Month: August 2023

I’ll admit, sometimes when I’m sick my first thought isn’t “let me put it in the app that I’m using a sick day” so today, I forgot but emailed someone from HR when I remembered. Unfortunately, she wasn’t in the office and it wasn’t put it. I didn’t even know we had an attendance line to call into until today. I work at a high school and today someone called HR saying I never let anyone know that I wouldn’t be coming in and that my name wasn’t on the list of employees who are out for the day. But I did tell those in the office I work at that I tested positive for covid and given everything we’ve gone through with covid, I assumed that everyone knows that if you test positive you still have to quarantine. But yet someone still called. This isn’t the first time HR…

I am working in a company that help the government to create a website that help to increase mental health awareness. So the government is basically our client. I thought if client is raising these kind of awareness, that must means the client is at least reasonable RIGHT? Unfortunately i was too naive, they are just like other clients which doesn’t seem to care about our mental health (which is the one who helped them to create the website and one of the target audience). With unrealistic timeline and all sort of nonsense bullshits. For those who worked on website development before you probably know how the design should be finalised before we went into development right? Not for this client, they always like to changes things up during development and causes tons of problem while we still have a deadline to meet. Anyway just want to share this story…

Got three pairs of scrubs for my first two years of work. Luckily, the next year was the year the every other year order took place. So I got another two pairs of scrubs. Now, I have five pairs of scrubs for my first three years. Spring 2024 is the next year I get scrubs and mine are falling apart. I work full time. Sure, I bought a few more ugly green pairs, but it still stinks that I only get two pairs every two years from now on. Any recommendations for warm scrubs that last?

Genuine question, is every company just all about themselves making money and do not care about employees they are just a number. I work in Australia in the trade industry for over 10 years now. For a few years I was working for a small business and got worked to the bone, a lot of after hours not paid correctly, never a pay slip and calls/messages no matter what time or day. I figured okay that’s the way of small business. I’m leaving and my next job will be for a bigger company. Now I work for a company that is very large, been operating for over 100 years. All privately owned and owned by one family. And now I’m fighting them just to have my long service recorded. They are fighting me tooth and nail, not to have it paid out, just correctly recorded! Which is state legislation. Is…

I'm a low level employee at a Fortune 500 company. They rank very high on Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index and many other lists for diversity, inclusion and such. My local warehouse does not follow our corporate's culture and has many issues. Very little racial diversity (far from reflecting the demographics of our metro area), terrible treatment of women, little to no recognition of LGBTQIA+, and worst of all there's loads bullying against people with physical and mental disabilities or just anyone they don't like. I could go into specifics that happened to me but I don't want to put anything too personally identifying out there. The management team was recently forced to start a DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) committee and they've made only some very small gestures. It's made up entirely of management. After seeing they weren't doing enough to rectify how bad the culture here is…

I’m a 21 year old college student who will be graduating Post Secondary soon, and feel like I’m the only one who’s dreading it. I can’t see myself working for someone else for the rest of my life and have to clock in, and clock out, while being paid just above my basic living needs. I looked into many other programs, but nothing stands out to me. I have friends and family I want help and enjoy life with, but I genuinely don’t know what to do right now. My degree will be in business, but as the years have progressed, I’ve grown to hate the corporate culture. I have learned so much in my past 4 years, especially how messed up our currently organization of the economy and society is. Everyone around me seems to excited and motivated to get started on their careers, life, etc, but I feel…