Month: August 2023

Honestly, I don’t know what to title this. I’m also probably going to write a lot of text since I feel awful about this yet again. I have talked about it before in some other posts, but I am still living the reality of what is happening and needed to talk somewhere today. This all happened in the same week a couple of months ago. On Wednesday, I went to my office in person to lead a workshop. After lunch I started to feel really sick, had a migraine, and went to the ER. They told me I was just dehydrated (wrong) and that I should wait for my MRI scan, which was to happen four days afterwards. On Thursday, I worked from home, since I physically did not feel well. Suddenly, my manager asked me if I was ok to have a meeting. This was around lunch time and…

I’ve had numerous people DM me as of late due to a post I responded to about the state of job placement with even a master’s degree. I work in safety, and would like to hopefully help a lot of people in here acquire a well paying job that can lead to a well paying career without a degree. (Though having one in anything as a safety will put you on a fast track to top tier earnings for upper middle class) for reference, I have been in safety for 5 years. I started out at 30/hr in a Texas. I now make 135/yr and am possibly taking another position that is only slightly more, but involves a much more extensive benefits packages. Most people here seem to have been dealt a bad hand or have just been beaten down by the system, and seem like very capable people, so…

I had to put up with a lot of health issues lately. Last month was one of the worst periods I ever had to go through. Bedridden, only getting up to wash off blood in the shower, I was miserable. I explained to my team lead about the issue that my menstrual cycle is very rough on me, and there was no way I could see a doctor for something like this in the first place, as any day we call off sick must be accompanied with a doctor's note or else we get written up. They call these “ocurrences” if you rack up enough in a certain amount of time, you get a verbal, then written, then final warning. I've yet to get a written warning for this kind of thing, but my bosses still wrote me up for those days regardless for not having a note. I had…

I have a question about past experience working for an employment agency, and if it is still the case today? So like back in 20032004. I moved from Toronto to Halifax. While in Halifax, I worked through a Temp agency as a general laborer. At one point, they had a bunch of use working at a newspaper stuffing flyers in the middle pages on an assembly line. At first, the job was good. We had all breaks we thought we were entitled to. After a couple of months and things got very busy. We noticed we were working 81012 hours without a break… now, I'm not opposed to putting in a little extra work to get the job done. But being on your feet for extended periods of time is hard. So we started to complain we were not getting a break… no smoke break… no bathroom break… no lunch…

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, but I believe it ties into the whole message of this subreddit. So I am employed with a home healthcare agency in TN. Not so many months ago they started punishing people for not doing their paperwork correctly. They basically started cutting people paper checks and withholding their pay until the paperwork is complete. Which means the direct deposit was stopped. Is this illegal? Did they find a loophole around this? Considering they’re still paying people, but it’s a form of retaliation in my opinion. Thank you for your help.

So sick of workplaces treating people in such an inhumane fashion, even when you get to higher paid roles. I think life could be so much better so I have finally decided to become serious about creating or helping to create my own community. I use the word “commune” loosely, but basically what I'm thinking of beginning to research and save up money for is to buy land, create “tiny homes” of some sort on it, and develop a mostly (or hopefully entirely) inwardly sustainable agricultural/farming system which may or may not be off the grid. I wouldn't want everything to be rigidly shared, people would still own their houses but over all the system would be designed so that if you just wanted to get away from the world you could help with any of the many duties involved in farming. There would also be a lot of hand…

I just presented virtually at a conference, which I paid to do out of pocket. I love going to conference and I am currently in a short-term position, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to network. This year the rotating conference was in a very important city in my field, and everyone I knew through my career was going. When I started this position, my Manger told me I had a $2k professional development fund, and I quickly made a presentation proposal and submitted it before the conference deadline. A few months go by, my proposal was accepted, and then he says, actually, short term employees don't get the money. I was kidna devastated, but rules are rules, right? Wrong. Other coworkers, who are higher up on the hierarchy, started talking amongst themselves about me going to conference, and then found out I was presenting virtually. So…

I need advice on quitting, I do not want to give a two week notice, the job I am wanting to quit is a secondary job that I work at once a week but I am very bad about feeling guilty about quitting period. I do not like the job at all, my family think that it’s a great thing that I got the job but don’t know how it actually is on the inside. I’m wanting to let them know that I’m quitting through text but I don’t want to be rude and just want to get it over with I just don’t know how to say it.

I’ve worked my way into a niche. And at the moment, I’m the only person in my company that can do my job. My work has been hinting that I should train up an assistant to help me. My responsibilities are probably more than a 1 person job, but not enough for two people. However if I trained someone up, this would allow me to go part time. This would be good because I have a lot of parental and other responsibilities after work meaning I feel as if I have zero time to myself. My employer is ruthless though and I’m worried once l I give away the secret sauce, they would make me redundant once it gets less busy. On the other hand, I don’t have time for hobbies, I’m getting unfit due to lack of time for exercise and I don’t see friends as often as I’d…