Month: July 2022

I find myself getting it bad every Sunday morning. Tried to distract myself with entertainment but it’s always sitting at the back of my head even as I watch a series. How do you deal with it?

I worked for a prominent gay bar in Palm Springs. I had gotten really sick and ended up needing an appendectomy and missing two days of work. Super easy laparoscopic surgery I was in and out of the hospital in 24 hours and back to work the very next day. I asked my employer if they wanted a doctors note, they said no “no worries” I was told. Two days later was New Year’s Eve and the bar was having a big celebration everyone was working super late. I was taking a break in this tiny break room with two other employees and my manager comes in THEN demands me to lift up my shirt and show him my incisions. This idiot thought I was lying because he thought they still gut you from bellybutton to hip to take out an appendix. He went psycho and started screaming at me.…

Two months ago we had a change in management and this new boss is a nightmare and I dont know how to handle it. First of all some important background: in all his employment history he only worked in massive multinational companies with huge manpower pools comprising multiple teams. I work in a medium sized company and our entire department is me and another person and we both are very specialized in a specific area so we have no overlap. we've been complaining about the need for more manpower for years now well before he came but nothing came from it. Now since he came in there are so many issues 1. he want to implement lots of things they used in his old jobs, and they are great systems in theory but its simply not feasible here due to manpower but he is refusing to add additional manpower. 2.…

A few years ago I saw the top management 'drift away'. Less chat, less jokes. I knew I had done something wrong but looking back at my record I could not find any ground for this. Fast forward to now and we're getting rid of old documents. There may or may not have sensitive data so rip the spiral binding and feed them to the shredder, a few pages at a time, and I see my name on the page. I remember that meeting pretty well. It was with the top management and the consultants. It had been dragging on for three hours and the promised break had not materialised. We were now well into lunch break, which came as a surprise because these people never, ever, respect their own schedule despite being the Word of God on all things efficiency and productivity. They say ten minutes, it's thirty. They…

So I’m in my early 20’s, and my father is in his 40’s. He’s constantly giving me shit about the work I do, specifically regarding how many hours I do. I can personally afford to work part time, yet in his words “I’ve got all the time to fuck around”, in his mind your career should be what dominates your day. He personally chooses to work 11+ hours a day (sometimes even weekends too), I’ve tried explaining to him that it is his choice and for the time being I am comfortable and getting by with what I’m currently doing but that’s not enough for him. I constantly have to hear about how he was doing 60+ hours a week when he was my age so I should be too. He thinks the definition of a full time job only really applies if it’s anything around 50 hours and above.…

A part of me wants to give notice because they really struggle with finding coverage for people who can’t show up to work for whatever reason. But also, my gm is very unapproachable and I feel like I’ll just be met with frustration and I don’t want to deal with that or the where are you going questions. I think mainly it’s the unapproachable thing that really makes me hesitant to do it. Like why do managers always make that shit awkward? Not to mention the work culture is terrible. Some workers I work with have cursed at each other and these are grown people. It was barely dealt with. Concerns are never fully taken care of and also the gm likes to micromanage hardcore. I have another manager I seem to not be able to do anything good enough for. Like I feel relieved every time he isn’t there…

So I'm negotiating my salary with the new boss now. He offered me an X compensation + 500 dollar bonus. What I told him X is not enough and I'm going to need at least X+500. He said ok, you're going to get X+500 but no bonus. WHAT.

A while ago I posted in here about handing my 2 week notice. I got a much better job now, and I’m starting in Sept 1st in there. Now, my former boss is trying everything to make me stay. He raised up my salary with 12% and gives a lot of freedom if I choose to stay. The problem is that he doesn’t realize he’s the number 1 reason why I’m leaving. I simply don’t wanna be in a toxic work environment. How I can make him understand?

He’s 50, and his ego has become as big as the moon. He is now obsessed with his LinkedIn profile, has requested I make a Wikipedia page for him and then got angry it doesn’t appear immediately on a Google search, he is obsessed with everyone using his correct professional title (which has changed not long ago), constantly says things in line with “I have been in this field this amount of time so I know what I’m talking about”, he sends me the simplest things to do for him even when I’m on holiday (like putting a logo on a fucking letter) and demands that I respond to every email he sends me with “I’ve received your email”, he has constant mood swings (but is mostly grumpy and disrespectful), and – and this is the best – he’s recently got a geometrically abstract tattoo in a very prominent place…