Month: August 2023

applied for bar staff at a restaurant and had a trial shift where I was just behind the bar. They said I did really well and wanted to sign me on, when I went in for my first shift I was, to my surprise, a runner and was told I'd be a runner for a while until I learn the table numbers by heart. Non of the people behind the bar during my shifts new the tables by heart and when I found out I was confused and then I later found out that they've been short staffed on runners for a while. So I quit today as I've found an actual bar job that's way closer to me, I called today to let them know professionally that I'm quiting as I've found a better job and thanked them for having me and giving me an opportunity. She told me…

I started an estimating job about 8 months ago for a medium sized subcontractor after being recruited. They seemed like really nice and down to earth people – the business was relatively small (40 employees) and everyone was pretty close knit. The first few months were fabulous in terms of culture but difficult as I was starting in a brand new career – no problem. Put in the effort, was very successful. The issue came when I had a sudden health crisis in April and had to stay in the hospital for 4 days and was required to stay home for an additional 3 days. This incident made a switch flip in my boss – he was very cold and seemed as if he would rather be lit on fire than have to speak with me in any capacity. My 6 month review came up and I had made $2,000,000…

And a whole lot of psychological babble about it and the how good it is for people to see each other face to face and we are NOT calling this return to office we are calling it return to normal behavior. Fuck You. Guess I’m job searching, which is a whole different pain in the ass.

I see many people here complaining about the drudgery of office and computer work, which is understandable. I’m curious why people who dislike office work so much don’t change careers to more ‘active’ jobs. Construction, utilities, forestry, and many other active / outdoor jobs have huge labour shortages right now and offer good pay and (usually) benefits. Why not pivot to something if you don’t like what you’re currently doing? Especially for those who are young / have no kids and thus can be a bit more flexible

I'm pretty pissed off right now. ​ About 2 months ago I convinced my friend to drop his job at a company to work at my new employer. Reason being was the pay. Their commission payout was really high comparatively. ​ I told my friend to quit. So he did. He came on board got hired here. A month later we get an email saying they're cutting the commission rate significantly. We were all going from 2-1% (Depending on how much you enroll) to .25%. This is a huge paycut. ​ I feel fucking terrible. I got my friend to give up a decent job and now they're fucking everybody over. ​ ​

Things have been progressively worse since January, one of the major issues being that they haven't hired anyone since December, even though 14 people have left (voluntarily or otherwise) since then. We are a small store so the lack of staffing has left the rest of us doing up to 5 different jobs in a single shift to compensate. Corporate refuses to hire anyone else. We are all struggling, and now I hear news another is abandoning ship soon. I don't blame them for a second. Now, another issue arises. We are supposed to get our tips every Friday. It's not uncommon that we are so busy that boss/supervisors is “unable” to divvy up tips until Sunday latest. Well, it's Wednesday and we still haven't got last Friday's tips. I'm running out of dog food. I don't know what recourse I have, and I'm not sure what to say to…

I finally got a really good job after working in my field for eight years. I work in life enrichment with seniors. I have been at the job for just over a month as an asistant to the manager. Got a 10 dollar raise which is insane for health care in Ontario. After I really rough start to 2023, I now feel less of the pressure. The stories in this sub reddit resonated with me. I can relate to a lot of the experiences here. I wish all the best to everyone here.

Summary My partner is earning triple my wage atm (own business) I am on maternity for a year in the UK. Currently have a 3 month old My work is 2 days WFH 3 days travelling 1.5hrs each way into London (My promotion was rescinded before going on maternity leave) We live 30m drive from parents, 1.5hrs by public transport (his parents dont drive) We have a mini tesco at the end of our road, park for the dog, two nice pubs within 2 mins walking distance Its a 5m drive to the highstreet we hardly go to which has 4 restraunts like pizza express, 3 supermarkets, hair dressers, costa, post office Our current house – we feel like we can't do much as we need to drive far to do anything – 3 bedroom (2 small double rooms and box room as an office) – Small alcove closet for…

TLDR: New management took WFH off the table after 3 years of working this way. Should I put in the effort to try to “prove myself” to Boomer Karen and hopefully get WFH reinstated, or should I move on to a job where I’m guaranteed remote work up-front? I wanted to share an experience I had yesterday regarding WFH. I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced it/how you responded to any similar situation. (Also, I’m sorry if this seems ranty, I'm still in my feels right now, so forgive me!) For context, I've always worked since I was 14 years old (yes, 14, I lied on my applications). I grew up poor so I often worked multiple jobs, mainly in food service and retail.. aka wage slave jobs. Spent thousands of hours making 6, 7, or 8 bucks an hour. For whatever reason, I truly believed that I…

I (23F) work in an office and I actually like the work that I do. It’s reasonably challenging, the work load ebbs and flows so I don’t get bored, and I get to watch movies on company time and be a warm body at a desk. The main aggravating factor of my job is the older women I work with. They seem to have it out for all of the younger girls in the office, and the passive aggression is through the roof. One HR member in particular, is always up my ass, we’ll call her Karen. I’ll admit, I have a problem with punctuality. I couldn’t be on time to save my life (it’d be easy to blame my ADHD, but it doesn’t help that I don’t really care about being on time either). Karen has made it her life’s mission to manage my time. She waits near the…