Month: November 2023

2 weeks out of a year is not enough. Mentally I cannot handle working a 9-5 forever. Either I’ll make the switch to part time or find a job that allows for better work life balance. Any companies? Advice? I’m losing it.

I (26 M) work in the non profit sector (I am a music director at a church, I know this might not be popular on here…) and my boss has put me on probation for several reasons, but the main one is that I do not make friends with my coworkers, and use my headphones too much. in my own office. ​ I have a disability that makes it difficult to do make friends, and my employer is well aware, with diagnosis by a Doctor on file. ​ My coworkers are all 40+ years older than me, and have no experience in my field, we share no interests or political views. even without the disability I would not be friends with them. I am friendly towards them, but our relationship is purely professional, and my boss does not like that. ​ the other reasons are that I do my job…

Called out today for the first time at my new job because I didn’t wanna get other people and potentially even pets sick since I work at a pet shop, and I offered to come in on Tuesday since I wasn’t scheduled for that day, and he was like, “Today’s Thursday, Tuesday already passed.” And he tried to laugh a bit like he was laughing at me, I was like “??? I know, I mean next Tuesday.” I don’t know why you’d assume I’m asking to work on a day that already passed. It felt like he was trying to find a reason to be passive aggressive and make me sound stupid or something. I’ve noticed with all the jobs I worked, even with the pandemic, how managers’ tones would change when I couldn’t come in because I wasn’t feeling well and didn’t wanna get others sick, and how they’d…

Increasingly, recruiters are contacting me asking to talk about a position. Unless I see it in black and while, I REALLY have no basis to talk about it. Send it to me; I'll review it; THEN we can discuss it!

Ten dollars. Oh my god how generous. I can put a down payment on half a tank of gas. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone watching my manager talk about it to my coworkers and act like we're supposed to be really excited about it. Minimum wage in my state is $13 and you can bet your ass that's what they pay while corporate cuts out hours as much as they can, I was scheduled for three hours total one week. But sure, ten dollars, thanks. Maybe I'll buy most of a meal.

Own my home outright. No mortgage or bloodsucking landlord. This shouldn’t be miraculous it should just be the case that people have housing security, but 99.9% never do, and now I’m one of those lucky people. I inherited it. it is pure luck that I am safe and nothing more, nothing of my own effort or my studies or my labour. Anything played out differently and i’d be back to being in permanent unstable housing. Aka this is not a situation I could have ever got for myself. But now what do I do with myself when the main driver is gone. I realise that my anti work mindset as an abstract that I cheer on for other people is so much harder for me to apply to myself, and I don’t know what to do about it from here. How do you actually learn to let yourself breathe when…

Hello everyone, I was looking at a post about a Tik Tok by a young girl, who, struggling with her first job, rightly criticises the 9-17 “model” [ +commuting hours ]. I totally agree with the girl, what irritates me most are in fact the comments. Leaving aside the fake mature-wise people who call her spoiled and other crap, every time the subject regarding reducing working hours comes up, punctually there are the classic comments that can be summarised as: In country X they work Y hours, don't complain ! I work 25h/day, 8days/week, don't complain ! wElCoMe iN tHe AdUlThOoD, you'll get used to it This is life/This is the world ( and I might add, so what ? ) What do you think drives these people to think this way ? People, who almost always do not correspond to the wealthy-ruling class but to the working class, which…

From the job ad: “This position is 100% remote in the USA where you have the opportunity to travel throughout the continental USA on an average of 3 days / 2 nights a week” The actual job is a service engineer for wastewater treatment plants

This is just a bit of a vent. I had a cushy consulting job. Fully remote and a fairly generous salary. My manager had been talking all year about putting me up for an end of year promotion to senior consultant. On Tuesday he was talking about getting my metrics together for a submission deadline on Friday. Wednesday I was laid off. Second lay off this year. I dodged the first one and figured I was safe for a year or so at least. My manager loved me so I was good right? He didn't have a say nor a clue, it was all above his head probably based on bullshit metrics. But got to pay the investors somehow, amirite? The severance is decent and I have a support net if that doesn't last long enough but still sucks. In America, I'm lucky to even have the severance.