Month: September 2023

Before joining this place, I was with a hybrid schedule, working from home 3 out of the 5 days. During the interview process, I disclosed this and they told me it could be negotiated. I accepted the job offer because it was a 30% salary increase. Long story short, they asked me to go to the office 3 times a week, and I agreed. After the training period, I noticed that I am the only one from my division that goes to the office 3 times a week. Whereas the rest only go once, or never set foot in our offices. I asked my supervisor, the reason they gave me is that the rest of the team lives at least 1hr away (suburbs) and it's better for them to WFH. Well, I can 100% do my job remotely, but I am not allowed to because I live within 10 miles…

Today my company had a 1+ hour employee benefits demonstration. I am now more terrified than ever to use my employer “benefits”. I counted multiple corporate logos fly by during the presentation and I thought “well there's a bunch of companies that will reach in your pocket when you are feeling your worst.” Another co-worker said: “I don't understand the 'blue rewards' program. I said, “Blue is a color and rewards is something you'll never get.” I still stand by the fact that until this country (USA) has a proper NHS (national health care service) NOTHING IN AMERICA WILL GET FIXED. Racial disparity, class war, poor quality of life, cures for cancer, NONE OF THIS WILL GO AWAY until we have an NHS. Health “insurance” is nothing but a corrupt disgusting convoluted system designed to separate working people from their money… and even worse… designed to take ALL OF YOUR…

I'm writing this post really for the younger patrons here, as you think about your financial future (particularly in the US) and what fun adult life will bring; and to numerically describe the desperation so many people feel as the middle class falls further and further. So let me paint you a picture, and to be clear this picture is not my situation; I've made all this up to illustrate a point, but I am using very real, representative financial numbers for taxes, housing, COL, etc: Here is a realistic budget of a young family (2 working adults, 2 young kids). Both adults have very good (but as you will see, far from good enough) jobs in a high cost of living state but in a low/moderate cost of living region therein. ​ Total Gross Income ($100k each) $200,000/yr 401K (15% contribution, each) $30,000/yr Health Insurance $4000/yr Taxable Income $166,000/yr…

Really at a loss here. I just left a job interview where they were clearly looking for a younger person. It's manual labor, so I get it, but I have done a lot worse for the rest of my job history and just wanted something a little less. They just went through the interview quickly to be nice and that was it.

I work at a company that cut the 3 people working there’s pay 25% during covid to stay afloat. As time went on they hired more people at full pay to do unrelated jobs to ours while we were verbally promised a pay increase and back pay. After several promises and blame to accounting our pay was finally reinstated to our original amount almost a year and a half after it was initially cut. For me it amounted to over $32k. We received 10k of our backpay as a “retention” bonus and then the rest was supposed to be returned over time…I found it was only given sneakily to the two others and I was promised money several times but never saw any. On top of this I have not received a raise in almost 4 years even though everyone else did. I was told I couldn’t have one because…

Full-time freelancer, finding it stressful AF despite doing everything and more. Just constant payment issues and schedule changes. A client cancels and I have to shift everything. I love the field, hate the admin and constant changes. People can be unreliable, which makes life unreliable, and I'm newly married and want to save for the future, take breaks, have stability, have hobbies, etc. In freelance, I am always on. Thanks. xx

I've worked in corporate finance for around 10 years now, all on the hardware side of tech. For a few years now, I've been trying to move to the software side to expand my qualifications and experience. I've had a number of interviews, and every time I've gotten feedback, the response was, they're looking for someone with more software finance experience. Its even gotten to the point I have a speech made up why my knowledge and experience can translate to the software side. Still no luck. Then a few months ago, a software company approached me, went through the interview process, everything sounded great. Exactly the finance role I wanted in software. So I left a job I enjoyed that I'd been with less than a year, to take this new one. However, once I started, the role quickly turned into a pure marketing role. Developing decks, producing promotional…

Hey so I have been in the car industry for about a year now from working from Nissan to Audi, what I realized is that the people here suck, I’m a service Porter and the only other Porter is Spanish and yells at me if a regular car is not washed, waiters are most important but he doesn’t want to do them. And I am always doing a lot more cars than he is because he takes forever, he cleans it like it’s a loaner. And every single Saturday I’m yelled at by the sales guy for parking customer cars, I work 6 days a week and I put up with this all the time. He tells me to park them way further than the customer should be able to pick up their car, and tells me that he tells me the same exact thing every time and what’s hard…

I want to like socialism because I hate capitalism. But in reality, I don’t know how you’d stop someone from trading and bartering without force, and no one seems to have any way to actually implement it properly without forcing people to work. Co-ops are a good start, but inefficient (as we already see.) I agree with Marx’s observations, but he was a philosopher and not an economist. So my question is, is there something other than feudalism or communism that is viable and has at least a vision of what it looks like other than dreaming and figuring it out along the way?

I am getting ready to leave this deceitful company behind. We had some ongoing understaffing issues for a long, long time. We are severely understaffed but guess what? They decide to keep all the profits instead of hiring people to help us. They want us to do the work of 2-3 people for one pay. No way! It ain’t gonna happen. I am getting ready to leave this DECEITFUL company behind. We do not have enough people and it is not even a team. Poor Management. Manager is incompetent. They also play favoritism here and their friends do not have to work as hard. They are really selfish people. They are very GREEDY. This is not okay. Once I am gone, I wish them luck in dealing and handling all the clients and things I have been doing for them. Today was my final straw. They told me to “f”…