Month: July 2023

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…

I wrote an email requesting a pay rise coupled with promotion. My director agreed and advised that GM wanted me to complete a training. I applied for the training, was accepted, then later told I was withdrawn. Again this happened a second time. Found out today from HR, that the training is not available until I am a red band manager. Yet I cannot be made that band until I complete the training. Have a meeting with my director and HR director tomorrow to discuss. Already 6 weeks have passed since my initial communication about salary and role change. My question:. How do I best go about this. In my mind I wanted the increases to happen already, and not my fault the training is not made available.

Bring the old antiwork back. Why did we let the stupid Fox News thing destroy us? Let’s wreak some more havoc online for real world effect! Bring back the old ways of the old days 🙂

I recently changed jobs for one that offered me too much money to refuse. A lot of the people that work there were actually ex employees from my current work at the time so I was thinking the work culture would be relatively the same… but I was wrong So with my new job I noticed people don’t really take lunch breaks, or coffee breaks. Which I thought was weird but ok. I’ve also been starting work half an hour before everyone and only taking 30mins to each my lunch in the office. A lot of the time I’ve still worked until COB because of meetings and generally people asking for my help. So I’ve been working an extra hour most days since I started. Finally one Friday I got sick of it, I had finished all my work that I needed to get done that week and packed up…