Month: September 2023

TL;DR – How do I show the owners the business they are taking for granted is about to fail because the employees they have completely overloaded will be leaving? (8 of 10 employees that work there would be leaving, that would be ALL full time employees and ALL employees who generate revenue) More info (rambling, sorry!) – I work at a recycling warehouse in the United States (if I mentioned the state it would be fairly easy to figure out where I am located and I know that my co-workers/the owner also use reddit). There is so much potential for my workplace to be fun and extremely profitable, if the owners (husband and wife) would just actually listen to their employee's suggestions. As of late they are using one of the wife's health issues to excuse her from any work at all and the husband's to about 10% of what…

For context, I work for a large public research university within a smaller department(around 100 staff) that is largely grant-funded by state departments, national and local orgs, and health systems to work on a variety of projects. Within the department itself, there are around 5-7 main teams that work on different portfolio of project work, but some projects have collaboration across teams. In 2020, I started working with my current team within this department as a graduate student and then hired an entry level research position as a full-time staff member on the same team a year later. As nature of working within a state entity, especially in more conservative right-to-work state, systems are heavily bureaucratic and there’s a bunch of red tape. Our career progression and promotion systems are broken and not sure I can explain exactly why. Essentially, there are folks waiting for, kid you not, a promotion…

Starting school in october at 27 and when im on campus im always being stared at or watched intuitively. I dont let it bother me but i cat help but feel out of place sometimes i have social anxiety and dont really fancy big crowds or gatherings. Is this a normal feeling for a first time student or am i just paranoid?

Throwaway for obvious reasons. I worked for a law firm in a support role for 9 years. I was damn good at my job. I’d won awards from the partnership and even been flown to international conferences to speak about my role. In June this year my 9 year old daughter was found to have a lump. We took her to the doctor who referred us to the children’s hospital where it was eventually removed. About 2 weeks later my wife got a call to go in asap as they needed to discuss the results. She called me to tell me and we were hoping it was nothing serious. As it would only take 10 mins for me to get to the hospital we decided I would work and head down if need be. Eventually my phone rang and it was my wife who put the doctor on the phone,…

I live in the USA. My political views have bounced around a lot over the past 15 years. Mostly because I found that the news sources I TRUSTED were misleading or straight up lying. I just want to be an informed voter. I just want to know the truth. But CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NPR, ABC, BBC, etc have all failed me. Politicians I once trusted have failed me. Everyone and every news source has failed me. They’re all liars. How can anyone who works full time, has kids, a social life, and family obligations be well informed?! I couldn’t even accomplish such a task having none of those obligations! Democracy is impossible without accurate press.

Been struggling especially while getting pregnant. Boss wrote me up in July. Gave me a “mentor” and now I was given a final warning saying I’m taking away resources from the team by having a “mentor” at my tenure (which is what they have to do when you’re written up) and my mentor complained I asked too many questions (which I did to be safe) What can I realistically do about unemployment? I don’t see anything improving because even after showing my metrics improve, my boss just keeps nitpicking anything. I can’t be perfect. Nobody at my job is.

What are you doing to promote the cause? Brag about your efforts, no matter how small! Did you reduce your expenses so you can spend less time working? Did you start or grow your own business? Did you spend awareness?

four days, 32 hours/day, full benefits sounded like a great offer, but now that i am working it….i kind of regret the 20% paycut; i have lots of student loans and it just feels like a waste. i also feel embarrassed when i say i work 4 days instead of 5 and people say “why would you do that??????” with a judgmental stare also my days off are sunday and 2 random weekdays, which is nice but i miss hanging out with my friends on saturdays idk it just feels like everyone thinks i'm a loser for taking this position and i am starting to believe them — i think i'm just depressed overall about working in general…. pls someone tell me i'm not the worse decision maker 🙁 ​

Hey everyone… I've worked with a company for nearly 5 years. I have one month left until I go on maternity leave. My company's policy is decent, but unfortunately I'm in sales, and they pay based on the average of my last 12 months of attainment. In theory, this is fine, but I received less leads compared to my other colleagues, which has affected my payout. Because I had questions regarding the policy and discrepancy in pay, HR originally asked me for feedback and any suggested improvements on the current maternity leave policy, which I gave to them. I also had another colleague review it just to make sure my points were valid. No surprise, hr and sales leadership didn't make any changes. From there… I asked them to consider making it right pay-wise because I was not given the same opportunity as my peers. I shared screenshots, data points,…