Month: August 2023

So I work at a discount retail store. In our break room they have dumb ass corporate propaganda playing on the TV. The CEO giving out the “earnings report” said in 2022 the company as a whole made $5 billion in profit. I recently had a performance review with my manager and was given a grade of “meets expectations” in other words I do my job and nothing less or nothing more. By doing just my job alone garnered me an 18 cent raise. Not even a full quarter! I am getting the paid equivalent of what $8 dollars an hour was eight years ago. Rant over. Edit: I’ve been asked this a lot. But, yes. I have been looking at other jobs. In the IT world. Been searching for four months actually. I’ve applied at hundreds or so jobs and after all that I’ve maybe only heard back from…

There’s no loyalty in corporate America. The CEOs act like they care about you, but if profits aren’t improving or if the stock price drops, they wouldn’t hesitate to lay you off. Especially now with cheaper labor overseas and AI taking human jobs. So don’t feel like you have to be loyal to the company you work at. Your job is to take care of your family and yourself, and you have to do what’s best for you. In order to maximize your earnings or getting a significant raise in salary, one of the best methods is to change jobs every 2-3 years. Most companies pay more for new hires than give raises to the current employees. Don’t be afraid to look for other jobs, especially remote work. Obviously this isn’t true 100% of the time, but more likely than not you’ll get a significant boost in salary.

I'm a receptionist at a high-end service job where we have about 8 people on staff, all needing a certain kind of table to do their jobs. Last Friday, I had a 100 degree fever and called out, and my boss immediately came down on me, saying that next time I need to give her more notice, and that she would have cancelled her trip if she'd known I'd be out. I had no idea she was even going out of town, as she rules from a distance, via text, and is notorious for not telling people the whole story or information that's actually needed. I shot back that I can't control when I get sick and she started to pretend to care, saying, “Of course, everyone is entitled to get sick.” That word choice set me off for sure but I had to stay in bed all day and…

I graduated over a 1yr+1/2 ago with an environmental-related bachelor's and certificate that I was explicitly told would make me very employable. Since graduation, I have sent out job applications (1-4 depending on offerings) every day. I have only ever received one reply to an interview that, by the end of it, was very clear they wanted to hire internally. Other than that, I have been nothing but dono-walled. At this point, all job postings might as well be some schizophrenic delusion since they're about as real. I should mention that many of my friends graduated at a similar time with more or less equal levels of schooling. Of those friends, zero have been able to get jobs.

“Promoted to Incompetence” By this I mean they may have been great at their original job but they were given a number of promotions until they were in a position they lack the competence to complete. I think only my current job had a manager that could actually do the job of the people he's managing. Typically they're an arrogant know it all, who couldn't figure their way out of a wet paper bag and everyone knows it.

My boss will not fucking let this go! I’m a senior national manager for a large international company. I have a team of 11 people. All introverted, hardworking, conscientious wonderful writers. I work REALLY hard to protect them from corporate bullshit. They come in two days a week which I approved and I stand behind. They all have things in their lives that require flexibility; e.g. single parent duties, elderly parent care duties, severe transport anxiety, etc. I let them work from home as often as they need to. I just don’t get why being back in the office isn’t enough! They have to be excited about it too!!! My boss is constantly making comments about where people are. She knows where they are. And every-time I explain why (sick kid, sick grandparent, they have 18 hours of work to cram in a day that they get paid 8 hours…

Got the “effective immediately we’re terminating this position” conversation. No reason shared, just that. And Im so fucking happy!!! What did you do after getting laid off effective immediately? Or how did you plan/proceed for the future? TLDR; I got laid off, what did you do after getting laid off? Any tips appreciated! Edit: Wow thank you all for sharing your stories. There are so many gems in this thread. I hope you're all in better places, and if not, know that they're soon to come! Thank you, everyone.

I’m a 30F with a Senior title under my belt. The company I work in has over 200 employees, tons and tons of PTO, remote, flexible hours (as long as I do my job, it’s really flexible). In terms of benefits, I am really happy. However, I’m starting to feel a bit… empty? Due to the nature of my job, my hard work goes unnoticed. It’s not like someone says anything negative, nor positive, it’s just crickets. Whenever I try to raise my concerns about a project, I get shut down. I’m theoretically supposed to have ownership over a few things, but I don’t – lots of conversations are happening behind my back because “I’m not needed” there. I tried to advocate for myself to my superior (who is C-level) and he completely ignored me; I also have an issue with one of the people I work with (more people…

My boss told me that he couldn’t afford to pay me the full amount I wanted but once they got the finances sorted out this year then he would pay me even more than I wanted. So I stayed with this company for another year then he told me he still couldn’t pay me the amount he promised! He told me the work I did last year wasn’t showing that I deserved the larger salary. I tried to explain to him that it was a team effort and everyone else on my team was slacking but he wouldn’t listen! When I threatened to quit he said if I stayed a couple more months he could help me get a job with the salary I wanted at their LA branch. So I stay for another 4 months and nothing happens. So I ask him when’s the move coming and he says…

I accepted a job too soon and I need to stay there for a year because I need the experience on my resume. The work isn’t that bad, but I dread going to work every single day because it’s an open office system. You don’t have an ounce of privacy because the partition walls are cheap see through plastic, and i sit between two men around my age. I have stomach problems and they can hear when my stomach is growling and it’s just humiliating. Not only that, when anyone is in a call or a meeting, we can all hear them loud and clearly and vise versa. I feel like a chicken crammed in a wire cage with five other chickens. I want to leave but I can’t. Whoever implemented the open office system is a piece of shit in my opinion. Chances are, they probably don’t work in…