less now than I did when I started thanks to inflation. The new company is a dumpster fire managerially. Their payroll system sucks, and the onboarding was a nightmare. Someone also told me today that our 401k is being deducted from our pay, but it hasn't been deposited into our accounts for a month and a half now,…