Month: September 2023

My cousin has a franchise restaurant job where he has to sometimes open, so he gets there early before he's clocked in, as he needs 15 mins to set up shop, and I say he should be paid for this. He doesn't agree, same with my Mom. So he's giving his life away to this franchise for free, which is typical for him because of his wishy-washy personality, but what baffles me more is that my mother is in a union, is pro-union, but still stupidly agrees that he doesn't need to get paid for the set-up. I know neither of them are bootlickers, but I can't help but think, “What is wrong with you two?”

In the US healthcare providers, specifically, are booked back-to-back with no breaks except for lunch, which is laughable because we all know treatment care including documentation eats into lunch. This means your provider will not be performing their best (we are not machines of infinite energy), you will likely not be seen on time (with back to back scheduling this is just not feasible), and you will likely have less time and less quality time with your provider. The overworking of providers (physician, nurse, PA, rehab, etc) is leading to burnout so there are less experienced providers available because they leave healthcare. So now, you will also have to wait months to be seen because supply and demand issues. Primary causes (from my experience): healthcare should have never become a business. Because it is a business, making your workers see as many patients as possible means more money. The biggest…

I know it will never happen, but I am in painnnn laying in bed in fetal position about to get up and go to work. My direct boss who is a woman says it’s no excuse not to come in because she comes in every month herself. Totally get it. But I want to cry, poop, and throw up all at once. LET US LAY IN BED AND CRY IF WE WANT TO.

My current job is a Industrial Maintenance and electrician. Started to fix something during a PM, and my lead came over and said “why are you fixing that, leave it and move onto another Pm” yesterday my main boss says “we need technicians who are going to care and to fix everything during PMs clean every part of every machine. Why cant companies get all their under managers on board with the company goals. I am tired of being told something different from the 9 fucking leaders we have here! I just really want to start making the better content on my youtube channel, and paying $20,000 a year to advertise my channel so I can just start working for myself.

I've been at my job for a decade, and I love it. My old supervisor was cranky as shit, and I took pride on getting them to warm up to me over the years. They were getting up there in years, and recently retired (congratulations!). There was some shuffling around, and I got put under a supervisor from another department and it's the most annoying situation. This person is GREAT at their job. Amazing. Phenomenal. They're also one of those alt-news or Q people. It's bizarre. We'll be having a totally normal conversation about, say, our kids/grandkids. Normal chat about back to school colds or something then they'll throw in one batshit crazy thing like “all teachers are pedodiles” and go straight back to normal convo. Wtf. Even more bizarre is they're aware it's a professional problem. They've been in trouble for it before. I don't know if they can't…

I work at a national (edit: US) grocery chain. My previous scheduling manager was able to give me 6-hour shifts because of the chronic pain in my feet. Recently a different manager took the role, and has given me exclusively 8-hour shifts. After suffering through 3 full shifts and coming home unable to stand much at all, I called her to try to advocate for myself. She gave me the same explanation: “The needs of the store have changed.” I said I have to put my needs first, and if she can't give me shorter shifts then I'd be forced to either arrive 2 hours late or leave 2 hours early. “So it sounds like you're giving me an ultimatum.” No budging, just the vague threat of “disciplinary action.” I don't know whether I should quit now or wait for them to fire me. I've heard being fired looks bad…

I have an office administrative job. I was originally hired part time because my job takes between 25-30 hrs per week to do. I’ve gotten comfortable in that position and have become fast at completing the tasks. About 2 years ago (I’ve been there 2 & 1/2 yrs) My boss asked if I’d like to learn sales and customer service for one of the three businesses I do admin work for. He said he would pay me commission for both retention and new sales. Okay, sounds great. I have a little spare time. I learned and started making around $300 per month in commission. Which was great. I worked 30hrs each week to work both positions. Then he decided he wanted that side of the company to grow more and hired a part time sales person to focus on increasing sales and retention. This quite literally took money out of…