Month: September 2023

I am a year into my current job position and in a very niche industry. My manager is a biiit ambitious and doesn’t get his way due to budgeting issues. These few months my manager became increasingly demotivated, jaded. it’s really trickling into his work and the way he handles things which I do not really agree with. When things don’t go the way it should, he would take things out of my hands too and things often go south. Or if it is slower he’d lose his patience and speak with the other party’s higher up. We negotiate deals and things can take time. To top it all off… almost everyday he’s losing his shit over something and/or telling me that he’s tired. I talked to him before a few times that I can take things up if he doesn’t want to, or what does he want me to…

So, as the title says. Rn on my workplace we're… fucked. They fired 3 of the managers we had, and 2 supervisors. I have 4 years working here, and when i applied to one of the open positions they told me no, since i was inmature and wasnt ready to take on a leading position. Even tho, i am the one who knows all about the work, rules, a of the processes and stuff. Literally the old leaders who got fired and had around 10 and 17 years asked me stuff about processes and everything. When one boss gets sicks or has to go to a meeting i am the one they leave with the store keys and everything. So i feel like they just want to give me responsibility without the credit and of course, increasing my pay. On October my day off is going to change to a…

Hello! I’m asking this on behalf of my husband since he isn’t on Reddit. I will try to make this brief. He works for a small family business and has been there several years. One of his recent paychecks bounced and his boss is basically saying he’s not going to give him another check because he thinks the bank made a mistake. We have proof that the check really did bounce because we went to our bank and asked to double check. What can we do here if his boss still won’t issue a new check? He doesn’t want to leave over this but this is forcing his hand because he’s not gonna work for free and obviously this can happen again. Thank you in advance for any advice.

I started a newspaper delivery job working nights a few weeks ago. The job is 7 days a week from 1 am until your deliveries are completed. I'm paid by the hours I work, the mileage, and the number of deliveries. It's easy, I have a solid route in my neighborhood, and it's pretty good pay. A little backstory-I've been a stay at home dad for a few years due to lack of help from family, the hospitality industry doesn't have great pay/hours for my situation, and my wife is a nurse making over 100k, so we were pretty stable financially for a while. Times are tough recently and the extra money is definitely helpful. I had mentioned to my boss that I need a few nights off due to gigs with my band and my son's bday before I started working. The first of which was 3 weeks away.…

I worked at this job last year as a temp. The temp agency I went through was shady. They wouldn’t give me access to my check stubs and told me the wrong day to come back from holiday break. So, I had been missing workdays until I showed up and my coworkers were all, “where have you been?” I was recently hired by a different temp agency to work at the same place. I enjoyed the job and would’ve worked there longer. I wanted to be hired on directly. Should I go back?

I came across an article in Psychology Today about values and ranking them to help guide one’s like towards one of meaning. I happen to come across this article around the same time that my supervisor was asking me about what my five year plan was, and if I might be interested to fill the role once they retired. The more I thought about this, the more I realized that I did not want to do anything like that role. Being in the bio tech industry, especially in start ups, the higher you move up, the more insecure your position is. Over the last two years, I have moved to two different employers. My goal has always been to continue to do less, physically, and get paid more. Sitting with a masters of science and agriculture, it was apparent that the best path forward was either through management, or business…

I'm sitting here cutting a purchase order for some work a manufacturer's technician did at my plant, and the “labor” cost per hour is $175 (standard, not overtime). Now I don't know exactly how much this company's techs make–I know it's more than me, considering we had another mechanic leave here to work for them…but I guarantee it's not more than double what I make. Travelling technicians get paid well but not that well. So let's say these guys are making $50/hr (just shy of double my wage and highly unlikely). That's still $125 the manufacturer is just pocketing. 250% of the technician's theoretical wage, and more than 2/3 of the total take. Again, I don't know the tech's exact wage, but regardless we all know the company's pocketing the vast majority of the “labor” cost. Just a real-world example of how our labor is exploited, and one small piece…

Hi reddit, I need advise, I am currently out the country and my neighbor has reported to me that there is an injured pigeon that is laying in my garden. In order to get animal protection to come and visit a individual needs to confirm whether the animal is dead or alive, showing signs of bird flu. I told my husband if he could leave during his lunch break. He gets 1 hour in total lunch so he has plenty of time to make it back, but his work place says no. They don't allow there employees to leave under any circumstances unless if it's an emergency with human life, not animal life… I'm now crying thinking of a poor suffering bird who can potentially be saved but a corporation would rather put pointless rules over animal life. I also need to add that my neighbor is elderly and it's…