Month: August 2023

I had my kids young at the ages of 20 & 23 and my old frustration was with people saying I should have “gone to college and gotten a real job before having kids” to be fair having kids wasn’t planned.. but I actually enjoyed working the “not real” job of bartending/waitressing. At the time I made more then enough to take care of us as a single mom. I spent everyday with my kids & doing things we liked. They never had to miss me because they’d be asleep with a sitter. Life felt so much.. better. Fast forward years later and I was able to take that bartending job and scale to management, then marketing/sales, start my own business, and now currently work in sales management making six figures. Got that “big girl” job nobody would stfu about my entire twenties. Here we are.. and my life somehow…

I had my kids young at the ages of 20 & 23 and my old frustration was with people saying I should have “gone to college and gotten a real job before having kids” to be fair having kids wasn’t planned.. but I actually enjoyed working the “not real” job of bartending/waitressing. At the time I made more then enough to take care of us as a single mom. I spent everyday with my kids & doing things we liked. They never had to miss me because they’d be asleep with a sitter. Life felt so much.. better. Fast forward years later and I was able to take that bartending job and scale to management, then marketing/sales, start my own business, and now currently work in sales management making six figures. Got that “big girl” job nobody would stfu about my entire twenties. Here we are.. and my life somehow…

I had my kids young at the ages of 20 & 23 and my old frustration was with people saying I should have “gone to college and gotten a real job before having kids” to be fair having kids wasn’t planned.. but I actually enjoyed working the “not real” job of bartending/waitressing. At the time I made more then enough to take care of us as a single mom. I spent everyday with my kids & doing things we liked. They never had to miss me because they’d be asleep with a sitter. Life felt so much.. better. Fast forward years later and I was able to take that bartending job and scale to management, then marketing/sales, start my own business, and now currently work in sales management making six figures. Got that “big girl” job nobody would stfu about my entire twenties. Here we are.. and my life somehow…

I (19nb) have been at the same job since I was 14. I’ve posted about it here in the past. We’ve had a whole lot of managerial changes, and basically everyone moved up a slot and my old boss quit. I’ve dealt with a lot of bullshit here. Verbal abuse, comments about my intelligence, sexual harassment when I was a minor, etc. I stayed because I didn’t know any better and I couldn’t afford to leave. I continue to stay because they pay me far above minimum wage (basically double in my state) and since our managerial changes I’ve been treated with a mutual respect, and my new boss is fantastic. I feel the need to mention that we are not a company, there are only 5 of us in the office, and we have no HR. My supervisor and I are customer service. My supervisor was a very nice…

My senior manager had a meltdown because our printer at our office really sucks and has been having issues that nobody in charge has addressed in months. She basically had a freakout over it, basically smacking the printer, and it made me super uncomfortable. I understand her frustration, she's been overwhelmed with too many deadlines and she's a mom (not single). But the way she reacted just triggered some childhood deep trauma with my own mother who would get violent whenever she got mad over an inconvenience. I'm not going to report her to HR, because I sympathize with her frustration, but I'm afraid that she's just going to lose it and I'm just an easy target at this point at my job. I'm a junior that's been working 6 months there and currently undergoing a PIP. I'm already making an effort to prepare my own escape, by updating my…

I work at a major tech company and they recently told us that there will ~never~be additional pay for speaking with both Spanish and English clients. People were upset and asked to be changed to only speaking to English clients instead and the company shot it down as we “were only hired due to the languages we mentioned we spoke” eye roll. Any tips on how to confront management once again about offering bilingual incentives??

Hello! First time poster here. I am at a crossroads. I am 23 yrs old and enrolled myself in paralegal school, because I thought I would do well in law field, but without being an attorney. I already got my bachelor’s. I am about to finish paralegal school and I am currently working at a law firm…but it was at this job that I got to know that I may be wrong for this field in general. For starters, I have figured that I like to be up and around and not be stuck to a desk. I previously had a job as a social worker that made me constantly get up and talk to people. The happiest I have been in a job was being a food prep at my city’s zoo. Both of those jobs didn’t offer much money but 1 of them made me happy. Y’all seem…

It's fucking annoying! They're not on call, her higher ups are grown ass adults, let them handle that shit on their own or hold off until my SO is back on the clock. Sheesh!

I looked online for how many hours maximum a day someone can work. There is no limit which is horrific in a dystopian kind of way. An employer can legally make you work more than half of the day and keep you on a leash. There should be a legal like like the do with people under 16. All things considered I’d be fine with a 10 hour MAXIMUM limit. Alrighty; I vented. Back to work! 🫠