Month: May 2022

I was supposed to go to work in a restaurant that I've been wanting to quit since I started there. Instead I slept in. Had poutine for breakfast. Read a few chapters of the book I'm reading in a cafe while enjoying coffee. Later on I went to the mall and had some Pho and Vietnamese coffee. When I got home I saw they sent me an email asking “hey dude u r scheduled for 3pm today where u at?” Very professional. I deleted it. Then watched pornhub for a while and took a nap. Today I am also scheduled. I was thinking of ice cream for breakfast (it's noon already). Some more reading and relaxing. Maybe watch a stupid movie like Sharknado later. Life is great, without it you'd be dead.

So I signed up for a side job of photographing graduations. Seemed simple, but it's just turned into a cluster***k. -Turns out most of the graduations are hours away. Not worth driving 2.5 hours to film a 1 hour event for $80 then 2.5 hours back. -Repeatedly I was told to get to the sight at one time, then five minutes before that time was told “Actually you can show up two hours from now” well buddy I just parked! -The first couple events were fine, $80 bucks for an hours worth of work. However I got stuck on one of the biggest events so it stretched on for hours. Basically from arriving early, to the extended events, I was still just paid $80 per event. Fuck that. -I got stuck with equipment to send back, which I was not compensated for my time. In hind site I should of…

I have 0 motivation lately to apply for higher-paying positions or work on skills while in college. How do you motivate yourself in this fucked up world? I really need to move out and away. If I’m going to work anyway, I should get paid decently for it I guess or enough to get my own place at least. Any tips?

To start off this was years ago and I am now in another job I hate but it at least pays well. I used to work in a Hotel as a General Assistant, this was my first proper job I had whilst I was in University but mostly it was to make extra cash. This place ran like a backstreet dealer, managers were all about micro management and gave you split shifts most of the time. Which included 6 hours over the breakfast shift and 6 hours to cover the dinner/closing shift. Everyday. They gave me no training and as a socially awkward adolescent at the time it was a struggle for me to get to grips with to the extent I resented work. Throughout my time there it was the most toxic work culture I have ever experienced, the kitchen was always arguing with and blaming the waiters (my…

So, I’m 32 years old and I finally have a job that offers paid vacation. I earned my vacation time last fall and was planning on using it the first week of January. Unfortunately we had to fire 2 employees which made us extremely short-staffed so I decided to hold off on using my vacation time until we could hire and train someone so the store wouldn’t be absolutely fucked if I took some time off. That finally happened last week so I put in for 5 days of vacation time, only 4 of which got approved. In the past 4 weeks I’ve worked 195 hours (50 hours for 3 weeks straight and 45 this past week). My coworker made the comment, after seeing I had vacation on the schedule, “You probably don’t even feel bad for us!” He was joking for the most part, but I looked at him…

Explain like I’m 5 here, but why are there so many people not able to find jobs/ applying everywhere but not getting a job (not from lack of trying) while there’s also a bunch of management saying no one wants to work? How do these coexist with each other? Where’s the disconnect? One has to be lying right?

Like 2 pm early because No bOdy WAnTs tO wORK. I was like think of it this way. This is a franchise cooperation that pays its employees 7.75 an hour, that is barely a gallon of gas. Why in the world would anyone want to work for that little in this day in age? They agreed that would be hard to handle. But said “well what else are they going to do?” There are other fast food places where they start people out at double the pay, one right next door. Also, we have a factory in town that hires people at 17.25 an hour for the “lowest skill” positions. It's the corporations fault they value their employees so little they won't pay them a living wage and they are at fault for the restaurant closing early. Not the employees. It's sad I have to tell my parents this rather…