Month: November 2023

My supervisor is out on a leave, and the department has never been happier and more productive. He's a bossy micromanager with a short temper who's been with the company for years. He stirs up trouble over nothing, even though the job is easy, and the customers are satisfied, keep returning and keep leaving positive reviews. But there's always a problem with him. Almost all the people in the company openly dislike him for being a jerk, but since he's related to the owner, he's not going anywhere. During his leave, the work environment has changed dramatically. It feels like I have a completely new job. Suddenly, my coworkers are smiling and working together. There is no tention. The work days are flying by. Everything is getting done on time, people are giving each other compliments, and problems are being fixed without any yelling, guilt trips or threats. Noone is…

Hello everyone! Just had questions regarding injury if it isnt work related. Context: I work at a clothing warehouse and haul heavy carts with box’s of clothing everyday and they do weigh a lot, I’ll be a year in December and for the last few months my health has been in decline due to a injury I sustained years ago when I was younger. I’m 23. I’m suspecting it’s a spinal injury of some sort and it’s been hurting more than usual and has been making me quite slow so my job is in jeopardy at the moment as I’m not performing well like I used to. The weight of the box’s cause strain on my lower and mid section on my back. I’ve been wanting to change positions that doesn’t involve picking up heavy box’s but I enjoy my 6am shift and don’t want to change. Do you think…

My husband’s supervisor was let go because the new manager has a big ego and didn’t like being told to talk to them with respect. The new manager is close with the head of HR. That made my husband worry so he put on LinkedIn that he’s open to new opportunities. This resulted in a morning meeting the next day without notice. They offered him two choices, keep his job or take the severance package. They gave him 24 hours. He decided to keep his job while job searching. They said that’s not good enough and fired him without severance package. They told him they won’t fight him on unemployment.

I became and assistant manager at this fruit bowl place in August (not playa) It was a dump when I got there and I really did all I could to try and improve what I could. The manager had horrible communication with me, never replenished stock properly, never communicated about anything and oh! Checks were always bouncing. The owner never mentioned the possibility of closing down anytime soon. Although I had a feeling it would happen eventually, I didn’t think it was going to happen like this. I worked Monday, called out Tuesday and Tuesday night the owner finally answers me and tells me moving forward they have to close down the store for good. So now I’m jobless again I hate this cycle.

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I put in notice at my job and my boss isnt taking it well. There was recently a mass exodus from my job after a long string of management fuck ups and bad treatment of employees. It culmanated with a single mother being fired after she requested additional medical leave becuase of complications with an intensive surgical procedure, causing half the staff to walk out. This has left us very short staffed. I put in a 3 week notice to give them time to find a suitable replacement and give my coworkers support. My boss has always been a micromanager and has significant control issues, and since I've put my notice in these qualities have been showing up even more profoundly. I called in one day this week since my kid was sick and I had no one to watch them. The next day I clocked in 4 minutes late.…

My job went from actually pretty good to terrible to downright I want to stab people. Apparently since I was gone for about 3 weeks due to life events and surgery I've learned a few things that have gone on . We are not allowed to do anything on our shift anymore, that includes reading, writing and talking with our coworkers for more than one minute. (No electronics either) So I guess I get to stare at a wall for 90% of my shift as it's easy to finish within 1 to 2 hours. ( we are basically there at night to make sure that the kids do not try to hurt themselves or others. We do a lot of other things but that is the main thing, it is the saftey of the kids and our top priority, which is kind of hard to do when you're trying not…

I applied for two jobs at this state agency, the junior manager and the senior manager. Both jobs were things I would enjoy doing, only difference was the Senior manager role paid about $7k more and had a couple more management responsibilities. I honestly preferred the junior role because it was less work. Did two interviews for the junior role. They gently told me I was a little overqualified for the junior role (it calls for bachelor's, I have a masters etc.). So then I did an interview for the senior role. I get an email from HR to fill out the info for a background check. Couple weeks later they come back and verbal offer me the Junior Manager job because they had ended up offering the Senior Manager to an internal candidate. I said that offer sounds good but asked if they could increase the salary to match…

So my spouse was told that they need to cut hours at his job last week and this week and that he could take it as vacation time. (He has plenty of accrued PTO that they said he can use). I wasn't understanding how that can help them save money, but he said it comes out of their vacation hours, not their payroll hours for budgeting purposes. One, does that sound legit and two, can they MAKE him take time off?