Month: April 2023

I just got a new job I start in two and a half weeks. I almost never call out and I'm up to about two weeks of sick time that I lose when I leave the job. What would be the best course of action with it?

So, every job I've had has been retail. Crap management, running around to stock, and dealing with “fire in their eyes” customers. anyways, i got a different job. as a housekeeper. much better pay. but, it is so boring..an 8:30 to 5 and I get my tasks done four hours before I'm even close to clocking out. today i even left early, my first week there. doing one wing which is eight rooms and then a common area. unless someone actually calls me out for a specific mess but i rarely see people either. i want to keep the job, definitely. but, i guess i just need to go slow as molasses or something.

So I work tomorrow at 1 to 5:15 and have to stop at 3 places in minot which is an 2 hr drive. And one of the clients is notoriously late at giving packages. But you get blamed for being late. And plus they expect you to be in minot like you're speeding but told not to speed. Then I'm supposed to return back to Bismarck before 5:30, drop off boxes, fill up car, and start the next shift at 5:30. But it takes about 2 hrs to get to minot and 2 hrs back. So once you're back, you're already late. And your next shift is supposed to be happening. Which is a new shift you haven't done before, so you're obviously going to take time on it, because they don't train in person, just by phone guidance. In the long run I feel like they're setting me up…

I started working as a cleaner for a major cleaning company in my city. I say major, because there are more than twenty and this one holds more stakes because they accept any job under any circumstances, they even accept when people ask to clean the garage area under their windows (even if it’s for free). You can only imagine how this looks for workers. A guy who started working when I did was already duped to work not only one shift, but TWO full shifts. Today he worked whole morning, and he spent whole afternoon cleaning the meat factory. He has a pace-maker and he mentioned this, yet he’s pulled to work demanding jobs such as cleaning out the attic, etc. He’s a good guy, but I immediately saw what they do – unless you object and stand your ground, you do more and more and more work until…

Im already looking for another job in my area already.After helping my kitchen managers cover their manager shifts as a shift lead, they decided to cut a lot of hours especially mine the week after. They love to give out the excuse that it is “SlOw sEasOn” but want to cut labor instead of food cost and such. And worst yet they just brought someone in for training as a dishwasher. My manager told me that i have 5 shifts already and needed to cut one of my days off for next week. I was truly pissed and upset because my bills aren’t in slow season, THEY ARE DUE EVERY MONTH AND I WILL NOT KEEP THEM BACK BECAUSE OF IT! Managers and corporate managers can keep their salaries but have to cut all of ours??? And they recently rolled out a new menu instead of looking after their staff.…

At my job, we've started a new service where we come to the customers instead of them coming to us, and we get paid by the manufacturer (this is a dealer) for each ride we do. Well, the GM just told my co worker that the owners of the dealership are just loving the money we're making. I get the feeling I'm gonna get stiffed if there's a bonus in order. I swear everyone else is getting something out of it, because everyone just loves all this money the dealer is getting, and they promote the crap out of this service, doesn't matter the time of day. I've had to stay past closing time to get these cars back to the customers. But that's not what bothers me. What I'm pissed off at is the fact that they nobody stops to think and say “hey, our drivers also contributed to…

I’m a lowly peasant in one of those big companies that announced they were doing massive layoffs. To my knowledge, the building I work at has avoided this, but I digress. There have always been asshole managers that work in my area, but they usually left me alone because they know that I know what I’m doing. Lately though, this has changed. Since the layoffs have started it seems that all managers have been a hardass. Managers barely do any work besides paperwork/meetings before and after the shift and IMO the only actual work they do is tell people where to go and then yell at them for not going fast enough (to make it look like they are actually doing something). I have recently heard on good authority that upper management has actually told them to be assholes to everybody. My question is “to what end?” Has there been…