Month: July 2022

While this really is not comparable to what others suffer in their work, this is becoming a large issue for me in my personal life and mental health, and I can't handle this without speaking somewhere. As a little context, I'm a nearly 24 years old male and I've never had a single tangible experience with a woman. Only recently I had a small date or two but these ultimately went nowhere…I've been working with this company for nearly a year now and as time goes on, everyone eventually knows each other at work one way or another. Of course, they learned about my luck about the opposite sex more and more whenever such topics came and this slowly devolved into making “friendly banter” about me. Always telling me to rush after a girl, find someone, have intercourse, etc. It's summer and whenever a woman with slightly revealing clothes moves…

I like to believe most good things in life are artificial. Things humans created for themselves since existence was so bad. Smartphones, beautiful houses, machines. Nature is the thing of dirt and bugs. Which is why artificial material wealth and the service of experts is so essential for a good life. Even though we could choose to not use money, to avoid taxation theft and dealing with soul-crushing people, money is so efficient we choose to tolerate those bad things to an extent. We NEED cooperation to become wealthy. The evil people are like an infection. I don't believe the solution is unionizing against traditional employers. I dream of a new organization. It isn't a business since businesses are constrained from being altruistic by the need to maximize the selfish gain of the owners. That's not to say it's bad, but it can't reach what charity can. The only way…

Already going 3 weeks on a job. Waking up at 6am to go in at 7am. I just can't do it. Most nights i struggle to sleep because of the anxiety and stress it's causing me. My body is aching. Mentally i feel drained. I feel like im wasting myself. Nothing helps me. I am just one of those that usually end up sleeping like around 1 or 2. Sometimes 12pm. But because of the stress and anxiety and im being overloaded with work. I just struggle hardcore sleeping. Sometimes i am waking up like say i go to sleep at 1 or 2 and i wake up at 4. So i only end up getting 1 hour or so of sleep. I don't even go into full REM. It feels shitty being sleep deprived. I just can't do this. I can't. I opt out. I want no part of…

So I just started a new job, and I have Microsoft teams. It shows an away message every time I go to the bathroom, run to the kitchen to grab a snack, or even when I'm reading something on a different screen for awhile! I feel like I need to move the mouse around every 60 seconds just to make sure my message doesn't change to “away”. It splits my attention off my other tasks, which I also dislike. My old job accused me of stealing time, even when I passed my scorecards every month and got bonuses, and I don't want that to happen again. I recently sustained a considerable injury. I just graduated from a knee scooter to hobbling around but it takes me a bit to do things I normally would run up and down the stairs for. I did inform my job of my injury, explained…

I’ve got a decent job, I love what I do and I wouldn’t really want to do anything else. But one thing I really can’t stand is how it changes people. I like most of the people I work with, but there was one person I got on with better than anyone there. We started at the same time in similar roles, and have always helped each other out with stuff that overlapped and got on well outside work too. They got promoted last year and I took on some extra stuff to help them out. But that extra responsibility goes to people’s heads so fast. They always talked about how people would push one way do things on us and stifle our creativity. All of a sudden, they were the one pushing that one way to do things on me. It got to the point where they just straight…

My fiance works for an employer who advertises that they offer unlimited PTO. This was not the original draw of the job, as we are aware of what that normally means. But, her manager has been really cool about it and even has encouraged her to use it after not putting in a request for a few months. Earlier today she was told that she had not met her “monthly required hours” for the past two months. Her manager informs her they don't account for PTO for this type of metric, where essentially she would need to be making up the hours she had taken off. Mindblowing, how in the hell is it PTO than!? PTO means you're getting paid while taking time off. But apparently she's supposed to be making this time up in some other fashion? How in the hell can they advertise “unlimited PTO” but you have…

Before joining a new organization, should one ask the recruiter these questions – Who am I replacing? What goals do you plan on achieving with my expertise/experience, and what's the timeframe of those goals?

I see a lot of people defending places or companies who pay $15 as if they were gods. And I'm surprised to find a $15/hour salary still not enough in most places in the US to stay afloat. There is a big difference between what a minimum wage is and a living one, a minimum wage is set by the government and your boss CANT pay you below that, and a living wage is what allows you not to work 2 jobs in order not to go homeless. $15 an hour shouldn't be a victory if people still have to overwork just to bring food and a roof to their families.

Company sent me an email 30 minutes before the end of the day that I would be required to come in office the next day. which is a 35 minute commute when I live 5 minutes from a different office. This is the most money I’ve ever made at a job (40k) but it’s very stressful and I am getting burnt out. I only have a high school diploma and this is my first office job so I am at a loss for what to do. I’ve asked to step down from my position but I don’t know if there’s anything else available and the pay with be substantially less. Any advice or suggestions? Edit: My workload has doubled since I started this position and no support is provided. I take care of immediate tasks and the none urgent stuff has to wait. I have 25+ providers who’s schedule I…