Month: April 2022

So even though marijuana is legal in my state. I can still be denied a job for recreactional use outside of work hours. Marijuana has the longest lifespan and detection for drug tests urine, hair and saliva. How is it fair that because I smoked a joint 2 months ago and not since that I don't qualify for a job because the hair test goes back 90 days? Now these alcoholics pill poppers and coke heads can fucking get in because it's out of their system quicker. They are hiring addicts of illegal substances and I can get a job for using a now legal substance. They need to do better. No wonder people don't want to work for these shitty companies. None of them are with the times. If I smoke a joint on Saturday. I'm not impaired on Monday. Meanwhile Jack is in here with powder on his…

So I lost my job due to budget cuts 3/31. I'm in the market again unfortunately and have been applying for things left and right, as I have a family to take care of. The list of requirements for entry level jobs is outrageous and I've been a manager the past several years. I'm trying to stay in my field of expertise, while applying to both worker bee and supervisor positions, as I know my worth. It appears businesses don't care about experience or demand an egregious amount of expertise. Example 1: I see you're applying for our floor supervisor position in our factory. You have 4 years experience working in warehouses, 7 in an industrial environment and 15 years as a supervisor…. Buuuut you don't have a bachelor's degree. I'm sorry but we're looking for recent college graduates with bachelor's degree's. Example 2: Manufacturer Engineer I class (entry level)…

I was re-watching Office Space the other day and I noticed something. They complained about TPS reports, the high number of bosses, the lack of motivation but not once they say anything about meetings, which means that the increase number of useless meetings is a recent thing. Peter is a software developer and as a software developer now you would be in at least a daily standup (if you're lucky, I have two half hours ones per day), sprint planing, retro, multiple status updates, 1:1s, code reviews, knowledge sharing and the weird ones where no one knows why they are there. And not to mention the never ending stream of Slack and Teams direct messages, mass messages, the channels and the reactions. I say that in a week I do, and this is a busy week, 1h of actual work. The rest of my time is filled with meetings, mails…

I am sick of employers thinking it is ok to pay younger employees less money just because of age if they are doing similar work of older people. I still have bills to pay and a life I want to live. Pay me more money.