Month: July 2022

So I work at a landscaping company and we have maybe 20 employees total. We work 5, 10 hour days and one Saturday a month if we need it. It's hard work and lots of wheelbarrowing but I've been powering through trying to stick it out for the season. I'm honestly so tired and sore after work I don't do much else. Today my boss said we have made $600k and our revenue goal is $1.6m for the year. We are over half way through the season so he decided we all need to do mandatory Saturdays from here on out to make up for our inefficiency. I don't understand why 50 hours isn't enough, and the idea of 60 hours a week makes me wanna quit tomorrow. I want to confront my manager or the owner but I want to sound professional and respectful. How do I tell him…

I posted this last night right before I went to bed. https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/w8dyeh/i_feel_bad_about_wanting_to_quit_my_job_but_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Then about an hour after I went to sleep for the night, I woke up struggling to breath with the most anxiety I think I’ve ever had. I don’t even remember what my dream was, other than I think it had to do with work. I’m pretty sure I had a panic attack in my sleep, which is something that has never happened to me as far as I can remember, and I think I should take that as a sign, so I am putting in applications and I am gonna call my boss tomorrow and let them know what is up.

I made post over in r/AMITa, overwhelmingly it seems everyone thought I wasn’t being horrible by refusing to train my replacement in systems I had worked very hard on and had to figure out myself. There are three issues here: 1. I was promised this promotion. Yes it is a government job, but because it was an internal posting they had the ability to not open it to everyone and simply promote as promised. I went along with it because I was confident I was qualified, but they said they based it on the interview alone, no previous experience which is sketchy. I’ve worked very closely with these people for years, through the pandemic. I’ve always been honest with them, neither of the two people involved came to me before or after the notice to tell me next steps or offer a review. I had to ask, what are the…

I accepted a contract role that started at the end of May to last until the end of November. Two weeks after I on-boarded, my manager went on stress/sick leave for over a month and I had nothing to do. I did ask for work and what I could help with. I set up meetings to work with others as well but they wouldn't come. My coworkers would say in a call or team meeting that they needed my help with X new work but wouldn't include me in emails or meetings. I have emails where I have asked my manager's stand-in if she needed any help and they told me I would get more work once things ramped up. Even as late as last week. When my manager came back, he gave me other assignments that I completed. I got the call from the temp agency that they were…

Fuck the man. Day was not noted as an important day. Doctors appointment is way more important and near impossible to reschedule. Doctors note for the win.

I just finished my second day at my corporate finance 9-5 gig. It's a nightmare. Bait and switch. Not what I signed up to do. I showed up on my first day at 8:30am (nobody told me when to show up- I had someone say 8:30 and someone else tell me 9am), and someone threw up next to me in the bathroom in a room full of empty stalls. Got on my shoes. I literally ran out the restroom, traumatized, only to have to shake my director's hand immediately after I left the restroom, my hands still wet. Ruined my appetite the rest of the day. I couldn't eat lunch, still traumatized (I have emetophobia). The head manager noticed this at lunch, snorted and said “What- you don't eat or something???” Imagine if I had anorexia. I spent the rest of my first day watching OSHA videos with people in…

Graduated in May. Certified and licensed. Moved to Florida, something I've wanted to do for years. Applying everywhere – tons of jobs in my field. Got only a couple of callbacks, interviews, and tons of rejections – from facilities “urgently hiring”. So, I figure I have decades of waiting tables, why not slip into that for a bit. On the FOURTH interview at this one restaurant, I sit with a very distracted manager for about 15 mins who decidedly dropped the bomb that they hired someone that morning for the job. What. The. Fudge. I spent 2 hours getting showered, dressed, driving, parking, and prepping for what I thought was going to be a “you're hired!” situation. Like, you perhaps could have called or something that morning? I really wanted to speak my mind, but I said nothing with wide eyes and just got up and walked out saying absolutely…

I work overnight shifts. I pick up ALOT of overtime when we are short staffed. I'm only scheduled for 3 days but alot of the times I work 5-6 shifts a week now. Daycare can't take my child tonight due to covid and I call my boss to them them know. They heavily guilt Tripped because of short staffing. There's 3 of us working tonight so they wouldn't be by themselves. But boss says they has no coverage for me and needs me to come in. It's annoying because anytime they've needed the help I've been there. I've been left on shift alone many times. But the one time I need the support this is how they act. Agh over this job.