Month: September 2023

Canadian here. I couldn't find anything specific on this but it doesn't sound legal. All the workers are casual and their 4% vacation pay is paid out on each payroll. Recently, the boss declared that ANY unavailability is considered a vacation request and workers are only allowed 14 days worth a year. My daughter is a student and is stressing out how she'll be able to continue school if she can't work with her boss to plan shifts around her school hours. This sounds absurd to me since they're casual and all of them are scheduled far less than full-time. Is this even legal?

I am someone with autism and Hidradenitis Suppurativa. For those of you unaware of what it is, its an auto immune disorder where my skin develops painful abscesses all the time. I get them in my anal and vaginal areas. Because of this, its very hard for me to work many types of jobs (essentially anything where I sit down for prolong periods of time or sweat is a nogo) especially full time and I had to go on SSI to afford to live and get coverage for my expensive medications. I finally recently got a job working for 12 hours a week, only earning a few hundred extra dollars a month. I had to quit because even that aggravated my HS at times but most importantly, it wasn't even worth it from a money standpoint because they wanted to take part of my benefits away from earning a paltry…

I never had a major problem until I realized life is work. I (24F) have issues with working. I have job hopped many times since i graduated (Diploma in Beauty) since 2019. I need serious help because I know I AM THE PROBLEM. Everytime I started working I actually feel giddy and excited and then boom I am dull, again. I actually try to quit my current job and tried working at Subway for a day but FnB is so so tiring so I can't I currently don't have any commitment (living with parents) and not planning any. I dont know what to do to solve this problem. I know I have to be the bigger person and think more maturely. but I cant… life is too short to be spending 8hours a day working (time not included gettin ready for work). I don't even have the tears to cry…

i've been working freight at a grocery store for a few months now. started with 4 of us, 2 guys quit and for a month and a half my coworker and i were basically expected to work our butts off to make sure everything got done. we were scheduled sometimes 9 days in a row (different weeks so no overtime) we now have 3 of us and immediately when we got this new guy they threw even more unrealistic expectations onto us (expected to finish the entire load) which is a 4 person job. our boss has also literally screamed at us for not finishing he's going through a divorce so he already going through it) now this company is one of those “employee owned” companies in a small town (pop 1500) so in other words “we can work you to death and you can't do anything about it because…

I hate my job. Classic 9-5 retail management situation. My boss is passive aggressive and I barely make 1,100 a month. Sometimes I only make 800. My bills, for reference, total up to uhhh MORE THAN THAT so I frequently have to ask my partner for help. Recently, people who have left the country (USA) for a better and more satisfying life have been popping up all over the place on my social media. I envy them, badly. And I’m wondering if anyone has “escaped the machine” successfully? I swear I just need ONE story to restore my faith that this isn’t all my life is going to be. I’m so incredibly burnt out and I’m realizing it as I approach my mid 20s that this life is NOT for me. I don’t want to be rich by any means, just comfortable and able to be happy.

Worked for this bank for 2 years. We got a new managers this year and she was just the worst, extreme micromanaging and just unpleasant. Long story short, went in this morning and was fired. I’ve been planning to leave in a month or two as I’ll have my degree in a few weeks, and honestly I was kind of checked out. But even so, I’m still not feeling great about being fired and I just don’t get why. I was hating the job at that point. Like I’ll miss my coworkers, but that’s it. It’s also convenient as they’re getting rid of the drive up, and they’ve said multiple times were over staffed and I did hear from one of the bankers that if one of the tellers left, they wouldn’t replace them. It’s all just suspicious. I’m lucky to still be living at home, and don’t have many…

I often get criticized by family that I don’t “do more with my life” and don’t have “goals”. They think I will be very sad when I’m in my 40s because I don’t invest in “my career”. I’m 27, I work part time, earn enough money to put away 100$ a month into savings. I was a nurse for 5 years, I left the field because it made me miserable and I have been working a warehouse job for 2 years now. I’m very happy with my job and coworkers, we have a fun time working together and I genuinely enjoy the repetitive work and don’t need a gym membership because I get exercise during the job. I can listen to music and audiobooks. Also I can take home a lot of food for free. I have a very stable and happy relationship with my partner who I live with.…

so im a reporter for an online only local paper in my new town, have been there just about 10 weeks and i need some advice from other people who work in my industry. Im very new to all this – this is my first office job out of college and i feel like my boss is being really hard on me to the point where ive cried almost every week. Basically, my boss/editor is really nit picky about my writing style (i really need to get better at it ik, but hes been doing this for 40 years ive been doing it for 9 weeks) and is asking so much out of us that i barely have any work life balance and feel like im always on call. Were hiring another editor soon so hopefully that helps but fellow reporters is this just what the industry is like???? I…

Even with a job/management now that’s a little bit more accepting of it than others I’ve had in the past, I’m still sitting here worried and over thinking texting my manager to say I can’t come in today for my close, even though I feel like absolute dog shit and they noticed I didn’t feel too great yesterday. How does one get over this? I guess working at jobs since I was 15 that would go absolutely FERAL over calling in really burned its mark into me.

I often am 10-15 min early for work because of how transit times out. The other option is 10-15 min late. I’ll come to the office, settle my things and make a cup of coffee and just browse whatever on my phone/relax a bit. Sometimes I journal a prompt. However, when my supervisor is in the office and comes in early, she starts right away and expects me too also – she’ll send me an email at 830 asking me to do x and then question me at 845 if I’ve done it. If I start early like this, I’ll slip out a few minutes early to more or less balance it out. This is fine by me. However, it was nothing formal, but I did get reprimanded for it, and told I must leave 530 on the dot or later. If my supervisor wants to start early that’s her…