Month: June 2022

I’m venting and whatever decision he makes is completely up to him. He got hired at a national distributor, brand new warehouse that’s

Hear me out – I work at a brewery and we have an extensive merchandise selection to pick from; it’s overwhelming and there’s too many options and it’s all hanging on a wall behind a counter so people just can’t pull something off a rack. The employees must assist in showing the merch. Anyway, we aren’t paid any extra to sell it and 95% of the time people do not tip on merchandise sales. The markup on most of the items is 100% or more (let’s be honest, it’s literally the cheapest Gildan t-shirt with the logo, so of course it’s a $35 shirt now, right? But that’s a different post for a different day). If I was incentivized on earning 10% of all merchandise sales (hell, even on just the gross profit) I would sling that merchandise so much more, and the owner would make more money in sales.…

Title says it all really. Been working in this place for 4 years now, started as a cleaner and worked my way up to a new admin position. Always been underpaid but stuck around because the job was convenient and I'd always had the promise of working my way up. After I asked for a pay rise/better title from my previous manager and was told I couldn't I applied for a new opportunity within the company for a 5K pay increase that would allow me to gain better skills and promised putting me through a professional course (never happened btw). I've been doing this for the last 4 months now and have just been told that they don't feel the role is necessary anymore so they've offered to either put me back to my previous role or a different one on the same team for slightly more money than I…

Not sure if this is the right place for this but given that it involves feeling better from doing less work I figured it might be relevant here. Also, I don't live in the US and so our working conditions (especially for the jobs I mention in this post) are generally quite pleasant and considerate and fair. ​ So I generally work as a substitute teacher 5 days a week and then work an extra 2 hours on 3-4 days as a private tutor. Substitute teaching at my school generally isn't all that demanding, I mainly just supervise and they work independently; which requires little to no effort/intervention on my part at all. My private tutoring business is my little passion project that I greatly enjoy doing and find fulfilling but even though it doesn't take up much extra time, adding it to my schedule has made me feel a…

Growing up, we were always told that after submitting an application, it's a good idea to call the employer to follow up. It supposedly shows that you're a go getter. I always did this until my friend who was a manager at Pizza Hut (and several other fast food places over the years) told me that when someone called to follow up, their application when straight to the trash bin. Does anyone still do this? Thinking about this since I just had a job interview on Wednesday and am really anxious to hear back.