Month: September 2023

I love my job, hate my employer. I have been at my current job for 6 months. Up until a week ago I worked 3 days on 12 hour shifts for a local clinic. I thought I had found the job I wanted to keep for a long time because I really enjoyed it and was happy with my coworkers. Now to the recent events… They cut my hours with no notice. I don't know if I can afford bills and groceries. I tried reaching out to multiple levels of management and just got the run around. Despite being one of the lower paid employees, giving me more hours would apparently be detrimental. They hired a new coordinator, who I am doing a large part in training. She is the most useless human being I have ever worked with. Despite weeks of training she takes 20 minutes to do what…

tested positive and was told any time missed would count as an “occurrence,” and that enough of them would get me fired. asked what the standard waiting period for returning to work after getting covid was, and was simply told “if youre scheduled monday, you should be there monday.” i genuinely do not want to put my coworkers at risk, and considering i work in the middle of a college campus, i’m baffled at the lack of care for such a serious problem. especially when i work directly with food and drink.

I work at a popular gas station chain. This past week we didn't get paychecks. Turns out the store manager is blaming the market manager and vice versa. The problem took days to correct and now we won't be paid until weeks after. The lack of owning up to a mistake plus the half #ss attempt to fix the issue is leading me to take action. I have written a letter to be sent to HR, every higher up in my region, and a select few corporate execs. Am I overreacting to this?

I work for Walmart, their transportation department specifically. I always figured that it would be some massively automated system of hundreds and hundreds of people which is partly true but after being hired I realized that there are a total of roughly 60 hourly-paid employees who schedule every single pick up of Walmart’s cargo across the entire western hemisphere. Nobody outside of my job position is trained to do this job aside from the managers. Before this I worked multiple part time jobs including food service and carpentry which I hated more than anything on earth but after being here for this long I almost wish I never left despite the increase in wage and hours. It has to be one of the most soul crushing, micromanaged sanitized and self-congratulatory environments I have ever seen in my entire life. 2 hour long meetings where all managers do is break down…

I have interviewed for a few jobs and am likely to get some offers. My question is, when is it safe to give my current boss a piece of my mind? Once I accept my new position, or after I have started it? Is it ever safe or should I go out without saying a word?