Month: February 2023

So this was during December 2022, but I just found this subreddit, so I figured it was worth sharing. I am a 17 y/o male who was working at a local Pizza chain. This was my first job and I had been working there about 5 months as a waiter. I enjoyed my job and had fun, although it could be stressful at times. Anyway, cut back to December and I was helping close, when I noticed my ankle was hurting me. I didn’t think much of it and just pushed through the rest of the night. Then, the next day it seemed to have gone away, until around noon when it started swelling like crazy. When I got home from school i called in and said that my ankle was swelling, it hurt to walk, and I shouldn’t come in. They then denied my request, saying that they already…

Me (WFH) … Next day … My boss: Please can you let us know next time if you're going to be missing any meetings. Me: I was literally working one minute, and in hospital the next, it's not possible to give notice if this happens again. My boss: I understand and I'm glad you're feeling better, but please try not to leave the team waiting for you next time.

I left college with an engineering degree. Couldn't get an engineering job, and landed in technical sales at $55k. I felt like a failure, like I wasn't coming close to my own expectations. Three years of that and switched to a technical sales management role for a department within a local distributor at about $71k. A year and a half of that and switched to another distributor for applications engineering at $80k Not even three months there and I'm accepted into a regional manager role at significantly over $100k If I'd started at the first company I'd likely be at about $65k right now. Your employer doesn't care about you, only what you can produce for them. You owe them no loyalty. You owe them nothing. Make your resume look like the job opportunities you want, and go for it. Also, don't give notice when you leave. Tell them you…

I work in a restaurant. I started as a dishwasher but now I’m a cook. I’ve all but switched over to the cook position, only working dish shifts when someone calls out. Yesterday was supposed to be my day off, but my manager calls me and asks me to cover a dish shift for a coworker who called in sick. I told him I would do it, but only if he agreed to pay me my cook rate instead of my dish rate. He agreed, so I made my way into work. Once I get to work, I have my manager try to clock me in with my cook code, but he stops me. He says I’m here to do a dish shift, which I knew. I reminded him that I only agreed to the dish shift if I got paid my cook wages. He shook his head and said…

ELI5 I work in sales management in the industrial/manufacturing sector in the US. I’m grateful to have been compensated for my work, and remote work is not new for me. However, my co-workers were offered work from home, they did a great job and we had record revenue/profits 2022. Now, all I hear is that WFH doesn’t work, people are goofing off, no “collaboration” etc. One glaring problem is the math doesn’t work, their math… Yeah, Jane threw in a load of laundry in between her 6 and 7 thousandth spreadsheet this week. Yep, Beth played tennis over lunch instead of eating a hot pocket in her cube. Jimmy was able to get his 2nd grader off the bus, he worked until 6 and didn’t have to commute home, but this isn’t working. Only in America, can you bust your ass, provide record profits after a pandemic, and then be…