Month: August 2023

Hi reddit! So I'm an international engineering student and I'm interning at a company (2 months) which happens to be a part of a fortune 500 holding. As part of my engineering degree, I have to complete two compulsory internships. After that I can perform any voluntary internships. Since I was about to graduate and I already completed my two compulsory internships, I signed up for a voluntary internship at this company. They promised me a salary of 10,000 a month and usually compulsory internship salaries are 1/3rd of that. Then after the first month, I saw that only 2,500 are deposited into my account. I contacted the lady at HR who told me that they cannot provide voluntary internship to foreign students. I reminded her of our previous correspondence and she told me she registered me in the system as a compulsory internship student. I showed her proof, reminded…

Have been having some health issues but I’ve been planning to quit for a while but keep putting it off due to health issues and having decent insurance at my current place of work. I feel trapped. It makes no sense that I have to work and maintain this constant level of excess stress just to get affordable medical care. Even with insurance I still have medical bills up in the 10k range and have had to appeal a few insurance decisions. Fuck the current health system in the United States.

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I don't think the majority of this sub realizes what HR actually does. Seems like every other post here mentions how the OP went to HR and they did nothing to help. That is entirely by design. HR exists to protect the company, not to protect or even help the employees. HR is like the private corporate analog to cops. Both only exist to protect those that gave them any power to begin with. HR will only help individual employees when not helping would put the company at some sort of risk. Stop going to HR with the expectation that they care about your well-being. They don't. You're only giving them ammo to let you go later because you are drawing attention to yourself as a trouble maker.

So I’ve been working in a meat department for two years now. My manager was a friend from my old job who’s 40-something years old. When he left my old job and went to the current store we worked at he promised he’d teach me how to cut meat to earn a decent living. Well when I jumped over to his store things changed and it never happened. Our whole department agrees he has no idea how to be a manager. He spends the day smoking weed in his car,screwing up schedules and micromanaging and harassing other coworkers. Even guys who have been cutting meat for decades. He picks favorites,and decided to teach a new guy because he went to the dispensary for him to get bud. I’ve begged management to give me an apprenticeship even without the extra pay but I’ve been reduced to cleaning and wrapping. Well I…

It's not working out. I've had 3 different managers and was trained by my coworker who started 2 weeks before me. It's just the two of us in my team. We were thrown in the deep end and left to figure things out. It's been a shit show. Coworker has a stick up his ass and needs constant validation and approval, will throw others under the bus to get it. He's also made extremely unprofessional comments to me and has been patronising and condescending from the start (has been documented). I'm about to start looking for a new job. Any advice on how to explain why I was only at this company for a few months?

I was always kinda depressed/ suicidal, but I got a new job for the last 6 months and I never thought I would get this close to actually comitting suicide, but I might actually do it, which I thought wouldnt ever happen. It just gets worse and worse by the day. I, cant quit, cause I have no money, finding no other job. I talked to an actual psychiatrist after finally having an appointment and she told she cant do anything, just cause Im too lazy to work and its just a motivation issue and then showed me the door, she literally she wouldnt do anything AT ALL, nothing, so Im just trapped and my only option to escape is suicide. I dont why Iam posting here, there is just nothing else left where I could get help. I just cant do this anymore, called so many other psychiatrists, but…

Yup. Years ago i had a good job and was able to keep a reasonable balance. But then pandemic hit and it was my only access to funds sometimes, so it slowly maxed itself out over time because yay interest rates. I’ve been trying to keep up but i don’t make a lot of money so I’m trying to pay off my car and keep current on my rent while this card just goes up and up and up. I finally had to ask them to please turn the card off or send me to collections or whatever so I stop getting interest burying me. Fuck this existence where we will never get out from under the debt that buries us and that we wear with our digital footprints forever.

Long story short: I took a housekeeping job at a resort. During the interview, I was told I’d be making 15/hr, flat. I get hired and things get strange. They email over an offer letter that says $7.25 for the hourly rate which I texted my new boss about. She calls me immediately and tells me not to worry about it, it’s just technical, blah blah. I say fine and training begins. This is where the problem starts: they tell me I’ll be making 14/hr for the first two weeks as a training rate. Ok, fine. I train and this ‘payment per room’ talk starts from my trainer. I’m thinking “cool, so I get paid an extra $25 on top of each room I successfully complete with no errors”. Training completes and my hourly rate vanishes. It’s all per room now which, honestly would be fine if these rooms weren’t…