Month: September 2023

I officially turned in my resignation today after working two years in a non-profit hell. I have fulfilled an accountant role in this company, and our CFO is a verbally abusive tyrant. His middle-manager is a yes man who assigns work last minute and can't communicate to save his life (and yet tries to micromanage despite this). My direct supervisor does her best but they have her fulfilling the duties of two roles without increasing her pay or compensating her in any way, so she's barely swimming too. The CFO is the main issue. We have an open floor plan and he literally rules it, walking by periodically to check if we have proper shoes on, looking over our shoulders at our work to ensure we aren't “slacking off”, and has even verbally berated people for speaking too much (even if it's about work). Our training and instructions are a…

I just need advice or for someone to tell me how fucked I am… All I have is the times I sent via text to my manager about which houses I worked at specific hours. Since the season is dying down for air b&b/residential cleaners, they up and essentially coerced me to quit because they said I didn’t meet their quality cleaning standards despite never having told me such before. Other coworkers would double check my work and never saw issues. My paycheck already came out so I have a feeling I am so fucked. I am behind on so many bills and they took away the hours I desperately needed. The app that tracked that info was Jobber. Is there anything I can do to get what I am owed..? “Bad clean” or not, I still busted my ass that day. This company was known for altering people’s hours…

Can you have a fulfilled life with a 9 to 5 job? If yes how do you do it? How do you organize your time? Tell me all of your experiences.

Maybe I'm just being petty and overreacting. But essentially, I'm in an office on the 4th floor that I've decorated heavily and made my home. They've decided to kick me out so someone else can move to the 4th floor, closer to her colleagues. Like, I get it, that makes sense. But A) They didn't have a backup plan for where the hell I was supposed to go and B) Didn't ask me, or apologize for the inconvenience of having to move, they TOLD me and C) Don't care where I wind up. I know this isn't punitive, because they've only ever gone on about what a good employee I am. I don't really think they've thought this through. They just decided “we're the managers, we get the final say.” And I don't appreciate being treated like this. I feel like Milton in Office Space.

Not sure if this belongs here. I work in HR and was asked to fire someone for “no” reason. I.e. there was a reason but they didn't say it to me and told me that the employee wasn't to know the reason either. Anyway i did because it's my first year there and don't want to screw it since it's technically part of my job. Later i found out that the reason was to piss off this person's manager so he quits since they can't legally fire him (he does his job properly they just don't like him). They threw this person into precarity to piss someone else off like a pawn. Anyway not sure if I'm even asking for advice just tired of how undignified working for food has become.

As the title says, I'm starting a strike at my job for better pay. There've been a lot of issues here that I won't go in to at the moment, but can give details if anyone wants them. Looks like pretty much everyone is on board with it. I've typed up a letter to the owner with our demands (25% pay increase being one) and in it have said that if we don't hear back by the end of next week, we will start the strike the following Wednesday. Wed-Thurs are our busiest days. I want to make sure that this is legal and that we are protected. Some questions: 1. Am I going about this in the right way so far? 2. Do we need to actually show up to the building to strike? The owner isn't here, he's in a different state, so I'm not sure that that…

I'm doing executive training because _________ I always thought that doing a 'self-evaluation' for my performance for the year was awkward….My bonus was on the line and I'm highly incentivized to score highly on my PE…but always felt pressure to give myself a 'fair score' Turns out, this is just human behavior that companies and executives capitalize on to negotiate people down from their performance evals. For example (real example used in the training), if I were buying something on like…facebook marketplace or craiglist and someone was asking for $45, and I only wanted to pay $40ish for it.. I would offer 35 and offer to meet in the middle. This is the same logic I am told to apply to PE negotiations. ​ Of course, someone asked about 'What about when someone scores themselves high across the board?', it turns out, people rarely do this (HBS data), regardless of…

I guess this is more of a vent post and an FYI more than anything. Proceed if you dare. I work for a F100 global company today, but have worked for a variety of companies of different sizes and industries in my 15 year career. I have to say, if you have any iota of ambition, most big corps will suck the life out of you. Let me explain. The bureaucratic process of getting any sort of momentum in a pay hike or promotion is mind numbing. “We don't have the budget”, “The economy is shaky right now”, “I'd focus on doing your best work and keeping your head down for the time being”. All the excuses I've received from management during this time. The people who work here seem relatively complacent. I mean, there are definitely some go-getters scattered amongst teams, but there are far more of those who…

In my cv it clearly states I want to make at least 36k and that I'm not interested in any lower offers. So I send it out to a couple companies and the general manager of one of them calls me and ask if I'm willing to come in for a job interview. I tell him that sounds great and I ask him if he's read my cv and knows what I'm asking. He says he has and that it's all good. So on my day off, I get ready, dress nicely and i drive almost an hour to get there. We sit down and do the interview, this guy keeps on talking about how great is company is, I answer all his questions and we even discuss a couple possible strategies. This goes on for about an hour, and then he says i sound like a great fit for…