Month: August 2023

I remember when I had my first job-related nightmare in 2019. I was a senior in college and my boss was being a dick to me. I had a nightmare about an employee who died from s*icide that same night, by crashing their car out of rage, and how it made his family grieve. I haven't had a lot of nightmares since then. But I started having nightmares again these past few months because I was recently put on the PIP. I wouldn't say they've been particularly cruel to me, but my superior manager has been telling me that a few minor mistakes I make like forgetting to add one missable thing on paper is a big problem. It's made me overanalyze my action, other people's dispositions against me and in some instances I've overcorrected my behavior that it causes more problems. I keep having dreadful dreams about people talking…

Is anyone else feeling this way due to how expensive it is to just exist? I am currently 30 years old and have really been struggling lately with how much money I pay just to exist and cover the basic necessities in life. For example: it the last 3 days I paid my tabs ($225), my new 6 month auto insurance premium ($900), my car payment ($263), my rent ($1400 for a small as studio in the metro area, the bare minimum for what I need that wasn’t an absolute sh*thole). These are things I NEED. I don’t even take anything else into account and feel like my money disappears. I’m currently a nurse in the Midwest and make decent money, but when student loans come due this fall (I have 60K left) I’m gonna be pushed to the brink. Idk how this is sustainable. It’s so depressing. I just…

Vent coming ahead. I'll start by saying I (26F) used to like working at the place I'm currently at. The only thing that makes working at this place sh*tty are the people in corporate. I've got approved for a raise (literally 25 cent increase) back in March by my supervisor and the general manager. However corporate keeps denying this request and I'm honestly getting fed up with it. They make so much money off of their company that they can give, not just me, but ever body else raises as well while barely chipping into their profits. Because they refuse to give raised, there's been a high turnover rate which probably costs them more to hire new people than it would to give raises to the worker's. I think greed is an illness. From what I've seen in other work places, the one thing that stops work places from functioning…

I work in a law firm and our oldest employee is 88 (will be 89 this year). She was hired 9 years ago for a six month scanning project that turned into a full time gig. We all treat her with great respect and gentleness but it’s wearing thin. When she walks by my desk she always has a snide comment. Things like, “I see you’re just sitting there again.” or “I walked by your desk and you weren’t there. We’re you hiding?” I’m always working so it grates after a while. I was showing a summer intern how to create a spreadsheet and she walked by and said, “Are we entertaining?” I’ve taken it in stride but I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place. If it were any other employee I’d set them straight (in a professional way, of course). But I don’t want to…

I work in healthcare. At one point, I had a nurse under my supervision. She recently retired after 32 years. During her time with me, another nurse doing the same job asked for a raise. This led me to find that this nurse – who’d only been with us for 2 years – was making more money than the more experienced nurse. ….Many meetings with HR later, and after much rapport building with them, I was able to ask: why, in a system that claims to value pay equity so much, was this pay disparity allowed to exist? The answer: because systemic raises aren’t enough to raise pay through market adjustments to equal what you’d pay a nurse with this much experience if you were to hire them externally. In other words: HR is forced to confront and compensate a person’s level of experience upon hire, whereas post-hire they can…

If you own a apartment building, you won’t have to work. It’s a great life hack. We should all strive for this.

Hi, i (19FtM) just quit my job at Publix (store 0469) due to poor working conditions and neglectful managment. My mom is proud of me for standing up for myself and not letting managment push me past my limits but i dont really know where to go from here. Does anyone have any advice?

I got Covid in March of 2020, it sucked. I had to work while sick because my boss at the time said it was all a hoax. I have covid again, and I'm being told to not work (working from home), they said they want me to feel better. The difference between conservatives and liberal run companies.

Just a rant, but it really irked me and I wanted to share: after having severe stomach aches since mid last week, it finally got too unbearable and we went to the emergency room. After waiting for hours and hours (which is an entirely different story), my wife was diagnosed with severe gallbladder inflammation and infection, and had to have it removed ASAP. She did have it removed and everything went well and without complications and she was discharged after a couple of days in the hospital. We're staying at her parents for the extra help, so my work isn't too affected (even though of course I help her getting up and walking, medicine, specific foods and liquid diet she needs, etc.). I notified my immediate supervisor in a text message (because he's out on PTO) and said I might need to take time off or be offline (I work…