Month: August 2023

So today main manager is in a pissy mood because due to travel times (( I am disabled and have to walk to wherever I get food luckily there are places very nearby. Still takes 3 mins to get there.) I inform my direct manager that I will be a few mins late due to this which he is fine with as he also has a disability. I get back within 5 mins and main manager or GM goes off on me saying that he is going to put it that I can’t leave the restaurant anymore during my meal break because “I’m always late” from my breaks. Can he actually do this? I don’t want to always eat their food as it isn’t the healthiest at all.

All I know is, it’s not food service or retail lol.

So I work in a pretty niche part of healthcare. I used to work in house at hospital. I was sent to training to be certified to work on certain equipment and signed a contract saying I would stay on for two years. I probably should have negotiated the terms of the contract, but i didn’t know any better and honestly didn’t expect to switch jobs. But then about a year and a half after I signed my training contract I was presented with an opportunity to work 3rd party which was way better pay and benefits. The hospital refused to even come close to matching the pay, let alone anything else. In their last bit of pettiness they threw the contract back at me. Even though I had saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars they were still going after me for the training. And as a regular person…

I work in the finance team in a medium-sized company where upper management acted like high schoolers. They would talk about how people dressed, called people fat, just overall not people I would want to spend time with or interact with unless I had to. Unfortunately, I spent enough time with these clowns and got an understanding of how they think. For them, it was all about control the people. That means they don't expect you to leave for the day or even your desk without working 40hrs that week. If you take a lunch break, you have to make up the hours (we were salaried by the way). If you make a small mistake which is quick to correct, they chew you out to make you feel bad and insecure. They even called a coworker stupid once. They would also use the smallest mistakes not to give raises to…

I work for a facility that in order to get staff to pick up extra shifts they offer bonuses (on top of your base) these bonuses can range anywhere from $50-1000. The person who offers the bonuses is an assistant (idk who approves the amounts above them, but not my problem) she then sends the bonus amounts to our HR/payroll to be paid out on the following check. Our last check I worked a lot and combined just my bonuses amounted to $2500 (before taxes). When we got paid I was only paid $1000 worth of bonuses (pre tax). I was livid. This is not the first time that my bonus amounts weren’t the right amount. Other people have this issue all the time with the bonus amounts not being on their check. If it was a few hundred I would have waited for the next paycheck for it and…

I’m a programer, been at my current current for around 8 years, in that time I’ve never gotten a promotion, but it’s the sort of rope where there’s no a lot of growth so initially I wasn’t that bothered. When I was first hired the team was very small, everything had previously been outsourced and the company was starting to bring things in-house. Since then we’ve gone from a team of 5 to a team of around 20. At the time I was hired the company didn’t issue job titles, my boss had a vague title like ‘digital manager’ and the rest of us were just ‘programmers’. As times gone on and the teams expanded my boss has been promoted twice, he hasn’t moved up as such as we still directly report to him, but his title has changed and now he’s head of digital and e-commerce. My co-workers have…

I am not a housekeeper, but I have been working in hotel laundry for a couple years now. I never saw the hospitality industry pre-pandemic, but for as long as I have been working in this hotel (I started only a couple weeks after they opened, over a year ago), I have heard the housekeepers and managers talk about all the shit they have to deal with, including understaffing. They've used temp agencies, paid maid services, and still don't seem to have enough housekeepers. Today there was a staff meeting in which the new general manager said that they were going to start doing daily room cleaning. I asked the housekeeping manager later if there were even enough people to do this, and she said no. She mentioned how hard it's been to find people, and even literally said “no one wants to work anymore.” She's a good manager, but…

So in my career field I have the highest level of certification you can get and I even worked in a director role in my field for several years. At my new place of work I just want to do the entry level work and I'm perfectly fine with that. I'm well overqualified for it. I am even a certified trainer for these roles, however… my new supervisor, even though I say I am available, is not scheduling me for some open shifts. This is the 2nd month in a row that they have done this. I am arguably more qualified than they are also. I have 15 + years experience, they have 3 or 4. I just don't understand. It should not be this hard to get work when you are over qualified. I'm not even an ass about it – I never bring it up. Long story short,…

I work in an office and like to keep myself busy so I don’t get bored out of my mind while stuck their for 8 hours a day. But my boss recently told me that I work too fast and complete too much work… no pay rise or anything, basically just told me to pace myself work-wise. Such a stupid concept. Let me go home when I’m done my work then. Why should I spend the extra 3hours a day browsing news site and pretending to be busy