Month: April 2022

Started at a new company two years ago. Both years exceeded my goals and got excellent annual reviews and already pacing way ahead of last year. Got pulled aside today and told I need to step it up, and although I’m pacing well it’s not enough. Like when is enough, enough? It never is. Just tired of this endless push push push

Hi, I have a problem with my manager. I work as a head mechanic in a medium-sized factory. For a while I have to go to another country to disassemble machines and then install them in our company. The problem is that the trip is during the Easter holidays and the manager doesn't want to pay us holiday wages nor the overtime that we gonna make. She wants to pay us like we go on a meeting, but we gonna do hard phisical and dirty work. I told her that we will work minimum 13 hours a day to make the work done and she told me that it doesnt matter. Whats matter are the machines. LoL. Any advice from you guys would be appreciated. I live in Europe if it matters.

Just need to rant!! My husband (28, UK) has been working for 18 months at a property photography company, and they are honestly the most disgusting company I’ve ever known. I’ll try to summarise: They “forgot” to declare his company car in the first few months which has resulted in him being taxed more the past year. These repayments will carry through to 2023. When they couldn’t (or wouldn’t, I suspect) find work, they would exploit the furlough scheme and simply furlough him at random, for a day at a time. His base wage is minimum, but they made the threshold to receive bonus so high, that he rarely saw any bonus whatsoever. He was never paid overtime, so he would be out the house from 6-7am to 7-9pm at night, and would still have work to do when he got home. He was on annual leave and was one…

I don’t have a particular work story or anything, I just despise HR and the types of “humans” it attracts.

Management says the ‘proper’ way to do it is to hand the money over to management, wait 2 weeks for it to be considered ‘lost’, and then management will give me the money back. For reference this conversation came because a customer gave me $4 as a tip for good work. 4 fucking dollars. My manager legit said she’s happy I did ‘the right thing’ and turned it in because they didn’t want to fire me for something so small. I make $11 an hour, I have zero desire to deal with this shit.

On my 2nd to last day I found out the other person who got a promotion at work got a raise when I didn’t(after I was told I would). So I didn’t show to work today and blocked my boss/work phone number. Fuck them