Month: September 2023

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have received a notice of termination of my employment this afternoon. I made a comment by email stating I will not be part of a hostile working environment a few months ago. I have spent the last year navigating through a toxic work culture during my employment. This has ranged from me and other employees being screamed at, yelled at, degrades, being cursed, and insulted on a daily basis by the VP (owner) & my direct manager. I have gone through every emotion from sadness to blood-boiling murderous rage whilst biting my tongue through it all. One of the other employees ended up getting stomach ulcers from the stress of it all and a few other have had to get therapy. I write this post as a call to please remember to put your mental health before your work as you will end up letting the…

First time posting on Reddit. I work for a nation wide health company and their whole motto is about inclusion and embracing differences. They constantly brag about being the top rated by employees. But my severe mental health issues are re-emerging to the point of debilitating panic attacks on the commute home and near hospitalizations. My doctor filled out an accommodation request for 2 days per week remote. My boss essentially said no without consulting HR and basically implied she would send it to them as a formality. No bothering with alternatives. Then there was a discussion because I emailed it to HR without her permission and she doesn’t even know how I obtained the form (which is literally in our branch file database). Basically acting like I didn’t something wrong and going on about how I should have told them at the interview about my health issues. Isn’t this…

I have a part time job between more steady “career” type jobs. Service industry stuff. Hours suck, not as many as promised, but the pay isn’t awful. It’s what it is. Pays the rent for now. I get asked to clean something that “hasn’t been cleaned in years” and I agree despite it not being my job. Long story short, end up piercing my hand on a rusty piece of metal that was next to a trash can people drop food in, so it was dirty too. Smallest pierce in the world, but it drew blood. My first thought, get a fucking tetanus shot, which my managers agreed. Went to CVS, got the shot, paid $75 out of pocket. Nobody coached me up on the L&I process, got all this done within about 90 minutes of it happening. Not much research time. Call out sick the next day as the…

So there are a few 50/60 year old women at my work who are making my life hell. I (f32) started this job about a year ago and I am excellent at my job. I am confident about the fact but not cocky. I am also kind and helpful to everyone I work with. So I have the same title or grade as these 3 other older women who have been doing the job for 20 plus years. This group of, we will call them ‘Karen’s’ have been making my life hell. To the point I have been eating my lunch in the car most days. It’s the constant little passive aggressive things they do that really hurt me. Like if I am standing with a coworker they will say good morning to the other person and just completely ignore me. They will snort or make snarky comments when I…

So my HR director is a WILD person, I can not even begin to explain…. ​ Throws confidential paper work into their casual garbage can, then sits this outside their locked office (when they leave EARLY, only work 2-3 hours “in office) for ALL other employees to see (unacceptable, as we have a recycling bin as well as a “shredding” service we pay monthly for such things)?? Leaves PERSONAL print outs of private e-mails and other content on the company printer regarding ALL my co-workers. I've only been at this job for 8 months, but I find print outs of e-mails between HR and other employees CONSTANTLY, for insurance information, PTO requests, medical issues, etc. This person just outs everyone's PERSONAL info CONSTANTLY, verbally as well as printed on our company printer for others to find. If I find it printed, I either take it to HR or leave it…

Asked a shopper what they were after when they walked in the door, hand pruners, and I pointed them towards them, maybe ten feet away from where we were. I just walked up a different aisle real quick to put something on a shelf, turned around and saw her standing in front of the pruners looking like she was waiting for extra help. Literally right as I was five feet behind her ready to help, another customer whipped around the corner in need of help clear at the other end of the store. Sure enough, later when I ask the cashier if they rung out a customer for a hand pruners, he says she definitely had secret shopper vibes. I’ve worked here for five years, I always go out of my way to work one-on-one with customers, I do numerous other specialized services the store offers, I know the store…

Any advice for making the workday shorter? I want to find a new job, but economy sucks right now

I work for a contract restaurant group, meaning we run the cafeterias for corporates. I’m one of the managers at this location. My GM is a workaholic and he always sees problems in everything, never encourages anybody. He stresses everybody out. Everyone complains about him. Our client did a survey regarding our service. Some of their employees complain that our service staff aren’t super friendly, don’t even smile. GM reads the review to me and says, our employees need to smile. LOL

First time antiwork poster. Ill try to be brief, and writing from my phone. So ive had a new boss for the last 4 months and she's nearly completely taken over work assignments from myself and 2 other subordinates. She claims shes doing this so she can see what we're working on and doing it correctly. The problem with that is she's not assigning new work for us and its leaving us with alot of free time. My two staff brought up these concerns to me and claimed they had alot of free time and wanted more work. So when i brought this up to my boss she got very defensive saying theres plenty of work to go around and followed it up with we're doing a great job. However, after that, she claimed she'd gotten complaints from other division managers that i'd been misinforming them regarding policies or procedures.…

Seems like pre-pandemic things were going great. Then covid happened and everything shut down. Post-pandemic supply chains were inconsistent creating unpreceded demand for short supply (an example is the great toilet paper rush of 2020). The inconsistencies made the ports chaotic and goods couldn't get delivered. Then the manufacturers couldn't keep up when shipping returned to normal. Then there were supply shortages when all that got worked out because other countries continued to have lockdowns. Then there weren't enough workers after that all got sorted out. Now finally, after all that has somewhat gone back to normal, prices for things keep going higher with no further reason other than inflation happens, and we just accept it. But is it inflation? Should we just accept it? God forbid we call it what it is: good old fashioned corporate greed, government oversight and subsequent mismanagement? The gov't is the one who shut…