Month: May 2022

Hello all So backstory first. I worked full time at a company starting in July of 2020. All is going well. I then start doing some consulting work on the side to make ends meet, and the consulting gig offers me full time with a pay raise from my regular job. I accept and put in my notice at my current position. They go ballistic and try to keep me any way they can (outside of a pay raise, can't be too ridiculous!) And I agree to work for them part time (8 hours a week) while beginning my consulting job. Fast forward to January of this year. My spouse needs to see about a million different doctors, and being a consulting contractor, I do need have benefits. So we make the difficult decision for me to go back to my original job full time, as they offer medical and…

Anyone got any advice for this situation? I work part time for a caregiver position (weekends only). Their office is only open during the week. I work full time elsewhere, so I’m usually busy during their office hours (I work from 7:30-4, their office hours are 8-5). They are now requiring that at least once a month, every employee go to the main office to pick up paystubs. They used to mail them out but they said they want to have that manager-employee interactions. In order to pick up my paystubs, I would have to rush to their office after my main job, sit in traffic, plus have a longer commute home. On top of that, they aren’t paying for milage or time spent at the office. Is this something they can do?

Was recommended to by my manager to attend a webinar on worker burnout, the speaker gets into a topic about about how people feel there is a lack of control in their lives and recommends that people consider an illusion of control to cope with it.

Posting this from an alt because I don't want any of my friends to get any sort of negative retribution, but I have a couple friends who work at a “mission-driven” health tech startup, Thirty Madison, based out of NYC. You've probably seen / heard their ads for “Keeps” on every streaming service / podcast. The company recently merged with some other tech company and promised all employees that their jobs were safe. Less than a month later, they asked approximately 30 employees to get into a Zoom call where they were told their positions were being terminated. I was sent a recording of the call from a friend and the two themes were: this decision was so so so hard for the leadership but it has to be done to “keep growing our business and fundamentally changing the healthcare landscape” and “but don't worry, you'll get an 8-week severance…

Hi! Just to start off, this is a throw away account for obvious reasons. I'll try to respond, but I don't know how long I'll keep it up. I lurk on my personal account, and really don't want the company, or this post to come bite me. I work at a call center, and it's going south, really fast. Lets call them… Pal Pay (you can guess who it is) Been here for four years, and today got the news of “You're going to need to start pushing our products, or you need to find a new job.” I was just general customer service, and then I was pushed to be a universal agent for all departments after a year. My 'training class' was all people who were here for YEARS before having to be universal, meaning they only did one department and that was it. Stock dropped, its all…

I work at a retail store that just got approved to be a management training facility. How did they reward us employees for going the extra mile to ensure that everything was up to snuff? No joke: they gave me a pack of seeds. To plant in a garden that I don't have.

A recruiter just messaged me about a job saying that the salary was non negotiable. I typed in the job title in linked in and found it in two seconds. The poster said it was 100% negotiable.

Thank the Lord some old man came in to the restaurant I manage and reminded me that I'll never amount to anything. For a while there I was under the impression that I was starting to get my life together and maybe even potentially be capable providing for my family. Luckily enough for me this wonderful gem of a man, came in 5 minutes before my shift ended and talked some sense in to me. If he hadn't told me that I was a piece of shit who wouldn't amount to anything then…. I honestly don't know what I'd do. I'd probably still be living under the illusion that I'm reasonably happy and that I deserve even the tiniest bit of respect. I may even believe that I deserve my dignity as a human! Can you even fathom that?! Somebody showing even the slightest semblance of respect as a person…