Month: May 2022

Stress-induced migraines caused by micromanager makes me want to quit From the moment I arrive at the office, (I work at the bank), to the moment I leave, I was stressed out every second of the day. I constantly take pain medication for my migraines and I could physically feel the stress eating up my body. It’s not normal for someone to feel nauseous and dizzy 95% of their work day, under no conditions. I can’t eat when I get home until I’m shaking from hunger and force myself to eat dinner so I could go to bed. I feel sick to my stomach from the stress I’m under. I’ve been hired as a new associate since February and recently came out of training. And I’m already thinking of quitting. The work itself isn’t difficult but my branch manager makes the job SO MUCH MORE STRESSFUL than it needs to…

So last week we had 2 staff members hand in their 1 weeks notice (on the same day) and today, our new starter walked out. Bare in mind our new starter was here to replace someone else who had quit first week of April and has only been with us 2 or 3 weeks. My manager is an arsehole and everyone is running in the opposite direction. I love it. We also right now have 1 staff off with covid and I'm on annual leave till Monday. Our stores only get a max of 8 staff per store and my manager now has to run the store with just him and 2 others. Both of those staff have other commitments too, one is a single mum and the other is a student on a 12hr contract. My manager also has children. It's finally happening, it's all blowing up in my…

So I was driving to work this morning, and had the news on. Apparently Boris Johnson thinks working from home doesn't work because you constantly make yourself coffee and then take as long as possible to get a slice of cheese. He bases this off his own experience of working from home. He then went on to say that working with your colleagues is better because you can bounce ideas of each other or something. I just find it baffling that during this cost of living crisis with petrol costs being at an all time high, Johnson is determined to get people heading back into the office. Like, let's not even get into the fact that there's a fucking pandemic.

I work in communications as an account executive. I make $42,000 base pay plus commission. I am about $20k underpaid (base) compared to other account executives in the same industry. I started my career as an assistant. I used to care. While working from home, I did 90% of the work on an account while my new coworker was still learning the ropes. I was very dedicated in the beginning of my current role too. I would bend over backwards to help my customer and make sure the material was there when they needed it. I was on the phone with my customer yesterday and he is an older man who has literally spent $10,000 with our company (not a lot). He’s acting like the order is $100,000. He’s getting frustrated saying we should know how to do our jobs better even though the issue wasn’t our fault. “You need…

Rn if you live in a shitty country where people die from homicide and plague on the daily you only have one option to escape and that would be to slave your life away by working all day and everyday at some small local slave labour jobs while going to some shitty uni with horrible professors just to have a really small chance at travelling to a 1st world country where half the people are racist and you get paid less and work in a job out of your field because you have to settle with anything you can find. Not to mention the requirements for visas requesting some poor guy from a torn apart country (which most of the times are damaged by first world countries) to have 2 degrees 5 years working experience and all of that shit. Fuck the system