Month: April 2023

Please stop bragging about these things. Bosses see this shit and use it as an excuse to mandate return to office. And my job cannot be done from home so it doesn’t effect me, but it can hurt others that do WFH.

A company saying that you're expected to work 48+ hours a week but they only pay you for 40 seems awfully wage thefty. Can anyone make sense of this for me?

As a child I always knew I hated the idea of work. I was very talented, so I wanted to become a musician. Everyone in my family told me it's very unlikely, and I should focus on work and academics. I believed them – I do not blame them, they are very good people, just such normies – I went into work force because I simply “could not” into school. I changed jobs very frequently, always plotting to retire early, work less, etc.. finally I spiralled into severe weed addiction, for about 8 years. I'm still addicted and always will be. Now, 10 years later everyone realizes I'm unreformable. They silent beg me to come back to music, I even got a good guitar for birthday. They just can't fathom I feel it's way too late. I am dead inside. I do not feel anything but numbness and sadness. Working…

After 3 wonderful years of waking up 5 minutes before my morning standups, spending breaks walking my dogs in a nearby forest or taking care of chores so I didn't have to spend my weekends on them, and saving thousands of dollars on commute expenses my work's executive team announced a mandatory return to office this morning. This comes after they repeatedly announcing that work from home has been a resounding success, has improved productivity, and has saved the company millions. Even promising in writing that work from home would be a permanent change. Many of my coworkers moved or sold their cars as a result of those promises, now it's looking like anyone who can't or won't comply with the order will be fired. For those who can comply this will effectively be a pay decrease across the board creating unnecessary commute costs as well as a serious hit…

So my job, we recently moved to a new building and my boss announced as part of the move, personal space heaters would no longer be allowed. I find it super cold in the new building, and when I get cold everything becomes painful I can’t move my hands as well and my feet go numb. Is it even legal for my boss to “disallow” personal space heaters? My heater that I specifically bought for work is maybe 6 inches wide and maybe 9 inches tall. It’s very tiny.

I was remembering this morning that a supervisor I had about a decade ago used to say stupid stuff to me that wasn’t really offensive but made him look like kind of a moron, and I ended up just sort of letting him do it to avoid conflict because it didn’t bother me that much. What happened was my boss found out that I am a Zen Buddhist through some incidental thing and started ending conversations or randomly saying to me “namaste”. After the first few times I said something to the effect of “hey man, that’s not really something that’s relevant to me as a white dude who became a Buddhist going to college in LA, and it’s not something we say among ourselves.” He said “oh okay” and then kept on doing it and I just decided okay whatever. One day I was in the break room talking…

Title says it all. I have no training or materials in relation to this 6 part test im taking. Im 22 and new to my field. My manager (who has about 10 years of experience) told me he struggled with this test and has only passed 4 of them. I’ve been in my seat for about an hour and im trying so hard not to cry. I feel like an idiot and I don’t know any of this. I tried talking to HR but there’s nothing I can do. I love my job and what I do. But I was told I can’t leave my desk until I pass these tests. I’ve taken the first test 8 times now and each time I don’t get a 90%. I feel like a failure right now but I also know it’s not my fault.