Month: September 2023

My partner (F29) and me (M32) have no children and are not planning on it (I even had a vasectomy). I always pondered the fact that I will never be able to have paternity leave, even as I see coworkers around me all the time go on paid leave for several months. Some have done this multiple times as they've had multiple kids since we've been working together! Now don't get me wrong, I know parental leave can be VERY challenging and isn't the fun vacation that I'm picturing when I have to pick up their work and I'm salty lol. But I wouldn't mind taking one-time “parental leave” 3-month block of PTO. Maybe its a benefit employers offer – e.g. every 5 years of employment, you are eligible for 3 months of “child-free leave” if this is your case. As the birth-rate in the developed world becomes lower and…

66 fucking dollars whilst the managers pocketed the rest

Hi everybody! English is not my first language, so please be kind if the grammar is not 100%. I recently got my first job in America, it’s not bad, but I don’t know if the commission is fair. I have a base salary + 3% commission. We offer payment plans (not associated to any bank), and my commission depends on the client paying, so instead of getting the whole commission for the sale, I get only the percentage of what they pay, and If they stop paying the company, I lose whatever would be paid to me. When I got the job they only told me that I would get commission on all sales, so I planned my life counting that my salary would be a bit more than it is, specially because what I sell it’s on the expensive side. At the same time that it feels fair, it…

I'm curious, what does everyone else do for additional money to survive or for beer money? I sell plasma twice a week and do paid surveys. Shouldn't be this way, but with how expensive everything is and in order to do things I like such as going to concerts, bars, etc. I do that so I can afford them without going broke. What pisses me off about this is whole thing is I have a full time job, a degree, etc and still don't feel well off. Why can't one job be enough?

Working at an IT company as a non-engineer. I know everyone is replaceable but what I’ve done in my area has completely changed the company for the better. I survived the layoff wave of the end of last year but ever since then conditions only kept getting worse. Now things are looking back up again so my one coworker and I asked the company to sponsor a training course for us, since in this area we have no career path, no prospects of getting a raise, not a single performance incentive, and no way to grow or improve our work. It would be online so if the company felt stingy enough, we could even do the training from the same account and only pay once. Well, they were stingy enough and more because the answer was simply no.

Junior people on my team have been complaining about a senior manager being overly aggressive and speaking to people in an insulting and demeaning way. I spoke to him and he got defensive saying “people are too sensitive these days.” But he said he'd watch how he speaks to people. After 6 months of no change, I filed an anonymous complaint to HR. TWO MONTHS later, we get a new middle manager and as far as I can tell, his only job is to be a middle man between the terrible senior manager and the rest of the team. If you need to ask question, you go through the middle man. This was HR's solution?? WTF.

I work in a small department. We’ve been working at around 75% of full staffing due to leave and that nobody wants to transfer in here. On top of that we’re down to 50-60% staffing when one of us takes vacation. It isn’t my fault they can’t hire to fill jobs. Pay more and treat us better. Not my responsibility to work harder to save them from themselves. I have loyalty to and sympathy for my co-workers, but we’re all in the same boat here. What are your feelings and how do/did you handle Somalia situations?

Does anyone else currently have super dramatic, busybody co-workers that are about to drive you to quit?? I work in an office with several secretaries/clerical workers, all female, mostly of the older generation. The ones above a certain age have come across as nosey and gossipy, plus have a tendency to gate-keep their duties. Management wants me to learn how to do multiple things to be able to provide backup for these ladies when they miss work. However, whenever I try to step in for them and help with their workload, they are quick to tell me that I'm doing things wrong and question the knowledge of the leader who trained me. At this point, I've just decided that I'm “hands off” their work, unless they train me themselves. Obviously there's a knowledge gap between the trainers and the actual workers and I'm tired of being caught in the crossfire.…