Month: July 2023

I currently work for a small family business where the father owns the company and his daughter is my manager. I've been there for one year and I am blown away by how much she gets away with and the amount of problems she causes. She misses deadlines left and right, she spirals a lot so it is impossible to have a productive conversation with her, and she is constantly MIA on her remote days (and when I finally do hear from her, it's at 4:30pm, when my workday is ending). It boggles my mind. She invents imaginary hurdles that make our lives harder, but if she doesn't have things done her way (which she deems the “proper” way), she loses her mind. She's so dead set in following these ancient/broken procedures that she's created that she would rather miss deadlines than skip any singular step in her process. It's…

I work a desk job, 12 hour shifts, sometimes 14. Although my job has minimal physical movement, I am exhausted everyday. Mentally , emotionally, and yes, physically. I am 26 years old but feel like I’m in my 40’s. I used to love moving around and being active , working out every day and feeling my youth. Now I workout 3 times a week sometimes, with nowhere near the same energy, I have gained an insane amount of weight , I’m depressed, im frustrated, I hate my job. I chose money over my preferred lifestyle and I paid for it gravely. I feel stuck and in a rut I have never ever felt before..

Posting from my xxx alt account for anonymity. I am a senior manager of a company I helped build. Over the past few years we went from being a market leader to struggling to meet our bills. There's been a lot of mistakes, trying to pivot into markets we weren't familiar with etc etc, but it all boils down to the directors megalomania and her greed. My disgruntlement comes from a new venture the director started, about 2 years ago I mentioned that this is going to be a resource heavy project and we should consider selling the initial company we had to both fund the new venture and to ensure we have the staff to execute it. She didn't want to let go of a profitable company, though gave no regard to her staff who she's over working and underpaying, me included. Then a bad hire proceeded to run…

Hi! I was hoping to get some coaching for my (first) yearly review coming up. I work as a technician in multi-specialty ophthalmology office. I entered as entry level, I only had 2 years of optometry (just vision exams vs medical issues) experience and was awe struck by the $5 bump from a box office to such a high end office and didn't think to negotiate at the time. I'm expecting to be offered 50 whole cents extra an hour and I have half an ovary to tell my boss to keep such a disrespectful offer. I live in Florida (Tampa Bay) and our minimum wage is on schedule to go to $15 within the next couple of years (entry level techs get paid $17) so I know I want to ask what steps the company is going to take to ensure I'm not making only $2-3 more than minimum…

I work at a job I hate with a passion. I'm only there because I have no other choice. My choices are limited because I'm chronically ill but not sick enough I guess for disability. I work in retail because that's all I've ever done. I don't mind dealing with the public since most people are nice to me. The pay is horrible and the back breaking work while dealing with health problems is disgusting. Right now I'm making only 13 something an hour with little benefits. My old job before the company was sold off in pieces I would make double that. I was sick there too with my chronic health. Then I was screwed over by a corrupt judge for disability. Since being at this job I've added more health problems to my life. Before I had idiopathic gastroparesis and a back that would get really bad at…

I’m on mobile while typing this. I’m just kinda sad that one of my managers (A) is turning into a yes woman for the company. She was really nice when she came on and she was hired as an employee at first. “A” was then hired as a manager when another manager got fired for showing up drunk and selling a car at the store. “A” was at first a really laid back manager. Let us listen to music on shifts, was lax on when we did the closing announcements (letting us do it 15 minutes before closing time; others have us do it 5 minutes before), and trusted us to do our sections. Now she’s on us constantly, doesn’t let us listen to music, and is strict on closing announcements. It sucks and I’m sad to see her turn into this. She’s only been with the company less than…