Month: October 2022

If $1 today is worth more than $1 tomorrow, than one would assume $1 today is worth more than a dollar two weeks from now. Every employee seems to be providing their employer with a 0% loan in exchange for their labor. I am genuinely curious…I understand WHY employers do it, my question is HOW are they able to? The Secured Overnight Financing Rate is currently at 3.08%.

I posted a few days ago about my toxic office job firing me for petty reasons. I worked in a small department of 16 people and I have now heard from several people that they have put almost the entire team on probation for the SAME thing they fired me for. You would think someone somewhere would realize if an entire team of people have the same issue, that it’s probably an issue with management and should be addressed. But no, I guess we will just punish everyone and lose all of the valuable seasoned employees. Probably just last ditch attempts from lower management to save their own asses. At first I was shocked and devastated but at this point, I’m so thankful I’m out of there and not dealing with any of this shit anymore. I feel bad for my old coworkers though.

Yeah, the job I was at was horrible for my mental health. A customer service job I was screwed over into taking. I came close to admitting myself to a hospital over it. So, I changed things up and found a new job. It might be long-term, it might not. It isn’t there, though, and I’m thankful. Yesterday, I received a start date on early November. Great! I’ll put in my notice for two weeks and have a few days to regroup. So I did. Today, I come in, work 45 minutes, and get pulled into the office when the boss comes in. I was told to go home. Told they didn’t want me around customers. That was kind of crap-tastic as I’ve never once taken out my frustrations on the customers. So, I’m home, filing for unemployment, and loving on my dog. Money will be tight for a bit,…

Sorry if not allowed. Didn’t get any response from legaladvice so I will try here. A company just let me go because I wasn’t back on the floor after 28 minutes of my 30 minute unpaid break. I got off the floor at 11:01 and at 11:29 the manager was telling me I should already be at my machine. I tried to tell them I had only been on break for 28 minutes, and they said it didn’t matter. They seemed confident that they were right to fire me. Are they? I should add i don’t clock in/out for break. They automatically take 30 minutes off my hours worked

Interviewed for a hi-tech job that I'm quite experienced. All aspects from testing, quality assurance, to maintenance and repair. I told them my salary from 10 years ago, explaining I wouldn't want as much because it was no commute and only part-time. No offer because they “couldn't meet my salary requirements. Glad I'm happy as a house husband. 🙂

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No real point to this post just needing to vent and this seems well a place as any. I'm a welder by trade but as I am watching 30 come on quicker and quicker and my body moves slower and more painfully, I recently looked into a career change. I enrolled in a cyber security intro course just to see what it's about. I like it well enough and was excited to get into a well paying field and out of the trades. Turns out that I can't even qualify for student loans, due to medical debt collections on my CR. Makes me wish I would've just lived with the hernia and not gotten the surgery. This is some complete bullshit that I work a full time job and make $25/hr and still can't qualify for student loans. How is anyone supposed to move up in this world?