Month: September 2023

I was injured on the job in 2021, I fell thru a ceiling and injured my back. HR told me to go thru workman’s comp. This turned out to be the worst decision I ever made. They tried to send me to a Dr . Whose office was in a strip mall and had a google rating of 1.5 with hundreds of bad reviews. I told them I wanted a different DR. And was told I have a one time option to change. They sent me to another who was awesome, and had a 5.0 with hundreds of rave reviews,he scheduled me for surgery and said I would be back to work in six to eight weeks ! Total time off would have been four months. Two days before surgery workman’s comp cancelled the surgery and wanted a second opinion, fast forward a year later I HAVE to have surgery…

Ive been at my current job for almost 5 years now – the work is semi independent, I’m hybrid with some days home and some days in office, and my coworkers are decent. Seems ok right? Well…. Almost. My boss is super moody. The littlest things will send him screaming and yelling. It’s never consistent and always unpredictable. This makes him difficult to navigate and predict. Today while asking for his help understanding something he was getting increasingly irritated at my list of questions trying to make sure I fully understood so I wouldn’t need to bother him again. Eventually he snapped saying “I don’t have time for all this, you’ll need to come back later!”. Needless to say I’m terrified to ask when the “right time later” is. Seems like it should be so easy – just knock on his door later and ask if now is a good…

Everyday feels relatively the same. I’ve started to ask myself … what is the purpose of money and why do I need it if I’m not able to “enjoy” it. It’s scary to know bills don’t stop and you have to feed yourself. Add a family to that and you’re now a living walking – barely talking zombie. I ask myself “do I need a second job” and I am doing enough with my time (I work 8-6) most days and afterwards my brain is toast. My free time isn’t free time because my I’m constantly not in the present. I’m always worrying or stressing about the next day or next week. PS. I love life, I just hate it just as equally. If that makes sense lol.

So I'm currently in an internship position where I was told I was pretty much guaranteed a full time spot in a higher position after 9 months. Got told the whole way through I was on track to get it and to just keep doing what I was doing. Cue the 9 month mark where I was told that not only would I not be getting the higher position, I was so unsuitable for the workplace that they don't even want to renew my contract, so I've basically got a 3 month notice period. The HR person really really does not like me, and seemed to enjoy telling me this, really laying into me. Then asked what I had to say about it – I said “okay that's fine.” They got visibly angry, clearly wanting some kind of reaction out of me, but what's the point? I already know they…

I(17f) have a lung condition that makes air leak from my lungs whenever I do anything strenuous. I’ve been to the hospital multiple times to see a specialist who insisted that there was nothing wrong with me despite being out of breath from the most basic things. Because of this I have no documentation of my health issue and as such my job doesn’t take it seriously and still expects me to do a lot of lifting. I’ve had to be sent home numerous times because the pain was so bad I couldn’t function and HR is super pissed at me. I’m constantly in pain at work and I’m afraid I’ll drop dead or get fired but I’m not in a position to just quit since I need the money and it’s unlikely any other job will be much better

Hi all, As title suggests, I’m wondering if this is legal? We’re in the UK. Any advice/ suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Not trying to make this a rant, but I really just don't understand how there are wildly different barometers for what is “productive” for Boomers vs EVERY following generation. My wife (millennial) manages a boomer – she cannot get her to do her job. She took two years to learn simply how to right click with a mouse, despite my wife begging her to take computer literacy classes. She shows up late or doesn't even come in to work, and when she does she just makes other people do work for her, and shops online during the work day. Then complains that she's working so hard and deserves a raise. And in the end, she's going to get one! All this is happening while my wife quite literally runs the business, and when she asked for an ample raise to just under market rates, she was laughed directly to her…

I can’t take it anymore. This is the third job this year I might have to quit. I took this job because the job market sucks ass and I have bills to pay. The job seemed chill, not demanding because I’ve been dealing with so much stress from not being able to find a job that I took what I could find. But wow, this job is starting to give me really bad headaches, stress, and anxiety. Here’s the thing, my department consisting of me, my direct manager, and the coo. I was hired as an Assistant and literally in the job description they told me you did not need experience because they want to train and build the person. Cool. Two months, and I realize there people don’t know what they want. They’ll give me project, (mind you I’m working on new software I’ve never used they aren’t hard…

I woke up to a call at 9 am yesterday saying that I was being let go out of the blue. I was working fully remote as a design intern for a global print and marketing solutions company, and I really enjoyed working there. My team was great and I had multiple conversations with my boss about continuing work for them after I graduate this Spring, so I was pretty confident I had a job lined up after I was done with school. I also had been working a second job back at school up until recently, when my internship asked if I could work more hours for them and essentially quit my other job. I had a hard time deciding on this but I decided to quit the other job and my internship have me a huge raise to compensate for it. So while I wasn’t sure if leaving…