Month: September 2022

I work for a major telecom dealing with medium to large businesses. When I was hired a year ago it was to answer calls, do very basic troubleshooting, make a trouble ticket, then give it to a Tier 2 tech. Now I'm one of those Tier 2 techs but I still need to take calls when I'm not actively working on a problem. I’ve been doing this for less than 2 months, with no additional training. It’s been a major shift in duties and of course there’s a big learning curve. Some of these issues can be complicated and need time to troubleshoot. Add in the fact that I'm new to this role and of course I'll be a little slow to resolve the problem. Did I mention there was NO additional training for this? Other managers are understanding about me taking a little while to catch up to the…

Fuck that It's for a call centre job?? Am I too bitter Probably not

I am 15yr and I just opened my first bank account and I start my first job Monday, I’m learning how to do taxes and I’m saving to buy a car, how does it feel to know an autistic 15yr is more successful then you neets will ever be?

I doubt I’m the only one with this issue. So I’m agender, fem presenting, and married to a cis man. Growing up I struggled a great deal in school and struggled my way through undergrad thanks to untreated ADHD (I was “too smart” to receive treatment) and undiagnosed narcolepsy (“You just need to go to bed earlier!”). I eventually made my way to the nonprofit sector, worked there for 10 years, lost my last job due to budget cuts, and then sorta floated for 6 months trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do for money because my husband doesn’t make enough to support both of us. The problem was the struggles I had in school carried over to the workplace and I was M I S E R A B L E. I couldn’t imagine having to spend the rest of my life like that.…

Now we have a new minimum wage slave job called “budtender”, who are expected to act and sound like doctors with multiple pharmacology degrees. “I bROke my bONg What's youR chEApEST One” “WHats the CannABIS THAT GEt's you High bUT the Way I WANT it to BE” Imagine none of the answers you give satisfy them and imagine you have to spend at least 5 minutes on average with 100 something of these troglodytes asking unreasonable things from you while there are a bunch of other people waiting in the line. Dealing with this shit daily will make you question where your life is heading, which is what I'm doing at the moment.

I don’t have a long saga or anything, sorry guys, just maybe wanted to start a casual type conversation on this topic. I’m working with a recruiter/headhunter who is just so frustrating to deal with. Constantly telling me that I have no chance of getting the jobs I want and need to just settle for the first thing he was able to find. I know he’s wrong and that I’m worth more (I am getting interviews at better firms now that I’m sending out by myself and not with him), but it’s still so annoying to deal with him. I can’t “fire” him yet because he is basically holding a couple of job offers/interview hostage right now. Ugh. Anyone dealing with anything like this? (This is in the legal market btw, not sure how the terminology differs for other markets, sorry if it’s confusing.)

Hey everybody! Hope everyone is doing well! I work from home for a major corporation in the auto-glass industry. I won't say their name, mostly because I'm scared that if I say their name three times they will appear in my bathroom mirror and kill me. And there will be no one around to “repair or replace” me. At some point early last year I decided to seek out a work from home position. Like most people I thought it would be something convenient and easy for me to do because transportation has always been an issue, and I grew tired of biking five miles to work in -30 degree weather. I've always considered myself a hard worker and I feel like I've spent the bulk of my 20 year working career busting my ass and sacrificing my body with very little to show for it. And that includes my…

You make low income and you can’t get by. You make a higher income and you get taxed to the point where you might as well make a lower income. It’s insane how I get taxed 400-700 dollars every paycheck. It seems almost unfair considering the government does dog shit at taking care of their civilians.