Month: November 2022

at the place i work, i get along with all other 5 employees and the manager. we joke around and have fun but are always all on the same page with actually doing our jobs and helping customers. the paid time off and holidays are more than most companies. hours are good (9 hour days which allows us to work 4 1/2 days a week). while it’s not the highest paying job ($17/hour currently) the raises are frequent, we get yearly holiday bonuses, and overall it’s a great place to work. but i feel like this horrible incessant cloud of capitalism just darkens the possibility of enjoying a job. i think that this is the most pleasant a job could possibly be, but… the fact that i HAVE to go to work or i’ll starve. the fact that i HAVE to sell so much of my day and thus my…

I took the week of Thanksgiving of, so I turned my alarm off… Had to turn it back on before bed today… And that stirred up so many thoughts. (Below a conversation with a … Magic something….) Is it our destiny to work? Probably, life is sustained through action. But is my action necessary for sustained life? Well… No… You took a week off without consequence and life continued. Well, do I posess the skills for frontier life or (rapidly approaching) post-apocolypse? Well… Maybe… You work in IT. There may be some value in your skills to wire electricity or radioes but you'd need a benefactor doing the important stuff like food and survival. So, if food, water, shelter, and clothing are important what is my current role? You are in the quality of life profession. You make the homepage work, you make it easier to sell stuff. But don't…

I have been with my company for 2 years now. I became what I thought was friends with my manager in my department (I’m her assistant). I had been working 5 days a week up until 2 months ago when I started 6 days a week. I quit my part time job to take on this extra day at my full time job. We had a falling out off work premises about a week ago. She made our schedule for this week and decided to cut my hours down to 37.5. I’m now out all the OT and my part time job because of this. When I went to our head manager they said they would take care of the schedule. They have yet to do anything. She’s done little petty things since all of this has happened as well. Is this considered retaliation? I’ve been trying to figure out…

I work for a large sized company that is outsourced by other companies. Since May of this year, over 75% of my account has been laid off and in the last 2 months, I have had a meeting every week with news of “So and So is now laid off.” Morale is at an all time low to say the least. I’ve worked for this company for over a year and a half. Six months into working for them, I received a raise (not a big raise, but a 50 cent increase from my originally established hourly pay). My boss at the time told me “you won’t notice a huge increase at first, but you will after some time.” I took their word for it (stupidly) and just continued on. However, 5 months later after looking at my paychecks in depth, I realize that I never received my pay raise…

“But what about fancy places?” They should be the peak of the prices, with everything else falling well below that There are more homes than homeless people, so let’s make homes more affordable In the past 50 years, median rent has gone up 20x ($108/mo to $2000/mo) while the minimum wage has only gone up less than 5 times ($1.60ish to $7.25). Back then, you’d need to work 67.5 hours on minimum wage in a month to afford median rent, while today you’d have to work over 250 hours on minimum wage to pay for median rent. Things need to change. You can’t afford a good meal with $7.25

I saw a post on another sub about this similar topic and it made me want to post my own experience with a manager refusing the right to sit at all while on the clock even though I was heavily pregnant. A few years ago, I worked at AT&T while pregnant and they refused to allow me to sit AT ALL while on the clock, even if I was helping a customer at a table with chairs that were supposed to be for us & them to sit in during the interaction. Imagine my awkward feeling when people (customers) would ask me why I don’t sit down or get comfortable (as I was HUGE) and I had to smile and just shake my head “no, I’m okay thank you!” Before I quit I ended up coming right out and telling the customers “the store manager won’t allow me to sit…

In the beginning of November i applied and got hired for UPS (part time i wanted a side job). Upon training we ended up having a “test” on how to not hurt yourself moving boxes. As we all know people do get hurt lifting wrong etc. Well the person giving us the test asked me how i would move a box and i began to lift the proper way and was immediately scolded for doing it “wrong” lmao not a big deal so i tried again and was being EXTRA safe to try and get through it and i was told “you have to take this serious i have seen people literally break their back lifting wrong.” I laughed a little and told her my background (6 years in the Army with an infantry unit) and told her my back is a lost cause jokingly but im not an idiot…

I work as a Production Artist/Graphic Designer for a company. It's a part-time job, the entire time that I was there I only worked 24 hours a week. I got this job in January of 2021, it's been an alright job but honestly, it's just an entry-level something to get me the experience to move on to a more Graphic Design intensive job later. In October, my husband got a job offer in Washington. We currently live in Wisconsin. As soon as they were talking about the position back in August (October was the official offer letter), I knew that even though this job would be easy to do as a remote position, they would never let me work remotely. I had already had to work in the office all through the entirety of my employment, and there was no chance in hell they would let me work remotely from…

My manager told us in a team meeting that our branch director asked that, from now on, every employee should eat lunch and spend lunch time in the lunch break room with everyone else. They have not made this mandatory, but it was basically implied that we need to comply to avoid being excluded from the team socially. This requirement comes from the fact that many employees use their lunch time to do other solo activities, like : Taking a walk outside Making personal calls Listening to podcasts Going back home for lunch Going out to a restaurant Making personal errands Now the director wants to stop that to improve team cohesion and favour exchanging and talking with coworkers over lunch time instead. So, for now, I will continue to listen to podcasts and walk on my lunch break, because I consider it my time to unwind. I already spend…