Month: April 2023

Having started work before anyone had a mobile phone, and only important people had a pager, employees hourly and salary would use a landline to communicate. Calls would be for things like calling in sick, coordinating a shift trade, or asking to come in earlier than otherwise planned. Seemingly it worked out. If someone didn't call in or show, you wrote it down. Exceed the written threshold, they were handed or mailed a letter terminating employment. It was frequent in entry level jobs when switching, or when something bad enough happened that it was somewhat obvious they were not going to come back. “No-Call, No-Show” was a common refrain in line manager vernacular. Employee's became skilled and ensuring they “sounded sick” when they called. Today, some employees that assume that because they have the personal cell phone of a co-worker or supervisor, that a text message counts as calling in…

My coworkers and other offices we associate with call my cell phone on the weekend/time off for non emergency situations/questions. Our office is open 7 days a week, I work the mon-fri and others work the weekends. I try to set boundaries on how much I will deal with work during time off, especially since I don't make commission off our sales. Today a coworker called because a client I've dealt with b4 walked in and asked for updates. I answered my coworker and she immediately tried to get me on the phone with the client that's standing infront of her. I told her it's not a good time for me to talk (you never know how long conversations with clients will go on) so i asked her to please pass on that we are waiting on their attorney. She kept saying he's standing right in front of her and…

I am reflecting back on the time when our trainer at a previous job gave us a tour of the office building. We got to the top floor where the executives work. We saw the CEOs office and it could be considered a studio apartment. Had an outdoor balcony with its own outdoor dinning table. Like why. It’s disgusting. And then us, the floor workers, just get a small desk with dividers on either side shared by eight other employees.

TLDR: I quit, chef was pretty chill about it and offered to change my schedule to suit my transition. Then said the quiet part out loud so I called in sick on a saturday with two staff members out and got paid anyway, and I already have a better job. I wish I had more of an epic resolution to this story but I'm honestly okay with how things turned out. For context I've been in the industry for about 6 years and started working at this restaurant as a cook about 8 months ago. The pay was good but from the start I got all the worst jobs in the kitchen, which at first I was fine with as I was the new guy. I ran trash, did dishes, deep cleaned the locker area twice when business was slow, measured out ingredients for recipes I was not allowed to…

Are there any sites that specifically cater to just WFH? I’ve just been looking at data analyst or data entry jobs. Any other keywords I should be using? Any other types of jobs that are commonly WFH?