Month: September 2023

So I moved to Portland OR quite recently and I'd say a good 40% of the available jobs here are some kind of direct care or support for those with disabilities, so I ended up eventually being hired for one of the companies that does this, and god has it been a shit show. I have no clue what I was thinking having been mostly a burger flipper/shelf stocker before hand, but I was desperate to pay bills and debts so I went ahead anyway, and it's been far too much for me to handle. I am an over glorified, underpayed baby sitter and I envy anyone who can actually handle this occupation. I understand each company is different but it seems no matter how many times I have to call my house manager having a panic attack about some small occurrence, they will always praise me and say how…

we have been in “crunch time” literally all year long with this project and my boss has been so short with me since I basically demanded to go on vacation during the summer (a vacation that they were trying to deny) and then called us in a meeting this week to let us know that they won't be able to approve vacation for the rest of the year in order to complete this project. This project has never been given an end date bc it keeps getting pushed back due to outside forces that have absolutely nothing to do with our team. It has been so incredibly frustrating and our team is small enough and yet our boss tries to blame us for not being able to do all of our tasks when we are obviously understaffed. it is becoming apparent that we are all burning out day by day…

I work for a corporate health care company and today my boss text me about an hour an a half before our lunch break today to ask if I could meet with him for a call that would last 15-20 minutes during my lunch break. We can't move the lunch at all due to the walk in nature of our business. I said that was during the time that I would be at lunch but I could take his call after we return from lunch. However that would likely mean that we would have to make our patients wait. I don't want to talk to him at all, not to mention take calls during my personal time especially when I'm not on the clock.

I’m going to be cross posting this anywhere I can think of because I need to do something to help the clients of my old job. I’m going to be as vague as possible to avoid any kind of lawsuit. I quit a while ago and gave two weeks notice like a good worker bee but I can’t stop thinking about the people I used to work with. I have yet to find a new job but have a part time one in the meantime so I can get out of my current field because no matter where I am employed the systems that were created to help the people I work with are broken and corrupt. I will not be able to do ethical work in my field (healthcare) so I am trying to do something else. Anyways. I worked for a company that helps a group of marginalized…

I recently started working for a pretty well known company. All seemed to be going well until I had my first review. My boss told me that I was bad at my job, even though I was still new and settling in. The kicker was when I asked my colleagues, all newbies like myself, if they'd had a review. The answer was no. Second review, my boss is pissed off that I took a certain amount of time to do something. I've always been told I'm slow and please bear in mind it was in the evening when I was doing this task so I was pretty tired. I'm going to have a third soon and I'm always asked if I'd like to say something at the end of it, and to be honest I'm tired of feeling like shit about these reviews so I'm going to prepare a statement,…

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Today I haven't slept all night. I feel horrible, like I'm about to pass out any minute. I told that to my boss to which he told me that basically I have to find someone to fill in for myself and he's not going to do anything. 5 minutes later I get another call from him where he tells me that no wonder no one wants to fill in for me when I haven't filled in for a colleague once when I had 2 days off after I had about 9 12-hour shifts (some 10 hours). So no one can fill in for me. I'm forced to stay at work feeling an absolute garbage. Is this legal?

Hello, so I have a dr appt tomorrow, and I am in quite a pickle should not have waited this long, but anyhow, let me try be brief as I can., tl:dr AT THE BOTTOM:- Basically I have this job for about 3 and a half years, and I suffer from severeal mental ilness, anxiety, depression, etc. and it is SEFVERE. I have slef medicate most my life, but finally got some help a couple years ago, and was doing ok. Butr I had alcohol problem for years. well I kicked the alchohol for cocaine., But then I moved, and cannot find cocaine, and moved over to opiate, which I never liked. still do not like opiate,. but keep- me from drinking. ANd for me, YES drinking is FAR worse than any drug out there. so I am better of wwith fentanyl than drinking. ANyhow, I was on suboxone for…

Hi all – I (22M) worked on campus at my University for multiple departments – one of which was office A from Oct '21 up until Dec '22 and another (office B) from Jan '22 – May '23. We also have two HR offices for two sides of the university (the main side and the 'auxiliary' side). I will refer to them as HR #1 and HR #2 Office A (a small Dept. made up of eight staff) consisted of Faculty Affairs in which the Vice President and Director handled all grievances that stemmed from the Staff/Professors. There were other analysts in the Dept. and the two figureheads gossiped about everyone's problems to the rest of the office – a culture I didn't really care for but it happens everywhere lol. At one point during a particular investigation consisting of child endangerment and drug use the topic of having children…