Month: September 2022

I work for a food delivery service in Louisiana that recently went through a name change. I do dispatch, which is basically overseeing orders being assigned to drivers and deciding on compensation and general logistics. Originally, our job was simple. We oversaw order assignment, while calls to anyone went through our support staff, since they were hired specifically for customer service. We only texted drivers to check on them, everything else was sent to support and they would call then get back to us with an answer. Easy, right? Full time with benefits, seems like a great job, especially after working retail during the pandemic. Well things start to crack. Around august last year, things started to change. It was really alarming since the change in scheduling that they hyped up to “better fit the needs of the business” ended up with a lot of people's hours being below full…

Just came back to the office yesterday after being out sick for a while. I have this big, expensive Razer Goliathus mouse pad with custom LEDs that I got for Christmas last year. Well, I noticed yesterday that the LEDs are broken. Someone must have bent or smashed them somehow while I was out. Only people that were in my office (supposedly) are the IT guy and the cleaning lady. I'm pissed.

I work in a really good company where we work towards deliverables. This means that you can do whatever you want throughout the day/week as long as you deliver what you said you would. We usually deliver large items twice a month on Fridays. Pros: You definitely have a work/life balance. Cons: It's difficult to make friends at work because they are usually offline/do the work and leave. Someone high-up at work complained that the office was empty, and nobody was around for them to talk to. The CEO explained to the person that if this person wanted to talk to people, they need to make the effort to drive people in – the fact that nobody is coming in to talk to the in the first place means something.

Does anyone else find these pretty useless? I wish they had some specifically for neurodivergent people (rather than lumping autistic people into the same category as people with Down's), but they generally are just for neurotypicals. It's weird when a huge amount of the population are autistic or have ADHD, so I thought work programmes for us would be handy for many but ok 🤷‍️ Anyway I've had phone appointments that never happen quite a few times, with both the JC and Restart. It's a waste of my time really and I'm sure they try to catch me out sometimes as they often don't reply to my emails, either I also wanted to express how I hate how people look down on the unemployed, as if having a fancy job title or rank makes you superior. It really doesn't. You are not a better person just because you can work.…