Month: November 2023

I've been working at a small company for a while now in an office. I've been “on call” without additional pay since July, working almost 70 hours a week. I shared in early September that I was burning out and not able to continue working so much. We have put an after hours answering service in place finally but it took an additional 9 hours on top of my on call hours to get everything set up. I have bipolar disorder (something my employer does not know, he has under 15 employees and I would not have protection or the ability to have reasonable accomodations through the ADA). I do not do well under intense stress or overworking. I manage my symptoms with medication, a strict routine and appropriate time to recharge. Without the ability to decompress regularly I struggle. 2 weeks ago my operations manager mentioned I seemed frustrated.…

I ask genuinely. I started a new kitchen job, but I don't think I'm good fit for it. I'm so afraid of messing up the food, I haven't been trained properly. I'm scheduled to work tomorrow. This is my first proper kitchen experience, I was told it was just prep work with some cleaning and it turns out it's not. I may cook at home, but I don't have any line cook or restaurant cooking experience. I'm being expected to learn to make these soups, stews and meat dishes but I haven't been told how. I don't know what goes in to any of them. There's no recipes to reference, no cheat sheets. I'm not told temperatures, how long things need to cook, nothing. Unless it's something I put in the microwave, I just get told to try to not over cook it. I tried to reference the online menu,…

I've realized this pretty early on after I got out of school. I got a degree, I got a finished apprenticeship, I worked for a few years in a decent company. It wasn't the worst thing that it could be, but it also didn't bring me any joy. I only went because it was expected of me to work and because I didn't want to end up on the street due to a lack of money. But working didn't make me happy. When I lost my job and I regained my freedom, I realized just how much I despised work. How a lot of my depression, tiredness and general lack of drive went away almost instantly. I actually wanted to do things again. I had time to pursue my hobbies, to create things, to learn new stuff … to actually live. Now I'm horrified with the idea of working again.…

While watching the game, promo footage kept appearing to showcase the players. Out of boredom I decided to do a brief background info check on Wikipedia for each one of the players. Turns out only 5 out of 26 players are even from the United States. 21 out of the 26 players are Canadian, Russian and Swedish. To many this probably seems arbitrary but hearing the audience chant and scream at the top of their lungs as a community to root for nearly an entire team of players outsourced from other countries just seemed strange to me. None of the players are members of the community, the only American players seem to be from Minnesota which at least they are representing the National Hockey League as an American. At the very least. Does anyone else find this a bizarre phenomenon? The NY Islanders might as well be the Canadian/Russian Islanders.…

How many people actually understand what these corporations are doing when you walk up to the register and they ask if you’d like to donate to xyz? This practice infuriates me as a customer. It’s exploitative, it’s deceptive and it’s just absolutely deplorable disgusting behavior and I’ll explain why. If you work for someone who promotes donating through the company they are fucking you over. When you donate to a charity, you get to write that off. So the more you as an individual donate, the less you pay in taxes. That’s fair. You worked for that money. It’s you coming out of pocket and getting a benefit in return. What these companies are doing is deceiving people by asking for a donation on behalf of a charity which leads ppl to believe their money is going directly to that charity. They are not informing you accurately what’s really taking…

Looking for people to dm me about which jobs are red flags and i should never work at. Im sure the subreddit doesnt allow you to post company and business names but if people could share their knowledge of the workforce with me i can share which companies ive worked for that people should stay away from

I work at a fairly decently sized company. Been here for over a year and they raise time came around. After my review I was told the raise I would be getting is 2%. The max anyone could've gotten was 4%. That came to a $.42 an hour raise. This company produces 6 figure cnc machines. They make so much money and are super top heavy. Here in Canada, cost is living is insane. The minimum wage just went up $1.60 and inflation is through the fucking roof. I wanna go to my HR and demand they give a $2.60 raise on top of the $.42c. It's bullshit how after a year of working and everything getting more expensive, they can just say “fuck you” work more OT if you wanna make more.