Month: August 2023

There are so many things about my career that make me angry. I don't feel like I have ANY control over most of it. A lot of failures happened for petty and vindictive reasons. Yes, I played a part but why do I have to get punished so much?? Every office I've been in feels like one of those mouse mazes. How have you addressed anger about your career?

TLDR: my old boss called my new boss and asked why I opened an unemployment claim against them before I started working for my new job. Now my new job doesn't want to keep me. I worked for Company A full-time for over a year. Company A decides they no longer can afford to keep me on as an employee and outsources my job to Company B which is a contract company. Company B agrees to hire me, potentially to return to Company A's facility and continue performing my role with Company A. In the meantime the expectation was I would work as a subcontractor for Company B, performing other roles as directed. Before I began working for Company B, as a fallback, I opened a claim through the state for unemployment benefits against Company A just in case things with Company B didn't work out. I did not complete…

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed an uptick in 100% commission sales jobs I’m genuinely curious because I’m trying to feed my family and these people are shamelessly leading me on to all these zoom meetings for me to wait for the base rate and they’re like “BE YOUR OWN BOSS WORK YOUR OWN HOURS” It’s really discouraging

So I work in a security monitoring / call center of sorts. My employers contract was terminated and a new security company took over, and is hiring new hires to the team at $27.50 while experienced operators are making $25 as the base wage (max $28 for people with years of tenure), while stringing us along with the “idea” of getting raises eventually, maybe.. some day. Morale has plummeted and many have quit for greener pastures. How can a company be this stupid? They've successfully turned the existing team against them in an incredibly short amount of time. What possible scenario could this actually work in their favor? Why not just raise everyone's wages at the same time? Myself and my coworkers are gobsmacked.

Hello Redditors!! I work for a company that uses a permissive PTO plan. We don’t accrue PTO, we basically just request it and hope the manager approves it. I had never heard of this before working here, but apparently it is becoming more common among companies. It is absolutely a ploy to try make employees feel like they don’t really have PTO to use, thus use less than if we were allotted it. And no payout upon leaving the company, of course. My question/concern with my company is that they have sent us how much PTO we have used vs how much we would have if we were actually allotted it like normal, indicating we should be using that much PTO. I feel like this is shady. Under this plan, because you can use it for sick time, means state sick time laws don’t apply. So if they aren’t separating…

There's a local business i really want to work at because of the location, benefits and vibe but their salary offer is half what i earn and less than 1/3 of what i can earn by moving companies. Because the CEO posted the job ad and i would be reporting directly to them, on the weekend i emailed them expressing my interest and if they could negotiate the salary but no reply yet. I was thinking that after they replied i would pitch on how i could bring much more value to justify them matching the salary to what i could earn elsewhere. Do i treat it as a red flag and forget about it or do i email them my pitch?

Why do we take days off when we’re tired from work? That means you’re spending paid vacation time so that you can refresh your brain/body, only to get tired again the next work day. That also means that you never get the time for yourself where in you’re full of energy. If work is demanding and say you’re tired by Thursday, the company deserves a tired and unproductive version of you on Friday. I refuse to spend my PTO just so I can rest for work. I will rest at work, thank you very much.