Month: November 2022

hey everyone, I work in my local hospital, as a patient dining associate. I get paid $11/hr.. i’m only 17, as of last week. my boss works me just a few hours below the full time hours (30). we are so short staffed because everyone quits from bad treatment. it’s been a year, and they have not changed anything at all to help with morale, or even keeping people. they have a bad turnover rate. no work-life balance. it’s very toxic here. this is my fourth job- at only 17. this job is definitely stressing me bad, and my anxiety is so severe. i work every weekend. My co workers have told me i’m a good worker and do things no only else does, walking in there makes me want to cry. but if I quit, will I have a good job background or not? I have already had so…

So I’m applying for a late day shift (practically a night shift) and I get a response asking for a 7:30 am interview, maybe I’m just being too touchy but this has annoyed me a good bit, surely if someone’s applying for a late shift it’d be common sense to try to have the interview later? Maybe mid day? I’m not being weird right?

What happened to the old ways, to enter a business and ask for a job? Many who asked at least got a chance at showing their skills and work ethics. Now it’s filling endless forms online, psychometric tests etc. and often several interview rounds. This is bullshit, plain and simple. Give people a chance. If I was a business owner I would skip HR department all together and interview the applicants myself the old-fashioned way. Boss and applicant face to face, no HR bullshit in between. HR is responsible in not hiring many capable people. What most CEO’s don’t understand is that when you have mediocre HR staff your company don’t get the best talents.

I hope this fits here because I'm not American, which most of you are as far as I've seen. I'm a student and have been working since September for an organization caring for disabled kids with specialized needs. They told me they have loads of work to do and really need some help, so I started working 20h/week. After less than a month, the kid had to undergo extensive treatment and the case was dropped. They discovered they didn't have any work for me and chose to let me go in November, which I expected and was fine with. however I was informed that because I didn't work enough (because they didnt give me any work), I'll get a lower salary for this month which already isn't great. Then, my boss updated me saying that I might even have to pay sth BACK for October? That's just fucked up. I'm…

I guess this is sort of a rant post, so I apologize in advance. I’ve worked at this job for a year and a half now. The turnover rate is extremely high, most new hires don’t make it past 2 weeks and they quit without notice. I’m one of the most experienced, and next in line to be the assistant manager if she were to leave. I feel that I (and my other coworkers) are extremely under appreciated. We can’t take sick days if we’re sick. We have to find cover for our shift and if we can’t, we HAVE to come in. I worked through having COVID because I couldn’t find cover. We don’t have PTO or sick days to use. We don’t get holiday pay, 1.5x, or anything of the sort. (We don’t get holidays off because we’re working with animals. The day is just shortened). A few…

I hope this is not breaking any rules, if so please delete. I’m been a long time lurker, reading work horror stories but I am hoping there are people that have good times they to share to show that not all places are evils places that are run by satan. Don’t think people hate work, just hate to work for bad people. Want to show there are good boss out there that do care and try to make their employees lives better Mine was my last job I had before I moved. Security guard in an office building. Was during Covid so most of the time it was dead. Sure had times where I I had to pull an unexpected double for someone unable to come in most of the time, able to clock in and clock no problem. Sometimes I forget to in the master keys. I never got…

Earlier this day, I came to the office today to join the orientation with fellow strangers that worked at the same agency/company as me. We introduced ourselves after the short briefing, then I had to introduce myself, the group told me to explain what is the reasons why I work for this company and what are your expectations before working for the company. I introduced myself and the branch I will soon work, I had a sudden epiphany that I wanted to share my life, I shared my struggles of finding a job I had depression, and the only way that I could pick myself up from my depression is to slowly work on myself because there is no one that could help you but yourself. After the group leader discussed the rules and regulations at work, she said that someone in the cashier earlier this month stole 15k pesos…

Unpopular opinion I take pride in working 60+ hours a week and don’t regret a second of it. My company treats me like shit I get to see my kids a lot I was in the military and worked even more hours as a aircraft mechanic for a fraction of the salary now I’m a pipeline electrician part of a union make $300k a year at minimum with no college degree I get to take my kids hunting fishing and go to every one of their extracurricular activities(via football games baseball games) some of y’all on this sub are valid in y’all’s complaints but a majority of y’all are just so fucking lazy. Get off your ass realize you may have to actually put out to get a good quality of life and shut the fuck up. (The only ones I have sympathy for here are the ones who have…

Obvious throwaway account is obvious. I have a long history of back pain, which involved half of my childhood spent in physiotherapy. I also watched my mother's body crumple as the year went by because her job was too demanding, and she spent weeks at a time on medical leave because her back was killing her. In short, I'm now very careful about my own body. I pulled something in my back last weekend, and the pain has been getting worse through the week, to the point where I went to my manager yesterday to request to leave work early so I could lie down and rest. His answer? Telling me he would only let me go if I was still coming to the department's Christmas dinner that night (year, super early, whatever). I said I'd try my best, but I was really in pain and could barely stay sited…