Month: September 2022
I work at a small marketing agency. We have had 3 separate covid cases in the past 6 months. My boss is making this huge effort to force all the remote employees back into the office this coming month and I explained how I don’t feel comfortable being in the office without a mask because of all the sickness going around. I have high risk people in my family and made this known. The past 2 days, I wore my mask on all of our virtual meetings. One other employee who doesn’t want to come back was really supportive. It looks weird, I look like the paranoid office asshole, but I feel like not only does it protect my health…but it also makes a statement. My boss has been sued by employees several times for HR related reasons and he’s terrified of lawsuits. So I know he’s not going to…
How does one have the gall to call someone in for work when they're 16,000 kilometres across the planet, then get frustrated and threaten to sabotage any other future career path the employee wants to take because I find the demands of a “senior superior” (title my boss gave himself) unreasonable in any case? I've been working for a large security firm at a dock for the last 4 years, patrol work, surveillance, etc. I took a month (26 days to be more precise) off of working 12 hour days, so I can visit my family back in the USA. My boss called me not 24 hours into my arrival, asking if I can get the next flight back for THREE DAYS because someone called in sick. Told him I'm oceans away and he said “surely it'll be okay, you can just take the holiday time after this”. No. It's…
So before I get to the outlet I'll lay out a chain of events It first started when management removed the table and chair that used to be back here. They were saying “It attracted too many people to sit and not do work.” Shortly after that they removed the doors off the shelf to that used to be over the cart. Then today I walk in and I see this. Not only have they completely removed the shelf but they've now shut off the outlet we use to charge our phones. I'm 16 and this is my first proper job. The management of this place is shit and I'm getting sick of it. Payroll has constantly screwed up my hours, you only get free food if you do more than the job you're assigned to that day, making you stay late to close, it's just all shit. I can't…
I am from Germany and I moved to Sweden temporarily for a really good job in a start up company. I was hired to manage the media section of the company. The company was co owned by two individuals, apparently two best friends aka my boss and his pal. His pal left the role but returned a few months later and was offered the second highest job below my boss. You can see that my boss decided to keep the power for himself. However his pal had nepotistic practices leading to an internal crisis and my boss fired his pal and his associates. We thought our boss did the right thing but things only got worse. The boss began to accuse almost everyone of being an associate of his former pal and began to fire people or demote them with the replacement being well well, the boss himself. I was…
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work is driving me to commit…
I've worked at the same place now for 5 years, last year I started to but heads with my shift leader and got moved to another unit. I made the best of my situation and became one of the stronger team members. Recently the new deputy manager has chosen to get rid of the units and started putting me back with the shift leader that's tried to get me the sack. Every time I'm on shift with her I feel like there's a target on my back, i can't raise my concerns with being laughed at by the day staff. I've had intrusive thoughts before (normally when I'm stressed) but it's been awhile since I've had it while at work. I'm wondering if it's time to move on or do I screw this cow over and make sure I don't work with her again?
Up until a few days ago, my cousin worked at a really nice restaurant. Her (now) ex-boyfriend punched her in the face and gave her a black eye. My cousin asked her manager if she could work in the back so that people wouldn’t keep asking about her black eye. The manager yelled at her. So my cousin contacts HR to tell them what happened to her with her ex and asks them for help in resolving the situation. HR contacts the manager and the manager turns around and fires my cousin for “telling lies about her”. My cousin again contacts HR and they basically say my cousin was at fault for being fired. My cousin is already going through a really tough time with being domestically abused, and her employer basically just fired her for being injured and asking for some relief. I am really upset and I’ve left…
I'll find out next week if they're trying to pull some bs on me. Just in case, I want to be preemptive about this. What legal action should I take? Me simply having something to eat and my rent being paid are on the line here. If they do steal wages from me what can I do about my landlord? Can I delay my rent bill while taking them to court bc these dicks wont pay me?
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Autistic people vs Work Place Norms
The title says it all. I want to open a discussion for people with mental disorders to present tricks and tips for navigating a work environment that refuses to provide for those with special needs.