Month: March 2023

So let me just say, I obviously “just don’t want to work”, to start off. I am a truck driver, I have been for just over 16 years now, though I started when I was WAY under legal age working with my dad. (No complaints about that, loved it) Recently, I have left a couple of jobs back to back,fairly quickly, and I’ve been called more names than I thought I ever would. First, I left a job hauling frac sand for a company that told me I would be making 10,000-12,000 monthly. I left there after making only $8,700 in 3 months, and was told I just didn’t work hard enough, even though I literally spent two full months away from home working every day. Now more recently, I left a job that hauled a product called production water because the owner literally doesn’t have insurance on his trucks.…

As someone who worked a few jobs in food service and retail before my current position, when did calling employees to come in when they’re off work become a thing? It seems every job I worked since high school did this and I never quite understood if it was an industry thing, common U.S. labor law, or just personal choice.

| Not in America | I'm in disbelief right now. I work at an internet café and this morning, a client came and wanted to print a picture, he sent it to my by e-mail and i started printing it, he didn't ask for any editing or nothing. The picture comes out, and because of its low resolution, it comes out pixelated, and the dude started absolutely raging. He asks me why i didn't tell him that it was going to come out like that and i simply reply that why didnt he check the resolution himself. Dude while talking, comes behind me pretending he's talking about my screen, and while i'm looking at the screen sat down on my chair he blasts me with a punch that lands straight on my eye. We start fighting, punches are thrown ect and that's that, people fight, shit happens. Now i brush…

I noticed different strategies. Mark always brings up difficulties with his children to avoid calls and tasks. John simulate that his tasks are very very difficult. They are very simple and quick to do, but manager doesn't know. Luke is my favourite. He is always overtalking. No one can handle its loooong recap of what has done and have to do. Manager just want him to end the conversation and never ask him about anything else Sometimes I wonder if managers can't see these patterns lol

I am a long time lurker and commenter here but now I find myself in need of some perspective. For background, I spent much of my adult life working in IT in various roles. I tried to leave it a few times only to come back because it is what I know and what I am good at. After 7 years on disability I landed a state government job on the service desk on May 9th of last year. It was like starting anew but I was given a level 3 because of my background. The last 10 months have been rough as I am 46, not in my 20s anymore, but I hit my stride right around the 4th month in. Despite this, I find myself in an increasingly dire situation because I despise the IT Director as he has single-handedly made my job and life far more difficult…