Month: August 2023

I have worked in Retail management (multiple positions from Assistant Manager to Multi-Unit Operations Manager and such) for the better part of 15 years. Yet, I cannot break into any other industry. I can't grow in my industry either because Retail is incredibly discriminatory depending on what company you've worked for. If it isn't a “bougie” company people don't even bother looking at your resume. No job applications will call back no matter how much a re-do my resume. I can't get better wages and honestly… Im sort of trapped at 36 yrs old to even try to go back to school because 99% of my salary goes to rent / debts. Edit: Biggest fear is that honestly… 36 years old in retail feels like ANCIENT, and I don't want to be “that” manager that is over 50 working in a dead-end job with 20 year olds forever. Thoughts?

I’ve added the NSFW tag as I mention mental heal struggles and past assault trauma. I’ve been at my job in the helping field for 2 years now, having gone full time in the spring of this year. I have confided in my supervisor on multiple occasions how I have been in a mental decline for the past 2 months and how my therapist is deeply concerned and wants me to pursue some form of inpatient treatment. It’s been met with ‘your coworkers have all come to me saying you’ve been moody and agitated and not being friendly to them. They feel you’ve become unapproachable.’ This is all the week my mother decided to attend the wedding of the man who sexually assaulted me and I was grieving the fact that my relationship with her is permanently damaged. My supervisor claims it’s all coming from a place of concern- yet…

I was browsing through a potential employer’s social media and found a few pizza day pictures. While free meals are great, when companies throw that out too much it feels insulting that out of all the bonuses they can give employees, relatively cheap food is the standard. I rather have the boss give everyone $50 than spend $200 on pizza. I think rewarding employees with pizza is juvenile. We’re not in seventh grade anymore.

Quick story to bring up y'all mood, UK based btw. I had just started a job 6 months ago at a company and agreed to a salary of £26k (I only take £22k of that home after tax). Being a graduate engineer I let it be as salaries rise with a few years experience in my field. A company Id applied to 7 months ago around the time I was on an applying spree (which landed this older job) finally got back to me. I did a interview online and they were very happy with my CV so they offered me £32k plus a company car I can choose from a list (the worse car on this list mind you was an 2020 MG3) plus on site charging for EV's and insurance and private healthcare for me +1 (given the unfortunate state of the NHS its not a bad perk)…

Quick story to bring up y'all mood, UK based btw. I had just started a job 6 months ago at a company and agreed to a salary of £26k (I only take £22k of that home after tax). Being a graduate engineer I let it be as salaries rise with a few years experience in my field. A company Id applied to 7 months ago around the time I was on an applying spree (which landed this older job) finally got back to me. I did a interview online and they were very happy with my CV so they offered me £32k plus a company car I can choose from a list (the worse car on this list mind you was an 2020 MG3) plus on site charging for EV's and insurance and private healthcare for me +1 (given the unfortunate state of the NHS its not a bad perk)…

Quick story to bring up y'all mood, UK based btw. I had just started a job 6 months ago at a company and agreed to a salary of £26k (I only take £22k of that home after tax). Being a graduate engineer I let it be as salaries rise with a few years experience in my field. A company Id applied to 7 months ago around the time I was on an applying spree (which landed this older job) finally got back to me. I did a interview online and they were very happy with my CV so they offered me £32k plus a company car I can choose from a list (the worse car on this list mind you was an 2020 MG3) plus on site charging for EV's and insurance and private healthcare for me +1 (given the unfortunate state of the NHS its not a bad perk)…

So for context I no longer work at this place. I used to work at a dealership as an express tech. I got hired on Valentine’s Day believe it or not. Anyway, this was my first ever “real” job where as I was moving furniture for a staging lady and doing landscaping before but this was my first real job. Anyway, being who I am I’m pretty forgetful and I don’t know if it’s stupidity, short term memory loss, or some other kind of brain issue. Anyway, I’d forget some things like tightening drain bolts, lug nuts (yes I know this one is huge), oil caps, etc. so pretty small stuff save for the lugs. My bosses have always told me it’s fine and all and swept the small stuff under the rug. However, last week I had taken two days off Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday was because of food…

If you make these jokes to cashiers just know that we've heard that joke 50 million times. I'm not going to stop telling people to stop being annoying to cashiers. We have a hard enough job already with the people using us as captive audiences. I didn't get to actually cuss at you; so I'll do it now. Fuck off customer. You're never right.

Do I have any redress? I've been working part-time for UK company (“permanent”) and boss recently asked me to go full-time, but I declined. Working part-time is fine for me and I live a super frugal life, to make it do-able. The company is also madly inefficient and and boss is totally hands-off disinterested in all of it. Place runs like a slug, and morale has hit the floor because no-one ever felt heard. Full-time would make no sense and I politely made my excuses. Roll on a couple of weeks and the boss decides he doen't need my services anymore , as in: not at all, and sacks me instantly, without any conversation discussion or warning. I was locked out of all our software and email and he made up a totally fictional excuse about the “way i talk to people” to palm it off and disown his behaviour.…

i hate giving two weeks notice. i barely have done it (retail spaces) and don’t regret it. i’m moving into a more professional field now and will definitely give proper notice when/if the time comes for that but for my current job , not doing it. my job before this? didn’t do it. if you can slash my hours or fire me without notice why should i give you notice of me leaving?? 🤷‍️ last time i had an official two weeks notice, i didn’t even work the final week, it’s hard to want to keep going knowing you’re leaving. they’re gonna replace me and forget about me no matter if i give notice or not. small rant over lol