Month: July 2023

Seriously, when did words like “employee” and “job” change to “associate” and “role”? Language around work has subtly been changed to subconsciously create a more equal relationship between employee and employer instead of transactional (how it actually is) and we all kind of accepted it… or more like it was forced on us… But my question is, when did this actually happen? Its like I blinked and now companies had switched to this language. It feels like a Bernstein bears situation.

i hate customer service with my whole entire heart. i'm getting paid to deal with absolute fucking idiots. i'm 20f, 5'4 and 160lbs and apprently made a fully grown man feel so uncomfortably that he wants to leave our hotel and wants a full refund. he came in to complain because the carpark he's staying at overcharged him. its not out carpark as we don't have a carpark. he would not listen when i said its not our issue because its not our carpark or our charges. he said he wanted a refund because of how much hes paid for a room and parking. then changed his story and now wants a refund because he was rude. i cant think of anything i said that would be rude other than my tone of voice which in my defense its 8am and im being moaned at about something that has nothing…

i posted before about my sudden (and very unwanted) transfer at my job from one school to another (i work as a school librarian) its just been downhill from there. everything is a big mess (i wont bore everyone with the details, but suffice to say nothing has been processed properly and it will take a hell of a time trying to clean everything up and make everything ''run properly'' from the bottom up) but right now my biggest issue is the amount of presentations that i have to do. for every class that comes in to the library, i have to run a presentation for them, and there's 36, so i have to do 36 in a week. on top of my usual librarian duties of shelving, cleaning up, answering queries etc. as well as babysitting the kids that come in after school. they also need me to conduct…

I work in tech. I work from home 3-4 days a week and get paid well. I like my job and I'm happy to do it. I find it fulfilling to get paid to constantly learn new things. Do any other people who frequent this sub actually like their job?

This is something I've thought about. Simply because my employers/managers have expressed to me that they work a lot of overtime hours without charging for them, because they're over the budget for clients. (Well if I'm being completely honest, the clients asked for more revisions and work, but the managers don't want to charge, because they will lose the “bid” and possible relationship with client. I have the impression they don't have much of a choice because if they set up boundaries, another company can simply undercut them and hoard all the clients).

My shitty boss has some complex issues so he speaks very fast and in an illegible manner. After coming from some safety training, he mumbles something and I answered “what?” He said what what? I told him I didn't get what you said. He then went on to tell me that I'm impolite and the correct was is to say “excuse me” I ignored him after this comment. I don't want to use “excuse me” sentence with him neither figuratively nor literally. He is an entitled narcisst that once told me I'm a liar full of bullshit and I should have reported him back then.

My nephew works for Boston Market. In the past 2 months, they have unpaid on paid day 4 times, eventually getting pY but after weeks. Is this common for this chain? Detroit area.

Ok let's start from the beginning A few months ago I was on duty with the manager of the branch where I worked and I started to talk to him a bit about labor rights and he spit out a lot of classified information about the illegalities of the company, such as that the managers could bribe health so that they do not close them down, that they do polygraph tests to see which managers they can trust secrets, and the fact that they have so much influence in the region that they have never lost a job suit. Something like a week ago, an Instagram account that is dedicated to exposing bad practices of places that provide customer service said that it would accept testimonials from various places, including the one where I live, so I took the opportunity to publish that information and among other more obvious things,…