Month: November 2023

Hi, this is more of a worker's rights question than anything and I'm not sure if I'll get the relevant answers here but I wanted to try and get some perspective. My company sent out an e-mail today saying that salaried employees are eligible to switch to FTO (free time-off) vs the original PTO. FTO is, essentially, unlimited time off, but I wonder if this form of time-off compensation takes anything away from employees that the structure of PTO provides. The e-mail says FTO employees will stop accruing PTO time and FTO employees no longer have to worry about the amount of hours they are taking off (as it is unlimited). I imagine this would obviously be within reason at the discretion of your manager. They are saying they are moving to this because they trust salaried employees to get their work done (most salaried employees work from home and…

I am 24(M) who has been in full time work since I was 18. I have worked as a retail worker, electricians mate, assembly operative and labourer, I am now currently a maintenance technician. Despite me learning a lot from each job and gaining numerous amount of skills, none of them ever gave me passion to really want to do it. The money that I got from all these jobs were decent but I have never believed in working just because a job pays well. I have believed do something that you enjoy doing to the point that you are not thinking about the money. I have a passion for music, entertainment, movies and sports. To anyone who has escaped the 9-5 rat race can you please tell me how you managed to do it also what you are currently doing now. Also what do you suggest I do to…

I work for a company that has a contract with a social media company for moderation. I’ve been doing it for 3yrs, it was mainly WFH and they made us go onsite. The job itself is easy but man the mental exhaustion is too much. The company let go of a lot of people and because of that we are always “all hands on deck”. They removed our Spanish language incentive and switched me to just English moderation. The job itself is easy, we just check for any violations in the content. However the high school drama in this call center setting is just too much. The support is bad. They just hit you with “do your best”. On top of that they removed our Spanish pay which sucks. I know I shouldn’t quit without another job lined up but I’ve just had it with this place. Every morning I…

I am quitting my job soon. The manager is in his own bubble. He is very ignorant of staff. He is in his own happy bubble. He ignores all my requests. I will be gone soon.

It was supposed to be a regional role. I was honest about my coverage during the interview (I basically have near 0 coverage regionally but I did have exposure and very minute contacts in how things should be run) Since the 2nd week of my job, there has been signs that my boss wants to retain certain parts of the portfolio. Remarks of trust etc came out. Always very vague reasoning behind it. I know higher up doesn't agree but the “newbie” card was played so nothing changed. Today after my local contact produced a regional contact, I casually tested that theory of “when I finally move on to cover that country”. Smile disappeared instantly. How do I get it across I don't want to be a leader and I just need to know if my JD has changed so I can focus on what my responsibilities are?

My gm recently (beginning of October) changed the call off policy to now require us to have a medical excuse/doctor’s note for EVERY SINGLE call off. I’m just wondering if i should bother reporting this or if it’s against some sort of law or if something in general should be done about it, as I feel it’s extremely unfair and not right? The policy used to be a doctor’s note after 3 days in a row. Just wondering everyone’s thoughts.

i brought this up in the comments of a random post recently and a few people seemed to be mindblown by it so i thought I'd bring it up here. as the title says, my company allows us to purchase pto. it's expensive as hell, basically an hour for however much you make an hour. 40 hours total purchasable so in the end, you're paying out your own pto for that week you take off. i haven't seen it often in my 10+ years of working so i thought I'd see how yall feel about it. imo it seems cool at first but the more you think about it, the more predatory it feels. even so, i sure did buy 40 hours this year because time away from work is worth it.

Our company was bought out by a competitor. Some people were let go and others were made offers. Everyone who came over immediately saw how shitty it was going to be. There was a culture of arrogance there from day 1. People who were managers with supervisory authority lost all their direct reports and were made understudies to the new company's existing staff. There were not given official job titles or descriptions. Projects were put on hold. Policies that have been in place for years were being audited by people who knew nothing about our software. They were kept out of important meetings. The meetings they were invited to seemed to serve no purpose and mostly consisted of the new company's staff bragging about what a great play it was to buy us out. It was obvious that they were only keeping us on to train their employees how to…