Month: August 2022

This happened last week and today Monday we just found out he was fired for being 20 minutes late FOR HIS FIRST TIME EVER… tomorrow me and ALL my coworkers will be late and will continue to come in late until they rehire him.

Not sure if this is a wide spread thing but where we are Stack overflow is down and my BF (who mind you makes three times what I do) is panicking because “Where is he going to copy the code from now” and “I can't work in these conditions”… This seems to be the current mood at his teams chat with his colleagues. Life is unfair.

For myself, and I assume many others, what the company actually does is a big part of why I want to work somewhere. I don't want to end up working for a company just to line some CEOs pocket. I want my work to be meaningful and have a real positive impact. Every single job advert is myriad of corporate jargon to mislead potential applicants into believing what you will be doing is amazing for the planet/people. And then you realise that everything you've read in the advert is just written by an external recruiter, whose only interest is to fill the role as fast as possible. What they write in adverts doesn't even need to be true! It's so rare to find a clear job advert stating the company, what the job includes, and salary without all the bloat. We shouldn't have to apply for a job to find…

My workplace is so toxic that between october and march my whole team resigned, including my manager. Higher management did nothing to stop this. I would have resigned but was halfway through a house purchase which needed my consistent proof of earning. Since then I have been doing everything single handedly. Within the last few weeks we have got a new manager and two team members (there were previously eight). I am now being denied annual leave by the new manager on the basis that there isn't any way to cover my workload. It isn't my fault there isn't cover, it is the companys toxic culture, slow response to resignations, reluctancy to update the job advert and lack of appropriate resource planning. What can I do? As you can imagine I am also suffering from stress due to this, if that could be relevant.

So I recently (several months ago) left my job with the government of almost a decade for the private sector. While it wasn't the only or the biggest reason in my decision to leave, I had just been passed over for a supervisory position for someone that had been at our shop for less than 2 years (even though I have significantly more technical knowledge and experience, I'm not in the “good ol' boy's” club). My new job is absolutely amazing. While I really enjoyed my last position, this new one beats it on almost every level, and I'm doing essentially the same job. My daily routine consists of: Unlock the shop at 5am Make coffee Check my email and get the work list for the week from my boss (via email) Hang out on reddit until my coworker comes in a few hours after I get there (theres only…