Month: September 2023

Hi all, I currently work for a really shitty, family-owned, toxic, small business. Long story short, the boss is a manipulative, homophobic, religious nutjob. I've worked here for 3 months and just landed another (better) job. The boss found out I received another job offer the other day (he snooped in my computer while I was in the bathroom and opened my personal email, I'm pretty sure). After that, he sent his entire family to intimidate me into staying, never admitting that he knows about my job offer through his snooping. I'm basically the backbone of the company's marketing efforts and I'm really good at my job, which is why they so desperately want to keep me on board. He keeps talking to me about how this job is such a good opportunity, I should feel lucky to have my position, and that I'll regret leaving if I do… He…

Growing up the standard workday was always described as 9-5. Hell there's even a song about it! NINE TO FIVE! THAT'S THE WORK DAY! The last like five years or so though I've been hearing more and more people say 8-5 instead. My mom asked me if those were my working hours once and I was like wtf no it's 9-5. Even my wife now starts work at 8am and her reasoning is that she takes an hour for lunch so if she worked 9-5 it wouldn't be a full 8 hour work day. What the hell is going on?! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!

I'm not applying for sh*ts and giggles. I read the qualifications, both preferred and required and still applied. Obviously, I need a job. This is pissing me off!

I got a note from my doctor stating I need to sit down periodically during my shift. HR lady says I have to bring my own. Do they have to provide me with accommodation?

Had a direct report ask for a raise. I agree with them and tried to fight for him but was basically ignored with my requests so I had to deliver the news. I know what everyone makes. It’s very shitty corporate would rather risk losing a long term employee only to probably have to pay a new hire more than what the salary would have been if we gave the guy a raise. Fuck corporate.

I’m pretty certain my boss thinks he laid me off when a bunch of other coworkers were laid off 1 & 2 months ago. None of the work I do is visible to him or his bosses, we don’t clock in/out, and I’m rapidly running out of useful tasks. I have a cruise coming up in mid-October, which I would’ve submitted to our PTO system already, but I was waiting to be laid off and now it feels a bit late. Usually, he approves PTO after the fact, when that time period’s payroll comes around. If I put in the request now, I fear he’ll see I’m still here and immediately let me go. With my luck, if I say nothing, I’ll come back to missed messages and be fired instead of laid off with severance. Maybe this will be a moot point and someone will respond to one of…