Month: August 2023

One job 12/hr, turned out to be too dangerous. It was at night at a gas station in the middle of nowhere with nothing but drugs and bars and no witnesses around. Even their own workers ran drugs or stole or helped others steal. Boss didn't care about even health department rules or to properly train staff or count the money. Like what? Lol Current 12/hr job, security guard, sitting on your butt most of the time. Completely unacceptable working conditions due to the drama of an ex army ops manager and his two team leads an ex marine and ex us marshall. All should be retired. Took away everyones trash cans instead of talking to the one man on third who dared to not take his trash out. :O, chewed me out for saving the previous shifts pop bottle that was full and putting their name on it. How…

I’m really just here to vent. I’m already in the process of looking for a new job. I work from home for a large health insurance company. I work in a customer service department that is specific to retirees of one state, taking calls for questions about their health insurance plans/coverage denials/appeals/etc. I consistently hit 6/7 of my monthly metrics. I was top performer in my department last month. However, when I have my monthly one on one with my boss, it feels like none of that matters! My boss will “grade” ONE call per month (usually will play it out loud during our meeting and grade it in front of me). I can have over 200 calls in a month – but my boss only listens to one and my “success” at how well I am completing my job that month is based off of that. And if that…

I am still flabberghasted how incompetently I got layed from my previous job, but I profited in almost every way, which makes it easy to laugh about it, now that I've gotten over it. This is going to be a long one, since my professors ruined me in that regard with years of minimum-lenght papers at the university. Also, English is not my mother tongue. You have been warned. I have a disability that forced me to call in ill often. Like, 40-60 days a year often. Although technically it was my employer who forced me to do that. Of course they were not happy and I had to endure frequent meetings with the higher-ups to justify the amount of illness days I took. My answer was always the same: “My disability is unpredictable, but it does not prevent me from working. It only severly impedes my mobility on a…

Hey everyone, I just recently graduated with my MSW and got my LMSW and am feeling incredibly disheartened by the job prospects. The pay in my state is low and even with the LCSW, I don't see it raising much. I'm feeling torn about what to do because as much as I like helping people, I also like being able to have a life outside of work. Everyone that I speak to tells me about the chronically overworked/underpaid social worker and I don't think my passion burns bright enough to deal with that amount of financial and emotional stress for the rest of my life. I selfishly enjoy taking long trips (2 weeks minimum), having my evenings and weekends free, and not working myself to the absolute bone. Further, I've been interviewing for a variety of positions and there's an underlying sense of martyrdom that you have to suffer tremendously…

i work in food service for background. my coworker texted me sunday and said he was positive for covid so i’ve been prepping myself since to be prepared to be short staffed as the only one up front. fast forward to this morning, i opened and was told he was told to come in or get written up if he didn’t have a doctors note. he explained to bossman that it would cost hundreds of dollars to go to the doctor because he’s inbetween insurance rn, and boss basically said come in or else. i’m so beyond pissed at this, he literally just sacrificed his entire FOH staff and possibly BOH staff, just to be petty because he thought he was lying. like at the very least, when he came in and sounded obviously sick and was hacking and had a fever, you should’ve let him go home…. not to…