Month: August 2023

I have to share this story here, its unbelievable. I applied for a server at this hotel. I have plenty of experience. Recruiter contacted me and we had a Zoom interview. She said she liked me and would send my information to the manager and the manager would contact me the next day. Was waiting and nothing. I should have stopped there. But since the position seemed interesting I went ahead and contacted the recruiter that I haven't been contacted by the manager yet. She then told me that accidently she forgot to send my info and was gonna do it asap. A few hours later I receive a message from the manager to schedule an interview. I went there and she was interviewing me for an hour and seemed to like me. Especially if you keep a candidate for an hour. I didn't hear anything within a week and…

Idk if this is even the right place where I should be but I’m currently working 2 jobs one full time somewhere and I also am per diem working at a place that I used to work full time for 5 years so i only have about 7500 in retirement I want to cash out and just use for my bills and stuff and I already know about the 10% and other penalty’s but the problem I’m having now is that the only way I can get the money that’s in there is if I quit the job I want the retirement money out of or I can file hardship which I don’t really qualify for so my question is let’s just say I quit my job and take out 401k can I get rehired back to that job right after I cash out my retirement from there? I want…

I was hired as delivery driver for a window company. No warehouse work was discussed in the interview, or on the indeed job posting. First day into the job they have me doing warehouse work. It’s understandable, let me get in the groove and figure everything out. Im now on week 4 of only warehouse work. If I wanted to be a warehouse guy, I would have applied for that position. I definitely do not want to work here any longer, but have to wait until I can find something else. Is there any course of action I could take in this situation?

I think I need to seriously consider looking for a new job because mine makes me feel miserable and undervalued way more often than I think is worthwhile. My dad has stage 4 cancer and I’m his caretaker. We have no idea how long he has. I obviously wouldn’t disclose this during an interview process, but does anyone have advice re: how and when would be best to bring this up? I’d feel hesitant to disclose anything that could count against me during a probationary period. I need a certain amount of flexibility to take him to and from appointments. Sometimes he has a few in a week. My current job is pretty flexible and as long as I get my work done that’s really all that matters, unless there’s something time-sensitive to tend to (this relative autonomy is part of why I’ve waffled about looking elsewhere—there are perks like…

Today I was talking with a Co-worker about a week of office closure and the fact that everyone will WFH. I told her that I was going to a resort as a small vacation, but will still be working 8 Hrs and always available for any emergency outside of these hours. She told me she feels like she's been “tricked” by me because WFH is supposed to be only in your “home” and that if you are in ANY other place, it's not the same thing, because you are not as focused, and you could be distracted by anything, which I admin, could be true, but she still makes the same point when I respond to her “What about my hotel room, then? It's quiet, I've got no distractions, so that should be fine”, and she says that it's about “Context”, because I'm not in a work friendly “context”. I…

Every time I go to work I get a pit in my stomach cause I don’t wanna deal with the social aspect. Why can’t they just leave me alone? I just wanna do my job, get my check and go. I feel like people automatically hate me cause Im neurodivergent, shy and introverted. I feel like there’s no place for me cause society welcomes neurotypical extroverts. I have ADHD and mild autism. Every single shift they don’t fail to comment on my quietness, or straight up say anything they want to me cause I’m easy prey. One lady told me my face is fat for NO REASON. Same lady would bring up sexual stuff to make me uncomfortable cause I’m shy. Ask me to give her a back massage. Boss me around. I hate it here. I have no relationships with anyone at work so I don’t feel I can…

Yesterday, I was laid off from my job after 2 1/2 years of loyalty. It was the first job I secured after moving to a new city and I loved it. I couldn’t imagine leaving them; I had great base pay with commissions, bonuses and spiffs, a set schedule that allowed flexibility to go to appointments or call out sick, PTO, full benefits, and creative freedom. I was finally able to build my savings a little. I felt stable for the first time in years. My husband and I just bought a new car and took on substantially more debt as a result and were finally looking into buying a house. Now, it’s all fucked. I put in overtime every week, I met every deadline, I exceeded every goal set, I wrote amazing articles for our website, and I even set out on a self improvement journey to be better…

This was about a decade ago. I worked in a plant but I was running the “store” which was basically a place where everybody, from superviors to regular employees, came to get things from it. Typically, when you got something from the store you had to fill out a slip, what you wanted exactly by the code assigned to the item, the quantity, and some kind of signature from a supervisor, electrician, etc. We had 5 people that worked on my shift and we were all assigned different roles. I was assigned to the “window” which means I was looking up items on the computer, finding out where it was in the store, and going to the location. After i handed the item(s) out i had to update the quantity in the system. The only time i was supposed to leave the window is if a co worker was on…