Month: September 2022

Any of you lot have any recent big wins at work? For me I went to do some interviewing for a new role and the form I’m moving too just announced 26 weeks paid parental leave regardless of tenure, gender etc etc My wife and I are expecting our third 🙂

Hope this is okay to post. So, I started a new job (with almost a $20k raise) and am currently in extensive training. In our down time, they encouraged us to do these online “classes”, some through their own website, some are through LinkedIn, etc. This “Human Skills Workshop” is one they suggested which includes an article about “Resilience in the Workplace” and is literally from a website called Positive Psychology. This article is really just about how to be as productive as possible at your career. There's a study about how half of a company got laid off and the “resilient” ones who survived moved up in the company. Of course, this is written in a way to be like “Look how well they did” as opposed to looking at the very real ramifications of a company laying off so many employees. Same article suggests that workers need to…

I work at a gas station mcdonald’s on a highway. The customers are rude, the children throw their cups on the floor and the moms blame me for the prices being too high. I get yelled at by my manager for the lobby being dirty when i havent stood still for 6 hours, i dont have TIME to clean lobby im either taking orders or bagging orders at every fucking second cause we have three people, THREE. One on grill two up front on counter and drive. It fucking sucks, my coworker hates drive and i hate counter but we continue to be him on drive and me on counter. I hate my job, i dread the days i work (TWO DAYS A WEEK MIND YOU). If he quits i quit, i dont fucking care. If Kayla tells me one more time to be faster im walking out. Its horrible.

i literally have my own office as the office manager, with fingerprint lock that only the owner and i have access to. i keep the door closed on my lunch break so no one bothers me. i’m on break right now, and slammed a taco combo during. he came in 3 separate times to give me paperwork, tell me what i need to do when i’m done eating, ask me what another employee did with x samples… i never once looked up to talk to him, and with my mouth stuffed i said WHYDONTYOUCALLHERTOASK,IMEATING i’m going to tell him i need undisturbed breaks for the third time, and my next move is to get a bar for the door and put it up every day during lunch. is there a sub for general work complaints? or entitled bosses? am i in the right place lol?

Boss pushed me to pick PTO or no pay for hunkering down while waiting to see where Ian would make land fall. I'm never this outspoken and I need internet validation “I will begrudgingly use PTO, but (boss name) I am sorely disappointed in (corporation name), never have I ever had to use Personal Time Off to be paid during a natural disaster in ten years of employment. This completely goes against the values that (corporation name) sets forth on their website. Nothing about this speaks of respect, being a family or even empathy. To use this PTO or not is a heavy decision that has weighed on my mind for days, and I am saddened to find my self cornered wondering how will I manage my upcoming doctors appointments, seeing a rheumatologist, a geneticist and a cardiologist in the coming months while managing all of life's other bills without…

Hi guys, So I got hired at Mercedes Benz as a porter. What shocked me about the whole process was that I had to undergo the most time consuming interview process EVER. I had to be interviewed by three different people at three different times of the day. One was by the HR manager, one by the manager of that specific department, and one by the General Manager of the whole store. the process of JUST INTERVIEWS took 2 hours. I had to to get references and an actual written report recommendation from a old manager from Sam's club. This written recommendation had to be emailed from my old manager at Sam's to the dealership. Then I had to get two references from old colleagues that had to be written on app. Then I had to do a drug screening and background check. basically it took me a total of…