Month: July 2023

A little bit of background, I’ve been working this job since March and was hired despite having extremely minimal experience in the field. Last night I got an interesting email from someone high up in the company asking everyone for their qualifications on a Google form. Upon opening the form there were many questions about college credits and years of prior experience. Essentially out of all 15 questions, all I could answer was that I have a high school diploma. I’m kind of worried that they’re trying to weed out people with no college credits etc. I had the highest score for employee reviews in our June assessment so it’s not like I’m bad at this job. Any advice?

So before I started this job, I had a very enjoyable gas station jobpay was decent, clientell were great (only had 3 notably bad customers in the 2 1/2 years I worked there) loved my coworkers, and my boss was a Saint. Scheduled herself for 60 hours one week so I could take the week off and go to a convention. At the time, my fiance worked for a newspaper, distributing freshly printed papers to our carriers. Well, I had ended up stuck on nightshift at my gas station job, and hardly ever saw my coworkers anymore. Well, a position opened up at the newspaper working with my fiance, so I put in my 2 week notice and moved to the newspaper to spend my working days with the person I loved. Now, up until this newspaper job, I was very unaware of corperate practices and greed, but working there…

Will I, and how can I haggle to get that salary?

I'm up since 4am, grinding and sweating my ass off at work in this heatwave. By chance, I had to pick up a PC from corporate office and THESE FOOLS ARE HAVING A PARTY! A literal hoedown! No lie! Roasted corn, baked potatoes, live band playing country music, laughing, bonding, dancing, all that! At noon! We grind while they rake it all in. 🤬 I had to buy two dozen fans for my team, from my pocket, company acting cheap and they go around and have a f*cking hoedown! Btch! Fck! Sh*t!

I got a request for a “One way video interview” and I am DISGUSTED. These employers need to do better. Major MAJOR red flag. Here is my response to their “Congratulations! You've been selected for a one way interview!” “Thank you for your email. However, I wouldn't say that there's much to congratulate. I find the concept of a one-way video interview to be highly alarming and a clear red flag. This is a strong indicator that [business] doesn't view employees as real people, simply another body to burn out with unreasonably high expectations and little support from management. There is no opportunity for me to interview back and determine if it's a healthy work environment. I decline this invitation. “

My job is giving my panic attacks. Is this normal? I’m sorry if this post seems jumbled or confusing, it’s currently midnight and I’m laying awake stressing out about going to work tomorrow. For context, I’m a 22 year old paralegal. I work at an auto accident law firm, and I’ve been there for almost two years now. For the most part, I believe I have done well. There are mistakes I have made, but I don’t believe they are huge/mistakes that everyone had made at some point. However, when I made these mistakes my boss would call me into his office and yell at me. (Genuinely yell, waving his hands and being so animated to the point it was scary.) since this started, every time he calls his name my heart races because I’m terrified that I’ve done something else wrong. I spend most my days with my office…

GF has been working at a place for around 5 years. After 4 years she was only making $15 an hour. Last year when her yearly review was coming up she was really nervous because she knew that she wasn't making enough money. Her work usually gives reasons why they could only give a 75 cent raise unless you were really good you would get a dollar. She knew that wasn't going to be enough to pay all of her bills. After a lot of convincing I finally got her to stand up for herself in her review. This was very much out of her comfort zone. When her boss tried to give her the $1 raise because she was one of the better employees, she told her boss while shaking “if I'm only getting a $1 raise I don't think I'm going to be able to afford to work…

How did the global economy get to this point? It's not just America, it's the whole freakin' planet now. ​ Corporations tell us what is popular, rather than things becoming popular naturally, leading to a world where nothing is actually popular. The astroturfing and manipulation is invasive and on a global scale. We are flooded with nonstop deception and everyone is so exhausted. Corporations have so much power to where they can make extremely unpopular decisions that impact the public and then force everyone to abide by them, such as increased prices for essential medications or even worse airline seating, and there is no economic or political recourse for consumers as the market share is completely dominated. Corporations creating an economy that is irrational, such as keeping millions of people in crippling debt to the detriment of all other industries, profiting from keeping millions homeless, treating healthcare and food as…