Month: July 2022

So I work for the largest poultry company in the nation. I work in the refrigeration department which is tasked with keeping the entire plant and poultry cold. We have a 70,000lb ammonia system which was all installed in 2001. Throughout the years most of the system has been neglected or haphazardly repaired by unqualified “maintenance operators.” During the weekend, on 3rd shift, I’m the only operator there. I typically shut the plant down around 2am and with shutdowns comes problems. Two of our main compressors are in need of serious repair. I’ve complained for months and nothing. Last night one of these main compressors fails on me and I can’t get the other one up. Why? Both are running on their last leg. One runs high oil temps which has a water hose attached and running to keep it cool. The other has “slide valve” issues in which the…

I don’t…. Sure but why not use /r/vent, /r/offmychest, or /r/mentalhealth?

It doesn’t take a phD in economics to understand the numbers aren’t working out. So why make the effort?

My mother (in her 60s) has been with a small company for the past two decades in an “executive” level role with a base salary under $70k and profit sharing for context (of which there was no profit to be shared for multiple years in that timeframe). She’s helped this business grow revenue over 10x in those 20 years, most within the last 5, and recently the company owner/CEO has brought in his daughter (early 30s) with no business/employment experience to start taking it over from him as he wants to retire. The daughter was hired in as the chief HR officer (sole employee in the “department”) with a salary of $150k and I’m sure eventually will be promoted to CEO. The daughter’s only current responsibility involves processing payroll and was instructed to start learning how to do my mother‘s job (payroll was only thing taken so far) to take…

As the title states. I’m leaving my easy job. It was a great job back then when I started for them from 2011-2015. Then they laid us off like nothing and I left. Two years later they started calling people back, by then I had a few jobs. They didn’t call me. Jan 2022, my friend told me they were still hiring now, they got me back into my position that I had before I left, I loved it. 6 months now and this place is being ran to the ground. It’s real easy for me, but the downside is that they didn’t want to give me top pay since they rehired me as a new employee. Anyways, so I was ok I’ll deal with it. Come to now, my team that comes before me and after me, they don’t do shit. Just complain and whine and that’s it. The…