Month: July 2023

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…

I work 60+ hours a week at a plant that manufactures automobile parts. It was a temporary job I got after losing my old one, hired on through a quick temp agency. It sucks, but it keeps me alive. I live in a small town (less than 10k population) thus there isn't many places elsewhere local to work. We have fast food, Walmart, a few mom & pop shops, and that's everything else we have to offer. Obviously I want to find a full time job that doesn't require as many hours. Finding work here is hard enough, but when you, as an employer, go onto local Facebook groups and scream “WE'RE HIRING ANYONE WITH ARMS & LEGS WHO CAN PICK UP BOXES AND WORK MONDAY – FRIDAY” get applicants and then never call anyone back, THEN complain about “no one wants to work” – have you ever thought that…

I think because I know I'm out the door, even the small things I would normally have brushed off here are making me irrationally mad. This is the first time I've ever actually put in a two week notice. Before this, I would just simply stop coming in when I decided I was done with the place. Jobs don't give anyone a notice when they're gonna get fired or laid off so why should we give them a two week notice?? These two weeks have just reaffirmed I am making the right decision by leaving. I hate this fuckin place.