Month: July 2022

I am seriously getting fed up with my job. I am a freight forwarder, coordinating the shipment of imports from China. The past couple of years have been a nightmare, with no end in sight. Right now we have been experiencing severe rail delays, with containers taking up to 2 months to move to rail. Even once loaded on a train it is taking a month or longer for the train to actually depart. There is literally nothing we can do about it. The situation is completely beyond my control. This is affecting different steamship lines, as well as the BNSF and UP rails. They blame lack of rail cars, lack of train power, and congestion at the port and final destinations. I have customers threatening to drop us as they have had containers arrive more quickly through other freight forwarders. The problem is it is completely random which containers…

Alright, so, long time lurker, first time poster. I want your guy's opinion if this guy is based, or overreacting. I have this co-worker, he constantly comes in hours late, and I almost never call him. When I do call him it's to see if he knows the location of something in the shop. So a tool I use is missing, the last guy to use it swears he left it in the spot its stored in. It's like 10am at this point most of us start at 6-7am. Shop guy's usually started at 8am (since the main shop guy retired its been open season on start times apparently, but not my monkeys not my circus). So I'm like, well I'll just give him a quick call. Goes a bit like this: “Hey coworker have you seen this tool? I usually keep it in this spot” “No I didn't even…

Hey so I want an anti-work opinion on this. My current job is pretty good. I actually like my boss and my team, pay is great and the work is relatively easy. If anything it is too easy and I get bored a lot. I only do 2 or 3 hours actual work a day and during quiet times I actually go a little crazy. I also feel like I'm not learning much. I got a job offer this week for another place. Everything about it seems great. It's a more interesting position and I can tell already that the whole operation is more organised and professional, it's also likely that I will learn a lot there. Only issue is that there is no increase in pay and it's very likely that I will significantly increase my work load. No more napping on wfh days and no more going to…

I(23F) just started working at this small lawfirm about mid May 2022. I work front desk reception. This is going to sound dumb but the situation is that one the lawyers keeps asking me to empty the dishwasher. We have a small kitchen/break room in the office and we don't have kitchen staff. The kitchen is supposed to be “everyones responsibility” and everyone is expected to help out and maintain it. And I do help out, if I notice something is empty, I refill or I clean the counters etc. We have a dishwasher, I don't particularly use it as I use the single use cups so I kinda just ignore it. Well this lawyer lady keeps asking me to empty the dishwasher and its not really part of my duties so I'm like ehhh. I complained to the HR manager person on Monday and HR person had told me…

I'm not from USA, I live in Mexico and right now the economic situation it's just messed up, I don't know what to do. I work as a bilingual medical interpreter, I do 1.50 dlls an hour, that's too cheap if you know what's the interpreter rate at the moment. I know I'm getting paid cheaper because we are in Mexico. They pay fairly well, it's better than other jobs that i have been in to, I used to get paid 57 dlls a week. I know it sounds like its a little sum of money. It is. Now I have to pay bills cause I moved out of my mom's house and everything it's too expensive. I am paid now 126 dlls each week, job is not that hard but we do have a lot of calls and most of them are sensitive in nature, it's compromising my mental…

TLDR: Worked and lived under shitty conditions for closer to a year, taunted by the empty hope a promotion. The promotion was given to someone else who was also given the same hope and had to live under shitty conditions. I was then cast aside and effectively forced to quit. Long version. Last August, I moved to the city to help my old workplace re-open for COVID. I was lured back in with the chance of a big promotion from my student job to a salary position at a workplace I thought was really fun. However, because the school does not want to pay its employees benefits, I would only be allowed to work 1000 hours per year. That averaged to about 20 hours per week. As such, I could only surpass that limit if it was requested of me. I was told this would be okay, because I would…

I work in IT, been at the place for years, this one has gotta be one of the most annoying chew-outs ever. We need thumb drives on certain servers to store the encryption keys for the drives on the servers. Plugging the USB drive into a different port doesn't affect anything at all. I just gotta take the time to go in and move things around (and do everything in the right order so that the environment remains up/redundant) The only argument for plugging the drive into the internal USB port would be security. Except that, you cannot park in the parking lot without a badge. You cannot get into the reception lobby without a badge and a pin code. You cannot get past reception without a LITERAL retina scan, you cannot get to our specific area that is walled off without four more badge + pin doors, you cannot…