Month: September 2023

Worked at my job for 5 years, and i just walked out. My old bosses quit, we went through two new ones. And the current one is a jackass. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. Refuses to answer questions directly. Cuts you off when talking. And today, he yelled at me across the office in front of other staff when trying to figure out my schedule. 🙂

I was told in an interview the woman that I would be training with would eventually be retiring. “She’s set in her ways and is difficult, but that will be your task to learn to work with her.” First off. No. I’ve been in this situation a few years ago with a retiring Boomer and she was flat out abusive to me. And that employer said the same thing. I had to fucking film that woman and show management how she was treating me. They let her go. Second. If you are management or an owner IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DEAL WITH AWFUL EMPLOYEES, not mine! You are offering me $18/hr and want me to what? Tell her she’s out of line or she needs to adjust her behavior. I really don’t give a crap if a retiring Boomer’s feelings are threatened by a new person coming into the…

I work for a company where I do hourly work and specific event work. The event work is at a set rate of $50/2 hours, $75/3 hours, etc. I just found out that I did 4 events this summer that I never got paid for. This was obviously a mixup between my department and payroll, but it is not something I am responsible for. Yet somehow I am the one chasing down the paper trail to prove I worked those events so that I will actually get my money. How is this fair? This is coming after my boss called me unprofessional and inappropriate for requesting a pay raise because I found out people I trained were making 30% more than me. Obvious solution is to just leave this company as they clearly don’t treat their workers right – but it just makes me so upset. This feels extremely unfair…

I can thank my social anxiety for leading me up to this point. I’ve never even done proper work experience (if you don’t count me at my dads work) which wasn’t even offical on paper. Last year I started studying at TAFE (or college for you Americans), so I can be an Apprentice Plumber. I pretty much botched it because the one thing they didn’t tell me before signing up is that plumbing is probably one of the most unforgiving and hard trades in the construction industry that requires more brain than muscle. I DID technically pass the course but I didn’t do as well as most in my class who were already experienced. So no employers want to hire me because of my Social Anxiety or lack of established skills despite completing the certificate specifically for plumbing. Employers for plumbing are picky assholes who only want the best of…

I'll start by saying that I'm in no way a hateful person. Our new leader is a person of color. And has replaced 4 white employees with non white people that aren't qualified for the positions they're placed in. I'm not at all trying to take away from anyone deserving a better paycheck. But you should still be qualified for the role. We were denied an annual raise due to budget cuts. Which seems interesting because the new chancellor makes around 75k more than the previous chancellor. .. does racism go both ways? I'm half Italian and the other half mutt… But I've never felt this way before. Am I wrong for feeling this way?

context Basically my boss didn't pay me for server monitoring/reporting work I did from 6pm to 9pm, saying it was not done well, I forgot to include some information, my fault. I responded saying that's not OK with me, even though I made a mistake I still worked for 3 hours and it's really disrespectful to be paid nothing for it. He responded by saying he paid me for being on call from 9pm to 6am, which he didn't have to do and the money I was paid was adequate to the quality of work done. I want to clap back this time. I really don't care about this job and this is what I came up with: I wonder under what law an employer has the right to not pay an employee and not recognize hours worked, i.e. perhaps it should be a given that on-call time will be…