Month: November 2023

As the title says, I'm curious about what life is like after quitting an office job. Did you regret? Did your life get better? ​

Imagine if we could simply check a box ''no tests required” when job hunting on Indeed. Imagine if job postings had to be marked with how many tests they demand be completed before we apply, since we only know after submitting our resume. “customer service – phone company – must take 2 skills test and one-way phone interview approximately 40 minutes in total to be considered” Or even just “Show me jobs with tests I've already completed” I think we don't have this filter or labeling because employers would hate how “unmarketable” they'll look. They'll be pushed to remove their skills tests because now we can filter them out and won't apply.

I work for a vitamin company that creates small capsules. Last week there was a small fire from an electric heater in my room and on my machine. My first reaction was to spray the fire extinguisher as it was growing and smoking. When I sprayed the extinguisher I ruined every capsule in the room. I caused roughly $75,000 in damages. I’ve been with this company for only a few months. A few people have told me that the higher ups are super pissed and there’s lot of talk about what will happen. Is there any chance I can be fired and if so what do I do?

Besides the shit pay, the rigid/not flexible schedule, lack of adequate vacation time, etc. I think the thing that gets to me the most is the weird and/or shit people I wind up working with at my career job. My first job out of school: my manager was an insecure raging asshole who had constant mood swings and would scream at his staff, our admin was cheating on her husband with our boss and she would start drama amongst the older women at work, and I worked with 2 people in my age bracket who would make jokes about minorities all the time. Our HR lady would cry to me all the time after her beloved son got engaged because he wasn’t marrying a white woman with blue eyes (literally her quote) and i guess she thought it was my job to console her (as the only non white person…

What they aren't telling you is the sport you are playing is Roller Ball, and you're now part of the Manson family.

Last schedule, I worked 3 days: Friday 15:30PM – 1:00AM Saturday 9:30AM – 17:45PM Sunday 9:30AM – 10:00PM Paystub says 23.22 hours worked. This happens so much that I can’t tell what’s what anymore. What the fuck is going on?

Like the title said, I’ve been on medical leave for the last 4 months and my doctors said I should be good to go in a few weeks so I emailed my boss about my return to work. He never emailed me back. After digging I managed to get back into my clock in and saw that I was terminated. I heard nothing. Absolutely nothing from them. They won’t answer my calls or my emails. Luckily I managed to get a small part time job but like WTF be professional about it and own up to the fact that you terminated a person on medical leave. The kicker is it’s not a big company. Only 4 people work in the main office myself included.

This is something that I spend a lot of time thinking about: given that we begin to live in a post capitalist economy where money is no longer something that people even consider what sort of jobs would people have and what sort of job would you have? I want to know what people would do with their time and, if you want to tell, what do you think society would look like? I think that I would probably do the same thing that I do right now I would just be paid more and I wouldn't have to work as much – I'm imagining a society where I can pay for college with just a normal job and I own my own home in a place that isn't in the absolute armpit of the country. Medicine isn't expensive and there's the opportunity to eventually get a job that has…

In the very large Fortune 500 Company I work for, there are a number of bureaucratic safeguards against bad management and instant employment termination. 1) A manager can't just fire someone on a whim but instead needs to work with HR, Senior Management and go through a process of progressive discipline with an oral, written warning and performance improvement program. (Unless there is gross misconduct.) 2) There is a formal non union grievance system where the employee can submit a formal complaint against their manager. Which will be investigated and evaluated by a special committee. 3) There is an open door policy where an employee who feels they are mistreated can get an appointment to discuss their situation with their bosses manager and if that does not work, the harassed employee can move up the corporate latter all the way to the CEO. If you work for a similar organization…