Month: August 2023

I’ve been working a desk job with my company first shift for almost two years. They were hiring for a QC/trainer position. Every job I’ve ever worked before this company I was a trainer, so I have 10 years of experience. Of course I was hopeful but knew even after three rounds of skills checks/interviews that there was a possibility I wouldn’t get the promotion. However, the boss of all our supervisors asked me if I would help train people on second shift for a week since they were short. This was before I would find out if I got the position. We were suppose to find out Friday, the day she asked me. I stupidly said Yes thinking “surly they wouldn’t ask me to train if I didn’t get the position” … but I got the email on Tuesday, after already training people two days, that I didn’t get…

Vent Even if it's something I want to do… Because I have to do it, it makes me miserable. Am I going to hate every job I get? I'm in retail right now so clearly my view of how jobs are is very skewed. But does it get better? If you like what you do? Or is it still a struggle? How do I enjoy working if I fucking hate it? I try to find the little things, and I try to remind myself that time is getting faster and faster so my shift will be over before I know it, but there's still this underlying… Dread. Doesn't matter if the day is calm or busy. I don't want to be there. I have ADHD/GAD/Bipolar II as well so this constant worry about how smooth my future employment will be is burning me out. I only work 25 hours a…

Hi, some days ago, I posted about how to stop fear about changing my job because I was in some recruitment processes Well, now, I got a final offer from a company, the conditions are good, salary increase 25% compared to my current salary, which is a huge difference. There are other benefits and the company is a good one, they are well known in my field. But still, the biggest point of my current company is the stability, is almost impossible to get fired, but the chaces of getting more salary or a better position is really low, my current salary doesnt allow me to save much, and with my current savings, I could only last for 2 months in a catastrophic ending, thats why I am scared, if the process doesnt go well in the end and I end up without a job, or I just cant fit…

Here is your reminder to never trust a corporation. Today was my final day at this company. A few months ago a buyout was mentioned so I hit the linkedin/indeed bandwagon and job searched my heart out. I'm in my job transition now and luckily found something which job title/pay are increases. Yay me! There were “information” meetings where they said we don't know much but this new company is short staffed and hourly employees will still have a job. Fast forward and half of the hourly did not get offered to stay. There are positions driving over an hour that could be filled, but who wants to do that. I feel for those who wanted to stay and were good workers, but are forced to move on before they're ready. I don't know if new company had an offer for me. I had already found new and put in…

I’m stuck in a rut. 35 years old with no prospects for retiring in my lifetime or even owning the very basics of life like a house. The prospect of doing this bullshit where I show up every day for 8 hours and still struggle to survive while other people get to enjoy their lives is the main reason I’m depressed. Like I’m gonna die one day I don’t want work to have eaten up so much of my life. I know I need to find a better paying job to get out of this but the prospect of job searching makes me want to throw a brick through my computer screen. Like I need to beg somebody to let me do their bullshit for 8 hours a day? At least slaves didn’t have to convince anyone they were worthy of the job. Anyway I’m thinking of seeing a therapist…

Summer management job (pool club). Started interviewing people for lower positions on March 22. Quit today (August 18). The final day is supposed to be Sept 10 (maybe with some time to close up/debrief after). The way I see it, I’ve worked 84% of my contract, but they didn’t start paying until the end of June. I’ve only received 65% of the promised salary. How hard should I press for the money they owe me (roughly $5k) considering I’m the one who broke the contract.

English is my second language and I'm posting from my phone yadi yada… These numbers are for the province of Quebec in Canada and are sourced from Statistics Canada. Considering an average house price of approximately 100,000$ in 1990 and a minimum salary of 5.30$ per hour, that house for that salary man took 18800 hours to buy, notwithstanding the realities of life of course. Going by the same metrics, the same average house today cost 475,000$. The minimum salary is 15.25$. So comparing apples with apples, buying the same house now takes 31100 work hours. Now if all things were equal with our Boomers predecessors, a 475,000$ house divided by 18800 work hours would put the minimum salary at 25$ an hour. Which means that we have an actual inflation of 65% in comparison to 1990. That's not even considering realities that back in the days all you needed…

I recently got a new job (if you check my post history, yea it's the one I posted about), turns out it wasn't quite what I expected, and it only pays $3 an hour, I'm a remote UK working for a USA company, I have to work NYC times, which for me is 2 pm-10 pm, and earn like $24 a day. I know it's fuck all but I am in the middle of moving country and am struggling to find a remote job while in this transitional state. I'm worried about packing it in without a fallback, but I'm on day three and am already fed up with it. What do you think? (Please be nice I'm very tired)

[Rant] Hope nobody is in the same situation. But so far the job market has been a nightmare this year. After the first call recruiters take forever to say no and keep opening the same position over and over. They never explain why they reject me and when I ask they say “Oh it was a subtle difference between the other candidates, it is hard to tell” like, ok? What a waste of time to do multiple assessments and investing time and energy for a lame answer like that, after you give your best. Then the jobs that are left are with companies with a bad culture, exploited employees and bad salaries (ex: Do the job of a senior for a junior salary). Do you think the job market is going to keep going downhill? Or is there some hope soon?