Month: September 2023

I work so much and commit hours to this company. Im literally at a clinic now JUST to get a doctors note to get some days off. This IS ridiculous that I have to even do this. I know Im ranting but it pisses me off that I have to do this because my boss requires us to work 24/7. Fuck it, ill get the doctors note to take days off.

They're not going to be making as much profit right away but think about it if you're paying your workers better than others your workers are going to be happy to work for you and they're going to provide you a better service and do a much better job so you may even make more at the end of it but at the very least your workers are going to be working harder than your competitions because they're getting paid what they deserve

It’s been confirmed that 2023 was the hottest summer to ever occur on this planet. Fauna and flora are dying at unprecedented rates. Forest fires, smoke, hurricanes, flooding, you name it it’s here. And yet. We trudge to and fro our jobs day in day out. We aren’t given the time or money to experience our dying planet. The nature we are exposed to is homogenized and shrunk and fenced off and monetized. I don’t know what to do. I want to see some whales and coral reefs, but I can’t afford to do that, but if I don’t do it now, they may not exist when I can! What is this terrible contradiction??

I am a manager of basically a customer service operation. I have been paid $4 more than regular staff for the past 8 months. Recently, my boss upped all of our salaries, however, upped the regular employees to the same rate I was being paid to manage everything. Am I wrong to think it is unfair that they are now being paid what I was paid as a manager yet hold none of the same responsibilities I had? I questioned him about it letting him know I am upset and his response was that they have to take into effect inflation and we cannot go back in time and compare roles. He also decided to mention that he does not want anyone discussing salaries which I was quick to mention it is completely legal to discuss wages. Interested to hear other thoughts.

After work last night I informed my boss that I had noticed that my pay had dropped drastically since a new pay scale was implemented (paid by foot of fence installed.) The change over the past 9 weeks from before was a drop of over $3 per hour. I told him that I would not show up to work until my pay was increased and my previous check was brought up to the old standard. Mind you he has consistently been late with payroll, lied about raises, talks about other employees behind their back, and he has also been paying us with paper checks. My work load has only increased since the change with him firing one of my coworkers. Am I in the right here? Can he fire me for a no call no show after a written intent of not going to work the next day? And are…

I've been working at this company for almost a year and i can't take it anymore. I hate the job, i hate my clients and ever since management changed things have been terrible. Im an immigrant and this is the first time i was able to land an office job 9-5 and to be honest i miss working as server sometimes. Im always stressed, i make minimum wage + comission which helps, but at what cost. Im working in an industry i know nothing about, nor care. Everyone that works with me is an Elon Musk fanboy and my boss has the corporate boot so far up his ass that it's impossible to have any normal human conversation with him. He only talks in corporate and annoys us all day long. The pressure to keep performing at a high level is eating me alive, the executives literally said today on…

Basically title (M 28) been suffering from mayjor depressive disorder as well as other issues like panic attacks for the last like 10 or so years, I went and disability from my most recent job as they don't allow me to be on anti depressants while working because it was a saftley critical position. Since being off work I've been wondering how I ever functioned at work and if there would be any potential career paths I could take that would not make me want to off myself every day. Just looking for potential suggestions as I can't return to my old job while still taking my meds.

I know this has been written about to death over the last year, but I'm seeing a stronger push after labor day (the irony is too on the nose) in big companies to really enforce 3-days/week or else. It's almost like all the big-time CEOs went to some retreat and agreed to crack down at the same time in a united front to remove all leverage from employees, despite high productivity numbers. The company I work for may have a lot of faults but one thing I always loved about it is that they didn't treat us like cogs (or at least it wasn't obvious), but now we're hearing about this strong enforcement and how we'll get attendance reports at the end of the month and we might have our pay docked, with possible termination, so I started doing research about what options I might have and saw everyone else…

This is my SECOND day on the job. I walked out of my house for work at 8:30am. I did not know and have no idea how I didn't know there is a bee's nest under my porch. I started walking to my car and felt the pinch of one bee sting on the back of my arm. Then another. Since I haven't been stung in years, my eppipen is expired. I usually avoid all my allergens (shellfish and MRI contrast dye) and haven't been stung in 30 years. I started driving myself to the hospital. It's exactly 5 minutes away. Since this was my only option, I got there and told triage I was stung. They administered the eppipen and thankfully it worked but I needed monitored because I am also epileptic and have a heart condition. I emailed my boss to inform her I was in the ER.…