Month: August 2023

I work as a contract remote CSR and I noticed a couple weeks ago that I had accrued some sick hours. I wasn't feeling well some weeks later, and took the day off. When I asked the hr person who did our training how I can use my sick hours, they said contractors don't get sick hours. I'm based in NY and the company is in MD, so I don't know how that impacts the situation. A job I had before this one was also contract in NY, but you had paid sick hours. I'm not going to lie, this job sucks and I apply to everything in hopes of getting out. Working in a call center is bad enough, but on a contract basis,with no benefits, low hours, and low pay its terrible. The only good thing is that my schedule doesn't change. When I did retail and my…

I was hired on as a full time, 40 hour per week, wage employee. By about the second month, I was working on average only 30 hours per week. Towards the end of the day, or end of the week, my boss would come into my office and say “if you’re not billable, go home.” All the salary employees would rejoice, however the wage employees are punished because of cutting hours. I don’t control how many projects we get. But I can control how long I take on the project. If I suspect I’m going to be done early, I can procrastinate and take my time, to stay billable (and therefore paid). Most of the time, my procrastination efforts prove helpful, but ultimately unsuccessful. I’m still averaging a little over 30 hours a week, and therefore, I’m not eligible for insurance. Any time I try to stay, my boss will…

I was laid off at the beginning of April so my job can be outsourced to contractors overseas. Man oh man. Things were just getting better for me. I was saving money, things were looking up and then bam Laid off. Everyone told me “you’ll be okay”. “You’ll find another one soon”. Not gonna lie at the moment that’s not what I needed to hear. I’ve applied to about 500 jobs at this point and getting rejected over and over. Tbh it’s probably more. I’ve had five real interviews and still no job. My savings is gone, I’m stretching the shit out of my unemployment insurance and that ends next month. I don’t know what I’m going to do you guys. I’m a single mom and I’m scared as hell. I can sell my car but I don’t live in a walkable city. And to qualify for any assistance I’ll…

I landed a job in a law firm where I absolutely hate working. Long story short, I am an immigrant who has 3 law school degrees (LL.B.; Master and LL.M) and master in economics. However, my education does not help my boss to trust me. My boss is always looking down on me. He gives me paralegal work all the time even though I am more than capable of doing associate work. He is always patronizing me, saying how he doesn’t understand why people are so hyped about me and why do people see a potential in me (I graduated first in my class and all professors spoke highly of me). At corporate dinner he told mento shut up because I talk too much (people initiated conversation with me as I believe I am easy to talk to). Also, we hired a new attorney who is just mad crazy Q&A…

I (25 F) have been at my current job for about 1.5 years. This is the third job that I have had since I was 16. It feels like everyday I get up just to go to work and count down the time until I get to leave. When I leave work on Fridays, it always sets in that the weekend is going to go quickly, and I feel so much guilt for not “appreciating my free time properly”. I wake up early in the morning before work and stay up way too late at night just to feel like I have some sort of free time. It’s not that I dislike my job; I, for the most part, like my coworkers and the work is easy. There is one coworker who is always on me and jumps on every instance to critique me and one who is a complete…

You want to know what I’ve learned working in the trades for the past decade? The trades fucking suck. I don’t know where the big lie about blue collar work paying well came about but I have yet to see it. I’ve worked for a few different companies in a few different fields and all of them paid jack shit. When I complained, I was told I was too young and inexperienced to make good money. Now I’m a licensed journeyman and I make the same amount of money as a cashier at Walmart. No disrespect to anyone who works there, but it’s just very discouraging to put my body through hell everyday just to make 19$ an hour. Everyone wonders why no one wants to do blue collar work anymore. This is why. Why the fuck would anyone want to do some of the hardest work on the planet…