Month: November 2022

I mean this with regard to undergrads, grad students, and teachers and professors in academia, and am wondering how things are for all of them. In my experience as a graduate student and lecturer, academia was awful. My department was hostile to my research interests and seemed intent on mocking them out of me so I could be used for some of the professors' research purposes. Teaching wasn't bad, but the whole package, taken altogether, was terrible and left me psychologically scarred and demoralized. I switched careers to something as far from “the life of the mind” as you can get: heavy industry. What have been other people's experiences here with academia, as students, researchers, teachers? Is the academy dead as a place for originality and passionate work? Is it setting up undergrads for few job prospects and mounds of debt? Is it outdated? I've often wanted to defend academia…

About 3 months ago I left my stable job at a bank to work in my field as an assistant accountant. I am also a finance student so this was an amazing offer. 2 months into the job, they said “you’ve done all our work too fast, there is nothing more really to do so yea we are gonna let you go”. They coerced me into leaving my stable job at the bank and hired me to do their dirty work and once it was done they dropped me. I was really angry and upset at first but oh my gosh I’ve never had so much time to breathe. I am still doing school but it’s so nice to explore my thoughts and live a little. I have a student loan but I would still eventually like a job again but for now I am living peacefully. Everyone deserves a…

I just wanted to put this on this subreddit to restore some faith in humanity. During the Wii U generation of console (2012 to 2017), Nintendo was hemorrhaging money. Most game companies would just start quickly laying off employees, but the executives realized that their actions caused their current situation, not their employees. So they all took massive pay cuts, the president at the time, the late Satoru Iwata, cut his salary by 50 percent. They all did this to ensure they could keep everyone employed at their company. And then look what most western companies did during the pandemic, losing 10 percent profit and then going, “welp, time to lay off half our work force”.

I’ve been working at a membership based business for a little over two months now. The first month I was trained on the sales process maybe three times. For the month of October, my manager was gone for half of the month because her husbands brother died (not blaming her for this), but I had to learn how to do the job on my own. A month later, the very first I closed called to complain to my manager and lied over the phone that she didn’t know it was a month to month contract, when i specifically told her how much it was PER MONTH and her her sign a bunch of paperwork clearly stating it. My manager looked at the contract and there was one section of the 5 page contract that she forgot to initial. She had an employee evaluation review with me and told me my…

After putting up with unreasonable requests, no raises for 2 years, working non engineering tasks although i am a good engineer and getting depressed from my current job, they decide to put me on a PIP because ” the proposal wasn't done” ….the project was approved, installed and works but the proposal (1st step) they claim…was not to their liking….they also said that i do not follow their company slogans ( some bs.) should i sue for harassment ? Or what?!