Month: September 2023

Sorry for any formatting issues. I'm on mobile. The leadership and executives at my company are having trouble understanding why so many employees leaving when: -They laid off 20% of our staff with no warning in Spring. -Cost of Living adjustments were put off until the layoff happened and leadership confirmed that COL adjustments weren't happening due to “budget” issues. -No incentives were given to the remaining staff whos workloads doubled or tripled from the layoff. -They want to phase out WFH. More stuff is happening but those are the main issues.

I work for a smallish company in a northeastern mid size city, but I got an offer to work somewhere else with better hours and way better pay. I don’t think this was surprising to anyone because it was fairly obvious that I’ve been unhappy with my current position for a while now. I told my boss that I accepted a new position and gave them three weeks notice. A few days later, I got an email from HR asking me for the password to my company email account. I still have two weeks left on the job and I’m uncomfortable with the idea of them going through my email while I’m still working there. I know that what they’re doing isn’t illegal and that a company has the right to go through your email at any time during or after employment, but I still think it’s weird. And perhaps…

I've been a temp/contract employee at a company that makes medical devices for four years and working full time hours. I do more work the most of the actual full time employees, always on time, and my attendance is excellent. I finally speak up for myself wanting to get directly hired on so I can get benefits, sick days, and vacation days. Now my contract is not getting renewed. My last way will be the 19th this month. Thanks guys! Temp abuse in North America needs to end. This is insane.

I've been a temp/contract employee at a company that makes medical devices for four years and working full time hours. I do more work the most of the actual full time employees, always on time, and my attendance is excellent. I finally speak up for myself wanting to get directly hired on so I can get benefits, sick days, and vacation days. Now my contract is not getting renewed. My last way will be the 19th this month. Thanks guys! Temp abuse in North America needs to end. This is insane.

Got an email from an HR lady at this lawfirm. She said based on my profile and resume she thinks I would be a good fit and asks me to formally apply. Apply and send my resume. My profile is basically just my resume. And not too long after get an email I'm rejected. …..why message me in the first place if you were going to deny it so quickly? Felt like a waste of time.

I have a decade of experience as a fine dining bartender and server. A nursing home posted an ad for fine dining servers. The job entails waiting tables at a public restaurant within a memory care facility. It pays 18 an hour and does not allow tips. The industry typically pays 40-50 an hour including tips in my area. However, the nursing home offers benefits and is in a very convenient location. There is also room to move up in the company. At the interview the manager explained how desperate they’ve been to find qualified employees and were excited to get my resume. He told me how exhausted he is because he is working 50 hours a week because he has no support. I explained that I can work all holidays (they are open 365 days a year). The trade off was my wife and I have a 3 week…

I just recently started at a position that is wfh which I am excited about, there’s only one major issue: I have to pay out of pocket (and wait to be reimbursed) for all travel. Travel was not discussed during the interview process, and now I am being told that “sales are finalized in person” and that if I have a big opportunity I should “take the initiative, and set up an in person meeting”. My manager estimates I will have to travel once a month or so. No, there is no company card available to use. Besides the moral qualms I have with essentially loaning my employer money to do my job, I also simply can’t afford to front hundreds of dollars to travel. How do I address this with management? And how the heck have we gotten to this point that it’s ok to ask employees to essentially…

My manager is an asshole. He literally tries to micro manage everything, in the lieu of “I don’t like to micro manage, but you don’t leave a choice”. Firstly, he doesn’t have enough brains to understand, and then, he tries to push the blame on the other person. I’m sick of this. Even though me might say something right, but the way he says it, makes me feel like punching him in his balls and face at the same time. I’m nastily frustrated at him. Uggghhhh!!!! How do I ignore him and not let him affect me?

After I got back from vacation, I got a notice to appear for an employment hearing about 3 issues in relation to my performance and never receiving any complaints or reprimands from my manager beforehand. First issue, I was unable to complete because I didn’t get an answer from support, but my coworker did get an answer from support, so he was able to complete it (only 50% though). Second issue, I was able to complete 50% and couldn’t do the rest because support confirmed that it was impossible and illegal to do so. Third issue, was actually the fault of my coworker and I was able to prove it from the logs. My supervisor still decided to fire me anyway and wrote a written rebuttal to my defense, which effectively showed that he was holding double standards towards me and my coworker. He also went on to belittle my…

Hey all, I work for a very large corporation in a WFH role where I create reports within a small team for all departments within the company. We do the vast majority of the reports for these departments in the first 7-10 days of each month, and then create some “as needed” ones here and there. We use PowerApps, PowerBI, Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. for software and we have deadlines, but nothing about the role is measured in output volume or time taken to complete tasks. I’ve been very happy in my role and my work/life balance has never been better, until recently… We were recently informed that Sapience had been tied to everyone’s work computer within the company. They claim it’s used to track productivity in the sense of “teams are spending x amount of time in this program, it’s eating up the majority of their time, so is…