Month: November 2022

A little bg: I quit my terrible job in June, and started my job hunt by driving around to local offices and giving them a resume. Old fashioned, sure, but I thought it might give me an edge. I got an interview with one company and he seemed super interested in me and one of my old coworkers vouched for me, and he essentially offered me the job. He said to call him back at the end of July and we’d set up a pay rate and schedule. End of July I called him, and it turned out that my old coworker told my old boss about the job opportunity and my old boss called the new guy and told him my resume was full of lies and that hiring me would be a huge mistake. The new company said they couldn’t take the chance because their company is already…

Worked for a company for 2 years and got 46 hours of sick time. Got sick with a 24 hour stomach bug. Called off 8 hours before my shift and got it covered. Next day I’m told I can’t use my sick time unless I visit a doctor and get a note…

Why are employers whining for workers when advances in automation were supposed to supersede humans?

I want to get a remote job but I don't want to be micromanaged to the extreme. I read on Reddit and other people's experience with remote work that they only do 3 hours of actual work in a day. But I also hear some jobs are so micromanaged that you can't use the bathroom without letting the company know. Those are the companies I want to avoid. I frequently hear that these jobs are in tech. But I want to know are there any non tech/jobs that don't require a degree where I am not working a solid 8 hours?

I work for a large engineering company, and they have recently made a proclamation with much fanfare about their historic 5-7% salary increase for everybody in my country. Our inflation is 11%. They're giving us a salary decrease. And yet, I know of countries that have it way worse. Like Turkey, where nobody knows what the real inflation is, but it's obvious that our Turkish salary increase of ~20% is an outright insult. What to do about this nonsense? Are we forced to go job-hopping just to stay our current salary?

For those of you unclear, that’s national workers day in some areas. Right to Unionize strengthened, Right to fair pay adjusted to cost of living, Right to accessible healthcare, Actual Vacation time in the US, No more “out of network” anything, *by no means an exhaustive list * Let’s band together and do this!

When I go to HR because “we have an open door policy” with issues regarded as PROTECTED ACTIVITY, things get worse for me… pressure to resign, written up the next day for “bad attitude and insubordination” then starving me out. (Starving is when they stop giving work to a flag/task rate tech so they’ll quit due to staying being no longer economically viable) Stopped going to HR. My boss has a complaint file stacked higher than my bills but remains employed on 200k salary, last one to show up and the first to leave, bc he’s under contract. This dude has said to a tech who was the sole caregiver for his gravely I’ll mother, “you need to get over your dead mom or I’m going to fire you.” I had major surgery with 6 wk lifting restriction and this jerk went to HR and found a way to not…