Month: May 2022

Every single company offered day off due to a holiday, they ask who’d like to work overtime. This seems cool right? Who doesn’t like overtime when they want it. Except, they seem to expect everyone to take the overtime. This weekend for MDW we get a half day today, then off monday. Which is great bc I have kids & a husband to spend time with and it’s been such a stressful week I need the break. I didn’t take any overtime, I’m taking all the company provided leave this weekend. My whole team (boomers) are working full days both today & Monday. They ALWAYS take the OT. They stay late, come in early, work unpaid hours, etc. so far 3 times today my one coworker has made comments regarding my half day today. In a fake positive passive aggressive way. It’s fcking annoying because I am the only one…

I have done about 20 zoom interviews over the past few months and I can’t remember a time where the person showed up on time. Each time they are like ten minutes late and I’m just sitting there. Obv isn’t a long time but I don’t see how it’s so difficult to be on time for a computer meeting. I know if I was late then they’d probably just say oh he’s not right for us

Literally the bottom half of America can not afford to save anything and a huge swath are renters/have decades to go on a mortgage. Unless more people take on their parents/relatives living with them I foresee a major problem ahead where social security doesn’t even cover the basics and jobs today don’t provide pensions; the 401K is piddly compared to pensions and the cost of living is so high people at the bottom have little to no personal savings for emergencies today let alone retirement. If their families don’t take them in what happens to all these people collecting $1200-$2000 a month in social security with $5,000 life savings and a 401K worth $58,000? People will run out of money within the first couple of years if not months in the most extreme cases. The upper half isn’t missing a beat with good jobs and typically inheritance money passed down…

So I just hit six months at my new job, and this other guy just hit one. Got to bitching about the money we make, and it turns out I make significantly more than him, despite the same technical backgrounds and similar work experiences. We work on the same project, and I’ll be damned if he isn’t a bit better than I am at it. He has his first review after 90 days, which is about 60 days from now. How can I help him get at least to the same level of compensation I’m getting? What can I say to our boss, what can he say during his review? How do I help this kid out?

He told me that he agrees that it sucks that our boss is a bully, doesn’t support us and makes no effort to care for the well-being of people she’s meant to be responsible for. But that it’s the way it’s always been and I’ll be much happier if I don’t stand up to her and don’t ever admit to her that the workload is too much or that things are falling down. He says his answer will always be that things are fine if she asks, because that’s all she wants to hear and he has survived as long as he has because he never rocks the boat or openly complains about things he knows are unfair.

I have next week off as vacation. My boss has had me rushing around all week to try and get as much done as possible before I am out. Yesterday, all support staff had been asked to assist with a shredding project in our storage holding. My boss said no, I couldn't attend as she needed me. Now that is a blessing as one of the people working at shredding has just tested positive. To be safe, everyone else who helped with shredding has been sent home and I am now the only support staff working today. HR came by my desk to inquire if I would be able to 'move' my vacation and come in next week if all the support staff test positive and need to stay home. I just made a solemn face and shook my head, no, no sorry, I know that'll be rough, but I've…

My husband and I are both shift managers at a Pizza Hut. For the past month they’ve been intentionally understaffing our shifts because we are the most experienced and are both hard workers and they know we’ll “figure it out,” which we were, but at great cost to our mental and emotional health. Last Saturday, at the end of one of our busiest nights with no supporting staff, we snapped, called our (boomer) boss and, once it became clear he didn’t understand the problem with overworking us, we threatened to quit, to which he backpedaled hard, and basically said he’d do whatever he could to keep us. Now we’re no longer managing, but we go in for a few hours in the morning to help set up the store and spend the rest of our time recovering from being so overworked. Mental illness and capitalism do not mix well.