I’m tired of doing jobs that cause me anxiety. Today I accidentally had myself unmuted and muttered the f word while trying to find a schedule time for a customer. It was under my breath but the person watching my calls sent me a message telling me I was unmuted. My heart just dropped. I’m so scared I’m going to lose this job now. I’m so tired of being scared and just a mess up away from being broke again.
I live in Washington State and have been working for a the same grocery store for almost 12 years now. 6 years ago I became assistant manager of the bakery. A few months later my manager told me she re classified me as a Baker so that I would get raises faster. I saw very little increase in pay but figured I had topped out. Last Friday my store manager came up to me and asked if I was assistant or baker because assistant made $2 more than what I was making. She said she would fix it. I guess HR got pissed and asked why it took 6 years to realize and both bosses agreed to tell them I had just started being an assistant. I have yet to talk to either one of them and not sure what to do now. I definitely don't expect to get back…
So I work in a small company in California with about 10 employees so one of the owners is “HR” when convenient. I got written up the other day for bypassing my manager and going to HR because apparently that’s now how it works and HR doesn’t have time to deal with this stuff. Also, we all got raises at the same time but the workload isn’t the same. I complained about that and got written up for discussing salaries, I told my boss in the meeting it’s illegal to talk about salary and he said “we’re a private company we can do what we want.” So I said put that in wiring for me and he did. Oh I can’t with these people and they complain why no one wants to work for them. I’m quitting after this weekend and telling them have fun with the complaint I’m about…
I get it, payroll can be more variable from month to month than rent/other overhead expenses. But if getting rid of an employee making $8/hour and not replacing them actually helps your business's financial bottom line, then you're fucked and shouldn't be in business. The sign of a good company is one who pays you a good wage and doesn't try and nickel and dime you every paycheck. Or pay you late. $320/week may be a lot to a worker, but it shouldn't be to someone with an actual business.
My first job out of college was a hybrid between my experience, IT, and the public policy I wanted to do. I was a technical account manager for a lot of customers who had custom website and database products. Not only were the products complicated, but the customers were all high powered lobbyists and they were given to me because most them were ex military like me. Nightmare stuff when you have a staff change over because custom stuff is finicky and usually not well documented, and the clients were a bit anal about how they liked things done. I was offered a job by one of our customers doing the public policy work that I wanted to be doing. I put in my two weeks notice and immediately wanted to start talking about turnover plans for my accounts and the products. It was going to take the full two…
So I work in restaurants typically and I’ve noticed that at my new job about 4 hours in I start getting confused or slow down substantially. Does this happen to anyone else? I’m thinking it might have to do with my morale or ADHD.
