Month: July 2023

Just a friendly reminder that the company you're working for does not give a shit about you. Myself, I was laid off from my job earlier this year. Was put on a PIP. Thought about finding a new job, but my manager (who stole me from my prior company, we were “friends”), said it was only for paperwork reasons, he would take care of me. Mind you, I know his family, his wife, his kids, and his dog. Feedback during the PIP went along the lines of, “I recognize you've done exactly as we've asked. However, this measurement is subjective, and I don't feel like you did it well enough.” I asked how we could measure subjectivity – I never received a response. Was offered severance when let go (they knew they were in the wrong). Now, I'm paid $15,000 more, with a title promotion, doing less work, and less…

So I’ve been in the same boat for a while, quit my toxic job in March and have held a few temp roles since then. I just moved states and the same terrible job luck has followed me here. But I’ve come across a new one… Has anyone else been to a 1st round interview with 10-20 people in the Zoom with you and the interviewer? Like the other people are also there to interview and the interviewer does a round-robin to ask the interview questions in front of everyone. I’ve never experienced it before… but that could be cause I’m scraping the barrel for jobs. Is this normal? Have you been in one?

I love reading the post on here. They usually make me feel better, in some indefinable way. However sometimes I read a post and I think to myself. “I don't have it that bad. At least that doesn't happen to me.” And then I get nervous to follow thru on leaving my current job. What if I end up in a place like you guys describe. Granted I don't have an office job. I'm a forklift operator and line lead. Really I'm an underpaid dept head. I've stayed as long as I have bc everytime I think I've been pushed to the edge. Something major happens that keep me around, a raise, a new GM, covid. Right now it is my impending marriage and honeymoon. I plan on job searching as soon as I get back(end of sep) and, while u acknowledge my current job has problems. I don't have…

Idk if i need advice or not because i think i know what i need to do, but at the very least i feel like i just need to vent because if i keep all of this in my head for another second I'm going to pop. (But obviously feel free to chime in about anything) So i graduated with a degree in graphic design in 2018, and it's pretty much been downhill from there. In the five years since 3 of them have been me doing design work at two different places (both jobs i hated, underpaid me despite me putting in a lot of extra work, and still i was in the first round of layoffs at both places when they hit financial troubles), one year working at kroger between jobs, and now I'm working at a screen printing place. I liked the job at first but like…

A fictional discussion on communism and paying supervisors more than laborers from the book The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I think she hit the nail on the head with this interpretation of the worker-supervisor-employer-government relationship. We are always going to lose, even when the best intentions are the ones being broadcast. There will always be players in the background to make sure the workers stay where they were meant to be. '”Professor…, sir, is it not encouraging ideological weakness to offer rewards to supervisors for increasing factory output? Should not the supervisor always remain equal to all his workers?” To which the answer was, “The supervisor is a servant of his workers, for they are the producers and he is not. However, there must be a clear leadership figure in every organisation, otherwise we have no means of gathering information on its success or failure,…

Hi guys, I like people who are good at their jobs and care about people and whenever I see it I try to leave them/the company good reviews. Some of these people I've become friends with outside of their work. The thing that gets me is the people who i'm friends with, who i've left good reviews for, they all got fired for various bullshit reasons. They keep the shitty employees though. I don't know if this is just in my head or something but it almost seems like if you praise a worker for their hard work/work ethic, they might get fired for that. I don't know how true that is, as it's just something I thought of while pondering why in the fuck this person got fired. It feels like they don't want that employee to have ammo for a pay raise or something. The industries where this…

If you finsh your work why does it matter when you leave . So I work in a office where I am hourly. And I leave an hour for lunches. And leave early sometimes. All my coworkers are salaried. I work in the accounting department. And all my variest coworkers work in different departments. Everyone keeps commenting on how I'm gone all the time. But it's like I am entitled to an hour lunch and two 15s. And if I leave early no one is going to suffer I'm actually helping the company. My desk job is honestly only 2-3 hours of work a day then I have nothing to do. I live down the street and my coworkers know I go home during lunch. They make twice as much as I do. Do you think I'm wrong? I don't understand if my work is done and I'm not costing…

I'm done with working, i work manual labor. It's okay money but its physically and mentally exhausting. I'm genuinely on the verge of suicide if I dont change something. I do need to see a doctor. I really want to be my own boss, manage my own hours. I currently have 2k in the bank, I'll have 3k in a week and a half or so. I want to do something with it though. I've been thinking of business ideas, i can work on cars, so ive been thinking of a business to do with cars, but i feel like there are already enough that i wont even be able to succeed. I've also been thinking of a roofing business with landscaping and exterior cleaning included. I live in the PNW, would that be a good business? Advice on that? I'm desperate to stop working, i just cant cope with…