Month: September 2023

I work in a busy restaurant as a bartender and server and the revolving door of managers we have are always fucking up the schedule. I don’t understand why I even have to explain why they shouldn’t be scheduling me to work Friday night and then open brunch on Saturday morning. Like I get that salaried managers get screwed over with there schedules a lot (why I will never be a manager) but why would they think that an hourly worker would be okay with this? I live in the U.S. and there’s no law preventing them from doing this either. Happy Labor Day btw.

From your personal experience, what do you consider to be more challenging: dealing with coworker's idiosyncrasies or customer's whims?

I’ve been told: After I stated ‘I’m working 3 people’s job’ and then detailing the tasks – ‘that’s only 2.5 people’s jobs’ ‘I’m the CEO and until I’m not, I can do what I want’ After making two people redundant – I am confident I made the right decision (have hired 2 people to pick up the exact same role, 3 months later) Any gems from your CEO?

I (25F) work as an assistant manager in a university call center. All of my employees are college students there who work part time, while juggling a full-time course load. Earlier this summer, we had an older man (~60M) who was accepted into a graduate law program at our school. He has been repeatedly calling our center about financial aid, and whenever our student workers try to help him but have no luck, this man (call him D for short) would berate them on the phone to the point some would cry. He would get angry over the fact our workers couldn't get the FA officers to answer their phones, so he'd scream and yell stuff at them like “how dare you speak to a grown man this way” and “now I guess I have to get aggressive.” He has since become a topic of conversation in our office, and…

I've been working at my job for 8 months now. When I applied for the position I was open about my disability on the application. The first time I ever did that. I was hired for my position as supervisor regardless. Originally I was thrilled and happy. 2 months in I still hadn't been trained on or taken on an supervisory duties. I tried setting up multiple meetings, follow-ups, emails requesting additional training, a list of duties, and asked if we could set expectations for the position. Nothing happened so I eventually stopped asking. Management here is very toxic and we have a very difficult time keeping staff. Most people quit without notice, we lost 2 employees is less than 2 weeks a total of 5 employees in the 8 months I've been here. The stress of being understaffed was getting to me so I applied for ADA to help…

I just have to get this out there because it’s been bothering me for a while now. So I worked at Nike doing manufacturing a couple years ago making the air souls, I worked 12 hour shifts in a fucking sweatshop. they told us if one of the machines (they call them Kiefels) goes down we have to go work at another kiefel to go help out. So that’s exactly what I did. My lead for my kiefel didn’t speak very good English. I told him where I was going. He said okay. I went over to kiefel 12 but nobody was over there, so I went to 11 which was literally right next to where I said I would be. It’s also an open floor plan and it was less than 10 feet from where I said I’d be. I tried to go back to my lead to let…

For me, I just started the argument with the boss because of job related issue. And the boss lose the argument and decided to fire me. So now I am not eager to look for job because I am afraid meeting with same kind of boss or worse that this. Have you ever experience being laid off before and what is the reason of being laid off?

So real quick, I have mix feelings about this. I always hated hearing the no one wants to work or something around how people don't have work ethics. But part of me knows it is true to a point. For example, a family member brought in a car into a dealership repair shop about 9 months ago. Everytime a part was found bad, the family member supplied them with a new part, anything they said they needed, the same, and they even went out of their way to give the shop stuff like washers for the batteries. I know this, because I helped them research, find, and carry the parts over there. Now that we got it back and after paying almost $25k. What we found when we did a quick inspection is there is a ton of shit work on it. They didn't secure the battery, there is wires…

My company had to post my position in our seattle branch so I saw the pay band and found out I am paid 20k less than my job title peers. I provide the most value by far (brought in million dollar clients and figured out a way to make us 100 million in extra profit over the next 1 – 2 years, among other things). I am seriously considering puttng in my resignation over this (principles). What do you think I should do?