Month: May 2022

About a year back I made a deal with the company to switch to Monday-Thursday 12hr shifts three days off in exchange for moving to a shift they’ve been repeatedly asking me to join. All was going well until the Vice President of the company quit(and a fuckton of other people, including the shift supervisor). They brought in some worm they’d previously fired when I was new to temporarily fill the slot, now he’s making changes to everything because he’s on a power trip, including my schedule. According to him, he doesn’t have to “honor” my deal because the Vice President quit who originally set up the contract in the office. He doesn’t have a reason why, just no. Now here I am on a shift I fucking hate with nothing to show for it. This scumbag company demands 6 days a week now. I’ve been looking on indeed and…

So I'm super burned out but need money to pay my rent and food and get my education, I have no family to fall back on and I just caught myself having the thought ''work will set you free'', just work enough hours and you will have some money to better your life. Arbeit macht frei… it's what the nazis wrote on the gates to the camps. My burnout job paying me 12 euro an hour won't set me free, it's keeping me in poverty and burnout.

I'd been working at a pretty toxic job for just over a year. It's a major, publicly traded company that has been going downhill since a new CEO came into the position. Our store got a new manager who started filling holes with people he worked with at his old job, over more qualified people who had put years into the company. As a result, we had been hemorrhaging for months. Two weeks ago, I got sick (wasn't COVID thankfully) and called out for a few days. Then I had a COVID booster which absolutely knocked me on my ass. (My fever peaked around 101 and I had full body chills so bad I couldn't walk.) As I started to recover, I realized that the thought of going back made me sick. I was done. I texted my coworker, went to pick up my stuff, and quit. This is the…

Gonna use an example of what happened to me tonight to exemplify this point. I have worked as a bartender throughout my bachelors degree and have now shifted to full time before further schooling (hopefully law school) starts. The place that I work at is nestled within a wealthy area of the city that contains a lot of entitled, rich alcoholics with nothing but time. Part of my job involves helping servers clean tables when it’s quiet, so like usual I went and grabbed a rag and spray bottle and got to work on one of the booths. I missed one grain of somewhat translucent white rice that was on the far corner of the table. My mistake. The next couple to sit there not only threw a fit but demanded that the manager bring me aside (within eyeshot of them) to be reprimanded and told to apologize for not…

Is it just down to having structure and being strict with yourself? I'm in Europe so could ask for flexible working but wonder if anyone has tips on making this work – eg working from home on Fridays…

i have been unemployed for over 16 years and today I got my very first job! it has great pay and many health and wellness benefits, I'm so excited to start working there next week, my boss aligns with my same midwestern conservative views as well, and this seems like an all-around great experience for me! i just wanted thoughts on this experience from you guys, wish me luck!