Month: August 2022

I am on the low end here, not the lowest but in no way any kind of “status” job. I have 5 weeks paid vacation a year, that I am encouraged to take(and I do). If I make it to a certain age I will get another week. I have about 20 sick days, paid, that I can just tell work I am sick with no need for a doctors note. Had I a child I would have about double the sick days to accommodate any days my child was sick and I stayed at home to take care of them. With doctor approval and documentation the sick days are basically infinite. I cannot be fired for using my sick days, nor do I have to tell the employer anything about my sickness. I usually just text my immediate boss “sick today”, sometimes following up later in the day with…

Sorry bc English isn’t my first language. I started working at this company in November 2021. First it was boring but ok, it was good for my resume to have that company in there. Now that I absolutely hate everything about it. They don’t teach your job (considering my position is a Junior, so I don’t have experience), but they expect you to deliver everything at the end of the month. When you deliver things late, you get called out for it. But when they forget to mention there’s another report you have to do and deliver in two day, you have to do it. (There are more things I’m not saying because this post is going to get too big) Now I hate the days I have to go to work and every time someone messages me for a something I’m having anxiety just thinking that I did something…

Soo ok this was weird. To start off I work two jobs( my last post was concerning one job, this is about the other.) Im out on leave from my part time job, which was cleared and approved. Today I get a random knock on my front door. It's a man in a pest control outfit. He asked if I was “my first name.” OK that was already odd. Not alot of people know where I live( past dv survivor so I don't really tell people where I live.) I thought maybe my landlord sent him. I asked why and he tries to hand me a white envelope that has my first and last name written in black sharpie. I asked what it is and he says that he doesn't know what it is. I asked who gave it to him and he said “I don't know who they were.…

I’ve been subbed to this sub for a while now, I forgot how I found it. Upon seeing all these posts, I realize how blessed I am. I’ve had shitty jobs, I’ve had better jobs. I’ve had shitty employers, I’ve had better employers. I am so grateful to have met my current employer. I have come to realize that small businesses truly can create a “family” environment that many larger companies use as a gimic (sic) to attract employees. I hope everyone can someday find a job that they truly love and are appreciated at.

I recently read a post on here that got a lot of positive feedback about what this sub is intended for. They explained that they’re tired of people who post stories about shitty employers, wages, and or work conditions without ire for capitalism. I was under the impression that this was just a place for people to post such stories/experiences and talk about them, which is what I enjoyed about this sub. I did not realize this sub was intended for discussion around the dissolution of capitalism. That being the case it seems like I might be in the wrong sub, and would be happy to leave. With that I ask this genuinely, not trying to give push back to the original post, would anyone be willing to recommend alternative subs that are focused on sharing stories about shitty work environments?

I have been working at a truckstop on recomendation of my grandma who also works there for about 2 years, recently it has been going downhill and its become a stressful hellhole, people are quitting left and right and the responsibilities for the common workers are getting heafty, now we have to do deal with the nasty trash cans that get filled to the brim every day, and ontop of that there was a system error or some nonesense so now the tills dont work for heck and the card readers need to be attempted seveal times per person to work, meaning the lines stack up, it doesnt help that the chip readers at the pumps dont work so EVERYONE who is getting gas has to go through the already crowded inside, and they get real angry because of all the hoops they have to jump through, today i was…

​ TRANSLATION: Don't do random rona-dhona = Stop whining

It hasn’t always been this way, but let’s face it all this shit is based on pure luck. Allow me to explain. First let’s say you want to go to college, well let’s hope you get lucky and can have someone pay for it or have an alternative to student debt. Well, maybe we should just get lucky and find a job that allows us to work and pay for school. Ok, let’s skip school and just go into the work force, maybe even learn a trade. Well let’s hope we get lucky with the job we get and hopefully we are paid accordingly and get benefits. Next, since we have our income and/or education locked down let’s focus on our health. Well, if we are lucky enough to have decent insurance we are okay, if not, we are fucked and could lose everything for one medical mishap. That’s okay…