Month: November 2022

I (f20) recently started my first full-time job one week after finishing my last semester of Uni. I didn’t even take some time after years of study and I thought I was ready for full-time. Fyi, my job relies heavily on repeat customers and requires me to talk to many people and establish relations. I knew it was a career where extroverts get the advantage but was prepared to challenge by myself as I use to be an extrovert when I picked this career. Being an introvert, I am generally only comfortable talking to people I know. I do speak at work but I say very little, though I always like to smile. In the past, I’ve only ever gotten compliments at work regarding my attitude and how happy I look to be at work because I am always smiling. A few weeks into this new job, my manager lashed…

Been at this company for two years and there are many red flags with my management. 1st is how they treat us. Our management can take any day off from work, go on incredibly long vacation, be late to work when they want or have to be, and force overtime when they don't want to wait another day. While I get a doctor's note for being overworked and dehydrated to return 2 days later and they try to make me come in a day earlier cause I'm “inconveniencing” the schedule. 2nd is our holiday pay. For the past two years I've been here they have done somthing fishy…. We accrue PTO over the course of the year per pay check. We also get holiday pay. They add 8 hours of holiday pay to our paystubs for the period the holiday is. But once the pay period is over that 8…

Tis the season for performance reviews, bonuses, and raises (Hopefully one does influence the others) – how are you going to negotiate your way to a better salary next year?

Like the Dolly Parton song. Was that real? 9 to 5 is eight hours. Does that mean people were paid during their lunch hour? At my office, it’s 9 to 6:30 with the assumption you’re at lunch for 1.5 hours. (Almost as a rule everybody works through it, lunch at desk while working) Hearing about the song, I wonder if there was a time when that was different at office jobs.

The obvious ones I already listen to are: TGIF: K. Flay Big Rock Candy Mountains: Harry McClintock Please give me more. I need them in my lab while I rage about being overworked!

Management demands work to be done. That's fine but when it comes to be done we have no tools to do it. If x needs to be done we typically don't have the machinery. We are on old and aging gear. This causes several health and safety hazards. I have had 2 work injuries in 6 months. One from using an old quadbike and pull trying to pull start it. The quadbike was leaking petrol over an extremely hot engine near the pull start. It burned the tops of my hands. This was extremely painful. The second injury was an Elbow/Neck strain from being instructed to pick up concrete warratahs. Things at my workplace are just not being done correctly. We have been working at a site now for 3 to 4 months doing machinery and general operations. We have no workshop and barely have a makeshift break room. When…

So I've worked at a company coming up on 3 years. My coworker (now manager) has for about 7 months more than I have. In the time that I have been here she has gotten promoted twice. First time to being a “senior” managing me and now recently promoted to officially a “manager” doing the same job. I am the only person she manages and we have one manager above us. I don't feel like she has worked particularly more or harder than I have. When I started we had the same title. We have similar skill sets, some of mine are more indepth than hers vice versa. She was put into a manager role though and manages projects since the first promotion. I made it clear at the beginning of 2022 I don't see a growth path for myself at the company and that I feel that I'm not…

i’m embarrassed to say that i’m currently on my 5th job this year looking for a 6th one. things with the first job were going good until my favorite manager left, i left the second bc i was getting harassed, then everything fell downhill from there. i had one of the worst depression episodes of my life during the 2 week break between 2nd and 3rd job. i just feel ashamed not ever being satisfied anywhere i go. but when i can’t stand the environment and the pay can’t even get me groceries what’s the point. idk the full point of this but it does feel good to get out. i try telling others about it but they have either had one set job this whole time or are unemployed. i would just leave the food industry but it’s all i know and i am sure as hell am not…