Not sure if I can post this, as this isn't my story, but my colleagues, but thought I might share it. I got this, soon to be ex, colleague, who I have thoroughly enjoyed working with, and unlike most people I've worked with, we were able to have some heart to heart conversations with one another, and one of the topics that came up was his pay and his overall role in the company. He was severely underpaid, and the role just felt like dead end. At the end of the last year, he was offered a job where he would get close to 30% jump in the salary, but after a thought and a discussion with his manager, he decided to stay in put, in condition that he will be promoted and given a substantial raise. The company had offered two separate roles. First one, he just wasn't interested…
Month: July 2022
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As an intern, you can go f*ck yourself
The majority my job is done in some kind of MS Office tool. So, I decided to learn VBA (a MS Office “programming” language) that automates tasks between outlook, excel, access, etc. Nowadays, I am able to just send myself an email with a specific phrase (I.e runcodexyz), and it will run some code from my laptop (even if I’m not there, as long as outlook is open on the computer at my house) to compete a specific task that someone has asked, or to run an hours worth of reports, while I just sit there watching tv or playing video games (because I work from home), even when I’m not at my own house. This has freed up so much of my work day…and at times I feel guilty…but I am doing 100%+ of the work I am supposed to do each week, so it’s not like I’m slacking,…
Watched another coworker today get targeted and Im fuming inside. Wished I could send an email to my entire team calling the bullshit out, but couldnt. So I created an email address to write to. Thought Id extend the courtesy to this community. If youre having a shitty day and wish you could hack that shit up on a keyboard and actually send, then send it here if you want: [email protected] Ill read them then delete them. Theyll cheer me right up. No violence or death threats please though.
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I can’t work at this place anymore
I work in the media industry. It’s incredibly stressful and tough. It took me two years to get my first job out of college (thanks Covid) and now after 9 months I’m done. Let me explain all the things that have made me realize my mental health is so much more important: I started to hate creating. I love making videos and taking photos for the longest time since I was a kid and now I hate it. Low salary, I only make $25,000 a year. Yup $25,000 when I have friends in the same position making $60,000-$70,000. One of the colleagues came into work with Covid and infecting us all knowing they had Covid and I was still expected to stay at work and complete my tasks. I get texts from my boss at 3 am asking for me to do stuff by 9 am (I ignore all calls).…
The post says 1/5 adults don’t want children. My guess is a varying amount of factors such as; no one can afford to have children, and the future looks so bleak, why bring a child into such uncertainty? Are the main reasons no one wants to have children if you ask me. With the recent abortion laws changing all it seems like to me is the upper crust want poor people with no resources be forced into birthing slaves to take over the low wage paying jobs. I see low birth rates as a factor. What other implications do you think low birth rates are having?
I would like to hear everyone else experiences
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Imagine the pressure
So, I recently lost a new job because I kept blacking out, including one incident where I spilled a hot drink on myself. As a result, I went to the Doctor who signed a not-fit-for-work note for me. This means I get to collect the paltry benefits the government provides (and in a few months once everything's processed, a little extra), and I'm not forced to search for work while receiving them. I just had a test of my heartbeat, kidney function and blood tests and everything came back clear, so now they think that it's a neurological issue. I will have to wait to see a specialist in order to have a brain scan done. And you know what? I'm absolutely delighted – It's some of the best news I've ever received in my life. I don't have to work anymore for the foreseeable future, I can be free…
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Where do you think grown-ups come from?
I’ve been a foster provider with my husband in America for four years. I would say that one of my existential crises involves the concept that children do not belong in the justice system. I do not envy the judges that sit day after day and decide to remove children from their homes. Once this happens several people are involved in a case number. That child is the case number in the court system. Their lives are documented from the moment they go into the system. Can you imagine having people write notes about you each week and subjectively give their viewpoints on your behavior and progress in maturity? It’s kind of a cruel joke. Then they age out of the system, left with very few opportunities or connections. Turn it on its head and it’s actually quite cruel. I’m one of those well-meaning people in the whole situation and…