Month: June 2022

I put in my two weeks notice on Friday. It took the company until Tuesday to realize I meant my resignation, and until Wednesday to decide on a replacement. They told my replacement to begin training with me immediately, yet still pulled her away for three hours so that she could do her original role in an entirely different department and begin trying to train someone to take her place. Now they want me to come in early, work through or cut my lunch hours short, and are trying to get me to cancel my planned PTO (taking off tomorrow and Tuesday for the holiday, with my last day of work being next Friday). I told them absolutely not!! This is a prime example of why I'm leaving. Company was bought out six months ago. Since then, we've lost about 70% of staff across the board, most of whom they…

I put in my 15 days notice period 9th of this month. My boss told me that I will have to serve 75 days because my contract says so. But the company policy says you need to do 15 days while on probation. I asked my boss to do it 15 days, he refused stating I am handling some critical projects. After that I talked to some employees and coincidentally 2 old employees resigned in the next week. Now the boss is paranoid that I convinced them to leave. They asked me to leave on the 20th day and shortened my notice period by 55 days.

I’m in a European country with a European work contract, which means I have a union contract and a legal right to a certain amount of vacation time. I just quit my job. What that means is 1) legally I still have to work for 1 month. It’s called your “quitting term”. And 2) My employeer has to pay out my vacation hours that I haven’t used. Well, my manager just mailed to say I have to use the rest of my vacation days during my quitting term because they “don’t just pay them out if your workload allows you to take them.” Well, I clapped back and basically said “show me where it says that in my contract.” Why am I consumed with guilt after writing that mail? I feel bad somehow. Like I’m being “difficult”. I was raised by American baby boomers who had those old work values.…

Theres a department merger happening. Boss sent me a task at the start of the month asking to update the staff records ready for July 1 to accommodate the new dept name. I replied the next day if i have to wait till that date or if i can get a head start. I get no response to that question. Just now i get an email with the staff list to be updated. A significant volume of records. Thats gonna be a tight turnaround, and thats with complete attention on it. But im also covering the another role while other staff are off with covid. Additionally, i take call centre for the country as part of my daily….. Now heres the thing. Boss just forwarded me the attachment as well as the whole email thread with the merger team. They emailed a week ago. didnt get a reply. They emailed…

I've started this new work from home job and I have nothing to do at all. I feel like I've hit the jackpot. They've given me some tasks to do but they take me like 10mins at most. For the past few days I've been napping, catching up with friends, and watching YouTube all on company time. Last week I felt abit bad and asked them if they wanted me to focus on anything. I was told to wait and they'll send me stuff. Well they haven't sent me anything! I've learnt my mistake from volunteering to do more work. I've done this in the past and get treated like the company dogsbody. If they want me, they know where I am!!! Long may it continue ‍️

i work at a call center for a bank and management has implemented a policy we have to ask to leave our desks at all unless it’s for lunch. i find it very uncomfortable that i’m having every move policed and micro managed and having to ask to use the bathroom makes me very uncomfortable. my coworkers have all agreed that we are not going to be following that. we are all planning on saying something to hr because i’m questioning the legality of this policy.