Month: November 2023

Isn’t it crazy how all of these companies keep laying people off like cattle being sent off to the butchers but the CEO of Accenture got over $30 million bucks in pay? It’s insane how companies can fuck over people who work so hard for many decades and then the CEOs have to make some sort of sob story as to why it’s good for the company but they still get paid a fuck ton of money even if the company’s performance isn’t “good”.

It’s been this way for me for years now. I used to be more open with my colleagues in previous jobs but got burned so many times. Now I’m reserved. Not unfriendly. I just don’t talk about really personal stuff and I stay out of office gossip, and political/religious conversations my colleagues have. I am polite, I love to help when needed, and I don’t mind the casual conversations. “What are you getting into this weekend” sort of stuff. I just don’t spill the sensitive topics. In my opinion, unless they are specifically work related, sensitive personal matters are not for the workplace. I also don’t join in the social lunches my coworkers have every day. I use my lunch to get some alone time, to decompress, read. It’s nothing personal, and I’ve explained this to them, I just need to be able to have quiet downtime to take on…

Before, we used to “meet”. That's what humans do. Now we “connect”. That's what you do with your bluetooth devices. Or “sync”, that's what you do with watches. Before we used to “employ”, now we “leverage”. There's a million other examples. Maybe I'm just too sensitive, but I can't help but feel like all of this is there to subtly take our humanity away and make us all subconsciously think of ourselves as machines. Machines that aren't supposed to get tired, burn out, never make mistakes, and will be replaced if they ever do.

Hello, I'm looking for people's perspective on this situation. I started a new job in July this year. I knew when taking on the job there would be a 4 month period of initial training where no PTO could be used. Taking me up until the end of November 2023. The training is taking place in a nearby city which is a 2 hour commute each way, 5 days per week. This has been a struggle but the job seemed worthwhile as when I'm done with this part of the training I will transition to 4 day weeks, working 9-10 hour shifts. The training academy is separate from the office back in my home city, where I will be working from come December. I emailed my to be manager from the main office looking to take 5 days PTO in April 2024. They took about a week to get back…

So we have an all-hands meeting. They serve dinner. It’s great. Got into the presentation, and it came to light that last week, they did a “spin the wheel” event with prizes in HR. Mind you, this is a massive company with hundreds of employees. Some don’t work near HR. (Like a mile walk on our campus). Come to find out, people were winning all-expenses paid trips across the USA to ski. Steak dinners in our fanciest restaurant, ski gear, and more. Thousands of dollars worth of prizes. Except no one knew about it unless you went into HR that day. Not many people do; why would they?! So it was almost a gift to themselves or the random one-off employee. Everyone was heated—especially the graveyard shift. TLDR: HR did a raffle and didn’t tell anyone about it. Won the prizes for themselves when it was “company-wide”

​ https://preview.redd.it/8oiowqe8drxb1.png?width=1068&format=png&auto=webp&s=0dfc822b4dc0df4d72828ffecbeb5862e1697c4e I'm applying for a remote job with an American company and this is the first thing in the T&Cs with the application form. Is this normal? It seems like a major red flag and isn't something I have had to deal with when applying for work in the UK.

I recently resigned from my job and my last day was today because management didn’t like my original two weeks date, which is on the official resignation letter, and was supposed to be next Monday. Am I able to collect unemployment insurance because they changed my leaving date — verbatim from email: “unfortunately, your last day will have to be Wednesday, November 1st since the annual retreat is on the Monday of your two weeks notice” Thank you for reading this! Any input is appreciated, I’ve never been in this situation before.