Month: October 2022

Personally i get bored and somewhat unmotivated on my two days off after spending a whole week working and not planning anything. I go to the gym and run my basic errands in the afternoon. But end up laying on the couch on my phone after that and be glad i made it through another week and be ready to repeat the cycle once more. I have the energy. But cant seem to WANT to do anything. All that childlike wonder depletes more each year of working. Im 30 so ive been working for 12 years. I could easily go do whatever i want, But how much is it going to cost? How far of a drive is it? I make up these little excuses for doing anything nowadays haha. I make 3 bucks over minimum wage and live within my means. I have a little extra change to spend.…

And then randomly no hours when they feel like it. And the standards are high and you have to work fast like you’re afraid losing this job will mean starvation. I am looking for a part-time job, I have received 2 “offers” from stereotypical corporate retail places, and one of them wanted me to be there on wednesdays at 5am for minimum wage, then the next one let me know moments after my orientation that for the next two weeks I will be on call. On call for a shelf stocking job in a store. Like I signed up to be an EMT. They also told me my employment was contingent on a test. No I’m not dealing with this What happened to part time work supposedly meant for kids or old people. What about the high school teacher that just wants an extra 15 hours of work or whatever.…

For a little more context, I have been at this company for about 9 months now (5 of which have been a paid contractor). Prior to that, I was a paid intern that as discussed in the contract, was to work 15 hours a week divided into Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9am-2pm as I was still a student. Upon my first week of work, my direct manager made it very clear that my hours didn't actually represent my work and that I'd be working as necessary. And boy they weren't kidding. I was immediately asked to join meetings on my off days and complete tasks outside of my working hours. In addition to that, the work they assigned me was in no way possible to complete in just 15 hours a week. I was basically the company's social media manager and administrative assistant, and my manager's personal assistant (basically did…

Hello. This question is focused mainly on a situation with my coworker vs myself. Although I was present for it, they got the brunt of it. I hope this isn’t confusing. We work at a well-known resort in a certain department. We’re understaffed, and our department only has four employees along with our manager. There were supposed to be four of us working today, but the closer called out, and our manager had the day requested off. We’re then told during our shift and that one of us has to stay to close. My coworker mixed up her shift times for today from tomorrow and stated she was scheduled to stay until close. She checked the schedule and realized after that she wasn’t scheduled to stay an hour later today and knew that she had family matters to attend to today vs tomorrow. The other employee there was from a…

For context: I just started this job a week ago. My supervisor brags that he’s ‘one of the boys’ and that’s his management style. He’s even admitted to stealing from the work liquor before to me (on my first day). I work with my spouse now and he told another one of my younger coworkers that the higher ups don’t like how touchy feely we are and that I don’t do what he tells me to do in the back kitchen. Mind you, I spend 99% of my time asking where he is as he’s my trainer (he’s an expert at disappearing) and no one knows most of the time. He doesn’t cook the food correctly (the line chef is constantly angry at him for the food being lukewarm and unservable) and he does things like drink and smoke on the job. I confronted him today and asked him what…

I just had a company contact me saying they wanted me to do a test before they'd consider me. Okay, no problem. I start it, estimated time was 10 minutes, nothing too crazy, but the questions were pretty convoluted. A lot of prompts, followed various attributes that included money, influence, following rules, creativity and so forth. Basically, 20 questions where you needed to say you're not motivated by money, but rather helping others develop and grow (or I assume anyway). I finish that quiz in like 20 minutes and then I get a prompt because I said I had a certain skill, I needed to do another test to prove I actually have said skill, with that test taking approximately 20 minutes. I mean, this is an entry level, $40,000 a year job… 30+ minutes of testing to see if I am maybe worth talking to is incredibly unnecessary.

i just put in my two week's notice at work because i finally got what was happening. i started this retail job last year as a seasonal hire and worked mostly in the back, unloading shipments. hard work but not that bad. after christmas, i didn't want to leave and they decided to keep me on. i remember one of my first days on the floor, a particular manager really didn't seem to like me. i was cleaning in the bathroom once and overheard her on the mic system to another employee saying i was probably somewhere hiding from actual work. i was offended especially since i was working as i overheard this. every time i was in her department, i just got the impression she had some animosity towards me. it really bothered me since i was trying my best for her and couldn't think of any one incident…