Month: July 2023

I work in manufacturing and prior to and during covid my company had a corporate office and a manufacturing facility. Maybe 6 months or so ago the lease for the corporate building went up and corporate people became fully remote, with intentions to look at leasing another building. Fast forward to now where we have cleared out warehouse floor space to put cubes and the CEO has gradually forced many remote people to be hybrid or fully on-site. I have always been an on sight person but what is most annoying is that lately the CEO will rail against remote people during meetings, and how they need to be onsight, but he is doing so while fork lifts are beeping over him. It is so noisy and incredibly difficult to concentrate when your desk is on a warehouse floor, yet he is completely disillusioned to the fact that people don't…

I work in manufacturing and prior to and during covid my company had a corporate office and a manufacturing facility. Maybe 6 months or so ago the lease for the corporate building went up and corporate people became fully remote, with intentions to look at leasing another building. Fast forward to now where we have cleared out warehouse floor space to put cubes and the CEO has gradually forced many remote people to be hybrid or fully on-site. I have always been an on sight person but what is most annoying is that lately the CEO will rail against remote people during meetings, and how they need to be onsight, but he is doing so while fork lifts are beeping over him. It is so noisy and incredibly difficult to concentrate when your desk is on a warehouse floor, yet he is completely disillusioned to the fact that people don't…

I interviewed at a warehouse for ALDI today – what a weird experience. The interview was five minutes long, and it was mostly me asking the interviewer questions. I asked about sick time (as they mentioned 8 days of PTO per year) and they said their employees get five unpaid sick days, doctor's note required. When I asked how they mitigated food-born illness transmission (because that's not a lot, and those people are handling food, obviously), the interviewer didn't have an answer (quite literally said “What?”). I'm not sure if this is standard for all ALDI warehouses, but given the company's country of origin is Germany, I expected them to have higher standards regarding things like that. In addition, I was given conflicting information on the 8 days of PTO – the introductory video we had to watch implied that you got 8 days of PTO after 90 days of…

Never understood some corporate leadership. At a previous job I ran the IT department (pre-pandemic), was essentially the CTO at the company as I reported to the board of directors and CEO as they were my superiors. Anyways corporate policy as far as time off was considered included something called comp days. Comp days were awarded to people within your department who worked in excess of 45 hours per week and could be taken at any time, this was company wide. So I restructured the IT department to essentially always, always have comp days. As people know corporate IT is a 24/7 operation. So first thing I do is skew the schedule a bit. Instead of assigning hours, I informed desktop support that we needed onsite coverage between 7am and 7pm, then asked who wanted to be the early person, could leave early, and who was the late person, could…

Seriously what’s the point. I am a person who did everything the “right” way. Earned a BS and a PhD in a STEM field and work in a top 10 science company making good money. But All along the way, it seems like the more and better work I do, the more disappointed my managers are that I’m not “doing more”. Or that I could somehow be better despite already outperforming. Im completely burned out to be honest, and don’t see a point in working hard or caring.

im really mad about this. my boss promised me a promotion 3 months ago because of the effort and ideas ive implemented at work. ive saved them thousands and they already use my ideas on the new day to day. when i asked again about my promotion all my boss could say was “he was sorry” and “not right now”. i hate that I feel used by them.

I've given up on the thought of ever owning my own home. I am 29, I don't consume a lot, I hardly spend on anything other than basic necessities, bills and rent. I make close to minimum wage but jobs are so competitive its the only thing I can do right now. Housing prices are through the roof, everything is going up in price. All of my friends at similar ages to me are in the same position. None of us have our own home and we don't know of we ever will.

I've been given basically no work at this new job I started in mid May. A coworker emailed me saying he'd send out a meeting invite to me so he could walk me through how to do this request he got. He never sent the meeting so I'm not sure if he forgot or just did it himself. I asked my mom and sister and they both agreed it was my job to remind him. Thoughts?

I'm tired of 12 hours days building sunroofs for 200 thousand dollar cars and getting shit pay for it. I've saved. I live very cheaply in an impoverished area with very very cheap rent. I just realized that I'd rather be writing screenplays and finishing editing my novel. That's what make me feel alive. Last week my boss said that this is the best career opportunity in the area. I thought by the time I'm his age robots will be doing all this shit…even his job. In that moment I took a big step back from myself. Sadarta became the Buddha when he recalled a memory watching ants doing ant stuff. Today I got outta bed after watching my ceiling for awhile and watched some ants on my patio eating a loose french fry. I realized that out of all the times I'd watch ants that was the first time…