Month: September 2023

Things are bad at work. Very bad. I expect I will be doing 12-14 hour days in the office (I’m salaried so no OT) until November. No matter how hard I try to keep things organized, projects always turn into a mess with major changes from leadership by the hour that I’m not clued in on. This week I told leadership that a failure was on the way. I said it every day & laid out exactly how to mitigate it. and it did not matter what I said. There was a very condescending email saying I was making unsubstantiated claims and speculating without all of the information. And sure enough, I was right. It did fail. But I don’t feel good about being right. I feel completely ignored. Like no one values my insight. Part of me is starting to think I should just stop mitigating risks entirely. Let…

This did not happen to me, but someone close to me. Someone that works for a very large west coast Electric and Gas company threatened to come back to work and shoot up the place. All the managers and supervisors know about the incident along with the HR dept. They initially scheduled some “Active Shooter Response” classes but have so far rescheduled three times with no actual date on the calendar. As of yesterday, 20 September 2023, no one within the company or the union have contacted the police nor have they made any additional security measures. A lot of employees are worried about what might happen next. Supposedly, the union reps and HR “took care of the matter and that this is a safe working environment.”

So, boss has been abusing employees for a large company for almost a year. Manages their own perception up, but steps on everyone that isn't above them. Comes across as a total arrogant asshole to everyone but doesn't seem to know. Is a very hard worker but has total shite for people skills. Its gotten so bad former workers formed a support group. Anyone think there's any legal liability here? Asking for a friend

I worked fully from home for two years and as soon as I came back from maternity leave I found out my employer was making us return to office two days a week. Now it’s three days a week with absolutely no flexibility, even for appointments, and my family can’t make it work. I physically cannot come into the office at all for two months and after that I won’t be able to come in more than two days a week. I absolutely cannot afford it anymore. I requested a temporary exception with HR and let my manager know, stating that my family needs more time to adjust and that I would need to be fully remote for two months. In the meantime he has been hounding me to let him know what my third day will be if I can’t get an approval. HR got back to me and…

This was my first job out of school, at a small organization. I've been doing the jobs of at least three people for over a year now. Hard work here is rewarded with more work and mistreatment. So many examples of poor management and bullying from the leaders. I went on medical leave for my mental health and returned while I tried to find a job. I was shunned by my boss (the leader of our organization) and one day they suddenly decided I was on their good side again. Well I'm handing in my two week notice tomorrow. I got a job that pays 10k more, twice the vacation days, work from home, less work, and good leadership from what I can tell so far.

Or dead… My parents would be scabs if they worked in a trade. They think the writer’s strike is misguided and don’t understand how the UAW gave up so much during 08 in order for taxpayer funded companies to take in billions in profits over the last decade. Meanwhile they sacrifice body and mind for their wage jobs in their 50s and 60s to maintain health insurance. My father has severe arthritis in his knees and can hardly walk down a flight of stairs without needing to sit for the next 10 minutes. But it’s undiagnosed. And it takes weeks of doctors visits, scheduling radiology, follow up appointments to get a real diagnosis. In the meantime, he feels like he needs to go to his $50k a year office job while he is essentially crippled because he “doesn’t have a FMLA qualifying medical condition”. No amount of federal documentation can…