Month: September 2023

In a few months I’m going to get 50k out of getting divorced. I have kids, zero savings, I only work part time due to having mental illness, but someday when the kids are older I think I will be able to work full time. I make ends meet with child support and food stamps. I want to do something to improve our situation with this money. the thing I most want is to own a home, but I won’t be able to afford it even if I use the whole amount as a downpayment. I talked to the bank and they said I wont get approved for a mortgage becuase of high interest rates and 75K in student loans (I only have a bachelors and went to a cheaper public school , it just took me 7 years because I kept failing classes due to my mental health stuff…

For some context without doxxing myself: I am a first gen college grad who was able to break into a highly desirable industry. I have no safety net or family to fall back on if shit hits the fan. My boss is doing a lot of highly illegal things and I want to file a report to the DoL the issue is I was hoping to file anonymously but they said if I do that, then the case won’t get priority and they will get to it when they can (though from the agent’s tone, it implied might be never). I’m worried that if I file the report under my name, even if they swear up and down that my name will be confidential that my boss will find out anyway. He is very well connected in Los Angeles, an actual (almost) billionaire, and has threatened the careers of other…

I asked my boss not to tell my level two for as long as possible because she won. I'm quiting because I will not be belittled in front of my customer. People who see me once or twice a week. My customer are making complaints as well. So my boss and I agreed to put it in officially Friday at 430 pm ,because our company has a bad habit of firing people on the spot. This gives my team my time untill Monday around 1230 if they do fire me. My boss is not mad at me because he heard what other people said about the way she talked to me and he is being very understanding. He is just upset because they are not going to hire to replace me because they said we were already over staffed. I told him I really wished I could stay . Whitch…

I posted this yesterday but then second guessed myself and deleted it. Basically a few days ago, my coworkers asked me to go for lunch and confronted me because I don’t share enough about my personal life. They complained that they aways talk about theirs and I don’t talk about mine. I felt put on the spot but as I was trying to share about something bad that happened to one of my parents, they cut me off and hijacked the conversation. I barely even got a full sentence in before I was interrupted. I am a reserved person. I do have anxiety which holds me back and I would like to work on it for my own mental health, but I also personally prefer to keep my personal life separate from work. I don’t owe them any details about my life, I’d never expect someone at work to tell…

In the U.S., is there a law or EEOC rule that prohibits a foreign employer from having meetings in the foreign language, while English speakers attend the same meeting but can't understand what is being said? If so, can someone please guide me in the right direction? A link to the .government website would be helpful. All I found online was for employees who speak another language and the English only rule. But from my understanding the English only rule is not applicable unless the company implements this policy? Maybe I'm wrong?

Most people have been turned away from a job for the most ridiculous reasons. I once applied to be a receptionist at a salon because I said I wanted to attend cosmetology school and they were upset that I would go to school! They wanted my full focus to be a receptionist making $10-$12 an hour for the rest of my life, with no benefits! Wtf?! I was also turned down for a job because I wore yellow to an interview. Old white man said “we wear more muted colors here.” It's a call center, who cares what I wear?

I have two degrees. One in IT and one in CS. I worked full-time getting the CS degree doing appsdev for state government. It's a lot less than you'd get for the private sector, but they helped pay for school. I graduated with honors. I thought that when I graduated, I would be able to land a higher-paying job since I'd have a degree and a few years of actual relevant experience. That was not the case. I applied for countless jobs, and the only ones I could get interviews for were public sector webdev opportunities that I didn't really want anyway. They pay about half what I was expecting to make as a software dev. Maybe I'm just shit at finding jobs, but the process burnt me out to the point where I ended up moving laterally to a job that stressed me out less to take a mental…

Context: I work on web development for a small company. We are two on the department and the other guy is on holidays. Another one on the company asked me to basically be on reach for the full 8 hours of a full-time turn (I'm part-time, I work 4 hours), and connect my computer to the one that's on the office to be able to solve emergencies. All of this, unpaid, since I'd still get only the 4 hours salary. I'm based in Spain so I'm sorry if there are errors.

So, I've had a friend since High School, were both late 20s now and keep in touch. Since graduating, I got a job as a machine technician, where my buddy got a job as an accountant. My job is very stressful, I work 9+ hours 5 days a week, sometimes more if machines are struggling. I move heavy machine parts, Im constantly on my feet and constantly getting yelled at if a machine is down for too long. My buddy, brags about how he works 8 hours and for 7 of those hours, he watches YouTube or brings his laptop to play games. He also brags that 9 months out of the year, this is what his day looks like. Only until the holidays does he actually do any work. My buddy also makes $5 more than me. I'm starting to think I chose the wrong field and that I…

I moved countries earlier this year out of necessity. Moving away from my home was rough, and it was exacerbated by the fact that life in this new place is difficult and finding work so I can afford basic needs like food and a roof over my head was a fruitless, frustrating, depressing five-month process. Being ghosted by employers who initially showed interest. Being lowballed. Being offered about 1/5th of the pay I would make in many other countries for a 40 hour a week job, when the cost of living is really only like… a couple hundred bucks cheaper. And I worry a lot of it is the norm here. And no, I can't leave here just yet. Then I got this part-time job. The recruiter said it was translation work, like checking documents to see if info was accurate. I interviewed with them, they really just tested my…