Month: August 2023

This is as bogus as it sounds. I started working at my “dream job” in June. The guy who owns the business is also my Ashiatsu instructor. If you are unfamiliar with Ashiatsu, it is a style of barefoot massage where I use bars on the ceiling to keep my balance. Anyhow, this summer has been excruciatingly humid in the massage rooms. It got over 80 degrees (massage rooms are supposed to be 70-75 for the therapist’s sake) and over 80% humidity, humidity is supposed to be under 60%. Anything over 70% humidity is considered oppressive and unsafe. High humidity levels indoors are breeding grounds for mold and bacteria. This month has been absolutely miserable. Since June, I have been sweating non-stop at the building. I bought pasties to cover my nipples under my tank top, so I didn't have to wear a bra. I started sweating the moment that…

I think it's a pretty common fact now that most companies sell pretty much any bit of info they can get about anyone, but I'm starting to feel kind of convinced that some places must be selling info they get from job applicants. In particular, in my own life I've realized that throughout high school and college I never used to get any spam phone calls or texts or anything, and I think that was largely because I pretty much never had to put my phone number down for anything. However, when I started applying to jobs a few years ago there was a kind of sudden shift in the number of spam phone calls I would get. I mean, I went from literally never getting any spam calls to getting multiple every week, and the only thing that changed in regard to my phone number was that I was…

After only working for us for 5 continuous years we will give you an extra 2 days of annual leave https://preview.redd.it/5xhbrvbau5jb1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a1c54db0af3f200c759bf1494b1c6decf7c2cd4

For context I guess, I’m 29, and all I’ve ever done are service industry jobs for the most part. I’ve gotten tastes of office life but still for various reasons haven’t been able to make the switch. But I have friends who have been lucky enough to make that switch, mostly people from restaurants, and the way they talk about the jobs they have now vs before it’s like they don’t even consider what they’re doing now to be actual work, regardless too of whether they work from home or in the office. Reading accounts from people on Reddit too it kind of just confirms that for me. I know every job is different but most of the time from the outside looking in it seems like the average office worker only ever has to work 20% of the time or less. And for seemingly infinite more than any service…

I'm currently a salaried supervisor working in warehousing and we were informed yesterday that effectively immediately we are going from a 40 hour work weeks to 50. It was made very clear that we would not be receiving any extra pay as a result of this change.I know as a salaried employee hours worked can vary, but permanently being forced to work an extra ten hour day a week seems to be a bit much? And on top of that my days are off now split so no more two days off in a row. We just moved into a new building and the experience has been terrible. Machinery doesn't operate correctly, management is constantly screaming at us and threatening us. All the employees are miserable as our 8 hour shifts now tend to take about to 10 to 11 hours. Been a pretty stressful five weeks and I'm at…

So I was hired before this grandma but this lady is already saying homophobic remarks, racist remakes and other things. I told my boss that I didn't find it okay but I don't think he told our manager yet, it just really sucks. Finally found a job again and now this has made me hate it, I get she is old but does that mean she deserves other times to do this more? Edit: Also while the other coworkers are nice the job is super stressful, there is a ton of things to master in a short time and I'm legit anxious every time I go into work now, so grateful I got 3 days off starting tomorrow. I'm also thinking of going into just a normal job like doing cashier work again…

Just happened to me today and I need somewhere to vent where I'm not inundated with the “that's how life works kid, toughen up!” bullshit. For context my partner and I ended up working at the same place (not an office romance they knew about our relationship going into hiring me) and that we have been searching for a place to live (A whole other can of worms). However this process has been made extremely difficult because of the hours we work, which are Monday-Friday 8PM-5PM every week, this plus a forty minute commute each way leaves us with very little time to go to apartment viewings or anything else except for on weekends, and being where we are, the market is already cutthroat. Cut to today where we both agreed to come in because the business was extremely understaffed for the day and we need the extra money. This…