Month: September 2023

So apparently the mandates around Covid have because extremely relaxed and now state that you can still work if you test positive for Covid as long as you don’t have a fever and you wear a mask. I emailed-in sick from work for a week because I have Covid and due to other medical conditions, I want to be fully recovered before I get back to my physically demanding job. But they told me if I don’t have a fever, I need to come in anyway. I emailed back and said that I won’t be coming in because 1. I’m sick, 2. We have immunocompromised employees, 3. We have a lot of elderly customers and 4. Just because I didn’t have a fever then, doesn’t mean a fever wouldn’t develop (which it has, btw). They replied back that they don’t take personal opinion into consideration about the safety of working…

If I take a loan, buy something like gold. I'm in debt but I give everything I own to my family and then die. Can banks still go after the things or will the debt die with me? (in this scenario my family wouldn't accept inheritance upon my death.) I got no moral obligation towards banks. Not like owners and investors would feel the dent. My family's house upkeep with renovation would certainly welcome it though.

About three months ago, the roof caved in at my work due to poor structure and heavy rain. I was told to come in early to help gather up equipment. I arrived and I saw everyone standing outside, I was told a structural engineer had to come and verify the buildings integrity. My boss then told me to go inside and gather the equipment and it didn't matter what the safety manager said because our boss wanted it done. We had no proper PPE, there were computers and wires everywhere in the water. This felt very unsafe to me, my boss then turned it on me saying if I felt uncomfortable I should have said something. A. I know that wouldn't have mattered as he didn't care what the safety manager said. B. A manager should know this is a risk, regardless of how low, that can wait until the…

I work for a contractor. Most of us do, a few people in the office are government. Our big boss is. We have an event coming. I am a content creator, creative team. The big boss got a friend's company to make content. Gave them months and insane resources to do it. They did a weak job. Three work days before the event, we were tasked with starting from scratch. We have worked 12 hour days, some of us over the weekend, to catch u the absolute majority of the time is spent pulling teeth to get the content resources we need to even do any work. If we had it, this would be a 4-8 hour task. Instead, we are well over 40 hours logged in three work days. Yesterday, started the day at normal time, waiting for direction from big boss. We turn something in, they give a…

I put “low-achiever” in quotation marks because the background to my story is that I actually put quite a lot of effort into achieving the qualifications for two separate career paths that both ended up leaving me feeling burnt-out with all the added work and responsibility coupled with little support in these two career paths. At this point, I've kind of given up on having a “career.” It's clear that capitalism has drained a lot of the enjoyment out of many career paths by heaping more constraints and workloads on many rewarding professions, taking advantage of people's desire for an intrinsically rewarding career. I just want to find a job that doesn't leave me feeling drained at the end of the day. I know jobs like that tend to not pay well or require a lot of specific schooling, so I'm asking this community if they know of any particular…

Hello all, long-time fan of this subreddit, first time poster here. I am in a difficult spot at work and I thought I would share. My company was purchased from an private Canadian owner to a publicly traded American company several years ago. Before my time, our “Business Unit” was left largely on its own to carry on like things were before. Then, we ran into financial problems and became less profitable. The solution my corporate masters arrived at was to merge our company with an American counterpart within the same corporation. It. Has. Been. A. Disaster. It sometimes feel like our “colleagues” are purposefully trying to run our company into the ground. I recently did the math and wrote out the list and discovered that in calendar year 2023 19 significant figures within the company have left – managers, project managers, engineers, etc. Only one of them has been…

I recently quit my job on the spot . Now I have to explain to my boss why I quit before I get blacklisted from the entire company. Here are my reasons but I need to make them sound cogent because my boyfriend said that that he could have put through it and still work there. I am a server at what I would describe as a high end sport bar. I have a a gm, manager and supervisor. Besides the boss. First in the beginning of the month, I got sick. I showed up to work Friday for a 13 hour shift, which was extremely painful. After the shft, one of my co-workers told me that his girlfriend( who I had been hanging out with) is positive for COVID. Both him and I informed the GM and told him that that is probably had it as well. He asked…

TLDR: some employees get their own offices and can work remote, while others do not. Not having my own office prevents me from doing the best at my job. Is that normal? I work on a team where two of us have the same position and everyone else has different positions but we all work on the same clients/files. We work in an office together, except for one person who has the exact same job as me and she works remotely in a different state, and comes into town once per quarter. There are two people who used to be in my position and now are in different roles. One of these two people works remote from home every Wednesday. The other person works from home about 3 days per week. I have been told by my manager that I will never be allowed to work remote. Is that normal…