Month: August 2023

I moved to a new country a year and a half ago and I really struggled getting a job as a designer. One day a long lost cousins calls me for a job and I gladly go to the interview and hear about all this projects we wold be working on and how everything is nice and pretty, the team is two graphic designers. I got hired and started going to the office full time and surprise: there is barely any work for me to do. Why? The other designer and the marketing person (who works in an office 2 hours away) HATE and believe me when I say TRULY HATE EACH OTHER, but some how it was cheaper or easier to hire a full other designer to complete one easy task a week than yo try to solve a better way for them to work together. I’m writing this…

The highest ranking job at a “big company” I ever had was at AMC theaters where I earned like $8.40 and data entry at a utilities company where I earned $15. I have no executive experience, this is just from observation. We are only paid as much as it costs to replace us, and no more. If we sign up for a replaceable job, ie: movie theater cleaner, I was only worth that amount of money to spend, because they'd hire someone else who can do the job to satisfaction, for the same price. If I went in there and demanded a raise to $10 , they'd boot me. There is one sole function of a business: Profit. The moment they can replace you or me for less, they will. Secretaries got replaced by CRM's, the ice delivery person got replaced by refrigerators. The cashier is being replaced by self…

Not every employee, but a lot, have walkie talkies at the large retailer I work at Managers/supervisors will regularly be sitting in the breakroom with their walkie on full blast. Makes it awkward when someone says “Jacob do you copy?” And Jacob is sitting there on his lunch or break and people look at him as if he’s supposed to do something. Shouldn’t the walkies be put away before going to lunch or break? Also, idk the range on them but some managers take the walkies home with them. You can see them walking through the parking lot, off work, and hear someone on the walkie talking As a non manager, how and who do I tell that this shouldn’t be allowed? At least the break room part anyway, as it clearly bothers others. Who are on a break or lunch and aren’t supposed to be doing/hearing anything work related

I have this hostile “situation” at work, and it’s a very small business – maybe a dozen people work there. I know for sure that a coworker goes thru my desk – which, I’ve decided not to care about. They are a cartoon character of a person so I refuse to get wound up by their antics. However, I have this gut feeling they might have access to my email. That would be over the line for me. He’s the admin for all the software/computers in the office. Even tho I have 2 tier sign in security on my computer (password + text code) I’m wondering if they log in as “admin” and if that gives them free reign to sign into all my stuff. My email is Outlook fwiw. I have nothing to hide, but their behavior gets… tiresome.

So I come into work and I guess they are going to publicly display the times we call out sick or what ever… I think it’s pretty much horse shit . Wanted your guy’s opinion.

Asked me to cover their work when they can't be in the office, then gives me horrible condescending comments when I can't immediately take care of their work. I had a doctor's phone call, but apparently them working from home and not being in the office…. to do their own work…. that's more important. I'm so glad they buried their own grave with all the nasty snide comments on MS Teams. HR is going to loooooove this.

But I need the money and I can’t find a better job. I’m fucking furious that’s what they expect of me . Im the one getting the short end of the stick. Spending 12 hours flying for a day or twos worth of work for 250 bucks. Fuck my job and the people who run it. They get to see their families every day. They have a salary. Sometimes I go two weeks with no work. It was 3 weeks of no checks around Christmas last year. Fuck them.

Let me just put some things on the table, I work a minimum wage job (about $6.50 after taxes by my estimates) at one of those little stands at the walking areas of the mall. I’ve worked there for about….six/seven years (depending on if you want to count 2020-21). Not only have I seen the cost of living rise, basically real time, but I have also seen the ‘small business’ with like three locations, deteriorate into two Karens having a proxy war, a manager who barely does their job, a store owner who doesn’t even care, about anything but the numbers, and a situation where we have a 60 year old cover shifts, and when they can’t, an entire store location is shut down. Now I’ve been working on leaving for some time now…but honestly, I think it’ll all close before I make the jump, and I just don’t know…

Just posting this before I start to send this out. Posting Everywhere Please look at the other reviews students were forced to write reviews. This is just one of the many of the dirty things they do Taking pictures of the exam for the company Proctored CompTIA ITF+ exam Was asked to take pictures of the exam. Making comments about employees weight False Accusations of Moon Lightning Changing direction in terms of policy which results nagging and gaslighting Voluntold is a policy that is popular with them They will not pay out bonuses. The founder has an obsession with Joe Clarke (the Lean on Me) Movie She refers to education in the classroom as a dictatorship There is no debate given in Reference to Write ups Didn't pay overtime Hours were from 9 – 3 scheduled for an extension of 3 – 730 pm to head up the evening classes…

I’ve been at my job for 3 weeks and am still learning the culture in the office. I’ve worked in office environments previously, but never before (aside from TV) have I seen so much liquor, particularly in one employee’s office. I believe this person is senior level (I don’t actually work with anyone in this office, my team is located elsewhere so I don’t really know other people’s roles/titles too well), and he has a liquor collection in his office that he insisted I could have some anytime? Wtf? He also showed me where some hard seltzers were located throughout the office. I asked if they had a lot of office parties or reserved those for clients and he said no. I jokingly said I’d come take a swig if I had a stressful day and he said I was more than welcome to, like seriously… How is that allowed…