Month: July 2023

Whats the best excuse? Indont usually call off but tomorrows slow and i want a mental health day. Whats your go to?

Coming up on his birth I knew attendance would be an issue so I tried to see what I could do to work with them. I tried to get FMLA set up for it, but they told me I hadn't been working there long enough. I was a month shy of what was required. So, when the time inevitably came and I called out for a week ( 3 days in the hospital then two days at home taking care of my fiancé with swollen feet and my newborn son) and on Friday I was told I would have to report to HR where I was given my notice of termination. With a new, one week old, son I am out every day trying to find a decent paying job to provide. It's so frustrating and difficult.

I won’t say who, because I do generally like it despite the bullshit that comes with it and it’s against the rules to talk about it on social media. It’s a blue collar job if that gives you a hint. Anyways, my supervisor referred to upper management as “corporate” and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to laugh out loud or throw up in my mouth. We’re closer to a utility in my mind. This country is fucked with capitalist brain rot.

I don't know if this is a rant or an opinion so i let you decide. The rich have money which they could't spend in dozen lifetimes. So they don't have to be crushed in long and hard work days and loose their health when they are in retirement age or even sooner. They can live off the most healthy food there is and get the best medical treatment science has to offer and with money they can pretty much solve all problems and live nearly stress-free. Today i have time off so i decided to ride with the bicycle in this summer day when nearly everybody of us folks are at work or school or whatnot. Naturally i didn't see many people on the streets. So it crossed my mind that rich folks can enjoy life as they please with their obscene wealth. This made me jealous. Even if…

no one shows up on zoom, im there from 10 minutes early until the end of the timeframe. called, no answer. gave it some time, get an email that night saying they've selected the candidate. i email the director of HR in my area directly and I get a call to come in for another interview. when they call me, the woman over the phone said they couldn't access the interview due to 'technical difficulties'. for the second interview, the lady mentioned a store location but i wasn't 100% sure where the interview would be, so i called & had to leave a voicemail with my name, number, and explaining that i was just going to assume the location otherwise. sure enough, i show up & the interview is actually at another location, 17 minutes away. this is a job i got laid off from with no notice from one…

So I just started working at a small company in the netherlands. There are only about 5 people here. We have lockers but they can't be locked, so everyone could access it. They want me to put my phone in there… but my bank pass and drivers licence is in it aswell. I told them I that I dislike the idea of leaving my valuable stuff unsupervised. They just told me that I should do it anyway and nobody will steal from my locker. I don't know these people so I'm not sure whether to trust them. Do I have the right to refuse? I don't need my phone at work, but I don't want to risk getting it stoleb. Not sure what to do in this situation.

Seriously, the amount of middle managers I have encountered in by 15+ years of professional life is astounding. Most of them are absolute brainlets who have no idea how to manage people, and have an insanely heightened sense of superiority. The job I work, I do 4 day shifts working frontline in social services for 90k a year. These guys (middle managers) are taking positions to work 5 days for 75-80k, so taking a huge paycut just so they can waste time in meetings where nothing actually gets done and they just circle jerk each other with phrases like “let’s circle back to that”. I have come to believe that all these middle management types were the kind of losers in school who were either; 1. Horrifically snarky hall monitor types, or 2; kids who were bullied relentlessly. Surely these types aren’t just in my industry? It boggles the mind…