Month: August 2023

I (21F) worked at a popular US amusement park a couple of years ago. I don’t exactly want to state the name because I’m worried I could get sued or whatever. Anyways, I had started to work there during the weekends in September. They were starting to do Halloween stuff and it was really cool. This amusement park was fun to work at at first. I was a ride operator. I got to meet all kinds of new people, even people from different countries. A lot of people who work at this amusement park are international college students who will work there for the summer. Once fall shows up, those international students leave to go back to school. That means that the park is short staffed. When the park gets short-staffed, what does the company do? Cut operating hours? Nononono. They make their employees work super long shifts. I’m not…

Apologies for all the numbers coming up, but it's the only way to get this bullshit across. I've worked at a major tech company for over a decade. Total compensation is made up of salary, bonus, and quarterly vesting RSUs (grants that fully vest in 4 years). Since 2021 my total compensation has been rapidly decreasing, mainly because my RSU grants expire and aren't getting renewed. Compared to 2021, my RSUs decreased by 15% in 2022, a further 50% this year, and by the end of next year will reduce another 67%. In total I'll be receiving 85% fewer RSUs than in 2021, and they'll only account for 15% of my total compensation, down from over 50% in 2021. My total compensation dropped 10% in 2022, another 20% this year, and will drop by an additional 20% next year. By the end of next year, I'll have earned 45% less…

I work at a non-profit. Just got back from 2 months of medical leave because of my mental health. I generally can manage my anxiety and depression but my job (mainly my boss, the leader of our entire organization) triggered a decline and made everything worse (ironic since one of the services we provide is counselling). I came back feeling okay, thinking I could make it through a few more months till I found the right job. Well I was wrong. Now on my boss' bad side, I can do nothing right. I got moved into a tiny office. I'm back for less than a week and she asks me to do unapid work on the weekend that she could figure out if she really wanted to. I try to join in a casual conversation happening outside my office and she deliberately leaves after I start talking. And so much…

I just quit my door 2 door sales job at spectrum. It's too damn hot to walk door 2 door in this texas heat to get insulted or yelled at by people. I have hypertension and I thought I was going to have a heat stroke. I drove to the office in the middle of my shift, sent an email In the parking lot to my boss and his and quit. It took less than 2 mins to get Inside and he was at his desk waiting for me to give him all the company gear! I wouldn't recommend spectrum sales to anyone, especially in this texas weather. How convenient that you don't get start earning your so called guaranteed commissions until after 30 days. I made 2 sales and didn't get paid anything.

I was terminated from a job at the beginning of 2023. It was not a good ending. I have been stuck dealing with ex-boss since then as they have appealed all unemployment granted to me repeatedly so we keep having hearings. I was terminated for standing up against/not hiding child pedophilia that was occurring around minors (boss wanted to hide it). So it’s been ugly but I knew I did the right thing and have continued to attempt to operate ethically despite how things ended. I received four packages intended for this place of employment. The employer had 8 months to change the address. We get this shipment every year in August and it’s always gone to my address as we didn’t have a central office and I was the one who handled the packages. I called shipper and had them picked back up. They were relabeled and sent to…

I just feel like I have to say this. I feel like no one will understand, maybe they will. Yes, I am Human Resources. Hold your tomatoes folks, I'm no ordinary HR. My niche is in Cannabis, it's my passion. Psychedelics are next in the pipeline for legitimacy. It's a high-risk industry. Alas. This last year alone has been one of the worst professionally for me. Around this time last year I worked at THE cannabis tech vape company. As the HR Manager, I got to do some really awesome shit, see some awesome shit, hell I was planning my career to retire there. It all crashed Aug 31st, 12:32pm after lunch. “You are no longer needed”. I was shattered. I was a mess. I was unemployed for 2 months, then lured into a startup with no structure and slave driven values. I was told everyday I was bad at…

I am just so annoyed, my girlfriend has been on the job search for a few months now. She had a second interview on Thursday and was offered a position with great pay and benefits (not amazing, but better than her current employer). Over the weekend the company just decided that they don’t want her? How is that possible? We are in a lesbian relationship and live in small town Ohio, please tell me that can’t be a reason to rescind an offer?!?

Four months ago when I was only getting offers for 21/hour, I was looking at apartments in the area and thinking “if only I could make 25/hour, I could move into a nice one bedroom for 1350”. Now that I FOUND a job that pays me 25/hour, suddenly it feels like all the appts even REMOTELY close are all over 1350 a month (1350 being the most I could spend on rent without not eating or paying student loans or losing my car). The appts in my budget, for one thousand, three hundred and fifty a month are literal closets. Floor space for a twin bed and a microwave. I don’t live in NYC, why is it like this??? Why do the goal posts keep being moved??? I make WAY more than I even should for my skill set and yet I can barely afford to live. I work full…