Month: September 2023

I work for a Fortune 500 company. In the last 3 years we've gone from EVERYONE WFH to bringing most people back on a flex basis. Most are OK with the flex, but it's still very structured ie you have to be in x amount of days. Next week is our town hall to get an update on the company and tbh a BS q&a with the execs. BS because they never pick or answer questions about increasing wfh, pay, benefits etc. This week our CEO posted a rather cryptic message stating things like 'a new chapter' 'working alongside in office' 'real time innovation.' CUE MASS PANIC!!! Prior to covid, a good 20% of our company was full time wfh. They moved more to wfh after the pandemic ended. I would estimate probably about 30% is full time and the rest are flex. Now the fun part. As his message…

Long story short, I submitted a leave request form 2 months ago for today and it was denied. Fast forward to yesterday evening, i was on my treadmill at home and hurt my ankle. Im on my feet most of the day so going to work the next day was not gonna work. So this morning i called my job and told my supervisor i wouldnt be coming in today due to my ankle injury. His response was “Do you know you submitted a leave request for today and it was denied?” My response was “ok”. He then said “You were denied for this day and this is not a good reflection on you”. I said “ok”. He said “Alright bye” and hung up the phone. I think he wanted me to argue with him and i refuse to. Im not begging for forgiveness because i took a sick day.…

Hi, I'm 27 yo, I was working til my 16, primarily full-time, but since 2022 I started working simple part-time as I couldn't mentally handle full-time job anymore. I felt like time was slipping through my fingers, I was constantly exhausted, and spent weekends mostly sleeping and doing nothing. I am so happy rn, now that I spent only 3 days at work, can get some quality sleep, do creative stuff, educate myself etc. But time is running on and I should start working on my career, and think about my future. But honestly, I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO A FULL-TIME JOB FULL-TIME SO MUCH, I had no idea how much I hated my life back then when I was working 40 hours per week. Does anyone have any ideas about part-time well-paid jobs with some perspectives?

Of course, I saw this coming, I chose this career. But now that I actually look at my paycheck I feel gutted and horribly anxious. I work as a special educator in New England at a local public school. I have two college degrees. I love working in special education, I love helping students achieve their goals and solve problems. I constantly hear at my job “the kids love you, the kids NEED you. Thank you for being here” and all that. I worked in the same district last year as a substitute and actually made more money than I do now. My paycheck just came in, and after doing the math, I can expect a take home pay of around $16,000 after taxes, insurance, and union dues. I read a lot about how people making like 80k a year are struggling. How the hell am I supposed to get…

I know the title makes me sound petty/childish but I’m pissed. I’m the marketing manager at a small business. My bosses are young (22 and 25) and don’t have much/any previous job experience. They literally used the money one of them got for their high school graduation to start the business, and one had never had a job before this. There is a huge industry conference in our city next week and my bosses started talking about going, which I was pumped for. I assumed that I’d definitely be getting a ticket to go seeing as I’m the Marketing Manager and do quite a bit of business development for them, but you know what happens when you assume. I was just told that I won’t be getting a ticket but our shipping manager, who is boss’s BFF, gets to go because “she deserves a break to have some fun.” Never…

I’ve got a part time job that I love. I’ve got a full time job that I hate. After taxes (don’t ask in responses because I’ve done the math) I’ll get 300k if I leave my job tomorrow (employee stock ownership). My thought is, pay off all debt and do the job I love instead (50% of the pay of the full time). Btw our mortgage is 15 years 2.5% so yeah, we might just keep paying that as is. The only thing stopping me is I don’t know how long we will live? What would you do?

Just wanted to share my story as I'm lurking around this thread for some time now. About a year ago after walking away from my 1st full time office job of 1.5 years due to major amounts of stress I had a major depressive episode that led me to a period of isolation and misery. After therapy, anti depressants and forcing myself to go to the gym to improve my well-being I've thought that my situation improved, because for a long time I've been doing some passion projects and earning some money as a freelancer, enjoying little things in life, traveling for a while, helping my family, reconnecting with friends etc. All of my suicidal thoughts drifted away, my mood swings got better and I felt relieved, so after some time I decided to find a job position for a steady paycheck. I found a job in logistics in April…

Just wanted to share my story as I'm lurking around this thread for some time now. About a year ago after walking away from my 1st full time office job of 1.5 years due to major amounts of stress I had a major depressive episode that led me to a period of isolation and misery. After therapy, anti depressants and forcing myself to go to the gym to improve my well-being I've thought that my situation improved, because for a long time I've been doing some passion projects and earning some money as a freelancer, enjoying little things in life, traveling for a while, helping my family, reconnecting with friends etc. All of my suicidal thoughts drifted away, my mood swings got better and I felt relieved, so after some time I decided to find a job position for a steady paycheck. I found a job in logistics in April…