Month: January 2023

I work at a Dogtopia location in New York state. It's a doggie daycare/boarding/grooming chain with a number of locations across the US. I'm a “Canine Coach”, which is basically just a cutesy name for a room monitor. My job is to set up one of the three play rooms (dogs are usually assigned to a room based on their size/weight) by 7 AM and then take care of the dogs booked for boarding and daycare until noon, which is when I crate the dogs for “nap time” and clean the room for the PM shift. It can be a little tedious – refilling water bowls, cleaning up poop and pee, making sure the dogs don't get into any fights, etc. – but it's nice to be able to play and form connections with them. Our facility is pretty small and we can be short-staffed sometimes, which wouldn't be so…

Has anyone ever heard of a no coffee at work rule? For context, I'm a rough carpenter at a relatively small company. So no real reason for it to be prohibited. No strange or weird accidents/comments from builders. I'm just lost, I can't tell if the the foreman are power tripping. Or this is a simulation and I'm actually still in elementary school. We drink water all summer to not die but all of a sudden coffee is just too much. I just don't get the reasoning to push workers away when they bitch about not finding good help.

I had a job interview today because I am looking to replace my part time gig while I am in college. Interviewer told me “my” wage during the interview and gave me the whole onboarding speech (the field I am working in is extremely understaffed so if you have so much as a pulse and license, you are in). 1.5 hours after the interview ends, she messages me and tells me that the wage she told me was wrong and the actual figure was about 15% lower. I couldn't believe it when she told me because I nearly thought I was getting paid an okay wage but apparently not haha

I got laid off today. It wasn't a shock. I've seen it coming for a year now. I'd been trying to do the responsible thing and find a new job before this happened with no luck. When I told HR this, they told me something wild… Pay enough money, and companies can see how many jobs you've applied for besides them, who they are, and even go so deep as to check on your browsing history. So if you've been like me applying like crazy on LinkedIn… Don't? Idk, feels wild to me how stupid the cards are stacked against you even at the front door.

I’m livid for how my coworker got treated. My coworker was out all of last week. She called out sick because her kids got really sick. I knew she didn’t have a lot of sick time and she only had 2 days of it. The other days were covered from vacation time which is already messed up. She wanted to do leave without pay but she was forced to take vacation time. Yesterday our head of the office (law office environment) overheard her talking to another coworker about her getting married last week. I was aware of it. The marriage ceremony took place last week. Well the head of the office told our supervisor who manages the support staff not the attorneys. They both had a talk with her and told her she “misused” her sick time. Get this: she got married during the hours of what would’ve been AFTER…