Month: September 2023

These people are incredibly self-center for wanting to chase out a good worker while leaving the bad ones employed. Back in my great grandad time they didn't even have jobs. They have to live off the land and were able to take care of themselves. Now days we are force to deal with Neanderthals for next to nothing. People are doing the right thing by dropping out the workforce altogether. Unfortunately not all of us come from a rich family so we have to WORK for a living. If I'm going continue working I am going to find jobs that are away from people. Working away from people may be the way to go.

Throwaway: There's no reason why this should be downvoted but ok. This is the point of the subreddit. I was hired at a job that initially seemed a little sketchy. I was worried about it and expressed it to people before I started. I need a car, and that's fine, but I made it known that I would have access to a car, but the first day I had to take the train and walk 2 miles. My car is in another state right now, and the job made me start before I wanted to. I had interviewed on Monday of last week, and got hired on the spot. Great, but I was also out of town and asked to start after Labor Day, because that made sense to me. I had plans etc. until after the holiday, but I decided to change everything and start the next week (this…

My wife and I are in South Carolina. She is a middle and highschool youth minister at our church. The pastor has mismanaged money and is cutting her hours and her budget to fix it. He had made it clear that he doesn't value her position before the financial trouble so it's not surprising he is singling her out. He gave her a week to decide to go part time with a reduced budget or quit. Is there any advice y'all can give on what to do next?

This new observation that I noticed about work during holidays is that people who are slaves to low paying jobs experience much more stress and much more work during holidays. They overwhelmingly never get those holidays off and are often overworked on holidays like with Labor Day coming up. Only people who are blessed to escape modern day slavery are the ones who could possibly get joy out of holidays since they will often have the day off or at least not have a bigger work load on holiday work.

Alright so I’m seeing a trend by reading the things people post on this sub and based on my own experiences I’ve been to interviews where the hiring managers look like they don’t want to be there At the end of it all they just ghost candidates or just make some excuse as to why they won’t hire and it’s happening frequently

First time post here, looking for some genuine feedback on this email before I potentially send it to the CEO. This is a longer one, TLDR at the bottom. First for background info, yesterday we had our monthly office meeting (over zoom because we all WFH) where they usually give us updates, celebrate peoples birthdays, work anniversaries, etc. In the middle of the meeting the CEO gets on and wants to talk about this new ~$25mil state of the art facility they just bought. He wanted to address how the company paid for it, not sure why but thats what he wanted to talk about. He then proceeds to talk about “living debt-free” and that is how he operates personally and he wants the business to operate the same way. Which I totally agree with, if you can afford to live that way. So because this company does well and…

Everyone's worked in unit with bad leadership and it's stressful not getting direction and just feeling lost. I help my coworkers under the table because I'm in a unit with bad leadership and I try to be a golden rule/pay it forward kinda fella(not Starbucks pay it forward. Fuck those people). I helped my coworkers under the table because my lead worker and supervisor never did a great job assisting and I didn't want them to think I was undermining them when they gave bad help… I didn't mind my bad leadership because my job is easy and while I could stand to make more money, I'm happy doing what I do for the most part… I knew how to do my daily tasks and could get my 8 hour day done in a couple hours total of actual work while goofing off the rest. I even taped my mouse…

For context, earlier this year I got a job as an electrician apprentice at a nice company and even got referred by a friend. I got to know my fellow workers really well and I felt like they all liked me and I was told I am a great worker from them. Got to learn basic electrical work and I really enjoyed it. I started trade school just this last week and I prepared by getting my apprentice license which requires supervision under a master. Even started a study group with fellow workers that were also starting school too. Everything was going great until out of nowhere, I get layed off because “there isn't enough work for the amount of employees”. I guess dozens of unfinished jobsites and thousands of panels that need to be wired don't count I guess… I get it, it's the trade business, but they shouldn't…

I recently came back from a Leave of Absence (LOA) for child bonding. I was supposed to come back August 6th but every time I checked my schedule it was blank. I even was approved for Amazons ramp back program which gave me a regular schedule every week in order to accumulate back into working (especially needed after all the lay offs that happened). I had to email my assistant store manager so that he could manually put my approved shifts on the schedule. My first week back there was no problems. My schedule was filled with the approved shifts. Last week I check my schedule and it’s blank. Nothing. All my shifts through October were gone. I get in contact with HR and they tell me that this is “just a thing that happens” with people coming back from LOA and they have reached out to teams to try…

I am an Army Veteran that was discharged back in 2019. It took me awhile to find a decent job that can handle one income household. I was hired at a non-profit serving Veterans within Texas and all across the nation. I managed their intake team from March 2020 till just about a few hours ago. I fell in love with data analytics. People at work would come to me for reports. I even wrote data summaries when I had the time. Now, with 6 other staff members, was laid off. My salary was no longer covered by their grants. I'm getting this layoff package in the mail with all the details. I am in shock. All that work for nothing. I lost all the work I've done for them the minute they told me the news. I've read other people's posts of having a hard time finding work. I…