Month: August 2023

I 'was' working at a very large bank. At a meeting they recognized a colleague for their years of work. We started on the same day.

I work as an HR manager for a small business. It's intense and very involved business in a niche industry. To be honest, I hate working in HR. I'm currently working on getting my real estate license so I can get out of HR. I figured I would try and keep this job through the end of the year, if possible, and knew I had to make it past 90 days. That way, I can give myself time to go with the right brokerage. I did not want to take this job. I already knew it sucked when I took it. The pay is awful. I'm making at least $20k less than the average HR Manager. and the company has a questionable reputation in town. However, I live in a rural community, and HR jobs are scarce around here. I only took it because I got turned down from the…

When I just graduated college around 2017 I put in a job app to work at a local restaurant not far from where I live. They called me about a month ago asking me if I was “still interested in the position.” Restaurants are literally pulling out applications they had sitting in a box for 6 years at a desperate attempt to find people to work for $6/hour. In those 6 years I managed an entire career shift and now finally have a stable and reliable job. I debated on whether or not to just go through with the interview for shits and gigs but restaurants are struggling right now and that’s a waste of my time.

My husband was an assistant admin for an assisted living facility where he was forced to routinely work 60- 80 hours a week due to short staffing. Once he worked 36 hours straight and slept in his car for a few hours before driving home because he felt too tired to safely drive. He worked alongside his boss, the admin, and a director of nursing (DON). When he was hired he was told he would alternate weeks being on call with the other managers but after a month he says they told him they have other things going on so he’d be the only person on call 24/7. One day after his fourth 16 hour shift he gets home and I’m making breakfast while he relaxes. He gets a call from the DON saying he needs to come back because several people called off. He says “I just got home,…

I work as a secretary/administrative assistant in a real estate agency. I've been working here for a year and a half, first as an “intern” and then as a maternity leave filler-in. To be clear, the person who went on maternity leave did not have my position, she is a proper real estate agent. She just took in the workload of the previous secretary until I came in – for a month or so. Shortly after, she went on maternity leave. I had no prior experience in the field and only got taught how to vaguely use the company program, and soon found myself in a kind of jack-of-all-trades position. I worked my butt off, because my boss promised me that if he saw growth he would employ me full time and with a open-end contract (which was my objective, so I was very motivated). However, there were sketchy aspects…

So, I'm mostly venting but this is RIDICULOUS. I work at a company that makes a specialized large format product for a single industry. Don't want to go more indepth as we are small and you can easily find us. I don't want my boss finding this because he is vindictive. Our product includes some hardware we manufacture and a graphic we design and produce. Again. Intentionally vague. We got an order in art today that is a fully blank graphic and charged $200 for the “graphic design” of the layout. I don't know why this is even in art, there is literally nothing for us to do with the order but pass it to production. What's so flabbergasting is that this order is paid in full and all the managers are saying there isn't a reason to remove the fee because it'll mean too much work on the sales…

Venting on an alt account because I have no idea what to do or what I’m doing wrong. I have a job I used to love. Went through a grueling project for about 5 months at the end of last year and into this year and after it finished I feel like I’ve just shut down. I don’t have any passion or drive for this anymore. The job isn’t even a hard one, it’s easy as hell actually and the pay isn’t too bad. But I feel like every day is a slog. My job responsibilities have changed a lot in the past year and it feels like there’s a new emergency every week, which is probably part of the issue. People still tell me I’m doing good, but I can tell my output is lacking. How can I fix my mentality? How can I feel better about this again?…

Sent in an email to my boss letting them know I would need a half day off in about 3 weeks as I’ve an appointment with my surgeon. Boss responds with “you can either use vacation/sick time to cover it, or make up your hours elsewhere. Choice is yours” Umm, fuck off. Also, no. My availability is my scheduled shifts. I won’t be there for the last 4 hours of the day, schedule accordingly. Also not using vacation or sick time that’s already being accounted for as my vacation this week coming. Tired of these corporations thinking they own my fucking time. You don’t. Edit: I don’t have sick time available and they’re trying to say I have to cancel one of my vacation days that’s already booked, or don’t go to the appointment