Month: July 2023

Just a real short post. I feel like it's disgraceful and disgusting that we must work so hard and so much just to be able to barely scrap by and that life was meant for living. Not working. And given a lot of people's mentality on the while “nobody wants to work anymore” thing it makes me feel like I am an irresponsible adult and am extremely selfish/lazy for feeling that way. But I don't want to waste my life working so hard just to ensure my own survival. I want to live life and just…. be. What's so wrong about that? I want work to be an option, not a literal do or die. If you work to live then are you truly living?

So context. I work for a delivery service and well we have been experiencing truck issues. Today my manager reached out and stated I would not have a truck to run tomorrow. Cool I made other plans. Fast forward 2 hours he texts me to tell me a truck became available. I inform him I can not run as I made other plans based on his earlier message. He replies I need you to run tomorrow. I inform him one more time I can not. I screenshot the message and forward it to who other than HR. They said the expectation is to run? I informed her that I made plans based on the information I was provided and wouldn’t be in. Her response was that she reached out to my managers boss to inform him and make sure that my manager would not reach out to me based on…

I work for a family-owned business Last year, the owner, Leo passed away of cancer. The place was booming when he was still here but now his nephew was taking over and the place has gone to trash The nephew was here maybe an hour a week tops goes on vacation like four times a year The customers are tired of never having a manager to talk to, never having menu items, the urinal in the men's room overflows into the floor so the men's room always smells like piss The non-existent manager says he's focusing on moving to the new location and keep talking about how we're moving so but we've been “moving soon” for about 3 years I was in the new building maybe two or three months ago and literally nothing is done Meanwhile this building continues to fall apart This is disappointing because he took what…

I’m aggressively pursuing a new job because I hate my current job/boss/everything. I am salaried with an “unlimited PTO” policy. I’d like to overlap the new job with the old one as much as possible so as to not interrupt my health care coverage, and potentially make a little extra money. How do I go about this? Just call in sick till they fire me? FWIW I don’t care about employment history or anything like that, I’m finishing a degree in biochemistry and moving away from the industry entirely.

Interviewed at an ABA place and the owner informed me I would have to pay for my own $80 background check before I could start working at MINIMUM WAGE. Then they dropped $100 on a class that can be found online (accredited) for free. Maybe I’m the asshole but I personally think you should run a background check on any potential childcare employees BEFORE you let them tour the building full of children. Also Karen, unprofessionalism is forgetting to write down our first interview date. Unprofessionalism is not showing up to the interview you’re conducting. But pop off.

Title says it all. Any advice on how to word a response would be appreciated. Serious only please.

I've noticed that I manage to complete my tasks at an efficient rate. But I've spoken to a couple of people, and they've all discouraged me, because it could get me in trouble, even though I'm doing the job right and getting things done. How can this pose a problem?

TL;DR my life is rapidly crumbling all around me, and i have no hope for a future. I’ve been working in retail for almost a decade now, 7 years total, and i’ve finally hit a wall. Though this wall i’ve hit isn’t what i was expecting. for context i’m 26 and i was recently diagnosed late in life with Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). And on top of that, i was also diagnosed with PTSD. This wall i’ve hit is no joke, i’ve been experiencing autistic work burnout for almost a year now. It started at my last job, and now it’s carried to my current job. Along with that i’ve been having intense panic attacks about work, attacks so paralyzing that i’ve been missing large chunks of work. My current job, i enjoy it but my managers haven’t been the most helpful while i’ve been seeking diagnosis and…