Month: May 2022

25 male here. 3 weeks starting on first went well for training. Now I was sent to the offshift for production CNC. I made a mistake that broke something. Everything was fixed. Mistake made and will try to learn from it. I feel very overwhelmed, however. I am starting to have doubts already. I am being thrown around the shop to machines I barely know and I work by myself and have to ask millions of questions. I take notes and try to pick up and apply. I try to listen, but there was a lot of crap I had to deal with regarding messes that the supervisor wanted me to do. He told me I need to listen better and I am trying to. I feel like I give up too easily, but man, machining sucks ass. It is such a difficult field for me. I had this job…

My soon to be ex job is bleeding people fast. Tons of no call, no shows, 2 weeks notice, etc. Our department is pretty thinned out. They've been training me on 3 different tasks, I'm basically doing 3 jobs and paid as one. My company is putting out ads looking to hire and they're advertising “we do cross-training so that you can get what job you love” yeah, sounds like bull. It feels like I'm being used? I know how to do three jobs, and I'm being paid the same (I was supposed to get a review for a raise 3 months ago). I was also supposed to switch to my “preferred role” weeks ago. Anyone else's company bolstering how being cross-trained is “amazing”? Is this the new exploitation?

https://www.businessinsider.com/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11?op=1 Why? Because fuck em, that's why!

Okay, so my sister has a question. A month ago she applied for a job and had two interviews. Both went well and led her to believe she was first pick when they finished making it through all the applicants. She received an email about a week later saying they were going with someone else. My sister is still looking for work, and lo and behold, the same company pops up hiring for the same exact position. She decided to apply again (options are limited where we are at) and she has an interview tomorrow. Now, what she is hoping to figure out, is should she approach this interview seriously, or are they likely to pass on her again since they’ve done so before? For context, my sister is more than qualified for this job. Anyway, she’s thinking that if they are just going to waste her time, she wants…

I was born into the world of buying gas when I had a minimum wage job and had just gotten my license. In one hour working as a cashier for minimum wage I made 4.25. That was enough to purchase 8.125 gallons of 87 octane gasoline. If I had the same job now, I'd be making 14.25. That's enough to buy 3.104 gallons of the same gas at the same station. Minimum wage has gone down by more than 5 gallons of gas since 1991. Edit: I mathed wrong. 4.25 would have gotten me 8.5 gallons of gas in 1991.

I teach middle school Spanish in Indianapolis. I have been thinking about getting out of teaching for the past year, but my experience with HR really solidified things for me. We are allowed 10 PTO days per year, and each time I’ve asked HR if I can use one of my days, she says that there is no one to cover. Administrators take off whenever they’d like, mind you. But since teachers are actually just there as babysitters, I can’t even use my time off. The only time I have actually gotten off is when I got COVID, and that was a struggle too. I dragged myself into work although I was feeling ill, knowing that any request to stay home would be denied. I got half way through the day when I barely felt like I could walk, let alone teach a room full of 11 year olds. I…

I been surfing this forum for a while now because I know it has to be a better way this cannot be the American dream we all have been fooled into believing in.I work for a local grocery store And we only make $10 an hour as cashiers during a pandemic.Even the McDonald's next door to us pays $14 an hour. As you can probably guess my store is constantly understaffed rather it's people not wanting to work for such low pay or people calling out because they really don't care about making $10 an hour .Not only that but because we are a local store in a urban area our items are marked up to %50 percent more then the local chains here like Meijer and krogers.Honestly I don't know why people even shop here but because it's in a poor urban area alot of people don't have cars…

I work at sales 27yo, I have depression and anxiety but was able to pull off an Oscar deserving performance in my interview last year so I got hired. For one year I tried, I tried to be the fking person this twisted society wants me to be. I can't anymore, every night I don't want to sleep and every morning I don't want to wake up – why? Because I am scared; I do not wish to live this life. I've become apathetic, annoyed by everything, sad, miserable and anxious – all because I'm forced to do something I don't want to. I do not feel anything anymore about nothing. Pills don't help, time off doesn't help, weekends don't help, slacking off doesn't help, reaching out doesn't help, hobbies don't help, setting goals doesn't help. I am suffering so much… And the worst part is that I feel this…