Month: September 2023

I work as a security guard for a big industrial company, we are four employees, all fairly young with mere years of work experience. Yesterday, i got a call from my boss explaining that one of the four people (my team leader) and the security chief from the industrial company think im not a suitable fit for the position and that its not working out, this is after a year of working there. What you need to know about these two people is that all previous employees from the security company before us are genuinely disgusted and appaled by the personality of them (my team leader is the only one that stuck around after the company switch and went to the new contractor). They basically like to spew crap about everyone and have very close dialogue, they are also very close-minded and they do not know how to take critique…

i’ve been at this job for one work week and my boss confronted me on friday telling me i did things i didn’t do and was reported to her by several people. i wasn’t told by any other coworker i was doing things wrong. i don’t know how else to say this, i did not and would never do what she said i did. do i just quit? she also is denying me accommodations for my disability (i literally just asked to sit instead of stand when i don’t really need to be standing. i have pots and heds.) my dad thinks she’s trying to get me to quit so they don’t have to deal with a disabled employee. what should i do?

So I work in manufacturing. That being said, I’m sure some of you understand the amount of bs that goes on in these plants lol. Well, get ready for this one ‘cause today has been a DAY. Without going too much into it, I work in an auto manufacturing plant on 3rd Shift. Our work schedule is also just a little weird. Because our employer “wants us to get our full 40 hours a week,” they have us come in 2 hours early on Sundays instead of just paying us through lunch lol. The solid majority of my co-workers (even my direct supervisor, which is a lil surprising) are great! A lot of us have stayed on this shift for our supervisor and for each other, as we’ve been through a lot together. The only bad part is that, as someone who’s been on this shift for the past year…

I just found out we have a rat at work and the guy is probably the dumbest guy this company ever hired, probably why the boss chose to use him as a rat, he can't do anything well, not even being a rat, figured it out immediately. What do I do now? He won't catch me with anything because I mind my business and do my job but the fact that he just comes in my office and stares at me, asks me about the day, if I'm not there he asks my colleague where I am and I find this annoying. I was in my lunch break and was texting my fiance, he showed up, stood there 2 minutes doing nothing and left. Should I play stupid and mind my business or should I do something about this? What would you do in my case?

I made a post yesterday too about the work environment I'm in. It's been a week here and there's very little work to do. I'm not complaining at how relaxed it is, I just feel like I'm wasting my day sitting here all day. Today our boss isn't here and we dont really have anything to do. When I asked if work is usually on and off the associates said it is on and off but that work is slow now because August is the off season. I have a freelance writing job as well so today I'm doing that instead. We aren't allowed to do non-work work during our work hours but what else am I supposed to all day? Like I'm grateful I'm not unemployed, but I'm just a little frustrated that I get ready every morning just to sit on a chair and do nothing. Last week…

Unfortunately, we live in a capitalist society. A job is what you gotta do for 40 hours a week to afford your life, and if you’re lucky some “extras”. There is no requirement to “be passionate” about it or “love” your job, or find it particularly fulfilling. You are not supposed to search for fulfillment in your means of earning a living. That expectation is what is causing such poor mental health: people look for fulfillment and satisfaction in their job, sometimes making it their entire purpose of being and a priority over everything else, and when they inevitably fail to find the joy they’re looking for, they feel empty and let down.

Just to preface this i’m the youngest employee (21) while the rest of them are late twenties to fourty. Also they’re all white. Not only are they all white but also middle/upper class, whereas i am very much working class first generation kid of immigrants. Nothing wrong with that but i definitely feel the differences between us., I don’t feel like this scapegoat things come on suddenly, over time i’ve experienced various microagressions at work and the times i do attend after work drinks i’m always taken the piss out of. I’m not sure if i’m being dramatic or not but i feel like when problems arise they look for me to blame. E.g got really drunk once by accident and ended up throwing up (my coworkers have done worse and have been in worse ways) but my section manager yes MY MANAGER made racist remarks asking if i was…

I have been working at my current job, a commercial printing company, for a little over a year now. I never planned to make a career out of this place, but it pays the bills and isn’t the worst place to work. That is until these last few months that is. It started small, so small I didn’t think it would be the beginning of what’s to come. One of my supervisors, we’ll call him Buck, confronted me about a comment I made about the order of the things. I had quipped that one of our coworkers was in a different position because there was aspect of the other one he didn’t like and he was older. Should I have made this comment? Probably not, so whatever I brush it off. A little while later I have incident at work and I wasn’t allowed to drive home. My sister picked…

I don't know if this is the right subreddit for this, but oh well. At least take this as a cautionary tale about life and why you should do what you want to do, granted it support you financially and really makes you happy. I hate my career. This mostly due to the manipulative, narcissistic behavior from my parents (mostly my father) and my dumbass (I f-ed up). I am not going to give away my identity nor the identity of where I work. To keep it simple: I chose funeral service because my father convinced me it was right for me. Before I learned of his narcissist tactics, I believed him. My fault, I know. It's just that HE wanted me to be HIM or what he wished he was, and I was convinced at the time that what he was doing to me was normal. Here's the thing:…