Month: July 2023

Basically title. I’ve gotten several good job offers for wayyy more than what I was being paid previously. Company 1 gave a higher offer with a $1 raise every 3 months, I actually already accepted their offer but while filling out their onboarding paperwork I saw that they’re requiring me to sign an arbitration agreement which gives me pause. They’re very corporate so I’m not really surprised. Company 2 is the other main job I’ve been looking at, they’re a smaller company offering me $0.50 less with a review after 6 months. They seem to have a better work environment but the pay is lower. I didn’t actually reject the second company’s offer yet, should I ask the first company if they can remove the arbitration agreement? If they won’t, should I just bite the bullet and sign or refuse and take the Company 2’s offer? I guess these are…

Here in the UK, you are required 11 hours rest time in between shifts. I checked my rota to see that I finish at 2am on Friday night, and start at 10:30am on Saturday. Giving me only 8.5 hours in between. I’m not fucking doing that. I spoke to my manager (GM is on holiday, and he didnt write this weeks rotas,) who instantly got defensive and said he couldnt change it. He tried to say “well I’m having to do 40 hours this weekend,” and I go “okay, thats on you. I’m not doing that because its illegal, and I need rest.” He doubled down and insisted that there was nothing he could do about it, so I said “I either start at 12, or finish at 12.” He finally caved and changed it. I now have 10.5 hours in between shifts, which is still illegal, but I know…

A few months ago, I was looking for a new job because I couldn't deal with my last one anymore. Found a good one – a step up from what I was doing. I'm now the head of a housekeeping team. Pay was advertised as £11.50-£12.50 an hour. Fully expected the lower range as I don't have much supervisory experience. Once I got the job and was at the induction, I was informed the pay was actually £11 an hour. Okay, sure. Whatever. (I'd already signed the contract so couldn't complain – complicated story that I've posted about before). I was told that two weeks into my job, we'd talk about taking on extra supervisory type tasks, like ordering supplies and such. Started the job two months ago. Last month's pay was at minimum wage – £10.42 an hour. I spoke with my boss about it and she said: “Your…

My gf and I started dating before I got this job. She referred me, I got the job, we hid our relationship. We kept it professional and checked if we violated policy. We didn’t, I’m not her subordinate. Fast forward, some kangaroo court and game of thrones type drama happened. Some drama queen and honestly the most ratchet individual I know started gunning for us. Her subordinate. HR recognized our relationship and put some paper trail for it. Nothing but suddenly, more drama and now this: She texts me “we have to ‘end out relationship’”. She’s now on a final warning and it’s expected that I’ll be receiving another disciplinary action soon. I wanna put my two weeks in right away but I really need to be smarter. I’ve contacted a lawyer in the hopes that they can help me file for unemployment. Our plan is for me to exit…

I graduated high school in 2013 with honors. I went right to university, and couldn't settle on a major. I figured out I had some serious mental health issues a couple years in, but pushed myself to try and overcome them. I failed. I got kicked out. I have 60k in debt now. I tried online university. I failed. I gave up. I live with my parents now, and my mental health is too poor to hold down any sort of job. I help my dad with his business now and then, but even that is starting to feel impossible. But I don't qualify for disability assistance. I 'only' have depression, anxiety, and adhd. I can't cope with them, even with drugs and therapy. So I'm expected to slave away at a minimum wage job that will never get me out of this shitty small town and be thankful I…

Hey there. I'm somewhat of a team leader and I want to know what some people think of my trainees and my opinion. I'm a production operator for a factory. 3 months into a job, my superior resigned, and I got unwillingly pushed into being the senior operator. I've worked at this place before but had nowhere near the knowledge and responsibility as I do now. I'm now at month 7. The job requires that you show up on time everyday. It is a demanding job, and requires some intelligence and a lot of care, otherwise you could cost the company thousands of dollars a day. When you get good at the job though, it becomes IMO pretty easy and chill. I've had 3 trainees the last 4 months. I feel that all of them are so useless, and everybody I explain my situation to agrees with me, but I'd…

I worked for him for 4 years and when I told them I'm resigning, the conversation soured when I brought up severance, and I was dismissed immediately and excused from training my successor – but not before letting me know how “generous” they were with a past employee, whom they paid as she transitioned to a new job. But I don't get that luxury after making enough content for them to last the next several years, for some unspoken reason that has never been indicated in a single performance review (I assume, it's for having the audacity to ask for the money, instead of just hoping they'd give me some). None of the editors are allowed to reach out to me to ask me any questions about the huge backlog of content I created. He's fucked over his team for the next several years, all for a few thousand dollars,…