Month: August 2023

One of the common themes on the employer screwed me over posts are people that don't have copies of their employer's (often former employer's) HR policies, nor have they ever read them. Read and understand them before they affect you. Then save electronic copies of the policies. Also make sure to save back-up copies to Google drive or other cloud storage. These policies might be called an employee handbook. They might be an intranet site. It might be paper book in the break room. It might be called a P&P (policy and procedure) document. If you don't get a copy that you can keep, take legible photos and save the images. Some key topics to focus upon are: Termination and related programs such as severance Attendance, tardiness, job abandonment, Overtime Time off from work such as Vacation, PTO, Sick days, holidays. Leave of Absences and related laws like FMLA Disciplinary…

I work for a contractor, to remain generally inconspicuous, the company is called “Brallied Booniversal”. The specific site I work at is a government area, federal laws apply here. We are also in a union. All of us were told (not promised)last year 2022, that we might get a raise since we had to change the contract. I’m not sure what exactly was changed, but for about 4 months we were all under the impression we’d get it. Nothing was on paper, at least not for us. November comes up, the day the contract is expected to change, and we’re told we didn’t get the raise. We’re all upset with the news, but we carry on. In March this year, we as a union put in formal written requests to change the contract for a numerous amount of things; wages and better insurance etc. This time we were told and…

I'm at the train station, getting ready to get on the train to go to work, when I find an empty tap card. I decide to load it up using my work commuter subsidy card with a couple rides to leave as a lucky find for some lucky person. I finish doing that, and I spy this trio of lost looking guys, and as I apporach them to give it to them, one of them asks if I can help them find the transit card store. They're trying to get Blind passes. They're blind. Well, two of them are blind, one can see okayish. Two don't speak english, they're immigrant refugees from Iraq. And the one who sees is not the one who can speak english. So I obviously have to help them. I decide that because I know exactly where the place is (it is the temporary one, the…

Hi all, I recently got a great offer for a new position after having left an extremely toxic work environment and job searching for months. It seems wonderful, much closer to the kind of work i want to do and much better compensation and benefits. Company culture seems good too and there’s very low turnover. I start in 2 weeks. My problem now, however, is that my supervisor just emailed me a bunch of work and instructed me to go ahead and get started since they’re very busy. I’m not getting paid or anything until my start date and i’m not sure what to do. I really need this job, but I don’t want to give the impression right away that I can he taken advantage of. What should I do??

Hey all, me again. TLDR at bottom. It seems like every morning it's something else. Yesterday was the infamous textbook drama. Well as you can imagine, surprisingly enough people in my office are having issues with the micro managing and dumb policies. And we're all going through this thing called life. So the last couple of days, people have been a tad negative while my supervisor is cracking at the seams with our numbers being less than desired. Not only talking shit about management and the issues between departments but our own problems going on personally. We're a fairly close bunch of co workers, we tend to share and discuss between eachother quite a bit. And shocker, a lot of life events tend to be more negative than positive. Well my supervisor felt to express his thoughts during our morning meeting discussing the new month upcoming. He couldn't stress enough…

I was going to comment on a post, but lost it and basically the OP was talking about how they were fired during their probation period because a worker didn’t like them. I read it as juvenile at first (because it is) but apparently it’s due to failure in a culture fit. It then hit me that most of my jobs that I either quit or terminated from were because of that. I’m a good worker, and have always been told by upper management however I’m an introvert and don’t do anything besides work. Outside of my first job, I never went voluntold meetings, work parties that were out of work/office hours, I didn’t hang out with coworkers, never accepted friend requests, never went outside of small talk and discussed issues outside of work, etc. I just did my job and left on time or when someone was able to…

I was going to comment on a post, but lost it and basically the OP was talking about how they were fired during their probation period because a worker didn’t like them. I read it as juvenile at first (because it is) but apparently it’s due to failure in a culture fit. It then hit me that most of my jobs that I either quit or terminated from were because of that. I’m a good worker, and have always been told by upper management however I’m an introvert and don’t do anything besides work. Outside of my first job, I never went voluntold meetings, work parties that were out of work/office hours, I didn’t hang out with coworkers, never accepted friend requests, never went outside of small talk and discussed issues outside of work, etc. I just did my job and left on time or when someone was able to…