Month: November 2023

My current workplace at the airport is going through a break room revamp (management coming down) and they're trying to make the staff room look more appealing and take away belongings and other items we use or they will be disposed of. I want to get a gauge on where our rights stand for things we have paid for and actively use like toaster ovens, microwaves and things if that sort. Can they say we have to get rid of them or they will be binned or do we have a leg to stand on as we use them? TIA

This happened on Oct. 20th. Also first time posting. I've been with the company since it started 10 years ago. There has always been only 2 full time office workers, and 2 to 4 part time office workers. Anywhere from 5 to 12 men working in the plant. I have always been the only full time woman and the oldest person there. The other office person and I do interchangeable work. While I have been there since the start there has been 6 people in the other position, all men. There is another office/plant in another state where there are women working, but they were there when the company acquired that site. Many time through the years I've been told I was too old to understand something. I have over 30 years experience in my field. Many times I would sit there and watch the General Manager, production manager, or…

His son worked for the air-force in the intrusion into the Middle East, and the force put them onto a course to learn Farsi, the Iranian Persian language which normally takes people 4 years to learn proficiently. But because of the focus of the soldiers, everyone in the class condensed their learning into 2 years and the tutor was amazed and predicted everyone to pass with flying colours. (They were more fluent than some college students.) If they passed, the force would have to pay them £20 more per day, so they raised the pass mark to 95% and everyone failed, despite everyone getting very close to that mark, and being fluent by this point. Most or all of the students left as a result.

The one flaw about me is that it's easy for me to feel guilty when I should not be. I admit my mistakes although I'm struggling a lot right now. Im a sales coordinator at a hotel that is crazy frugal about their money. 300 rooms, with only 4 maintenance engineers, 1 banquet server and low kitchen staff. TV, and other technology are cheap quality theat breaks down. There have been several times where I have event sheets posted in the kitchen and my sheets end up getting taken down meaning they forget to setup the event or don't do it. I started to over communicate more and STILL so many mistakes like forgetting to serve food on time, not putting up signage and complaining when they have to clean up when it's part of their job. Ended up selling food to my client, in which we do not have…

I haven’t worked a full time job in over a year. I worked two part time jobs (three at one point), took some time off and now I need to work again. I have one part time job at the moment but have no interest in working it full time. I’m the past when I worked full time at any job it was just awful. 40+ hours a week miserable, hating my job. Never staying.

The predominant business messaging has gone from “Nobody wants to work anymore” to “We're announcing massive layoffs!” I'm tired of the games. It seems like there are strategies being used to break the spirits of workers and create desperation so that they can get asses back in the office chairs and keep wages low. I'm no conspiracy theorist and I don't believe that this big of a concerted effort would persist without a whistleblower coming forward or someone leaking info about it. So that leaves economic or market factors. Am I missing something? Are there some forces driving the reduction of workforce? The tech sector has lost nearly half a million jobs in the past two years. Why? Have we run out of tech work that needs to be done? /s I've got decades of experience and great feedback about my skills and expertise that positively differentiates me from the…

In June of this year I left a long term job as a manager of a coffee shop. I did this in support of my employees and myself as I had been working 60 hour weeks on salary as a 20 year old and needed a job that supported my mental health and rent payments. I thought with my experience as a manager I would have no problem finding another job. It has now been 5 months with no consistent check as well as 5 jobs that were asking me to repeat the patterns of my old job. I have applied to thousands of jobs by now and without a college degree as a 20 year old I feel hopeless. I’m looking for advice as well as hoping someone can relate. I need a job that can support me and my cat without needing 6 months at least of schooling…

Location: CA My company is having a layoff at the end of this year. They made an announcement, gave us letters in person, and sent a certified copy to my house. Since the announcement, more people have left than management anticipated, and now they’re extremely worried about meeting a huge project deadline without the trained staff. I was looking forward to the severance and an opportunity to find something else for multiple reasons I won’t go into. However, I’m one of the few people who is trained on a very specific process, and without admitting they made a huge mistake, they’ve approached me about doing an interview for an elusive new job at the company, but surprise, no one can tell me any concrete details about it. My question is: can I say no, it’s not my problem you miscalculated your business needs and let valuable people go prematurely, according…

Had to make a new account because I couldn’t remember my old password lol. I’m honestly shaking but it feels so fucking good. I’ve been working at this Walmart for 4 years now, still making absolutely jack shit with a measly 2% wage increase each year and being treated like a dog by the store manager Kathy who is quite literally a demon. Literally everybody in the store hates her. I work in electronics and most days have to stock and deal to customers with little to no help in my department. I’ve been the only employee for nearly a full year now. Sometimes if it’s crazy we’ll get someone from up front to help out but most of the time it’s been just me for the past year. Kathy refuses to hire anyone else because she’s fucking stupid. Today she tells me she needs to have me start working…

I work at a non-profit in animal welfare at a large metro area animal shelter. This particular shelter has contracts with the local city, surrounding municipalities, and the county. This means if a stray, confiscate, or animal involved in a court case goes somewhere, it goes to us. We're also “open-intake” and this means we take in all owner surrenders. To say we're busy is an understatement. On an average day, we'll adopt out anywhere between 15-30 animals. On an average day, that many animals or more comes in through the doors. Since covid has “ended” and everyone is being forced back into the office, we've been inundated with animals. The downstairs of the building is dog kennels, the cattery, receiving and intake, adoptions, the laundry, the vet clinic, and surgery. The upstairs is all offices and boardrooms. In this shelter, the people who work “downstairs” are all union. That's…