Month: January 2023

My friend has a degree in his field and worked in few of the best hospitals in the world. His resume speaks for itself. He moved across the country for a job, in the interview he asked about safety and they said that they care a lot about safety. However, after he started working the two women who call themselves “supervisors” which they do not have the title created a living hell for him, they stopped him from training, they created a toxic work environment for him. He accepted all of that. His skills and education helped him to excel. Then one of them got obssessed with him asking other coworker to text her about him in her days off. She would come every morning to yell at him for not violating safety for patients. She said everyone should do exactly like what she says, while her ways are wrong…

Currently working in a department and have been offered to “trial” sales. Over the next couple months I will dedicate a small percentage of my work week to this “trial” position. It has the full responsibility of a full time sales position just in a smaller time span in a new area. When I asked about a change in title and compensation my boss emphasized that since it is only a couple hours a week and to see how it goes, I will not increase pay or change my title. In three months based on my experience and success we will decide to move forward with title change and commission. Is this normal? I am feeling overwhelmed and unmotivated

Bit of a rant, primarily to see who else has had a bad experience in sales. To begin with I shall address two facts; firstly that I only worked in sales for 3 months and secondly I worked for a well known, long standing company which I myself have used many times as a customer previous to said employment. Onwards..This post stems from a recollection of my brief employment as a computer salesperson, following my completion of a short apprenticeship in IT and my desire to work in IT or computer technology in some form or another. The company shall remain nameless, however many Brits will know it as the place you often go for your TV, laptop, tablet, white goods or a radio or some other bullshit item. A real smorgasbord of tech tat tbh. Initially it was just a matter of talking to customers and then getting to…

Background: A while ago I worked with a manager “Karen” who was very abusive to staff. For example, when I put in requests for medical leave (no more than 3 days off ever), she would try to stop me from being able to go to them. When I would ask why leave requests weren't approved, she would reply with “we're just not sure it's medical,” when it was literally going to a dr. appointment where I would bring a note back after. I would inevitably have to go over her head to get it approved, which would of course make her angry and retaliate. She also tried to sabotage my promotion. We are required to let supervisors know when we're going out for a different position if we're still in the 1st year probation period. I told her I was going out for the promotion per policy and she said…

So I started working at a fast food restaurant part time (16hrs), that pays a bit above average. However, I was sick for a long time before working and even though I mentioned it to them, they still considered me being too slow after only working for 2 days (outside being trained for 14 hrs in total…). I got a viral infection so I told them I won't be able to come for a week (I was only on call). Then they removed me from my already scheduled days in December, without any reasoning. Even worse, I saw that they also did not schedule me for the first 2 weeks of January… I messaged my manager about it but she left me on read, without any explanation. I basically spent 1,5 months waiting for my application to be finalised and being trained, and now I am losing a lot of…

So I joined a company and even before taking the job, I had a bad feeling about it but at the time I couldn’t find a job close by or one that would allow me to work from home and this one was both so I took it. Well I started noticing illegal things that no one seemed to care about like not withholding taxes on bonus checks, and not remitting employee’s 401k withholdings, and etc. It ate at me and everyone told me to just walk out but I didn’t. I felt bad walking out even knowing it was a sinking ship. Plus I also found out that my boss is on a federal government watchlist and went to jail in the past for being a shady accountant. Now they are being audited by the IRS due to back taxes never paid and this is a huge concern since…