Month: June 2023

Time to go? I really wanted this job to work out but through no fault of my own (boss/owner agrees) it doesn't seem like it will. Not to mention the huge red flag of a business not being able to pay their employee what they themselves want to pay them. Knowing it will be much of the same story most wherever I go makes me sick

Joined a job 2 months ago, got a better offer at another, what to do? I joined a company that required me to be hybrid, after doing that for 1 month, I told them I cannot do it anymore but they made an exception for me and made me a remote employee for few months while they check my deliverables. This company requires 40 hour work week. They also micromanage. The other company is a smaller or the two, different industry, has 36 hours a week with flex Fridays and fully remote. The salary is 10,000 more per annum. Don’t know abt the work culture , Glassdoor reviews are better. The work is going to be similar. Please help me decide and help me find a way to inform job 1 abt my decision to resign so soon.

How much longer can we (Young Americans) survive like this? How much longer can you allow them (our government) to be tyrannical, incompetent, out of touch, not representative of the working class? How much longer must we (people under 30) put up with this before we stand together and fight against an authoritarian, oppressive, unjust, dictatorship of the rich and powerful? How much longer can we survive with a inflationary economy being pushed upon the masses without any real solutions? How long can you scrape by every month, week, day? How much longer can you stay with your parents to avoid massive rent & utility payments? How much longer can you keep putting off higher education because your terrified of putting yourself in debt when you can’t even afford life right now? How much longer can you ask friends, family, and relatives for help before they cut you off? How…

I had a friend as a teenager who attested to himself not being rich and that his parents were simply people who worked hard. He told me that his father had failed all of his A-Levels (British university entry qualifications) and that his mother had been forced to leave school at 13 and go to work in her parents' shop. They are now upper middle-class. I checked his father's LinkedIn profile and it turns out he went to private secondary school before studying further to become an independent financial advisor somehow, though no university is mentioned. I don't know anything about his father's parents but to be able to go to private secondary school implies some kind of wealth to begin with. Also, he hired his wife who dropped out of school at 13 in a salaried role at his business. I'm in my early 20s. I'm frustrated. It's not…

A few weeks ago I asked my work if I could work fully remote so that my wife and I could move out state to not only escape increasingly unlivable pricing, but to be near family in the wake of my soon to be first kid. They have officially denied it with something along the lines of “if we let one person do it, we have to let them all do it.” And I'm just thinking “let them all do it then??” Currently, their policy has us coming into the office every Monday + the first Tuesday of the month. They recently changed it starting July and we will need to be in the office for a mandatory 2 days a week. Typical arbitrary reasons like 'cooperation' and 'culture.' Except what do I get for making a 22 mile (one way) commute to the office? I sit down with my…

So my boss is bad at excel. Put simply she doesn’t know the difference between “rounding error” and “error made while rounding” and asked me to “fix it” So I told her that sometimes it feels like she’s the kind of person who would walk into a Wendy’s and ask for a lawnmower. She said it shows lack of entrepreneurial creativity that I didn’t source a lawnmower for resale or develop a burger shaped like a lawnmower. My reply was “if I were a Wendy’s employee and left my cashiers station to drive over to Home Depot, bought a lawn mower and came back to sell it, the customer would have already gone to Home Depot and I’d have been fired for abandoning the register. If a manager did that they’d be fired by the franchise owner. If a franchise owner did that they’d be fined by corporate for being…