Month: October 2022

My work is hosting a happy hour tonight after work at 5 PM. My whole team is going, AITA for saying no and going home to watch the new Halloween movie?

I love what I do. I'm a medical office specialist and I handle way more than my job description. I literally keep the entire office afloat, nearly single handedly. We are an urgent care with a primary care office. I'm the senior lead and one thing I handle is the whole building's record requests. I also help the primary care office with their patients, insurance, and more. We are not treated the same, however. Primary care gets an hour break. We get 30 minutes. Yes, that's 30 minutes for an 8 hour shift. I check in their patients, but they don't do the same for us. I handle all their records. They don't do records at all. I also handle labs, CTs, USs, and X-ray. I also handle emergencies all the time and our volume is way more than theirs. The doctors on the primary care side aren't the nicest,…

I think we could all have nice lives with many comforts, but we'd probably have to own fewer (but hopefully more durable) things. I think we'd still be able to eat out — but probably at more basic canteen style restaurants rather than very nice sit down places or a myriad of cheap delivery options. Something I worry about is that people in the West will adopt and advocate for “antiwork” ideals for ourselves while leaving out people in the global south, and some classes of workers in our own countries like farm workers and the many underpaid undocumented workers in the restaurant industry (US specific). The amount of resources we currently consume, and the ways which we consume them, absolutely contribute to the shitty work conditions most people face. I don't see how we could change working conditions on a large-scale level without also accepting that we'd have to…

Or more so a question. Why don't employers want to mess up their precious work schedule? I get that they have hrs of operation that they need to maintain and what not for public opinions, but what I don't get is why they aren't willing to work with more p/t workers. It seems everybody wants the 8-12hr workers, but I'm not built for that. My best hyper-focusing is at most 5hrs, later on in the evening. I've never been an early bird and I've joked around my whole life saying I'm more of a vampire than anything. I also have a bad stutter when I'm overwhelmed, so customer service anything is out. I use to cook, but now my tremors in my hands keep me from holding the knives safely. I feel like I'm running out of options at this point. Anyways, I know I'm not the only one with…

I work on a passenger ship. We're contracted to work 10 hours per day 7 days per week. Previously we worked 7:30-5:30 with 1hr for lunch 12-1 which I would call 10 hours. This has just been changed to 8am to 8pm, with 1hr for lunch 12-1 and 1hr for dinner 5-6. Because of the food breaks (which I remind you are necessary for us to not die) the company now has us working 8am till 8pm 7 days a week. Also worth noting: I'm a cadet. My monthly cadet bursary works out to about $2 per hour at this number of hours. I also have to do paperwork for my cadetship in my own time, so to recap, work 8-8, bed at 00:00 by the latest so I can sleep 7 hours, this gives me 4 hours in the evening for rest, my homework, and any other tasks like…

Today I got to yell at a crazy person at work m, and no I won’t suffer consequences for doing so.

Received an email with HR copied on it. (documentation purposes) I understand you are having health issues….. we need more productivity etc. I communicated very clearly what was going on and have a personal relationship with my boss. I responded with my health is more important than anything else right now. I also responded that I feel completely minimized by those comments of health issues. They made me feel hurt and less than beyond my disability of being diagnosed Bipolar II. Quick rant. If no one comments, that's fine. I wanted to get it off my chest so I don't scream or punch a wall here. I broke a knuckle doing the same thing over the summer.

I work at a fine dining restaurant in a hotel, and guests are able to charge their restaurant bills to their rooms. To do so, they must fill out their room number & print their name. Last night I had a $207 ticket and the guest didn’t fill out those portions, so when I told the manager he said I can come in today(my day off) and stand in the lobby and try to find them and if I can’t they’re going to have to “document me”, whatever that means. This is the fourth time room service charges have been an issue for me since I started two weeks ago. First time when I was training, my trainer had a table put down a random name/room number and then left immediately. They didn’t even have a room at the hotel. The second time I had to chase the couple down…