Month: July 2023

Sooooooo… This one is a bit old, but I thought you might enjoy reading about it, especially with all the noise about remote work opening the door to “Near Shoring” positions. I used to work for a shipping company based in the US. It's a smaller/mid-size company that owns a couple of vessels and ships mainly from FL and NJ. Turns out that circa 2010, and mainly as a result of the 2008 crisis, their employees decided to unionize. They started to move all admin positions to Latin America, opening their “Hub” in a very specific Central American country. So, every time someone asked for a raise or took too much PTO, their job would be moved to Latin America, paying 1/4 of what these people were making in the US. Turns out (and I've seen this a lot), US companies seem to believe the entire world is the US,…

Got a call saying im fired from HR saying it was due to poor attendance (Ive only called out 2 times in the 3 months being there) and not for the actual reason of it being genuinely slow at work with legitimately nothing to do. I realized i wasn’t going to be the only one since 4 peoples numbers got removed from the group-chat, so i let them all know to be on their toes on their days off and not to do a damn thing while they’re there. So i signed up my managers number and other info i had to the scientology website:) small win for me, life time lose for them:)

I’m relatively new to the corporate world and I lucked into a good situation at a good company. I’m happy, I come from a background in government which is whole other subject so I might just be numb. I’ve noticed this obsession with scalability and I’ve realized this is a focus of basically every single company. Most of things we do to create a more scalable business make the customers and labor unhappy. This leads to losses which hurt management as well but nobody seems to bat an eye because they’re creating a product that is scalable. I’ve honestly started to wonder if this theory isn’t the source of everyone’s problems.

Basically what the title says, my work doesn’t really give us breaks, depending on when you work you’re the only person scheduled and you can’t leave the desk. They got reported to L&I I guess so now my boss is going to “fix the schedule” which sounds like everyone’s just going to work 3 hour shifts so they don’t have to give breaks. I don’t even know what to say

I just resigned from a job where my supervisor caused so much drama… the head honcho of the office privately asked me to send him an email about all that happened from my perspective and here it is. Feel free to use some of this wording if it applies to your situation. I'm really freakin proud of myself for standing up for myself and knowing my worth. I found a better job within 2 weeks and although I wish I didn't have to work at all, I'm grateful I chose this path. Hi ____ I want to start by saying that I'm not writing this email to submit any type of complaint, but rather at your request to outline my experiences and ultimately why I am leaving my role as ____ at _____.  The whole time I worked here there has been on and off tension and conflict in our department.…

I work at a hotel that also leases to a company helping homeless immigrants. Since March we had two security guards hired, and they would work two to three shifts in a row and work everyday. Two of the homeless people coordinators get away with banging in the rooms when they feel like it, but the two security guards can’t take a fifteen minute nap during their break in one of the rooms? One of the younger security guards panicked once a hotel resident was being a Karen saying,”You’re not supposed to use them rooms.” (This Karen is the most annoying white privileged racist trouble maker with no life in this building). So the security guard jumped off a two story balcony like an idiot. The other one didn’t. The one who jumped cried to management saying please don’t fire me. He threw the other under the bus saying they…

Long time lurker, first time poster. This will be long winded, so apologies in advance. I’m a 29 year old married male who has been working full time since I moved out at 18. I’ve been in the automotive field for 6+ years and have quickly gotten VERY good at what I do. My wife and I are expecting our first child any day now. My wife works from home and has a $95k/yr job. We have no car payments. Just our mortgage and utilities. I’ve been at a powdercoating/wheel shop for about 3 years. Started at 18/hr, about a year and a half in I was at 22/hr. I’m still at that pay, however I’ve since become the manager. I’m not only in charge of all the powdercoating (a type of painting for those who don’t know), but I’m responsible for making sure everyone else has work to do,…