Month: December 2022

Where do I start? I’m a pilot and I’m also finishing a college degree. I’m actually above and beyond the industry minimum requirements and I’m also more proficient in flying and knowledge than most people (said by instructors who work at airlines and have given me airline transition courses). A few days ago I went to r/askReddit to vent a little about my internship colleague being an ass (here’s the story) , and in the meantime I’ve been applying for a couple of jobs in the aviation industry. A couple months ago an airline in my country opened up a listing looking for pilots with low hours, I applied and they scheduled a knowledge test for me to take in a weeks time in another city. Literally the Friday before,at 5pm (it was the next Monday), they cancelled the opening and screwed about 200 people who had already bought airplane…

I’ve seen how it runs on TikTok and it can do just about anything you ask it. It even knows how to write code, and programmers were originally considered to be safe from AI. Will Chat GPT actually wipe out a large portion of jobs in the future, or are people exaggerating how good it is?

This primarily applies to the US. I've been seeing a lot of service workers on other platforms shitting on people who do not tip “well enough?” I've also been seeing exasperated customers annoyed with the increasing percentages for tipping. I've also seen a pizza chain that printed on their boxes that the delivery fee was not a tip (I think that was here actually). Why is this a thing though? I'm asking this as an outsider looking in. You have labour laws and unions, but service workers must still rely on tips to live? I live in a third world country (which essentially means that I would kill for the opportunities that you have). Our labor laws are essentially non-existent, and the unions seem to be in collusion with the government. However, service workers still receive a living wage. Maybe this is a legal loophole, but why do restaurants and…

Started a job a few months back; didn’t get the proper training and didn’t really fit the ultra corporate world. I agreed that it wasn’t a good fit; I was the person who voice it first. Main reason was productivity, workload, terrible leadership waiting for me in 2023. Funny enough they were happy for me to stay another extra month « to finish up projects ». Well you may think, how generous. How generous to give me another pay check while I work around people that decided they didn’t want me there no longer either. That training was a hassle. How funny that it’s a productivity issue for them but I’m still trusted for another 30 days budgeting advertising. How funny. I refused. The manager didn’t tell me their policy was to pay the next month regardless of me going or not. They were banking on me being desperate. I refused and…

I am getting an evaluation on Monday and during the past year+ my department has been short staffed. At one point it was just me. Can I reasonably make the argument that I've been saving the place money by being the only one/working short staffed and therefore deserve a raise? I haven't always done the work of multiple people, but many times I have.

I asked for a raise because I am grossly underpaid and its extremely hard to make ends meet. IMMEDIATELY after sending the email to the employer, they suddenly gathered everyone for a short meeting about our FIRST performance review. One hour later, I received an extremely low performance review and that's right after I asked for a raise. What's worse is the people you think you can trust are the one that backstab you. I HATE corporate America.

TLDR at the bottom Yesterday ended the saga of my first job away from food service and into administration. Accepting their job offer was the decision I ever made, and I wish I had prior knowledge of the red flags these people were practically waving in my face. They brought me in to cover for their office manager while she was on maternity leave. They liked that I had no prior experience because it meant they could assimilate me into their way of doing things. What followed was three months of half-assed training where the office manager was only in three days of the week and spent half of that time training someone else as well. Fair to say that when she left to have her baby, I barely knew what I was doing and there was still a large portion of the job I had no knowledge of. I…