Month: August 2023

For over 50 years management has tried to teach workers that they should feel lucky to have a job. For the next 50 years we need to teach management they should feel lucky to have our work.

Hello peeps. Long time lurker, first time poster So I’m trying for this new remote freelance project, and all the experience is being online. They’ve asked for some informations which are usual — address, telephone, full name — yet I got quite insecure when they asked for my passport. Is this a new possible scam? Can they steal my info?

My mom works night shift and behind bulletproof windows. The gas station has lottery machines. Thousands of dollars inside at any given moment, in fact when the manager gets the cash he needs 1-2 black t shirt bag and it's completely full of $1s-20s. Two robbers came in one night and started hammering the fuck out of the machines. My mom shoots a gun at their direction (she opens the bulletproof window) and they run away. The cops came and “see no bullet hear no bullet” aka she won't get in any trouble from it (the robbers can't claim she shot them lmfao) she was gonna go the extra mile and keep shooting but that's no longer self defense so she didn't. So her boss rewards her with a grand prize of: ? Like I literally don't know. To this day she's making $14/hr. Better than the past $13???? Also…

I was actually 100% WFH far before COVID. It was a perk I negotiated and I accepted lower pay than coworkers. Now employer is trying to end WFH from the COVID era, and I'm getting swept into it, which sucks. I have IBS and severe anxiety issues, which is why I negotiated the WFH in the first place (although I didn't tell my employer about my health issues). Is now the time to try to use this to get a reasonable accommodation? Is this a difficult process? Otherwise, I'm looking for ways to just milk my job and WFH as long as possible before I quit (hopefully find another WFH job) or just get fired. But there's no way I'm going back into the office. Any other ideas or suggestions? I was thinking of asking for an adjustment period since I have been WFH for so long, to get my…

A friend of mine suddenly passed away, and I'm going to his funeral on Friday. I have about 45 hours of PTO, but I wasn't allowed off work because 2 people had already asked. When I asked for bereavement for that day, they said it only applies to family members. I'm taking the day off anyway, but I've gotten a verbal warning for it. It doesn't feel fair to me, but I've been told that's the standard?

This is more of a rant but I’ve got 10 years experience as a graphic designer with some website/UX design here and there. I’ve noticed more and more that job postings are expecting you to do jobs that are at least 3 or 4 in one. They want you to be a graphic designer, website designer, programmer, social media manager, SEO expert, marketer, you name it all for the low low low LOW price of $16 at the highest. Even if I apply to those jobs, I still don’t get selected. I’ve tried applying to remote jobs and stuff on-site even though I despise on-site jobs. I’ve been at this for months now with at least 200+ applications. I’ve gone through second round interviews but it always ends with the same rejection email. What am I doing wrong?

I work help desk, I'm actually good at it. I reach the to charts with no effort and lowest customer return in the department. People call me “the psycho” because they don't understand now customers just listen to me. All in all… Skills wise, it's a comfortable position. The pay is okish, i have a 1.5 room unit i like in the somewhat central of a calm city. I'm sick of everything. The wake up to work. The insulting wage gap and excuses for it between people. The idiotic morans that think you need to earn money to have it. I end up hating the ideology of the good, for i see evil man flourish in theirs. Standing up gets you called names. Speaking up makes you a target. And taking action is too expensive. I see people say “he can't do that!” About stuff people in power do, believing…

I guess there is no shame in working any job. A job is just a job right? Maybe. I feel so awkward and insecure applying at bunch of jobs on indeed and their specific company website. I have this habit of calling places after I apply just to let them know like I applied. But recently, I just feel shame and feels like I’m irritating or bothering hiring manager or people that work in HR. I get this weird thought like don’t they get mad at people who keep calling asking us if we’re hiring. I really wish I can find a good paying job but I don’t have any good work experience beside fast food and retail store. Nowadays, everybody seems to be looking for desk jobs or remote. The physical labor and minimum wage jobs are a no. I guess everybody provably must have worked jobs with no…

I recently saw that someone's job realized that they were looking for a job because they updated their resume on Indeed (or some other website) and the website notified their employer that they were updating their resume. Its time to start looking again, I want to avoid my boss knowing till I'm ready to get out of there. What landmines are out there that I'm not aware of?