Month: August 2022

Okay, so maybe I’m crazy. But I feel like in my adult life, I’ve gotten into a cycle of resenting (some) coworkers and my bosses. It goes like this: Get a new job, follow the rules and be good, work for about a year, begin to understand the company, figure out rules are dumb, begin resenting (some of) the people I work with for taking the whole thing so seriously. Granted maybe because I’ve primarily worked in customer service/retail and it’s about quality AND quantity, but one thing I can’t stand is a person who takes their job above and beyond unnecessarily. Can anyone relate?

Does anyone know if this is illegal? It really seems like it should be. If my company issues a 'coaching', I am required to send back an email acknowledgement of the issue, to include the alleged mistake, that I understand the correct way to do things, and that I know how to correct the issue going forward. But they're completely wrong. I followed procedure correctly and the 'mistakes' I am accused of never actually occurred. I'm assured that they'll look into it after I acknowledge it and that they'll just toss it if it isn't legitimate. But I don't see that side of the system so I have no way to know if that legitimately happens. I'm in an at-will state, and I'm concerned that this is a strategy to have “cause for termination” on paper for all staff members, even if it's fictional, even if there's no intention to…

He was so confused, that I didn't want to bust my ass and kiss ass to promote. I told him that promoting is another year on probation, more responsibility, less opportunity to take time off work, and in my classification, moving up to the next rank is only $250 more money a month which would get taxed due to our required contributions to the retirement, (not 401k but literally like a retirement fund to ensure there's a retirement fund for all employees in the future). I also have young kids and I just want to WORK TO LIVE not the opposite. He just doesn't understand and tried to tell me in a not so subtly way that I'm lazy and not ambitious. Why is it so hard for people to accept that you just don't want to keep promoting? I'm not living my life chasing a dollar at every chance…

Money. It’s money. Pay us more money. “It’s very competitive but some people aren’t satisfied.” Because other companies pay more?? Also your opinion doesn’t matter, millionaire. CEO said “in my day, we just quit if we didn’t like a job, but people today have to have so many monikers. What is quiet quitting?” We’re not making these monikers. They’re assigned to us. We want to make the right amount of money for our jobs and skills, at the least enough to have a standard of living where we don’t have to sell our vehicle to pay for our kids medications. We can go grocery shopping and not worry about it. Right now, I’m juggling money to make sure I can get groceries, pay electric, and if I can afford new books. I may cut the books. Gotta eat and have electricity first. We shouldn’t have to do these things. This…

First job is quite interesting, second one is a braindead customer support with unreachable kpi at a huge company They made us install an app on the phone to be reachable all the time, all the coworkers I talked to seem to have 0 boundaries. I am thinking of getting a 3rd one and even a 4th job if I can, and drag this as much as possible while always prioritizing the 1st one But I feel the urge of throwing the laptop of the second one in the river already and tell them what they are in a grandiose fashion Having no stress to lose it means I cruise through their bullshit and perform very well actually

If your boss ask you to do something off the clock, don’t do it, even if it only takes 5 minutes.