Month: November 2023

So I have taken a one year long Trade School Welding Technical Diploma, and now 3 months later I still can't land a Welding job. I have even been trying to find places (like O'Reilly Auto Parts) that pays at my current rate – $10 an hour – or more (even $1 more). No success on that front, STILL working at Taco Bell. I am really tired of trying to find a better job – and I can't quit either (due to a “financial shake up”). Like, what was even the purpose of going to Trade School like I have (and I'm going back again for Drafting) only to just get either no responses or some real “top notch” statements like “we only hire people with 2 – 8 years of experience”. I guess the recent jobs report on MSNBC is right – this is a “good economy” we're in.

Reading the conversation on this subReddits, a lot of it revolves around “just do the bare minimum”, and that the only way to get real pay/perk increases is to switch jobs. Is this really true? Is there nothing I can do at my current workplace to get ahead and be highly valued? I have a huge spectrum of options at my work place in terms of the effort I can make. I currently put in a 5/10 in terms of effort and my boss is delighted with the output. I would really like some answers from the perspective of management, since after all they are the decision makers!

My boss is name calling and harassing me for no reason. I just started this job and my supervisor started in on me for no reason. I'm quiet, polite and try to help people. It makes no sense to me. What can I do with this situation?

I just don't understand how corporations can just shoot themselves in the foot like this, it honestly boggles the mind. The corporation that signs my paycheck is technically a hospital. Said hospital (to absolutely NO ONE'S surprise) developed a bad case of medical staff strategically misplacing certain medications. Some genius decides the heads up play here is going to be a universal drug testing policy. I am not medical staff. I don't even work in the hospital. My position is remote. Things need to have gone catastrophically sideways before I'm assisting at the hospital. That's happened precisely once, and even then I was just carrying stretchers in an emergency situation. I got an email from HR, “You've been randomly selected for a drug screening! Please arrive at this time at this place so someone can watch you piss in a cup. Thanks so much for your understanding! Please note: There…

I took a job at a minimum security prison, at first I thought it was some kind of early release program, honestly I”m still unsure what it was. But basically, from what I can tell in the hiring process they discovered my social media. Realized I'm fairly progressive and didn't exactly like me. As a result I got terrible, extremely insufficient training. I was given a massive binder of every single policy and procedure and millions of sheets of paper that were out of order and often irrelevant, I was given the resident handguide like 4 times. If I ever asked questions to supplement my attempts at learning the job I was given deliberately wrong answers by superiors and after a while it reached a point where I was being told to directly violate what I believe are laws in regard to prisons. They told me to sign off on…

TLDR: multiple employees with tardy issues, mgmt starting new point system, I am only employee not starting with a clean slate on point system. Do I have a leg to stand on with disputing? For context: I have been at my current veterinary clinic since May. I was hired on as hybrid receptionist/vet assistant. I came on with only veterinary reception experience and received OTJT for assistant. My first day, another full time assistant put in her two weeks. So basically I am a full time assistant and I have a reception shift maybe once a week. Our clinic (myself included) has an issue with employees being late in the morning. To be honest, I am consistently 5-10 minutes late. However, we have a few employees in particular that call out very frequently. When they show up, they’re on time. But they call out from shifts the night before/morning of…

Why do companies let shitty supervisors drive off their workers? My sister is an RN who recently left travel nursing for a more predictable routine and less time away from home. She went to work for a local hospice. The job was fine, but her boss was shit. He was always lying to the nurses, screwing up the schedule, and other forms of incompetence. When my sister put her two weeks in, he tried to lie and tell her it was “company policy” to put in a one-month notice. She called HR, and they told her that was bullshit. When my sister called him out on his bullshit, he got verbally aggressive and wanted to know who she talked to at HR. She just told him, “Oh, you know. That lady at HR”. Then, the next level boss calls and begs my sister to stay. She offers my sister better…