Month: August 2023

….funny how whenever I get a break or time away from the 5 day a week, 8 hour a day grind, I mysteriously stop wanting to kill myself as much. Then as soon as I go back to work, it all goes downhill again. Hmm, I wonder if there's a connection there…..

I've been at my new job for 3 weeks now. Went from 70k as Network Implementation Engineer with insane amount of work like 140+ ticket for each engineer that include these: • configuring SQL server with various CAD vendors • writing SQL queries for 911 & troubleshooting network related issues with SQL • troubleshooting firewalls/switches • managing IoTs • troubleshooting docker containers • configuring/troubleshooting every camera/NVR/VMS brand on earth • working with FFMPEG and knowledge of transcoding • implementing/configuring/managing/troubleshooting various APIs • troubleshooting SSL/VPN/HTTPS/RTSP/ONVIF and more • NMAP/Wireshark knowledge • Linux CLI/Linux network troubleshooting • discovery calls with law enforcement/IT explaining network topologies • being a subject matter expert • and just a shit ton more with on calls every 7 days and doing health report on these on calls that take around 5h+ • answering phone calls, resolving tickets • 9pm-6pm •FE/BE UI is shit, laggy. I submitted over…

Just got my direct deposit and it was about $100-$120 less then what i expected. Tomorrows my last day, I gave month and a half notice (last week of June) cause I’m going back to school and can only work nights. This is the second time my paycheck was fucked up. And I don’t really understand cause we physically log our hours on a log sheet everyday before we leave. I’m the only part time employee (I have an evening job as well) so maybe it’s just exclusive to me. I’m so tired of feeling like a diva for asking what I’m owed. It’s my last day tomorrow and I was supposed to be there today and the day before but my boss told me not ti come in. The owners nice, the boss kind’ve a boomer type, and his son is a complete asswipe. Happy to be leaving but…

Yesterday was not the best day for me to say the least. I had scheduled an interview a few weeks ago, took tests, had a phone interview, etc etc. As someone who is still in college and working full time it's really difficult to get time off let alone get things to fit my schedule perfectly. As someone who isn't salary I took a day off resulting in me losing a decent amount of money and having to email professors getting clearance for my absence (shout out to the chill professors). They had me scheduled for an interview at 2pm, I was there at 1:45pm all dressed nicely and ready to go. I showed up saying I was here for an interview they looked super confused. After the store employees called around for 20+ minutes it turns out… THE HIRING MANAGER WAS ON VACATION for the next MONTH. I left…

I am a physician and we have our own issues in healthcare like the severe power imbalance in residency that I won't even go into, but I have been absolutely gutted recently on behalf of some of my patients who are showing me just how utterly broken our social safety net is here in the US. I am not going to go into significant details to protect my patients' privacy but two recent cases really stick out in my mind. Both patients were in their 80s (!) and both still working. One needed a new prescription for a blood thinner as a potentially life-saving measure. Because of the nature of his job, he can't continue working if he is on a blood thinner according to his company's policy. He tells me he needs to work 6-8 (?!) more years to pay off his debt. I told him he could easily…

Like the title says, there's this coworker of mine that gets paid the least in the job, but she makes at least 3 mistakes per day. She's the kind of person where you have to constantly hover over her and tell her not to do things, or else she will find it in herself to do whatever, and that means: giving extra snacks to the kids, having the kids wreck my classroom and not having that organized, abandoning my other coworker at the park, leaving them to handle 10+ kids to 1 teacher. All of this is not okay, because kids are supposed to have their snack intake moderated. However, all my boss does is give her a lecture, but she doesn't get fired. She's been there longer than me, I'm working harder than her, but all I got so far is a $2 raise after 6 months. I don't…

I'm feeling extra salty today, so expect brutal honesty EDIT: IVE BEEN REPLYING TO COMMENTS BUT REDDIT IS NOT POSTING MY REPLIES FOR SOME REASON

Petty? Perhaps. It's not my only reason, but it's part of it. I got a housekeeping job earlier this month. Within my first week, I found out that one of my coworkers was talking shit about me. Keep in mind, this was within 2-3 days of my employment: I was apparently slow, stupid, in my own little world, needed my hand held, kept asking too many times for a list of daily tasks, etc. I put in my two weeks. Why not, I only work two days a week, I could use the cash. Well, today, two days left, I guess I just got fed up. That same coworker was an hour late to her shift, leaving me alone. I'm still generally new and was afraid that I would have to do everything myself without really knowing how because these mfs would not GIVE ME A LIST OF MY DUTIES.…

I’ve seen many people commenting or mentioning the date September 1st. For a “strike”. This is the first time someone has came up with a date and have started reaching others to agree on this date. On September 1st, don’t go to work, don’t buy anything and better yet don’t watch anything that gives revenue to anyone and cancel streaming services and subscriptions. Doing all that alone will make a huge impact rather then storming the streets.