Month: July 2023

I don’t know where to begin. Just lost my job earlier this week. It was for a startup. I was there since day 1 when we officially opened. Off the record I basically founded the company. I built and started 3 departments in the 2 years I’ve been there. Bosses told me many times I was invaluable and have made more significant promises and told me things in confidence that I’ve never had any another employer say. All this to say, I genuinely believed we were friends and that my position was pretty secure considering everything I’ve done and the insane amount of hours I consistently put in. I won’t take you through all of that though. Quick timeline leading up to the present day: – May 19th I was given a raise because of how great I’ve been doing – New Management started a week or 2 after that…

Hi all, I need help my friend and me grew up from poor to what you would call upper middle class. But I am worried that my friend has begun getting very conservative and problematic. I try to explain to him about college students and debt and forgiveness. When I talk to him about increasing the minimum wage he always has a stat to prove me wrong. he is licensed in finance. What I need is a stat/ link to sources that can confirm a minimum wage increase would help the economy instead of keeping it the same and maybe some talking points. He believes it would just balance out the economy and we would be back to square one. Idk how to talk to him. On the one hand, is very smart and knowledgeable about the economy but believes in “poverty wages”, but on the other hand idk if…

Here is yet another tale on why you should always do the bare minimum. I worked in IT security for a large bank in the Midwest. My only job was assigning security access to user accounts when access was needed to certain apps. When I started the job, I was trained by a group of 6 guys who did the same work. They shared a 6 person cubicle together. These guys drove to work together and went to lunch together every day. I was never invited into their clique. But they were nice to me for the most part. We'd get about 200 tickets per day for access requests. After a few weeks of working, I started to get to know some of the people who sent tickets to me requesting access. I started to understand why they needed their tickets done quickly. It was never a problem for me…

I just needed to rant for a second and this is just the place. I moved last month to a new city and have enough savings to get me by for probably at least one more month. I’m a full time student and have been looking for a part time job so i can pay for rent, groceries, etc., but every place i’ve applied hasn’t worked out. I’ve been job hunting for about two months now and nothing. I started before i even moved and nothing. I applied to a barnes and noble and my “qualifications don’t match” which makes sense cause i have only ever waitressed but i love books and i knew if i had the chance to interview that they would love me. I interviewed at a restaurant and the guy said he wanted to hire me and is basically ghosting me about when i can actually…

I’ve lived in America for my entire life and obviously struggle to see how any other country “does it better” than us. I’ve tried educating myself on other countries similar to us but there’s always some weird catch that wouldn’t line up with my future lifestyle (I’m currently a teen). For example Sweden is nice but the housing shortages and ban on homeschooling make it not worth it to me. I find similar “deal breaker” issues in other countries as well that America doesn’t have a as bad as a problem with. I just want a country that: Doesn’t outlaw LGBTQ+ people Allows homeschooling Isn’t extremely, crazy religious Has cities (isn’t deserted) Taxes aren’t ridiculously high Any ideas? I really can’t think of anything.

Basically my dept has seven positions. As of last week there are now only four of us. One being our supervisor and we have an offsite regional manager who stops in once every couple weeks. (Very large company 5000+ employees)Our hiring dept has dragged their feet and been overly particular when finding us additional help. Currently we are covering as best as we can (three different shifts) but some shifts now end up not having coverage because we already are working 12-15 hr shifts. Is this the time for the four of us to go ask for a raise? We have discussed it but I figured could get some feedback. All of us have been here since our new facility opened since 2022 but have not gotten performance reviews or any raise. The company itself has been around for 20 years. Thoughts?

So little bit of back story. I started working a sales position in a store. I don’t work for the store, I work in it. According to the training I did 3 months ago when I was hired. Repeatedly told me I do NOT work for store. when I first started I really wanted to do my job right. I asked to go to the top store to train but instead I was placed there when the top sales lad wasn’t there and was left with a girl who was as new as I was. I stopped caring and my supervisor didn’t push me to sell to much bc he doesn’t care. Our boss however does. Anyways, my supervisor lets us sit at the table that we help guest at. As long as we do our job. He doesn’t push us to be the annoying sales people you hate to…

My workload has doubled, I make less money thanks to “we don’t do raises” and inflation. I told my mother I’m so stressed I want to drink myself silly and she asked me if I got paid per project. I said no, and she replied “so…you still get paid if they don’t find you help and a few projects get behind….right?”. She’s right and I will forever be a mommas boy. If I keep saying I can’t maintain 60 hour weeks but somehow deliver then what would management care? So you know once the customer starts asking why I’m late on things I’m just going to copy my boss and say why. I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to put my family and sobriety above work.

I was invited by my friend to help her in her business. I was eventually hired into management/consulting role and within 20 days, i reduce the number of office-working hours from 8 to 7 hours per day. and Just yesterday, one of the ladies came to be before leaving and said “thank you”. First of all i did nt realise why is she thanking me. Then she said, “Really thank you for reducing working hours, i have a small daughter, i will now be able to spend more time with her” This was the most gratifying . I am bringing in more positive changes and really improving work culture. And treat human resources as partners and humans and not resources. There are many more changes coming down the lane. And I am planning to design it in such a way where it does nt hurt business but in fact help…