Month: September 2023

tested positive and was told any time missed would count as an “occurrence,” and that enough of them would get me fired. asked what the standard waiting period for returning to work after getting covid was, and was simply told “if youre scheduled monday, you should be there monday.” i genuinely do not want to put my coworkers at risk, and considering i work in the middle of a college campus, i’m baffled at the lack of care for such a serious problem. especially when i work directly with food and drink.

I work at a popular gas station chain. This past week we didn't get paychecks. Turns out the store manager is blaming the market manager and vice versa. The problem took days to correct and now we won't be paid until weeks after. The lack of owning up to a mistake plus the half #ss attempt to fix the issue is leading me to take action. I have written a letter to be sent to HR, every higher up in my region, and a select few corporate execs. Am I overreacting to this?

I work for Walmart, their transportation department specifically. I always figured that it would be some massively automated system of hundreds and hundreds of people which is partly true but after being hired I realized that there are a total of roughly 60 hourly-paid employees who schedule every single pick up of Walmart’s cargo across the entire western hemisphere. Nobody outside of my job position is trained to do this job aside from the managers. Before this I worked multiple part time jobs including food service and carpentry which I hated more than anything on earth but after being here for this long I almost wish I never left despite the increase in wage and hours. It has to be one of the most soul crushing, micromanaged sanitized and self-congratulatory environments I have ever seen in my entire life. 2 hour long meetings where all managers do is break down…

I have interviewed for a few jobs and am likely to get some offers. My question is, when is it safe to give my current boss a piece of my mind? Once I accept my new position, or after I have started it? Is it ever safe or should I go out without saying a word?

https://fortune.com/2023/09/15/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-hiring-boomerang-employees-layoffs/amp/ Salesforce is hiring (again) after laying off about 10% of its staff earlier this year—and its former workers are being encouraged to apply to the company’s 3,300 new roles across sales, engineering, and data cloud. … Now, attracting boomerangs is a new success metric for the company with Benioff even outlining that his tactic to poaching former staff has so far included hosting an “alumni event for people who are employed in other companies to say—it’s okay, come back.” How many smooth brains would return to the place that laid you off?