Month: April 2023

Hello! Title says it all. Sick and tired of doing cr@p on Excel. I have some tricks to make some things easier. Share your favourite excel formulas so I can see if I can embed any of them for my use and we can be a happy anti-work community.

In my late teens, I (19m, at the time) worked for a law firm as a courier. I loved the job but the pay was meager. I had been working there for nearly two years when I was approached by a guy (early 20s) who was starting up a courier delivery company with his dad (40s). It would be limited to documents for law firms, courthouses, and other businesses. He offered me a higher hourly rate and a commission based on the clients I could bring in. Having been in the business for a couple of years already, I knew plenty of potential clients and ended up bringing in all but 1 over the first six months. As I was the only person doing any of the deliveries I wasn't able to complete all the new client paperwork for the clients I was bringing in, so I was instructed by…

Context to start things off, i’ve been working for Target for about a year and three months now and seeing as my previous job had been Walmart, I figured I found a big upgrade. There’s this ETL (manager) that i’ll refer to as just “etl.” I have yet to meet a person in the store that can stand her, I jokingly asked a coworker my first couple weeks there if there was anyone I should watch out for and i didn’t even finish my statement before the looked at me and said “etl, she’s easily the worst manager i’ve ever dealt with.” Now since that whole joke a year ago I had a couple issues here and there with her but nothing major, the the time she was just a “oh she works today, that’s annoying” kind of boss, up until the past month or so. A couple fridays back…

I’m being PIP’d out of my current job and I don’t even want another one. I feel like my job history (below) is telling me I’m not cut out for corporate America and I was just diagnosed with a learning disability which makes me feel even worse. Retail for the rest of my life feels better than how I feel right now. I’m good at retail and talking to people but that’s it. 🙁 sorry I’m just sad. Anyway. College graduation May 2012 Publishing job (rotational) July 2012 – Dec 2013 Marketing job I was fired from after a month March 2014 Retail july 2014-Aug 2015 Temp job JULY 15-Aug 15 fired from that – telemarketing Grad school Aug 15-Aug 16 Retail until my diploma came Nov 16 – Jan 17 Freelanced Jan 17 – Oct 17 Assistant/Exec assistant. Oct 17 – August 18 Boss sent me into depression hell…

It was destroying my mental health. Now I feel bad about it, and I feel bad that I feel bad about it. I need a cheer up. Thanks

I work at an inbound call center and here's how our time works: We long in and press a button and when we press it we are officially on the clock. There's different “modes” we can switch to, like personal, break, lunch, ready, meeting, training, etc. Once you're on the clock, you're expected to be in “ready” mode asap, and only switch to other modes based on your schedule. When you're in ready mode, you're immediately available to receive any incoming calls (only one at a time though) and some calls last a long time so you might be a few minutes (or an hour) late for your breaks or lunch. Basically your attendance is measured by what % of your schedule you adhered to, so if you were in ready mode your entire shift without any personal breaks (like bathroom, snap, etc) and took all your breaks on the…