Month: August 2023

Consultants who help comapykill remote work really piss me off. https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/employment-expert-explains-why-remote-work-wont-last

I’m in graduate school and I received an offer for full-time employment from the employer I worked for this summer, which I will refer to as “AP.” The main issue is that the full time salary I am being offered by AP is lower than the estimate initially given to me before I agreed to an internship there. Starting from the beginning, last fall I received two offers for a summer internship. The other offer paid a much higher summer salary than AP. I asked AP if they could “make up any ground” on the other offer. AP matched the other offer (this was a high salary for a summer job). Before accepting, I asked AP (specifically, the supervisor who would “negotiate” my full time offer currently pending) what the full time salary would be out of grad school if I continued to work there. She told me, though with…

So as title says, For starters, I've been in this job for 5 years now, my coworker has been here coming up 2 years. When he first started he seemed like an alright dude, kind and funny, helpful and knew the job pretty well (10+ years experience, this is my first job). After a couple of months I saw him become all buddy buddy with my line manager, and now I feel like I have my nose pushed up against the glass. He has loads of personal issues, worried incase the bank forecloses on his house because of the interest rates we're battling, alongside some health issues and personal finance issues. All of which I've tried to be supportive of, listening to him and trying to help him figure things out (fyi, I'm 21 and he is approaching 49). For some reason it seems he wants to take all of…

Hi all, I have a management position within my remote company, where I run a specific branch that works with the sales team. I have been exceeding in my role since I joined the company and am constantly praised throughout the company. However, lately there has been a lot of unease within my workplace. The sales team has been struggling, and I work side by side with them in an effort to help drive sales. I am hearing mutterings from many people that they are unhappy, and some have suggested they may look for now jobs soon. I have felt quite secure, mainly because I am doing well, but it still brings me unease hearing this from them. Last week I received a call from my boss to discuss some struggles she was feeling. She turned the call recording off and began to complain about the founder of the company…

I’m on salary. I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around the idea of having to make up PTO. It seems counter intuitive to the point of PTO. If I have to make it up, was it paid time off at all? I normally have an administrative day off that Indon’t have to come in, but they are saying since I asked for 3 dayr or more now I have to pick an admin day to work a half day. Thing is, I requested PTO for the admin day as well. So like… i might as well not request that time and come in? Seems like a form of wage theft or PTO theft at least.

For context – Been with my company for 5 years climbing the ranks from working as a cashier to handling the entire organizations analytics, corporate dev/M&A, and FP&A. In this time my salary has increased from ~$40K to $55K. It finally came to a head where I asked to be raised to $75K and was told best they can do is $62.5K. Told them this doesn’t work and I’m planning on walking to which my boss responded that anything less than 4-6 weeks notice would not be taken graciously and, in essence, I would be dead to him. So my questions are – is this just douchebaggery to try to squeeze a bit more time out of me? And am I shooting myself in the foot not being able to rely on them for a reference in the future?

Okay. So I guess the Title is very common and everyone on this sub has gone through this. But this is happening to me after a very long time. I have previously worked under toxic bosses but that was like 4-5 years ago. Recently there was an Internal Job posting in my company for different location. I was doing pretty well in my current role but wasn't feeling any growth in terms of learning so I applied for that posting. Gave interview and was selected and moved in to new location in the beginning of this month. Now the problem is my new boss who was the one selected me for this new role is extremely toxic. In the beginning I thought may be he is really trying to help me explore my potential but today it was the limit. When I casually opened up with one of my colleagues…

My job is merging with another company. I got confirmation from another co-worker we will “formally close our doors” sometime soon, but we have have no information on when this will be. I've been given an opportunity to work under the new company at the same pay and what I'm doing now, but taking on new responsibilities others “don't have time for.” I know I'm doing the work no one else wants to do. I know who I will be working under. I HAVE worked directly with her roughly once a week 30 min to 2 hours (yes, that little) over the last 3 months (this was to increase revenue. She “volunteered” her time, but it was clear she didn't care). I can't speak on any else's experience. But my first impression of her was not good. Working with her was horrible, even that small amount of time. Nothing I…

What is keeping me from quitting my job? How will I sustain myself. What people will think. Losing the nothing I have. I feel like I can enjoy my life a million times more with the little I have at least for a week or so. After that I can go. Is my existence really figuring out ways to make money and eat?