Month: July 2023

Today I got asked for what days I may need off in august by my manager, I told her I would need the 17th and 18th off and was told no, I’d have to work those days because other people have holiday hours coming up and it would mean there was only 2 people in the store if I was to get it off and two in the back. Personal I think our very small and low stakes consignment store I work at for minimum wage would do fine for two days if we were one person under staffed. I wanted the days off for a rave a few cities over that my friends and I have been planning for awhile (I didn’t tell my manager that lol). I’m only 21 and turn the legal drinking age over the pandemic in Canada so I haven’t had a lot of time…

I’m a manager at a company. I have chronic pain, migraines, anxiety attacks, etc. I work through all of it. The job benefits? Trash. No PTO, no vacation days, no sick days, no 401K, no overtime pay, and holiday pay is a “privilege” that corporate decides. I’ve searched for a job with better benefits, similar work, flexible hours, and better pay. No luck so far. I had a coworker I’ll call Melody. Melody started a few years after me but we were promoted near the same time. While I worked 45 to 50 hr weeks, she worked maybe 20 to 25. I didn’t have an issue with that. When Melody quit, she requested an exit interview and bashed me. Saying that she didn’t like working with me because I didn’t do any work and I took too long to do tasks when I did work. When upper level management questioned…

I worked for this large electronics retailer for over 14 years. I started as a part timer and bounced around until I found my way into the back end side of the company: warehouse. I was a rare commodity for this retailer, I'm self motivated and I work hard because I feel it reflects on me. I don't need any supervision, just tell me what needs to be done and I will do my best. I did, basically, the same job the whole time and became a master of my craft. Eventually a coworker joined me on the other side of the warehouse and became one of my best friends. Between the two of us we kept things going: paperwork, training, product flow, store set up, etc. To keep a very long back story shorter, the store became very dependent on us, more than we realized. I decided I wanted…