Month: August 2023

I have made one post here before where I previously mentioned a new company bought out our family business. Every summer, there was a yearly raise. Granted it was only 50 or 60 cents, but you still saw the slight difference in pay. This new company isn't doing it probably. Usually, raise is announced first week of August and is on the second pay for August. Instead, a zoo day was announced for employees by the company for September. Feels like the equivalent of a pizza party. Funny thing is the company that bought us out is worth more 🤣 gotta line the greedy pockets of those at the top I guess.

What the title says. Yesterday i walked out of a decent paying job (Order Filler) and I'm a bit ashamed in doing so. Apart from the decent pay, i was just tired of having to do warehouse work, more so that i've been working in warehouses for 2 and a half years now. It's gotten to the point where i just decided to not do this anymore, and i feel ashamed, guilty even. The fact that this was the 3rd job i worked this year, i had only lasted a month at Amazon and 2 weeks in FedEx (do NOT work there, miserable place to work), i'm getting tired and even overwhelmed the fact that i can't find a sustaining and well-paying job. Granted, it's not like i want to earn 50 dollars an hour just moving boxes (imagine though, that would be great), but the fact that i've quit…

“No one wants to work anymore.” has been around forever but it has been institutionalized to the point where it is standard business practice. Think about it, the people whining about “No one wants to work anymore.” are also the ones making it harder and harder to just find a job, let alone keep it and get good enough to live comfortably. Hell, most places do everything they can to break you and drive you out the door a broken shell just they can say “No one wants to work anymore.” and pocket the cash. It sucks.

I started full time end of June after interning the prior summer. I’m literally just doing the same thing I was doing which is like an hour of actual work. But now I’m basically getting paid double the money to do just the same amount of work. Should I ask for more work? Am I doing something wrong in the business world? (This is my first “real” job)

I interviewed for a job and it was clear mid way through the interview that I would not get it. I know maybe I didn't prepare fully for the interview but I also think one of the interviewers jeopardized me early on. She didn't review my resume and was already questioning my previous work experience before any questions were asked. The first question was a role play and only had 10min to answer. But I felt she took unnecessarily long amounts of time for her part of the role play that ate up most of the 10min. Anyways, from that point on I was kinda shaken for the rest of the interview. At the end of the interview, she basically said yeah I don't think so. The other interviewer took my reference information anyways and told me the time frame to expect an answer. Now I get an email saying…

I have been using a company phone as both personal/work phone for the past 10 years, but recently the new CFO decided that only managers should get an iphone 14, while the rest of us will receive a cheap android (galaxy s20 fe or similar). Previously the policy was for everyone to receive the same phone, regardless of position. This is not going great, as by now everyone is invested in apple's walled garden and are not willing to switch. I talked to a coworker that also didn't have a personal number anymore, and with this change he decided to buy an iphone out of his pocket as a personal phone and use both. I am thinking about just returning the company phone and switch to a personal phone as I don't want to keep carrying two phones around. On the plus side, I don't need to be on call…

I took a job as a purchasing manager just about 2 years ago. It was a newer startup but they treated me well at first. Well their idea for a “purchasing manager” also includes service, reception, accounting, physical labour, transportation and more. Failure to complete all additional work results in bullying and intimidation by the companies CEO, and by the time I realized I needed to GTFO, the job market had shifted from an employees job market to an employers, and I couldn’t find shit. To top it off, I was promised a bonus that the boss did pay me… kind of, I guess he thought I wouldn’t notice that he deducted my bonus from my vacation pay. 8 months of searching and I did it, I found a job with the same title, a fat raise (70k-90k) a massively narrowed down job scope within the same industry, and it’s…

I recently started a new job about 2 months ago. It's an office job, very typical 9 to 5 Monday to Friday. My coworkers except a few are horrendous, they say the most vile racist things to members of staff in different departments, they all talk smack about members in our department when they are absent. As well as this the workload is beyond unmanageable to complete, it's also minimum wage. I can't stress enough how much I despise this new role. The advice I need is, should I jump ship? They're already very understaffed and my workload would be distributed to two members of staff who are actually very nice. There is no way I could possibly speak to HR either as it would forever be awkward inside the office and the constant bitchyness would only get worse. The other day I stepped outside to have a cigarette and…

I got an interview request where I have to record myself answering questions with about 1 minute of prep between. I had done this once before with another company but it did not go great. I found it harder than just the standard 1 on 1. Any tips and tricks to land the next interview?

I start working again after being out of work for over a year It's office based and my anxiety has escalated as I think I overstated my ability at interview It's a fixed term of 2 years but I just need bills paid, I've no ambition to stay Any motivation or tips to help me get through it? First day in particular as I need to seem competent and enthusiastic