Month: July 2023

Rant incoming, sorry in advance. I'm a tech worker that got laid off back in April. Been struggling to find work since. I've had plenty of interviews at this point, I feel like I have it down to a science, but the part that's bothered me the most took place today. Due to the lack of work and UI getting close to drying up, I dropped an application to work at the gas station chain down the block to have a job to hold me over till I find my next position. Since then, I have interviewed with a Store Manager, had another interview with a District Manager, and they're scheduling a third interview with two other managers. When did a retail gig at a gas station become a 3+ interview process? It happens in my field of work, and I kind of ignored it, thinking it had something to…

So, up until Monday, I was a lead shipper/receiver and forklift operator for a regional health care company. I supervised five people in my department. Unlike many industries, we never shuttered during COVID. We kept everyone throughout the pandemic. What's more, nobody caught COVID during the time due to, well…due diligence on our part, as well as having a COVID immunization clinic that came to our door. So, while the office staff was successful in negotiating raises to stay at home, we got to thinking: our cost of living has gone up. Gas became more expensive, and we still have to come in, why aren't we allowed a sizeable raise? I mean, the sales staff only have to come in one every two weeks for half a day, why should they get a big raise when we still had to drive in each day? HR came in twice a week…

Hi guys, so I found out yesterday that the managers at my place of work are making up lies about me and over exaggerating my write ups to the General Manager. Two days ago, I got into an altercation with an employee because she decided to run off and not do her job knowing that we were very busy. It was very stressful doing the job by myself and it made me very anger knowing that I didn’t have to do it by myself and that she was simply just slacking off. So I get into an argument with her about how she’s just lazy and she can’t just abandoned her position for like an hour with no warning. Anyway one of the managers found out about this and I get written up for “being aggressive with other coworkers” when I explained she was slacking off and that’s why I…

So I have read plenty of stories on this sub regarding managers waiting until the last possible minute to try and train a replacement because nobody thought to think ahead. I had it a little bit different in that I was the only guy who knew how to do not only my main duties, but also about half a dozen additional things and I tried way too hard to get others trained to do it all so it wasn't all on me. Not including my normal duties, the extras that I did saved the company about $4-5k per month because I was able to do them in-house rather than contract it out (it also saved weeks of time.) Prime example: imagine swag for businesses. They have an internal (or external) website to showcase what everyone can buy that had the company's logo splashed on everything. We would need images created…

This is a rant from my formal retail days. I have seen middle-aged women throw themselves on the ground, scream at 100 decibels, claim to have heart cancer and asthma attacks and all types of things when they don't get their way. American women seem to enjoy acting like the biblical whore of Babylon or Satan's mistress. These women are conduits for actual demonic activity. Nobody acted like this in the 80s or 90s. Somehow, society changed.

was on vacation earlier last month, during that time I was invited to a number of meetings of a local professional organization, comprising of a number of colleagues in my area. I turned them down because I had that vacation scheduled for months (it was actually a baby moon). Reached out to the chair of said employe organization asking if they could cover a large event that would be happening during my maternity leave and they said, “I should be able to, because I never take vacation”. NOT a flex my dude, actually its kind of depressing. I replied, “Great! If you decide to take your extremely deserved vacation anytime before then, I’d be happy to sub- just let me know “. ​ i'm so tired of vacation making people look lazy! Everytime someone tells me that they dont take vacation time, I straight up lecture them. IMO if you're…