Month: October 2022

Hey people. So i am on the last stages of my PhD and afterwards i am going to probably get an “industrial” job here in Europe. I know lots of you are US based, but since work policies there seem way more screwed, i was wondering what tips can you give me regarding remote work, specially related to surveillance software. Cheers.

There were 2 occasions where I was given as much time as I needed to stay out of work, while I was getting paid, I don't wanna talk about the first one but the latter one was when I caught covid. There were few drawbacks for sure, but in general they were very empathic.

My old boss' extremely lax attitude had some shortcomings, like how sometimes I was bored at work simply because he didn't know how to delegate tasks. He was also somewhat disorganized. But I liked how he hardly ever seemed to care about my hours, and even admitted to not noticing when I arrived and left. After a year at this job, I have a new boss now who is organizing us a little better, which is refreshing. But today, in her third week, she started the conversation I'd been dreading about my hours. I had been staying no longer than 8 hours a day at work. I don't take lunch breaks, just ate while working, unlike my coworkers who do so and spend 8.5 hours (or more) at work. I do not care what my coworkers think of this. I think the peer-pressure and office-gossip angles were subtly leveraged against…

Hey Reddit, what am I supposed to do? I worked for a Wal-Mart last Holiday season while I was in College and needed some spending money for the holiday. They never mailed my check. I ended up wondering where the fuck my check was and by March I emailed asking where it was. HR and the woman who hired me couldn't find it or even me as a fucking employee. When I ended up getting it I was May. The check expired. They kept saying they would mail me another check. They never did. It's been 11 months, I finally emailed today and said “when can I expect this to be done?” “Not today, maybe in two weeks.  Please, Email me in two weeks..” I really want to reply “okay, I'll be sure to CC my lawyer when I do.” What am I supposed to do to get my fucking…