Month: May 2023

During monthly check ins I get this question from my boss. I need inspiration for things to say. Obviously I can't outright say “more pay, less hours”, but what can I say to push gradually in that direction? I always get the feeling they're wanting me to say “more work would be great! :)”. Need corporatey BS lingo that'll make less work for me without revealing that to them. Office job, full time on site. Any ideas?

We used every resource available including unpaid time to extend parental leave to 16 weeks, which is a lot more than most people can do. Still had to go back to legally retain our jobs. After 2 weeks in daycare, my little girl had croup, conjunctivitis, and RSV… now hooked up to oxygen at the hospital. And now I’m taking time off again. So I was called back to work to not even work. Fuck this country

I’ll let you know how it went for me. When I first quit, I was very burnt out both mentally and emotionally. I felt immense joy that I’d never have to deal with the people at my job again. I did have enough energy to deep clean, workout, and cook good food. I set out to learn how to code, and so far I’ve learned 3 coding languages. I respect when I need rest, or when I take longer on projects I’ve never done before. I’ve thrived from internal motivation and a lack of financial stress. So there you go, people aren’t inherently lazy and economic stress probably fuels the behavior of “laziness,” like appearing unmotivated, procrastinating, and wanting to turn to vices like drugs and video games.

The irony is too rich…a company that’s knowingly helped a vast number of people into their graves via opioids, are denying me employment because I’m a registered medical cannabis patient in my state and they’re a federal contractor. What a kick in the teeth.

My work pushed me to do more office days. I ran through what I want via open AI chat and got below template (with redacted details for privacy reason). Generally my situation is that travel time is extruciatingly long, I hate people who are in the office (mainly my superior). Also, my parent who I live with have a medical condition and needs my general help but it's not a complete carer type of looking after. Does my superior have grounds to deny me, as she's been a pain to work with lately? We had people having reduced office days for really trivial reasons in comparison to mine. https://preview.redd.it/b7d26d4li8xa1.jpg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=777dd662e0e776ceada74173137fb8f065838fb3

Title, basically. The owner of the family-owned company I work for is punishing me for having my lunch, a cup of Ramen and a fork, out on my desk on Friday. I work for a label printing company, I have the desk job and it isn't too bad except for the managers and everyone else above that (shocker). Anyways, the owner likes to do walk throughs of the company to show potential customers how our product is made and shows them the process from start to finish. I'm the only one who has the title I do so I'm an essential part of the process and thus I have to present the work we do in order to show said customers. They were doing a walk through and they got to my desk, did the normal thing of pulling up the presentation and setting everything up exactly how it's been…

I feel like I've made too many posts within the last week or 2 and I apologize for that. Stuff at my job is just getting worse. Everyone is quitting. My GM left on Friday because of how she was getting treated by the other GM in the store and our district leadership. We're dropping like flies. I don't get paid a supervisor or manager wage but I've been having to do those duties basically since I've started. Now they're throwing even more on me and have made it clear a pay raise or promotion is not in the cards. I got so stressed about my workload for this week (having to scan out and separate 1500 different skus for products we are no longer selling and get all that product sorted into sending it to another store or the warehouse) that I got sick and had to call out…

I have a tech job that became WFH after covid. Five years ago I went from 4 weeks vacation to “Open Time Off”, which is essentially no hard limit to vacation but your manager has to approve. The company also never owes $$ for unused vacation days this way. The problem is I take 4-5 weeks off per year and my coworkers seem to only take 2 weeks now. It is not explicitly mentioned but I feel this is some type of loyalty test and I am now in danger of being one of the first to be laid off. Besides that, I was moved to a small team of three people (one worker is new and not effective) so when I take vacation now it cripples our deadlines. I just wanted to hear from others their experience on OTO policies and if they saw some of the same issues…