Month: September 2023

And also to work 8 hours to have like 5 hours untill you can sleep and start again. 🥹

I’m in construction. Not union. Working above about 10 hrs seems to be the norm for me and most others. 5-7 days a week depending on the phase of the project. I don’t think I got a lot of this left in me and I’m pretty young, so I’m getting concerned. Not sure how the older guys do it. Anyway, I’ve done that rant a lot here before so I won’t get into it. My question to you guys now is, is it possible to get good work life balance in this field? Anyone have an example from a company they work at or someone they know? I like the work itself but I’m absolutely not willing to put it over my family, friends, or health for the rest of my life. Anyone from other countries in the same field, please let me know about your experiences too. I’m curious.

Despite paying a cleaning company to tidy the office bathrooms, trash, etc., we are also expected to complete a list of Clean-Up Crew Duties and Responsibilities on a rotating schedule. If your department does not complete the assigned duties for your week, then you get a passive aggressive email from the executive assistant. Additionally, we are only required to go into the office a minimum of 2 days per week, but still need to clean even if you're literally not in office. While I will always clean up after myself in shared office spaces, why am I expected to also clean up after all of my coworkers? I am salaried and the company makes over $300 million in revenue. They barely pay me so I shouldn't be surprised they cut corners any way they can, but come on. We have fancy teams visiting this week so they made sure to…

Sharing my experience with our company. This company has had its toxic moments before, but right now, it's much worse. People are backstabbing, credit-grabbing, and stealing to secure commissions, and their own managers and the so called “boss” seem to be okay with it. They call them 'young leaders,' but for me, it's not about age; it's about how these young leaders, who we thought needed time to learn, should still know the basics of right and wrong. Yet, they just tolerate it. To make matters worse, our company recently introduced Prohance. They installed it without us even knowing, and it's a surprise to find it on our devices. They claim only we can see the data, but who would believe that? Who the fuck who will invests in a tool and won't bother to dive into it's employee's data. To add, this is a company offering full-time positions, but…

I only have one day off and when I have it, I am being bombarded on my personal phone with ridiculous questions, inquiries that could wait the next day I come back to work. When I dont respond to the messages, I get a phone call, either explaining what they need me for or to reply to my messages. Sometimes I argue and talk it over the next day or I just let it go because I let it slide many times. This behavior is coming from my coworker who is the leader and she “covers” me on my day off in another branch because the company is so cheap to close down for one day. Yesterday, they decided to have a meeting with the rest of the staff and this was decided 10 mins before I finish. I got a call from this coworker to prepare some papers and…

So after I informed my city of violating the USERRA Act, they have still chosen to terminate me. Now I have to go through this long drawn out process of proving myself. Not a good time. Thanks for everyone’s information and help

Waste time: Boss needs me to be “more busy” at my office job that was fleeced from me through a Temp agency. What are some ways to look busy, yet waste time? I’m trying to slowly quiet quit until December since they will not offer me an in-house role, using this experience elsewhere. I’m tired of being taken advantage of, being strung along for a job that is fishing for me to “put in the extra effort”, while people on other locations with my role make more than me (similar experience). I’m not going to play this cat-and-mouse game of working “temp-to-hire” while they slowly outsource my role by the middle of next year, I am in a good position to waste this company’s time bc I’m the only one with passwords, knowledge of how to do XYZ, etc (previous person trained me — taught me to not teach this…

I don't get paid for my sick days, I only have to provide a doctor's note if I call out consecutively and I'm under the limit (called out Friday). I like my manager and my team but upper management outside our department is putting out any fires except for ours. I'm underpaid as a developer and I can't do tier 1 support another day let alone another year. I have to put in my 2 weeks to get my vacation pay or I'd walk.

I think this is probably the most degrading and insidious thing I've ever had to put up with at a job. We've got little quality policy statement signs posted all over the place where i work. Every year we have an audit, and the auditor almost always asks you what the company's quality policy is, and more specifically, what it means to you as an employee. Telling them that you couldn't care less about their dumb little mantra obviously won't go over well, that the truth is this is the only time of the year that I even think about it so i can rehearse telling them whatever it is they want to hear so i can end this interaction sooner. I'm just here to collect a paycheck, dude.