Month: July 2023

It’s cheap scheduling practices, I work the retail counter alone in the afternoons and they make me take my break shortly after I get to work so the person working the morning shift can cover my station while I’m breaking. As a result I’m on my feet for 7 hours straight which is very difficult for me due to an ankle injury. Last time I asked if I could take my break later my manager told me that the person working the morning shift would have to stay overtime to cover at the retail counter while I’m on my break. Didn’t explicitly say no, but he framed it such that I would be the asshole for keeping this person, who also worked 8 hours in the morn, from going home. I haven’t worked many restaurant jobs so idk if this is standard practice, but it’s def annoying. For sure not…

I imagine I’m kinda the opposite to most of you. I **love** my work, probably to an unhealthy degree. It’s all I think about. I’d happily do it for free if I had to. I love Mondays and despise weekends. ​ could someone help me with ideas to become more… normal? Like, when y’all go “Thank God it’s friday!”, what are you looking forward to? Sleeping in? Having coffee with friends? Basically, how does someone experience happiness when not at work?

This may not be true anti-work, but it involves less work and going against social norms. Hello, I have 4 years experience in software engineering at financial institutions with 3 at my current company. I am 100% remote and am an individual contributer. I want to go to school in Molecular Biology and cell science for a BS and work towards a PhD in statistical genomics. School is too expensive. While I may get scholarships, the opportunity cost to my income and 401k are massive. Thus, I want to try talking to my manager about my company's reduced schedule professional program that allows a 3 day work week with full benefits. The key wording of the program is how this will positively impact the company. My team has a great work life balance and has very rarely worked more than 40 hours a week the past 3 years. I've been…

After working 5 years in a department store I've become a little jaded towards the useless unpaid meetings before our shifts and have started to clock in 3-5 minutes before my shift starts rather than the expected 10 minutes. Every morning the general manager does a roll call and comments on people's absences. HR noticed that I'm supposedly “hiding in the back” during this time and called a meeting with my manager to discuss this with me. While they reassured me that they love my work the message of the meeting was “we're not scolding you. It's just really frowned upon and the gm doesn't like it.” One of the examples they shared of super important info I was missing out on was the free ice cream available that day in a particular room. They forgot that I'm not 12 years old lol After my manager left HR guy decided…

Hi! I’ll put a little backstory here so you understand the thing better. So I’m 18F working for a retail company for a year and a half. I been doing a great job, closing my eyes on some things cause I worked there full time. My supervisor, a woman around 45yo keep saying things soo negative, it’s always negative at the work place. Always scared to do something that will make the employees leave, even gaslighting us women and wanting us to show skin to sell more. Kept my eyes closed until I’ve decided to resign. The manager was fine with my decision, but I needed to replace her because of her holidays. Ive been working 7days a week for a whole month. And the supervisor, so condescending with me, all the time. The workplace began to be a kindergarten, and I have to clean after everyone, even after my…

I recently left a toxic company and am waiting to start a new role. Today I was talking to a friend from the old workplace and they told me that someone from a completely different department got fired just after I left and the management told the person who got fired that it was because I left, and that me leaving means they need to restructure everything in the company. I'd only been at the company six months so I was definitely not so fundamental that they'd need to restructure anything, and besides I worked in a completely different department. Feel pretty lousy that the management would use me as an excuse for their dirty work.