Month: April 2022

I work for a pretty large and well-known organiation. The job environment is relatively nice, and the company is known for some good work-life balance practices. The things that is bothering me as of late is some extreme level of work hard sort of culture.. when you put in a lot of extra work for no additional financial benefit at all. For example, we got a manager in our team who is a “dedicated hard-worker”. The person is pretty nice overall, but their approach seems to be very… what I call “slave-minded”. They would always create extra work for our team because “the top managment might ask this might ask that, and we should keep showing what we have done”. Or taking onto some volunteering events and forcing other team members to participate in it.. Needless to say that the person is working long hours and sometimes weekends and is…

I don't hate my job. However. I work 3 hours a weekday watching 20 elementary students after school. I get paid once at the end of every month for the prior month's work. If I work every day, I can probably make 400$ a month (I typically only get 340$ because I miss a few days). My coworker told me today that they got paid 520$ (after-tax), we worked almost the same amount of time, the only difference is they have to watch over a singular ASD kid. My other coworker just found out that they're getting underpaid even though they're working a different, higher-paying role. The board of ed is getting paid 200$ per child a month from 15 schools in the county with a 50$ registration fee, (I don't even want to think about how much they're earning from summer camp). We have nearly 50 students a day,…

Anyone who works retail knows one thing for certain – so many customers exude a nauseating sense of entitlement. Ask yourself this – how has it become acceptable, or rather the norm, to expect every interaction, every external stimuli for a customer to be 100% satisfactory and problem free? Name any other part of life where you can walk into a place expecting absolute perfection besides heaven itself. Things I have seen customers flip out over: Un-accepted returns (no tag, damaged item), not having a sale on every and any item they want to buy for cheap, not having an entirely obscure specific item (IN THE MIDDLE OF A SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS that we should all be aware of by now), the cost of items (as if it is my, as a cashier, fault), any interaction that requires more than 10 seconds of their attention span (as a result of…

I just wanted to post that if you guys don't need a job to survive, then absolutely don't lose sleep over it… my job is shit but I'm at the point where I could walk out if it gets any crazier… But keep hope alive, my wife has a job where she got promoted and then was given a raise for doing a good job. A considerable raise at that… and she's not harassed or forced to do more than is needed as in what the job was told to be at the time of hire… So unicorns exist… in the job world… hope we all find that, till then, can you work a double the day of your sister's bday? Can you cover Karen's shift? No… fuck that. ️

Today the US branch of the alternative footbrand company Dr Martens announced that they will be closing their warehouse in Portland Oregon towards the end of the year. Around 70 employees will lose their jobs, some of whom have been with the company for over 20 years. In the announcement to employees today the board members were asked if they had tried to find a bigger warehouse in Portland and they said they had looked and found some potential places, however had decided instead to contract out their warehouse needs to a different company in LA because it was best for the business. Loyalty and hard work for a corporation will mean nothing when they decide profits are more important then you. “Alt” companies aren’t any better and are selling you an image of counter culture, literally selling it back to you, when at the end of the day all…

For context my job doesn't allow overtime however our CEO is an idiot and got rid of one of the systems we used without giving anyone time to put thought into how to replace it and, to put it lightly, the new system we ended up getting became a huge mess. Orders that used to take 1 day to package and put away for shipment now took 3-4 days. While we weren't forced we were expected to work extra to get it done. We all worked at least 8 hours of overtime the one week with some ladies from the morning shift staying until 1 AM to help get the orders done when they had to come back in at 7 for their normal shift. The new system we use got updated so it isn't as bad but still messy. This week we did almost 2 1/2 hours of overtime…