Month: June 2023

long story short i injured myself back in April and I haven't been able to return to work since. I still have another 6+ weeks of not being able to come back. I don't qualify for FMLA so they're trying to fill my position while I'm still “employed” and can't guarantee the same hours as I had before. I'd rather them fire me so I can at least collect unemployment since I don't have short term disability. How do I tell my job to fire me without saying exactly that?

I have been interviewing at multiple places recently since I’m an unemployed college student and the difference between wait times is astounding. Some will be with me really quickly, like within a few minutes, but others will take longer. I have yet to walk out because someone was taking too long but what is your limit? What’s the longest you’ve had to wait?

This one's a little “malicious compliancey” but I figured ot was better suited here as there really isn't a compliance aspect. I work for a local government. I was promted into a position, but before the promotion went through.. upper management wanted to setup a meet n greet. About an hour before the meeting I was given the heads up to treat the meet next greet as an interview.. which I was prepared to do anyway.. but the warning was kind of cryptic. Anyway.. I went into the meet n greet / post selection interview putting my best foot forward. The meeting quickly turned into a an unfettered grilling of me and my intentions, for reasons I had no idea of at the time. Later I found out upper management had a certain person in mind for the job who wandt me, that their selection was undermined by my coworkers,…

No one in my office can breathe. I have chest pain. The sky is orange. We asked to work from home, at least tomorrow. They laughed.

My aunt speaks English as a second language, and she sometimes asks me to help her with the writing she has to do for her self-evaluations at work, because she wants to have someone help her with written grammar. I'm looking over the amount of writing she has to do for this evaluation and it's insane. 200-300 words on how she met each of this corporation's arbitrary “cultural qualities” and how she's improved over last year. It's totaling to over 10 pages in a Word document because she has to reflect on last year's responses as well–basically the length of a college term paper, for an average office job in healthcare. Is this not insane to anyone else? You just wind up repeating the same old stuff over and over again, making yourself sound like an idiot, because these “qualities” are so vague. The prompts make her job sound like…