Month: July 2023

i just needed a place to vent this to be honest. like most people, the state of the world has me hurting pretty badly financially. i work at a resturant and they just keep giving me less and less hours. max 15 a week. so, i decided to go and get a second job at a retail store. i applied for full time, asked for full time and told i would get full time. and now they are scheduling me 24 hours a week. i am so beyond frustrated. i dont understand. im more than willing to work, i show up everyday for both jobs, i have expressed verbally and in written form that i desire full time hours AT BOTH JOBS! how am i supposed to live when having two jobs is barely getting me full time.

I’ve been working for 10 years (early 30’s) across the gamut of companies. I’ve worked for a medium-sided private company, a global public company and a teeny tiny startup. The longest I’ve lasted at any given job was 3 years and the majority of the time I hated it there (see definition of Disgruntled Employee). I get super excited signing a job offer, doing something new, changing it up. But right around the 6-9 month mark the newness wears off and I end up resenting the job I once thought was an amazing opportunity. The oppression of mundanity, lack of art/creativity and stifled culture of corporate jobs sits in and I get really unsettled. I can’t possibly do this for another 30 years, sacrificing my existence on this planet to pay bills for just being here. Like, why are we all paying so much to simply exist? Food, housing, clothing,…

I'm located in Chicago, Illinois (US) and for a few months I was working at a new franchise location of a tax business. I'm disabled and generally not able to work but because the owner was sort of a family friend (we had a client/service relationship because we've been clients of hers at her other business for years), I got special accommodations and was able to work. I was paid for my work in March, but she did not pay me at all for April or May. She paid me once a month using Paychex. In June, I quit because I wasn't being paid and it's July now and I'm still not being paid. She canceled an appointment with her at her other business, so clearly she got my resignation email (which she never acknowledged) because it made her uncomfortable or something to continue the client/service relationship. I don't have…

This goes all the way back to the winter holidays for me. I had to work all but one of the post/pre holiday dates while my coworkers and boss were off (day after Christmas, day after Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve) you get the idea. Over the last 7 months my coworkers, and boss, have been off work and out early/in late countless times for numerous reasons. I literally have lost count. I feel like I have been at work by myself either all day, or part of the days, more often than I have had someone here to help. Whatever. I like working alone. So that’s not really the issue. I finally take a vacation. I was overdue for one. I took 5 work days off. I get back today thinking I would have at least one coworker here. Nope. I am by myself. Again. My boss came in for…

ie. “Where do you see this company in five years?” “What is your company’s greatest weakness?”

It’s never the job or the tasks itself that are unbearable, it’s always the people. It’s the cliquey nature people, it’s the competitive nature of people, it’s the way people will try to sabotage you and get you fired, it’s the way you can be so nice to people and they still hate you. It’s people always talking shit about each other, trying to get over on each other. It’s sick and makes me never want to work again. I hate dealing with people, it’s not enjoyable for the most part. Even jobs I’ve had with people I could tolerate I always thought of quitting on the days the dynamics just got too messy. People are unpredictable and can like you one day and turn on you the next, completely exhausting

I am 37, a qualified electrician where I have been in London for the past 11 years. Started as a labourer, and renting near central london in a flatshare. Pretty much was plenty left after groceries and rent paid. Now despite a.considerable wage bump, I living 15 miles from central london (still flatshare), and between groceries, highly costly and overrated public transport, also re supplying my own tools and training, there is fuck all left. Properties cost almost.double.than is 10 years, but yet the tradesmen that make get roughly the same. What is the point? Better go back to portugal, at least I won't pay rent, be near my family and still be poor. I'm really surprised how the masses are so passive about this. Like “it is what it is”, what a waste of a generation Edit: apologies for the poor language

I just want to say thank you to this subreddit. As a manager and team lead, I often read this subreddit for tips on what NOT to do (not that I would ever do things I read about here because I’m not an asshole). I was laid off last week and all I kept hearing in my head was “HR is not your friend.” She was my personal friend but not my friend. She works for the company. Anyway, I don’t wish her any ill will. The point I am trying to make is that I’ve learned so much more from this subreddit. As I re-enter the hell that is searching for a job, I now confidently sift through jobs that are worthy of /my/ time. For example, I mistakenly applied for an insurance job… took the interview and as soon as I saw that I was on a zoom…