Month: August 2023

I work in a sales type job in Florida for a company that does 10b+ in sales. We were on salary for awhile and recently they changed us to a comp plan that is 50% salary and 50% goal driven. The issue is we know we are not getting paid correctly and there is never any follow up or ways to track how we are doing on some of our monthly goals. For example most of us have around 30+ accounts, we get them to buy something we sell and then once that happens there is no way to see 100% of what is sold for the month. We can see what our goal is from the beginning of the month. But lets say your goal is 100 units, you get all 30 accounts to agree to taking some. You dont write the order, the company you sell it to…

I (25F) am miserable at my job. I work as an incoming quality inspector (the only inspector for whole company) for a manufacturing company and I hate it. I know it’s the kind of work some people would kill to have, and I have tried to be grateful for this job but I just can’t convince myself. I am either so busy I cannot keep up with demand, or I am so slow that I genuinely have only 1 hour of work a day. That’s it. The rest of it is just trying to make myself look busy and pacing around for 7 hours. I refuse to ask for more work because I know that there will be no pay increase and I am not going to get taken advantage of. They have mentioned cross training me before and I asked if I would receive increased pay for cross training,…

I (25F) am miserable at my job. I work as an incoming quality inspector (the only inspector for whole company) for a manufacturing company and I hate it. I know it’s the kind of work some people would kill to have, and I have tried to be grateful for this job but I just can’t convince myself. I am either so busy I cannot keep up with demand, or I am so slow that I genuinely have only 1 hour of work a day. That’s it. The rest of it is just trying to make myself look busy and pacing around for 7 hours. I refuse to ask for more work because I know that there will be no pay increase and I am not going to get taken advantage of. They have mentioned cross training me before and I asked if I would receive increased pay for cross training,…

I (25F) am miserable at my job. I work as an incoming quality inspector (the only inspector for whole company) for a manufacturing company and I hate it. I know it’s the kind of work some people would kill to have, and I have tried to be grateful for this job but I just can’t convince myself. I am either so busy I cannot keep up with demand, or I am so slow that I genuinely have only 1 hour of work a day. That’s it. The rest of it is just trying to make myself look busy and pacing around for 7 hours. I refuse to ask for more work because I know that there will be no pay increase and I am not going to get taken advantage of. They have mentioned cross training me before and I asked if I would receive increased pay for cross training,…

In my last job, I was contacted by the CEO of a small startup about a senior role where I was expected to hit the ground running. I had my profile up on a job board and it was very clear I had only one year of experience for the role at a reasonably junior level. He never took my CV (resume) nor asked me STAR questions about the work I did. I know they couldn't find suitable candidates and I think I was hired because he was interested in the subject I did for my MA. The role needed at least 5 years exp in an agile, fast growth start-up. I had one year experience as a forum moderator in a slow paced environment. I did a short test and two culture/intro calls. I would have never applied for such a senior role had I not been contacted first.…

I’m at the end of my PIP. My manager has already reassigned my work and has hired my replacement. I have a meeting with him on 9am on Friday. I’ve accepted defeat and decided to take a road trip to see the National Parks before summer is over. I’m pretty devastated but at least I can collect unemployment until I find the next thjng Edit: this is my first time I’m getting fired in my 20 years of working, I don’t know if I’m eligible for unemployment What are some things I should do to wrap up? Like change over emails to personal for 401k, cash out my FSA, etc.

Now I know for almost any employer this is illegal, however I’m doing “contract work” for a landscaping company. My main job is working two graveyards every week and I get paid a flat rate for this. The problem is the guy also gives me tons of side jobs to do, driving all the way out to middle of nowhere to over grown barns and ponds to weed eat and I get paid $15 an hour. He hires in his nephew at 17$/hr, at half my age and less than half my expertise, then proceeds to tell everyone working under him not to discuss pay anymore because it “causes problems.” Riiiight. So is it legal for a contract employer In KY to do this? Nothing in writing this is all verbal. Meaning I’m pretty sure he knows it’s wrong and thinks i don’t know it’s wrong.

I posted the other day about them saying we're not friends, after that I had a talk with them saying it's fine, that my feelings were hurt but I understood. Then it hit the fan. I offered to help decorate and make cupcakes for one of their birthdays for the office, and that caused the person planning it to throw a fit and say “you just do it.” And later after not knowing what to do I just apologized if it seemed I was overstepping and that wasn't my intention, I was just offering my help. She said cool, let's decorate togethee on Monday. Monday comes, no one says anything to me about decorating. I'm waiting, I move to a new desk to remove myself from that area because I just wanted some distance from everything, nothing. They start decorating and I hear one of them go “SHE was SUPPOSED…

I work for a government agency and we were given a raise. Now they are making my job a living hell and I talked to my other coworkers and they feel the same way. No more paid overtime. Staff attorneys used to talk to us. Now they don't want to deal with us. When the computers go down, no one tells us anything My department has to now answer calls to help the public on a database we weren't trained on and will never be trained on but my supervisor be positive. Is it common in the workplace that you are givin additional jobs where you are not trained on? I'm thinking about looking for another job at this point.