Month: July 2023

I'm a culinary director for an assisted living. I had a resident demand to speak with me and started the conversation with asking “how dare you serve me romaine lettuce with my sandwich?!” ” I have many kinds of lettuce, which would you like?” She wants iceberg, no problem, let me get that for you. “If you think romaine lettuce goes on a sandwich you should be ashamed and working somewhere else” Ok boomer Were talking about a Philly cheesesteak here… O

My mom is dying of glioblastoma. When I started my job 2.5 years ago, during the interview I disclosed that my mom had glioblastoma and it was terminal and therefore sometime in the future I would have to deal with that. Well unfortunately that time has come and she is now in hospice and fading fast. I have disclosed all of this to my bosses. I have been short at work and sometimes it's hard not to be snippy. My boss asked me “So HOw'S MoM?” to which I responded with “she's still dying…” Not the best response but I'm not all okay as of late. Well in response to that I got called into his office, along w/ his wife, the other owner of the company. I got asked “what is going on with you? Why are you so short and snippy?!” I responded with; “my mom is dying!…

interviewed for a job where i was told ahead of time that i would not get the money i was looking for, but their HR guy told me i should go to the interview anyways. so i went, but wasn't going to take it seriously. they were trying to smooth over the lower pay with their awesome company culture, late nights, but barbecue on the weekends, implying spending even more time with these people. then they went ahead and dropped that old cliche, 'where do you see yourself in 5 years?' i just said, 'doing this, but a little fatter'. the HR guy was mad i didn't take it seriously. called me back a week later to tell me i wasn't a good fit, how they found someone who was more experienced, and better suited for the job, and they were going to hire them instead. i was so sad…

so I'm at the grocery store hearing two boys talk about how much they hate working. so i stop in and we get to talking and one of them says i hate this is my life. i gently explain to him that this job is not his life it's what pays for his life. he then asks me what life and i say your life of gaming with your friends, the life of you driving your pickup truck down a back road as fast as you can go.. etc. they both lite up and say how it's all a state of mind. then i council-ed one to get some life experience and go to college for marketing because he wants to make films. i had been feeling helpless because my life of injuries and disabilities had me trapped these kids had nothing like that and were young enough to escape…

Hi all! Joining the chorus I guess and sharing my own experience with return-to-office mandates. This is mostly a vent post, but I’m absolutely open to insights (or insults, whatever, it’s Reddit) from others who might have similar experiences. There’s a TLDR down there somewhere because, yikes, this got lengthy 🙂 Some long-ass background that you're welcome to skip: I’ve always struggled to be happy with work; from the retail jobs I had in high school and my early 20s, to the project/communications management role I worked my way up to in one of my most recent jobs. I don’t dream of labor; work is drudgery. Compounding that, I’m an extremely introverted, socially anxious, private person (like, I spent ten years eating lunch in my car in the parking lot at my former job; I never came out as queer to my teammates; I never once joined a happy hour…

Recently Teams added a new feature where when anyone joins a meeting it sends a small notice to everyone in the meeting. I usually join meetings when Outlook notifies me 10 or 15 minutes early. I continue working till people start joining, and the meeting starts. This is due to ADHD and if I get focused on other things, I fear I'll forget about the meeting. Well, this feature has been out for about a week. In that time I had maybe 3 teams meetings. Last week, I joined my own meeting 10 to 15 minutes early. I get very anxious running meetings because of my boss mostly. So I was preparing, opening up documents and maps to go over in the meeting. I don't want people to wait while I find things. Well, a VP joins, and we're talking about his recent vacation. It's maybe 5 minutes before the…