Month: November 2023

It's the movie we need right now. Right up there with Killing Them Softly, for “hitman-as-stand-in-for-Labor” films.

Get home from work around 6-7 pm . Next thing you know. You look at the clock and it's already like 11 pm and time to get to bed. It feels like you just got home and time flew by? It's like some twilight zone stuff. Time is so slow at work but speeds by after work lol. Anyone else experience this too?

Remember in 2020 when everyone was terrified of covid and people were going on cable news to talk about how essential people working in customer facing jobs were heroes risking their lives to keep society working but now that everyone feels safe again they've gone right back to calling people like us “unskilled workers” even though covid is still a thing? When are they going to learn that absolutely nothing has changed?

Company has offices in every region of the world…company stands up new division in Colombia…company sends half our workload to that new team…company lays off American Employees…Before the holidays…

Started a new job with a 6.5k lump sum bonus. However in the offer letter it requires me to pay it back if I leave within 12 months. Three months in my older brother dies at the age of 33. I just got back to work and I'm making mistakes left and right and I can't concentrate very well. I have to stay up late and force myself to do an okay job. I also can't take an unpaid absence until I have been with the company for 12 months. I honestly need more time off. I've already lost my mom, and I thoroughly regret not taking the time off back then. I can probably pay the lump sum back off, but I'd probably have to work for another month and budget accordingly to make sure I've got a solid savings to rely on while I grieve. Idk if there's…

So tired of this timeline.

I've been working in this warehouse for nearly 1.5 years now, which is a personal record for me by a wide margin. But every single day, I feel the discomfort creeping up on me. I have this with every single job after a while, but it usually comes a lot sooner, so I really thought I found “the” job this time. Guess I'm wrong. I currently don't even have the energy to quit. I'm still an interim/temporary worker (or whatever the name is in English), so it could be done in a heartbeat without filling in any paperwork. I guess I'm just “testing the waters”, but for what, I don't know. It's a low-entry shit job, and I'm still doing the exact same kind of work today, compared to 500 days ago when I first started. I have no idea for what I'm waiting because this is literally 'it'. There's…

I have been working at a retail job for 2 years since I was 14. I have loved my job so far and I have made great friends, but several times I have experienced low motivation for one recurring reason, and I think I may quit. I work on cash registers, and we have many normal registers, with express checkouts where supervisors work. Around one year into working, my supervisors invited me to do some work on supervisor tills. Later on, my manager started rostering me on supervisor tills. However, this only lasted for a short time, and I kept finding myself just working back in normal registers. This has happened a lot in the past, where I got to do more supervisor training in irregular waves. I thought this was normal, until I started seeing some people who started around 6 months after I did getting promoted to supervisor.…

I have a full time job, Monday to Friday 9 to 5 and a second job where I work Friday and Saturday night at a restaurant. In the past this position has always been very flexible if I have weekend plans and I have always been permitted to take a Friday or Saturday off as long as no one else has it booked. My boss is a friend so I usually just send a text with the days I cant work and thats that. So I'll work there anywhere from 3 to 8 times a month. I'm always there when I say I'm going to be there and always on time. Near the end of November I sent the days I can not work this Decemeber. The days are at the beginning of Decemeber and I was told at my most recent shift that I might not be able to…