Company was at full office operations pre-Covid pandemic. Come Covid, company went to full wfh setup. Continued hiring despite pandemic 'til number of employees won't all fit at once at current office space. When Covid situation got better, switched to hybrid setup. Among the teams, our team was given the privilege to continue wfh setup while other teams were mandated early this year to have 7 days in office, 8 days at home on a 3-week (Mon-Fri) rotation amongst teams. Company will be moving to a bigger office space and it seems full rto may be implemented or at least hybrid for all (including our team). Team will have a meeting with HR soon and would want to be prepared (and hoping to have the best possible agreement) in case rto would be mentioned. Would prefer to keep current wfh setup and if couldn't, try to keep office days at…
Month: November 2023
I want to start off by saying I don’t hate my job or what I do. What I don’t enjoy is the rigidity of working for a company/someone else. This became much more significant once my place of employment decided that we were no longer allowed to work from home (this change happened in January 2023) despite the fact that my job and the jobs of everyone in my department can be done from home. If I didn’t need health insurance and if I didn’t live in the US where you have to rely on your employer for health insurance, I would start a private practice (I’m a Mental Health Therapist). I did the math and my salary is cut in HALF after taxes and health insurance costs. Then on top of that the pause on student loan repayment has ended and my payments have doubled because the interest rates…
For context. My entire team was told that we would have a 4-day work week where we would work 4 10 hour shifts. They cut or days down to 8 hour shifts where I'm losing 16 hours of pay every check and are now putting us back onto a 5 day work week. I mean I like having my hours back but I don't like the extra day. To top it off I used to come in at 5AM every shift and now they have me staggering between 5AM and 7:30AM start times due to “business needs”.
I am a music teacher. I do drums, guitar, piano, ukulele, bass guitar, and classical percussion, along with partwriting, music theory, and solfege training. As such, I have a LOT of students. The store I was formerly working for had recently changed ownership, and the new owners had taken it upon themselves to dodge paying the teachers as much as possible. After the amount owed ran over $3000, I started making noise, which was met with a letter from the owner that my actions could be construed as harassment and threatened me with legal action if they didnt stop. Oh my…fuck you with a cactus. That momebt, I group-messaged every single one of my 42 students and alerted them that I would not be returning to the store or continuing lessons with them through the store because they werent paying their teachers. I encouraged them all to book me privately,…
I don't know if its just us women, but I've been thru 3 job interviews lately and all of them ask about if I have kids and each time I answer “no”, their immediate response would be “great”. Isn't this some sort of discrimination on women? I'm not planning to have kids anytime soon but why is it any of their business?? Just because someone has a kid then I'm guessing they wouldn't proceed with the application.