Month: July 2023

I’ve been working at this restaurant for 2 months. My manager was terrible (2 weeks ago she threw food at me because she was frustrated and overwhelmed, and honestly I should have walked out then.) I could go on, and on, AND ON, about her inability to manage people and her general shortcomings but I’ll save it. Anyway, it’s 100 degrees where I live today with 52% humidity. I worked in an extremely small establishment. The kitchen, in my best estimation, was about 12×8 foot. Part of that space was taken up by an oven set at 500 degrees, and during service, the oven is being opened and closed every few minutes. When I started working at the establishment there was no air conditioning whatsoever. A few weeks after I started the owners spent (what I overheard was) $7000 dollars to install air conditioning. However, it wasn’t central air conditioning…

Boss: You gotta cover your shift. Find cover. Worker: Literal aliens landed on my block. My neighbors are talking with them. I'm going to say hi. I think they're going to BBQ. Boss: You gotta find someone to cover your shift. Worker: Do you not see the fifteen mile-wide spaceships floating over our city? President Biden is live on TV from the Oval Office surrounded by like fifteen aliens species, all ambassadors, all of them answering questions. Boss: Get someone to cover your shift or your fired. Worker: This gray alien and his mantis partner just knocked on my door and this ten-foot tall alien that looks like Thor just handed me a replicator. They're giving them out. The gray is suggesting I try some coffee like thing from some planet called Serpo. He said its like spicy chocolate espresso chai. Boss: Your shift starts in twenty who is covering…

I am currently leaving my job that only allows me to work one year and I’m gone by the next week. Any tips please

So, I put in my notice and was asked to work a few extra shifts so that the supervisor can get some stuff done before she has to pick up more shifts. My problem is, I've had enough. My relief has been late almost every day(since I started). I was told I wasn't going to be left hanging when it comes to a part of the job but this is the third day I have worked alone. I might have some help for a little bit tomorrow, but that person has been sick and called out today. Then for the weekend, they have me on to work two 12 hour shifts before I'm done. I don't want to just not go in, especially since I already said I would do it but I'm burnt the fuck out and my new job wants me to start Monday, after I've already worked…

I'm an engineer at one of those big, dying corporations from the 1970s, but has still been struggling along a few decades longer than their ability to innovate would predict. This is also my first engineering job out of college and I've been working here for a few years. One of the things that made it a really attractive place to work in the first place was how much they appreciated work-life balance. It was all anyone talked about. “You won't get paid as much as you would at other companies in the industry, but you won't have to work as hard or as much!” That line has just felt like a lie. Do all tech companies tell themselves this? Frequently, people at my work are working 10 hour days, up to 16 hour days. Sure you get a Friday off no questions asked if you want it, but you're…

For context I have been with my current company for about 2.5 years. I started working in sales and became very burnt out by it. In this position I made minimum wage and qualified for bonuses. At the beginning of this month I switched departments for a slightly higher hourly wage but no bonus opportunities. The new work is much more tedious and endless, with almost no downtime and we are encouraged to not take our whole 60 minute break everyday to get through everything that needs to be done. I feel I have made a very bad decision and should’ve just stuck it out in sales after seeing my first paycheck from this new position. I sort of feel like a failure for even asking my old boss to come back to the sales team but very much wish to have my old job back. I have an interview…

So, without getting into all of the other gripes I have about the MSP I work for… I'm just curious what you guys would do here… Today, driving home, my car (BMW) throws the drivetrain malfunction message and my car goes into limp mode. Basically it's a minor issue or you'll fuck the engine up by driving. Work says be on site at your scheduled client visit tomorrow morning… I'm not comfortable driving all that way when I could be stranded.

Just throwing my 2 cents in as an automotive technician in Arizona. Flag rate, wether at the stealerships or chain stores, doesn't seem to be able to pay the bills consistently. I have regularly worked 42+ hours a week for the last 3 months and make less now as a technician than I did on the lube rack despite a $2 bump in the pay rate. But oh, that's right I'm paid by the flag hour now. They sell it as a way to get lots more hours by completing more jobs. However, there have been several days here and there where I have literally had no cars in the shop for hours at a time, or instances where a part is on back order (or customer supplied the wrong part) and then the ticket doesn't close out for a week (or more) while it sits in the lot. I…