Month: July 2023

Here's the story of my work life. If you're someone who likes to read, give it a go. If not, no worries. I just need to get this out. So I currently work at this car wash. Big conveyor wash, full service, towels and spray bottles provided. Originally it was mom and pop owned by my friend's dad and they needed a general employee who knew stuff about computers to help them with the wash system, it was way more technologically involved than they thought. Wash went down one day and they just called me over to come see if I can figure it out. I sit down and read a bunch of manuals and got the gist of everything. Wash fixed, all good. I'm about to leave when I get offered a position there as a regular wash employee/sometimes IT guy. My personal availability schedule being absolutely abhorrent due…

It astounds me what people think is acceptable to leave behind, and that it's perfectly fine to trash a room with glitter, chewed gum, food, discarded tissues and general detritus. Have these people no pride, shame or self-worth? Kids are by far the worst and from that I deduct that their parents are as shitty as they are.

As I said in the title, I finally got a job 500+ CVs, a year of looking, and finally, I got a job and both even corporate hell, hahahaha. For the last year I've Been job hopping and looking for any place where I don't get treated like scum for being new or inexperienced that just made the search take so much longer but it finally happened. I got a job working as a private consultant, but the employer is also training me in so much. Actual guidance, real experience, and most importantly, for the first time in my life, I'm not waking up dreading my day, wishing I was dead instead of having to get up on the mornings. But what makes this belong in this sub is Why is it that something as necessary as employment on any level is so insanely hard to get I'm too inexperienced…

On the advice of friends I'm going to citizens advice to see if I can do something about this. I started a job back in April and within the first week I got the flu. I kept coming in because 1) I couldn't afford to stay home and 2) it was my first week! It took me shivering at my desk with a fever for me go home and a manager telling me they didn't want people in the office sick. Fast forward to three weeks ago, I wake up with pain in my neck so bad that I get sent to A&E and over the next few days I spent time in hospital. I desperately wanted to work because I loved what I was doing and I loved my coworkers, but I couldn't move, Icouldn't dress myself, and I was on heavy pain killers. After two weeks, against doctors…

This sub has just become “I just got back from Europe and USA sucks” or “I'm a European and I've heard that the USA sucks” The US isn't the worst place for workers rights, Europe and Canada are not much different. Get mad all you want and downvote me to hell; but you're comparing visiting country's versus living/working in one. I have friends in Europe and Canada and they struggle with the same shit us US citizens struggle with. If you want to talk about rising prices, ask and Canadian about their housing situation and how 90% of people cannot afford to own their own home. Or ask Europeans about their fuel bills the past couple years. Yea USA has a lot wrong with it and that's what we want to change here. BUT blasting these comparisons without true facts is absurd. I saw one post about how big cities…

For some context: this is my first job working part time at an ice cream place over the summer. When I received last week's paycheck I noticed it stated that I worked less hours than I thought I did, so I went into the time clock app to double check my hours, as people make mistakes and I believed my employer maybe accidentally made a mistake while adding. After making sure that I was right, I asked my boss about it. She then went on to tell me that she doesn't count minutes, only hours. Meaning the days when I was clocked in for 6 hours and 49 minutes for example would be rounded down to 6 hours. By doing this I effectively lost 4 or 5 hours of pay for the week. My boyfriend, his dad, my dad, and my other friend all told me that this is incredibly…

It's late Sunday evening and I've just checked my work schedule. For reference, I have been working as a leader/camp counselor at a before and after school program/summer camp for 5 months now. The schedule showed the name of a person who, last Friday, slapped a 12 year old boy on his arm after filming the boy's behavior and threatening him with calling authorities (he was pretending a stick was a gun and refused to stop). Being that I am a leader and not a director or even an assistant director, I called my higher-up to explain everything that happened, asking what the next steps are. He said not to worry about it and to have all the kids gather for a meeting to clean up… What does that have to do with the kid who was just physically assaulted by a staff member?!? Overwhelmed, I let three of my…

I started applying for remote jobs for a few months, that obviously didn’t get me anywhere. I went as far as applying for jobs that paid $15/hr (I used to make about $40/ hr) and I was getting nothing. I started thinking well obviously this must be becuase remote work is extremely concentrated and what not. I started applying for onsite and hybrid roles, literally from customer service to what I was doing before I was laid off, but I’m literally not getting anything. Im also noticing entry level doesn’t really mean entry level, u need 2-3 yrs of experience in that field and that’s so confusing. So is this just a me thing?

This is kind of a reverse post as usually I see this question about USA Healthcare. I have a possible opportunity to move to London for work in the near future. However, two things I am hesitant about is that my salary will be significantly less and needing good healthcare as I have a chronic illness I need to be monitored for. I am not familiar about UK Healthcare system and would like to learn more. I have it good compared to others who post here regarding health insurance. My insurance only costs me $130 a month and my out of pocket is nominal. The most I will spend a year is $3500 and that is only if I need a surgery or am hospitalized. That money is also set aside each year in a pre-tax account so I never have to worry about coming up with the funds. I…