Month: July 2023

hey, so this happened during the pandemic but I would still like to share it now because I still think about it often. so at the time i (24,f) was working part time at a gastroenterology ambulance in a hospital. I was working part time because I took weekend classes and needed some time to study during the week. My plan was to only stay at this job for a year until I finish my exams and then get a better paying full time job somewhere else. My coworkers didnt know about this though because I didnt know how quickly I would find a job after passing my exams. When I started working there another woman had started just a month before me. Lets call her A. I had a permanent contract (i hope im saying this right english isnt my first language) and A was only there to fill…

Hey everyone, I’m aware business owners aren’t typically loved here. But I’m asking for some advice and would really appreciate some feedback. I have a new employee (around a month), he’s much older than I am and has more years of experience than I do in his particular field of work. Everyone at my company works the exact same hours, which are pretty decent hours 7am-3:30pm with an hour lunch. We don’t work these hours because it’s convenient, it’s because we are a construction company and we work the same hours as the field so if they need anything we are here to help. Now that being said, the new guy has started attempting to make his own hours. He comes in at 6:30 and leaves at 3. The problem is that I’m very laidback about this kind of thing, usually if a guy needs to leave early, take a…

I don’t know how much longer I can keep going. I provide my employers efficiency and the best of my abilities, in return I get more work with no reward . Time and time again they just take your kindness for weakness. All the online applications for jobs with somewhat a reasonable wage just look like complete scams. Prices are through the roof on everything from groceries to houses. Supreme Court cares nothing of the people. I don’t know what to do anymore. One bad day and I’ll probably end up under a bridge. Feels as if I’m digging myself into bigger hole each and everyday with no way out.

Here on a bit of a secret account cause I don’t want this associated with my actual socials. I am a person who jumps from job to job a lot. I rarely stay at a place longer than a year because why get a 25¢ raise from a job when you can go somewhere else and earn $2 more. Plus I don’t like when places get too comfortable having me around. I also have the fortune of having worked at a place that is now closed down. Ever since an interviewer made a comment about the amount of places I’ve worked at I changed my resume around. Now instead of 8 jobs in the last 8 years I have worked at my first job for a year and the closed place for six and my current job for one. Any extra years in the future will be added to the…

I work at a lab, I'm a scientist, i have a PhD. My boss is one of the founders of the company, he has no higher education. He hired me as project manager, he never listens to me, and is “managing” the pronjects himself, I'm doing R&D because that's what my predecessor did (was doing R&D and project manager in name only). I keep telling him his timelines are obseen, the equipment is under serviced, we have to have a generator (apparently people here have been telling him that for the last 4 years) yesterday, there were three short black outs during the day (i lost two days of work, some people lose more or less). He comes in today (obviously he wasn't in most of yesterday during the blackouts) and i told him that i just lost two days of work. He got mad and said the he checked…

I was looking for a job when I found this one. Don't need the work like you need the work done. You look like you're under pressure. I was already looking for a job two weeks ago, when I met you, remember? -Todd Snider.

Long story short, I was promoted a couple of months ago and then several weeks later my company had layoffs. My new position was impacted and I was told I could either leave that day or go back to my old role. I chose to stick with my old role for income security yet our workload increased nearly 3x to make up for the others that were let go. They won’t increase pay despite giving us more work and I am considering leaving soon so I can spend my entire day interviewing but I’m worried I put myself in a position to not be eligible for unemployment benefits. Does anyone have any advice or feedback on what to do? Live in CT for context.

“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.” I personally think the writers guild strike represents a bigger and broader problem in current society. It’s all about the ever increasing bottom line and trying to squeeze out every last drop of profit and the creators/ peoples expense. Why should we subscribe to a streaming service that doesn’t represent our shared values and on top of that will no doubt see reduced quality content in the near future?