Month: August 2023

I don't like the amount I'm being worked. The pay and the perks are great and all but they work you for every single dollar of it all. I'm burnt out. I'm not meant to be there but everyone else thinks I'd be a great fit and that I'm crazy for wanting to leave. This job is not for me. It's somewhat blue collar but I'm a white collar man. I can do the work, do not get me wrong, but I do not enjoy it one bit. There are just too many moving parts to it. Apparently having a job and enjoying it doesn't matter anymore!? I should at least like some tiny portion of my job. I told my boss what I thought. This guy is a great man and he completely understands but it's like nobody else can fathom my decision. No matter how many times I've…

I'm in my mid 30s and have had a variety of jobs in a few different fields. One thing I keep realizing is that I'm not interested in anything, or at least anything I've tried so far. I've been very good and successful at a few, but they're just not interesting and I dislike knowing that I'm making someone else a lot of money. I'm even more uninterested in having someone tell me what to do and how to do it. I've tried a few ways to make money on my own but with no success. My questions to you all: If you work in a “traditional” job, how to you cope with the fact that your work is making someone extremely wealthy? How do you find things you're generally interested in to do and make money with?

I just got my first full-time job almost 3 months ago (ultrasound tech, I’m 23) and while I absolutely love where I work, everyone is lovely and kind and it’s just a good place to be, plus no weekends, no nights, no call shifts, no holidays…all I do during the day is look forward to it being over and look forward to the weekend. Week after week, I just wait anxiously for that evening when I get to leave or the weekend. Is this just the rest of life?

For context, I was hired as a remote employee in summer of 2020. They recently forced us to go back to the office 2 days a week. At first I was kind of excited to get some interaction and meet everyone…but it has turned my formerly positive view of the company and management into pure disgust.. There is NO “culture” there. We don't interact with anyone on our own team hardly, let alone others. The managers walk around all smug and like they own the place without having any involvement on the floor. My manager regularly is watching YouTube and gets mad when anyone tries to get her attention for help or to ask a question (too busy playing games, watching YouTube, or listening to music; how dare we bother her with work!)…they have one microwave for 50 people and so it's either bring cold lunch, pay a ton for…

Company Brought Me Back But is Refusing to Pay Backpay American here. For context, I was terminated from my union job two and a half years ago. The union fought it in arbitrations, claiming that I was terminated for unjust reasons and that the company was stretching for any way to get me out. Arbitration rules in my favor and states that “any and all expenses are to be repaid” with no other clause/stipulations. While I was away from this company, I took a job at another company that I absolutely love. My mental and physical health have improved substantially and my coworkers, boss, and I all got along like a family. Upon getting the notification that I had won the case and was awarded backpay and my job back, I took a leave of absence from the place I enjoyed. My intentions being that as long as I pass…

I have secured a new job with a start date. This is an amazing job opportunity and I feel blessed. The current job I’m at is toxic, and I will tell you my top reasons why I feel this way. The manager gossiped about me about how he believes I stole something. I heard this from an ex employee who left the company. He is also not friendly, he barely speaks to employees talks bad about other employees to ME as a supervisor and does not create a welcoming and positive work environment I feel. I had another employee tell me in secrecy this same manager was overheard saying something about my shirt being dirty but I wear makeup and have a brown complexion so it may smudge on the collar area from time to time. I also ignored this and never confronted him because it’s hearsay. He also monitors…

I’ve been working a small job at a mom and pop shop near my house to save up gas money to be able to do drama club after school, and I asked my boss if I could help stock after school and on weekends too until rehearsals start, and she scheduled me for today, and tomorrow, and not the rest of the month. I don’t know if I’ll be able to do drama club now. That’s it, I’m just frustrated. I don’t know what to do.