Month: March 2023

Today I had a 1:1 with my boss first thing this morning. I was told what I’d be receiving as my annual bonus. Then I later received an email with a chart that explained that I’d be receiving a lesser amount. About $800-900 less. I emailed back asking for clarity. They did not apologize for their error and instead said the full chart was not visible on their screen when they were reading off of it during our meeting. I’m crushed and have been crying all afternoon/evening. I’m pregnant and a divorced single mom to a kid with major developmental delays. I really needed the additional money. I was given a roaring review with very little to work on. I’m so upset.

last year it is easy for me to get a job. I apply for jobs but didn't get any interview. thank god I live with parents. I have unemployed since last year. The only job that I get is technical sales. I just reject the offer because the job need me travel every month. It is tough for me. definitely feeling suicidal as I have no money. I have BS chem and it is useless.

I'm a Manager, and my Director is a very nice and understanding person who works an extra half hour per day, regularly, than contracted. If any of us need to work from home or take time off, that Director is very accomodating as long as we get work done. Our higher ups (and higher ups in other companies I've worked for) have been chronic workoholics, and expect others to devote as much time to our jobs outside of contractual hours. Like, it's cool if you like your job (I do like mine), but what's this obsession employers have with dominating their employees' time?

I work for banquets at a hotel but it has been slow so I went ahead and got a new hotel job at a bistro. I have been working in the mornings with another girl who is awesome but everything is very fast paced. I am new to this and the manager (while he doesn't mention it but you can tell he wants it that way) expects you to take the order from the register-> go make a latte coffee while customer pays, go back and hand them the receipt to sign, then go heat their pastry and go to the next guest. They put me to work a night shift and the lady didn't want to split the tips with me. I called her greedy and left a few mins before my shift ends. I heard 2 people quit because of this lady, like she would refuse to split…

So the big boss decided to Crack down on what she called “generous” reviews about 2 weeks before my review came up. Everyone else in the dept had theirs. They were graded on the traditional system and all got their full 3% raises. My middle boss called me into the office at the end of the day Friday and handed me the shitty review with a big smile on his face and said “I think thars enough for the full raise.” But.. me having been burned before by the same BS.. while none of my coworkers have ever missed their full raise.. decided to call bullshit. I told him I needed to add up the numbers before I signed even though I could do the math in my head. Then I took the review and sat on it, knowing the whole time he is getting pressure from the big boss…

My parents always used to make me feel guilty about calling in sick from school as a teenager, going so far as to insist that the house should be spotless by the time they got back from work because 'I had the day off anyway' or to shoot dirty looks if I wasn't completely bedridden and say things like “I guess you're not too sick to play videogames, huh?” Like, no, I'm not at death's door here, but you can see I'm coughing and sneezing and running a fever and feel like garbage, and this happens to be less strenuous and more enjoyable than going to school. It always sucked to catch the insinuation that I was just faking it or playing up the symptoms to get some time off, as if rest was some forbidden fruit reserved only for the most dire emergencies, especially when the shoe was on…