Month: July 2023

Two years of working and they won't approve of my leave request. I asked them a few weeks in advance but they said I have to inform 3 months in advance. I'm at my breaking point. I wanted to visit my family in another country. The company doesn't pay me enough to afford anything but flight tickets to another country (and only after saving for a long time), and they won't approve of my leave. They don't even give a good enough reason, they just don't want to encourage leaves that are planned quickly (three weeks in advance is not enough apparently). I think this is it for me. The thought of quitting has already made me feel kind of at peace.

I'm a receptionist. I like my job, but I get bored. My only task is to sit at my desk everyday and greet people/answer their questions. I think roughly 5 people come everyday. What can I do to kill time? I'm reading a book on my PC, but I get tired of reading for hours straight. What else can I do? I don't want anyone to notice that I'm “not working”, so I don't want to draw or listen to music, for example. I want suggestions of things I can do with only my browser (I can't install anything on the PC).

I applied to what looked like my dream, part-time position in February. This was with a crown corporation (government owned but operates like a private business with corporate partners) so it was able to offer me amazing pay and great health benefits. It's hours also were great, which I was so excited for because throughout my job search, I had difficult finding jobs that were actually part-time. I am in my Masters and need a little extra space to do school stuff. I didn't hear back from them until around mid March. This isn't unheard of and I was still looking for jobs so I was happy to get a response. Over the next 2 months, I went through THREE interviews. One of them was in person and 1.5 hours long. They all went really, really well. The in-person interview went so well that the man who would be my…

I had an interview at Company D on June 14th, and had orientation on the 16th. Long story short, I wasn't put on the schedule until today after calling the manager, the store, then the district manager. I had an interview at Company B on July 6th, and was able to start on the next day (might be a red flag, but I have bills to pay). I called Company D yesterday to tell them that I quit, then got a call from their district manager. I was asked why I quit when I was trying to get on the schedule for three weeks. I told them that I started a new job a couple days ago. I was told that quitting without notice was rude of me to do, and that I'm now on their do not hire list. Like, I don't know how to explain to them that…

Rant incoming. I’m a member of a 3 person team. Let’s call my coworkers Marie and Zoe. Marie is my boss, and Zoe is a coworker. Zoe has worked here much longer than Marie. Zoe’s former boss retired and Marie took her place. We work in our companies HR department. I started during the height of COVID in 2020. I was in-office. Marie was as well. We wore masks and distanced. Zoe was approved by the owners to be work-from-home because she has small children. Marie and I do not have kids. Come summer of 2022, Zoe had still not returned to office. Despite her children going to school in person again. The owners approved her to be permanently work from home due to her tenure and reputation. To be clear, work from home is AGAINST our company policy. It’s in the handbook. Fast forward a few months later to…

I texted this morning that I was going to be in a little late because I was actually having some stomach issues. But just as I was heading to work, I got a text telling me not to come in and my manager’s manager would call me later and at that point I knew what was about to happen. 2 hours later, they called me let me know I was terminated. Reason for the firing is because I came into work late too many times. But otherwise, they thought I did my job well and I was pleasant. Just another way employers want control over you when you don’t work from home… It was hard to be motivated for work when there’s barely any work to do and it’s the mundane type of work available. I literally would walk into work waiting for work to be assigned to me for…

Please tell me if im being overdramatic or not but im super pissed off right now and ready to walk out if it didn't mean tanking my finances. For context I work 4, 10 hour shifts a week fri-mon. The pay periods are counted from sun-sat, so my work week is split between them. I'm in WA state if that makes a difference. My company offered time and a half for the Juneteenth holiday. It fell on a Monday, and i came in an hour early and worked 11 hours. I picked up an aditional 10 hour shift that week on Thursday. I worked 51 hours total, 11 of which was on a holiday, so I should have gotten 21 hours of time and a half and 30 hours of regular pay. I was only paid 11 hours of time and a half. Apparently, hours worked on a holiday don't…