Month: May 2022

I was hired 3 years ago as a Benefits Specialist. I reported to the Benefits Administrator. 2 years ago, we got a horrid director that ran off most of our staff, including my boss. The director told me that I was now in charge of Benefits and wouldn't be getting any help. I was fine being in charge of Benefits and was able to manage. The director ended up resigning and we got someone a lot better. We were expanding, so we hired another Benefits Specialist. While she technically reported to the new director like I did, I was responsible for training and managing her. Last year, a friend of mine was going to resign. As a counter offer, she was made the manager over the Benefits dept, even though I had been running things for a year. It's incredibly frustrating to go from running the dept to having responsibilities…

so a little bit of backstory, i’m 23 years old. i lived in michigan my whole life. i worked at an ice cream shop that my family owned for 3 years as a manager before leaving when i got a job offer to work at a grow facility (marijuana). i worked at the grow facility for 1 1/2 years. within me starting at the grow op, i met my boyfriend who lived in florida. i wanted to live in florida my whole life (lmao right) so i eventually moved down here. i get a job at a dispensary bc i didnt care for the grow ops and wanted to learn the other side of the industry. i interviewed for a full time budtender job but in the interview they asked with my managing experience if i would be interested in interviewing for the keyholder job instead. i said of course!…

Please, please, please… don't let them bully you into not working from home. Fight for better wages and benefits, especially Healthcare and PTO. This isn't just about gas, childcare, or the price of food. It's also human decency and respect; something that seems very hard to come by for the working class. Something the “no one wants to work” crowd may never give us. We shouldn't be forced to work ourselves to death again. It could be soon or it could be decades from now but I'm not losing another paycheck at the hands of bad employer's and the constant fight against disease.

Even high schoolers at this point are calling bullshit on places offering less than $11-12/hr (I live in NC), because at this point there is always someone offering way more. The local Bojangles temporarily shut down because of lack of labor, and when they opened up again, we’re hiring at $18/hr to fill demand lmao. Surprise surprise, they have plenty of laborers now and do well! No one is doing this cheap labor shit anymore and unless corporate offices realize that, they’re going to destroy their own businesses.

I am sharing this because even the general hobby of using Reddit, posting comments, proofreading them for appropriateness, sharing posts in subs, and writing programs in QB64 can really give this idea on what it feels like to be constantly typing a computer keyboard if one were to work at a downtown computer office downtown. I've been writing some homemade programs on QB64 lately, and and also sharing comments on Reddit and other websites, and I start to think, well, it's starting to feel like some office job. I type so much code on QB64, and share it in the /r/QBprograms subreddit, that now I wonder if Silicon Valley might want to summon me for some projects, but then again, I'd rather be sitting at home during the pandemic than deal with jumping through hoops with ridiculous requirements working at some San Francisco Bay Area suburbs such as Palo Alto…

All i want is a stable seond job that lets me pick hours, is above minimum wage, and doesn't fucking screw me over with bullshit! Im Neurodivergent. I have a modified highschool diploma. (APD)-I have poor hearing when it comes to understanding speech. I have crippling ptsd. I am quite polite but I struggle with social skills. I can only do basic math. I do art very well but its not selling yet! I cant lift more than 30 lbs. I work tending to birds for my elderly landlady but shes probably not going to stay alive within the next 10-20 years. Anything could happen! I feel a lot of pressure on finding a job I can depend on when I loose my current one. As well as a new house that i can afford in this shit economy for my 4 birds, gecko, and I… I cant even function…

A bit unconventional I apologize but I really need advice. I’m not sure if this is the right platform but I an worried about job security and if I will be fired if I press my discomfort with management. This past weekend I was at a bar and was talking to find out this guy that I was talking to was someone I correspond with frequently. We had a laugh, I told him it was nice to put a face to a name and then went about with my friends without a thought. I woke up Sunday to a facebook message telling me he forgot to ask for my number and gave me his. This is when I find out he is nearly 45 years old. (I am in my early twenties). I don’t answer because I keep work separate. I go into the office to see my very first…