Month: September 2023

I have had a couple really good paying jobs without needing any degrees. I moved to a new state that is famous for Moms spaghetti and have been getting absolutely railed since. I have a crap job for crap people and finally got a decent interview scheduled for a position that requires some relative experience. HR contacted me and told me an expected pay range so when I completed my interview I was extremely happy to be considered for the job. Hiring managers seemed incompetent at a seemingly depressing company offered me the job “up front” as they have never done before (stupid of me). So HR called me, I told them that I would expect X amount of money out the pay range they told me the day prior and then they continued to tell me that pay range was for experienced employees despite telling me that was the…

You only love life once and are expected to work for 40+ years… those are the best years of your life your working away… you can’t enjoy anything or enjoy family. You work so hard to make money but everything is so overpriced it’s impossible. You can never hang out with family due to everyone working. You miss your kids growing up most of the time just to provide. It is so sad that we waste over half our life working it away. Life is to short and anything after 60 years old you can’t really do much with your life. You work until you physically can’t work or you die. There is so much to see and to explore. Me and my wife haven’t had a day off together in years. Ww hardly get to see our parents and it’s sad. Your here for such a small time and…

I used to work at a daycare ran within the school. I had nice bosses and enjoyed some of the kids, but some kids were mentally and physically draining and some of the parents were just assholes. I had a coworker who was younger than me and the parents loved her. She was annoying as all hell. She couldn't be alone with the kids because she was under 18, so she would go run errands and take forever while I would struggle with the kids. She was too dedicated to the job that would not pay her if she chose to stay to midnight cutting out activities for the kids to complain about. There's two conversations that really boil my blood whenever I think her. The first one is suggesting that I should just take my therapy appointments during my break times. I had therapy the same day every week…

I work at a small company related to electronics prototyping and a colleague and I are the ones who put the components on the boards and check if there are no mistakes. The owner of the company likes to walk around and he very often comes quietly stands behind us, looks at what we are doing and then leaves without saying anything. We find this behaviour annoying because we need to concentrate and even tho he is quiet we notice he is there. What do you think we should do about this?

Preface: I work(ed) for a passenger train company in a US state (can’t say for anonymity). I operate the trains on a daily basis. Can’t use phones at all during shift HUGE NO NO! We use radio comms only. Also, attendance system is points based 12=fired (I’m at 10) So I’m at work for a 0500hr shift and I get radioed from dispatch to get off my train and relinquish operations to another spare operator. I do so. I’m very confused and dispatch informs me to head back to the yard and talk with someone there. I do just that. Once at the yard, I talk with crew dispatch (receptionist essentially) and they inform me that I have a family emergency I need to take care of. They told me I must hand in my radio/keys/etc and go handle it. They never gave me the option to not leave. And…

Just couldn’t take it anymore, been there a year and just hated working there. Now I get to hopefully find somewhere better. Only thing that I worry about is my disabilities stopping me from getting another job. Was pretty easy just turned in my uniform and that said I resigned and that was that. Thanks for everyone who commented last time

Just for an example let me give you a scenario. This happened to me in the past when I was about 19. I started an apprenticeship with an IT company I worked with them for 6 month and they ended the contract at the end of my probation. They said they liked my work but I was suited to the role, they thought I be better suited to a service desk role. So as a result I lost my employment, I also lost the 6 months of work I put into the apprenticeship and why? Because their recruitment process was wrong, they recruited me for a role and they thought I would fit it and they were wrong. So I lost my job, my income and the progress I have made on the course because they recruited badly. Why should I be paying for their mistake? They should pay for…

I have an interview lined up with a new job. I'm just concerned about them contacting my former boss. Long story short I've had a boss who violated my HIPAA privacy by asking intrusive questions, regulated when I can use the bathroom, bad mouths other high ranking superiors, and has verbally said in meetings that “Shame and humiliation works best” with a smile on their face. Nothing I did was ever was good enough. Their goal is to work people to the ground. Work without breaks.