Month: April 2023

I started at a small local company almost a decade ago that later sold out to a big corporation. Life is hell. My dept. is less than half it's peak size, but workload increases. We plan exciting projects, but BigCo pushes work they don't want to worry their team with in the way. I see job ads I'm qualified for for anything up to 2x my salary. Our sister dept. at BigCo can be 100% wfh, we get 0%. My life outside of work is almost nonexistent entirely because of work, I go home exhausted every night. I'm done with it. It's openly acknowledged I'm the key player in my dept., so next week I'm going to hand over a list of demands and my notice and ask them to choose. Either way I'm going to take some time off and return to work doing less hours for more money.

Like really? What is so wrong with allowing your Team or company to WFH if they are capable of doing it? What is wrong with Wfh ESPECIALLY if the team productivity went up during the pandemic due to being Wfh? The pandemic was a fucking blessing in disguise as far as WFH goes. We see now that a lot of companies are fully remote or hybrid (I prefer fully remote). I personally don’t even care for hybrid either. Why make ppl come to work to have meetings that can be done on teams or zoom? Please don’t mention “office camaraderie”. I don’t give a fuck about that enough for me come to an office If you manage a team and want them to come back the office because you want to “make sure they are working” then that says you don’t trust your team and you probably need to re-evaluate…

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Wondering how the US will initiate its own version of the French Revolution. Thoughts?

I had a problem with my coworker who threatened to kill me and of course you’re supposed to file a report against them at work so my manager and my union rep wanted to talk to me about what’s going on and I told them and now my manager and my union rep(who’s supposed to be on my side) got me in trouble for filling out a report against and I’ll tell you why he threatened to kill me so there’s 5 people stationed at their post and it only requieres 3 people so I asked my lead if I can use the bathroom just for 5 mins and I come back and he says next time I use the bathroom he’s gonna bash my skull through the wall till I’m dead. I Told my manager that and she said I have 2 choices either let him threaten me and…

So I walked out of a job yesterday and didn’t clock out

I (31f) works for a big consulting company (for 1.5 years). I’ve worked long hours before and I’ve worked relaxing hours at a NFP before. I can’t seem to find a job I like. I decided to do consulting because of the pay and thought I’d learn heaps. So far I have learnt a bit but it has not been that enjoyable. At the moment, I’m doing a website project which requires working with people technical. The team and client knows more than me. I feel useless and stressed out even though I’m putting little hours in. I hate work and it’s only been 2 weeks. I sweat at night and I don’t think consulting is right for me. Im so tempted to just quit and find another job. I’m sure I can find something within 2 months. I feel so fragile that I want to leave when nothing major…

Is there anyway around having my calls recorded via our new Vonage system? I hate it and don’t like being recorded