Month: May 2023

(cw: mention of suicidal thoughts) Started the process of unionizing, and I don't know if somehow word got to the boss man, but I was just offered another shift and a 20 cent raise. If word did get to him and this was his solution to stopping the process, I'm only more frustrated and ready to knock him down a peg or two. My manager is incredible and I wish I could include him in the process, but he has hiring/firing power and the union rep I spoke to said I should leave him out of the process, at least for now. We're a very small store with only about 12 employees, not including our manager. Because we're so small, the owner can legally not offer us benefits, even when we're full time. I live with chronic illness and mental health problems, and the state funded health insurance I have…

Back in August 2020, I was hired by an electric vehicle charging company to be a customer service phone agent. I figured it'd be easy – almost every job I've had since the age of 16 was in customer service in some capacity and at the time, this company was getting barely any calls compared to the veterinary hospital I worked for before – but it turned out to be a lot more stressful than I expected. The rough customer interactions often had me in tears and then when business started booming it felt like I barely got to breathe between one call and the next. Eventually I reached my breaking point and begged my psychiatrist to write me a doctor's note to take just a couple weeks off of work so I could get my mental health straight. Near the end of that two weeks when we did a…

Will other employers see my work history and dates? I’ve had over 5 jobs in 2 years and didn’t kept any of them for more than 3 months. I want to find a job that I can keep for at least 2 years while I go to school but I’m scared they will see that I don’t last in any of them.

Over the past two months, I have called out multiple times and just a few hours ago I called out for this entire work week. Ever since Covid, I have barely been able to hold a job. It’s always around the 3-6month mark where I really start to feel the panic and irritability. I have adhd, anxiety, mood swings and depression so that doesn’t help. I am working a contract call center job which was supposed to end last week. I have since mentally checked out and just cannot pull myself back together ever since. It’s honestly really frustrating and embarrassing and I feel so guilty about it. How do people work 40 hours a week for 20+ years? My souls feels so suffocated doing this.

I’m having a bit of a problem with some of the employees at work. This is an extremely complicated situation for 1000 reasons – this is likely going to be an extremely long post. As to not give myself away, I’m going to describe my niche workplace like Ask a Manager does – as if it’s a teapot manufacturer. I work in a store that sells tea and tea supplies, and makes teapots on-site that customers order in person and pick up. Due to the nature of our teapots, we interact with customers all day. There are two kinds of employees – teapot specialists and teapot assistants. Specialists have had significant training on the intricacies of making and using teapots, tea, and other supplies. They know ALL the answers to the questions, and they are in charge of quality control, as well as some of the more intricate aspects of…