bc port workers have been off the job since the 1st of july to ensure the bcmea will stop contracting out maintenance and share theyre record profits in order to gain higher wages for its workers! remember folks unions work for us all fuck the company!
My job has high turnover, long hours and more than its share of issues, but I swear there are days where half of it spent listening to complaints or even joining in on them. I'm a level-headed college graduate who busted his ass to get to middle management in a career that's the polar opposite of my degree, rubbing elbows with dropouts, the absent-minded ghetto and ex-cons. I complain more, the team openly curses (even at regional management level), and no other company has so much as responded to my applications in over a year of trying, so I'm feeling pretty stuck in a negative environment. My home life is a happy marriage with two young, amazing children in a nice part of town. I do it for them, but man, this can't be the thing I do until retirement.
This happened a few Months ago. I'm a student and worked as a receptionist with minimum wage in Germany. The job itself was fine and i liked working there. Well up until we had a switch in Management. The new Manager seemed pretty incompetent and lazy from the start, no Idea why she got the Position in the first place. She demanded evenings after work, every month, for “Teambuilding”. Those consisted of tasks she would give us that we had to solve in groups and present to the other group. The tasks were dumb and not really applicable in the real World, but at least we got payed OT so it was fine. At the end of the last “Teambuilding exercise” she had something to say to me in Front of the Team. 2 weeks earlier a coworker called in sick and i picked up the Phone. I asked If…
I recently moved to a new city and got a job at a tourist attraction. At the interview they said they were hiring for both seasonal and permanent full-time. I told them I would only be interested in a permanent position. They said of course no problem. I got hired and honestly this is probably the easiest job I've ever had, I don't want to quit and generally have no complaints about the work atmosphere. However I wasn't too happy when I discovered that I had been coded as a seasonal employee. I asked my direct supervisor about it, and they told me that over the summer everyone is coded as seasonal, but that I'd be welcome to stay past the season if I wanted to. Around this time, the director of Human Resources sent me an application for health insurance. It's a really good insurance plan by American standards.…
Management is all over me about what is showing in the system as incomplete but is actually physically completed. We'll let's see I spent the entire last week training someone who literally every single step asked me what to do next; despite the fact I'd repeatedly gone over it with them as they were doing it & they had EXTENSIVE notes on it. Every 5 seconds & I mean EVERY 5 seconds I was interrupted to explain it again. This is a very easy job, so I get why each step is such a mystery. In addition just because I process stuff in the system doesn't mean the crew doing the physical work has actually gotten to the work yet. Also when the paperwork was returned I don't know if it was handed to me to complete & I overlooked it (I have done that before & I'll take full…
Maybe I am over-personalizing, but in general I am not self-centered. My ex-employer posted a job for the position I left at a nonprofit. It came as an email in my inbox so I happened to see it. In the posting they specified what they were looking for and what they were NOT looking for. In the NOT section, they listed all of my weaknesses/small flaws that were my pain-points during reviews. Some of them were so petty, minor, and specific (and honestly just part of being human) that it made the job posting look ridiculous. They also posted more responsibilities for this person (it’s now two roles in one… TITLE 1 plus TITLE 2 Director) and less pay than I made… but I digress. One example specifically – I struggled with my dyslexia on certain tasks and had trouble with proofreading. (Though proofreading wasn’t even a main feature of…
Maybe I am over-personalizing, but in general I am not self-centered. My ex-employer posted a job for the position I left at a nonprofit. It came as an email in my inbox so I happened to see it. In the posting they specified what they were looking for and what they were NOT looking for. In the NOT section, they listed all of my weaknesses/small flaws that were my pain-points during reviews. Some of them were so petty, minor, and specific (and honestly just part of being human) that it made the job posting look ridiculous. They also posted more responsibilities for this person (it’s now two roles in one… TITLE 1 plus TITLE 2 Director) and less pay than I made… but I digress. One example specifically – I struggled with my dyslexia on certain tasks and had trouble with proofreading. (Though proofreading wasn’t even a main feature of…
The employee/employer is transactional at every moment. Taking on additional work load in the expectation that this will garner you loyalty or reciprocity is naive at best. I have watched the worst employees refuse every ask by management to receive raises at every opportunity, retention bonus’s, offers of extra pay for additional roles. At the same time, I have watched try hard go getters take on all the extra responsibility they can handle, and receive less than the guys who refuse the extra tasks because they could not complete the additional work load on top of everything else they need to do already. I have seen those same people shocked when they expect reciprocity from the business, and get told to kick rocks. Make no mistake, there is absolutely no loyalty at the work place. The management class will promote sycophants and yea men, and turn on you if supporting…
The employee/employer is transactional at every moment. Taking on additional work load in the expectation that this will garner you loyalty or reciprocity is naive at best. I have watched the worst employees refuse every ask by management to receive raises at every opportunity, retention bonus’s, offers of extra pay for additional roles. At the same time, I have watched try hard go getters take on all the extra responsibility they can handle, and receive less than the guys who refuse the extra tasks because they could not complete the additional work load on top of everything else they need to do already. I have seen those same people shocked when they expect reciprocity from the business, and get told to kick rocks. Make no mistake, there is absolutely no loyalty at the work place. The management class will promote sycophants and yea men, and turn on you if supporting…
The employee/employer is transactional at every moment. Taking on additional work load in the expectation that this will garner you loyalty or reciprocity is naive at best. I have watched the worst employees refuse every ask by management to receive raises at every opportunity, retention bonus’s, offers of extra pay for additional roles. At the same time, I have watched try hard go getters take on all the extra responsibility they can handle, and receive less than the guys who refuse the extra tasks because they could not complete the additional work load on top of everything else they need to do already. I have seen those same people shocked when they expect reciprocity from the business, and get told to kick rocks. Make no mistake, there is absolutely no loyalty at the work place. The management class will promote sycophants and yea men, and turn on you if supporting…