Month: October 2022

I work as a paralegal for the State government. Everyone just got a 5% raise! Great news right? Also, my insurance rate is nearly doubling. My “five percent” raise is going to be less than $10 per paycheck. Basically, I feel like I'm helping launder money for a multi-billion dollar insurance company. All so that the State can say, “We gave you a big raise, aren't you grateful??” So grateful I can (probably) afford to stay alive in America.

​ “An opportunity to learn and network”

Forget being nice. Class warfare is being waged upon the lower and middle classes everyday. We need to expose companies who are preying on the little guys. I don’t think we should censor information like company names. They deserve to be dragged in the dirt and exposed. Playing nice is how they continue to get away with screwing us over and over.

i can understand the usual “3 no calls and you're out” thing, but calling out a day prior because of really any reason shouldn't be a mark against you, and oftentimes employers make the bar for termination with points so low that it just feels like another way to screw over the worker. i miss when i didn't have an “occurrence” weighed against me for unforeseen circumstances. many of my jobs didn't even allow me to accrue sick time to cover those days unless i went full time, and even then it took a year to essentially cover one sick day. the whole system just makes me feel guilty taking a day or two off even just for my own mental health.

I use this sub a lot just for reassurance because I don't trust my own judgment. I'm sorry if this post is silly for that reason. I recently started a job at a retail store. I made it clear in the interview that I wanted to only work 15 – 20 hours because I have another job as well. I was getting about 23 which is fine, but this week I've been scheduled 37 because I'm making up for one of the other employees who had his hours completely cut for school. I don't know if this is gonna be a long term thing. I didn't want to work this much at this job since I have another one. Is it bad to ask for this to be changed? If there's anything they can even do. We're already understaffed. I already had to talk to a manager once because they…

It’s so fucking competitive and my managers keep stressing me out, continuously stating they’re checking kpi’s etc. There’s so many articles stating how this creates anxiety but they just don’t care and yes, I could quit but we all know, easier said that done. Genuinely how do I cope?

I had a busy week at work. Which is not weird because we are somewhat short-staffed right now. What is weird is: We are short staffed because my company (specifically my team) has an incredibly high turnover. Four people have quit in the past 6 months (which is when I began working) and guess how many of them handed over their projects to me? You guessed correctly if you said four 🙂 All four projects that have been assigned to me had updates this week, which is why I was so busy. And when I say busy I mean BUSY. I mean “have something on your plate every second from Monday morning to Friday evening” busy. It's gotten so bad, literally to the point where when I was working on a task two more would pop up. It's become (obviously unpaid) overtime and short lunch breaks. It's fine and I…