Month: December 2023

The contradiction often spoken by country yacht club executives is that of equal opportunity. If that is truly the argument then why are they spending over a million dollars for a privileged education? Seems like just a handshake agreement to make sure their son or daughter gets to skip the line when applying for some bullshit upper management or executive position when it's time to enter the work force. This is in no way a sign that they are receiving a “better” education but likely a reservation for a seat at the table. Why are we kidding ourselves that higher education has become nothing more than an elaborate pay to play scheme? Seems like a shit sandwich.

I work for a nonprofit shelter at Petsmart, taking care of the cats and processing Adoptions. Can someone tell me why management always talks to us like this? (Hint: none of them have managerial experience and this is a 10 person total company). If I quit right now, their whole operation would fall apart. I work all the shifts that no one else can work. I'm the only one that does several vital tasks. They would struggle and flounder and “ruin their relationship with Petsmart” if I quit. They talk like this for everything that goes wrong like we aren't all making 1.80 under minimum wage here. Like calling out 3 hours early isn't insane when the morning shift starts at 9am. Like it isn't insane to have as the expectation and sent as the reminder when we're all new hires and have never been told this. I'm sick of…

Lately my bosses are having strange attitudes, they are making me go from one place to another to different addresses to work and far away from my home, they are changing my timetable and finally they are not giving me tasks to do as they used to do before, I have to ask for them constantly, is something here illegal?

Sorry to Rant. Today was awful. In fact, this week has been awful. Yesterday we got a series of emails from our manager, saying how we are doing everything wrong in our department. First the entire department is going to get write ups if logs keep getting missed. I do all of my logs, all shift. But I'm at risk for a write up because they dont do the logs on my days off. Got told that my coming in early and staying late to help get production work done in the weeks before our biggest event of the year, was “not in accordance with Company X's attendance policy.” My manager said we had unlimited overtime available and said they appreciated my work, now it's suddenly against the company policy and I will get written up if I stay late, like I have to do constantly because half the staff…

This originally was going to be a very long post, but I simplified it instead, if anything need to be clarified I can do that. Was told I'd be working in my hometown, got assigned to a different state, had to drive 90 minutes a day instead of 12. Was told there was a $200 rebate a month for gas, I never received any of this and had to pay about $671 worth of gas out of my own pocket. When I started, they sent me an email saying I had to go to training for 1 week, which was a location that was 1hr and 30m away, I had to drive for 3 hours a day while doing training for 8 hours. During my last assignment, I was put in a situation where I'd have to swim, in the job description (that I signed) there was no point saying…

If you've ever thought about it but really don't know what the first steps are, how to even go about starting the process I can be your friendly neighborhood actual human being to talk to. I don't want to ramble on just to find out nobody else on here in from AB but if you are then comment and talk to me! Basically registering as an apprentice was the best decision I've made in a long time. It took me a while to figure out how to make it happen though. Between having all the other crap in my life to deal with it was hard to figure this out. So anyone else who thinks a career in the trades might be more beneficial than their current employment situation, but has too much crap going on in their lives to figure it out by themselves I can help you figure…

Background: I work in specialty healthcare at a company where we work in rotating on-site teams per week. Every single workday requires a minimum number of healthcare professionals to be on-site, while the rest can be WFH remotely counseling patients, handling requests, and other aspects of workflow. The official policy is that holiday time (all of December + first week of January) is supposed to be a vacation blackout period, meaning restricted numbers of approved vacations (maximum 3 professionals approved off at a time). It is simply the nature of the job–you wouldn't want 0 doctors or nurses being available at a hospital because they ALL booked time off at a hospital for the same week, right? Or we cannot just have e.g. 1 person working because that person will be dying under the workload by themselves. While Christmas week will be more manageable by sticking to the limit, it…

Don't answer text messages. If it's important enough, they'll call. Don't answer calls, it's your free time and the only thing they could possibly have to say would detract from that free time. An employer is buying the finite hours of your mortal life. Time they don't pay for isn't theirs to dictate. Work to live. Don't live to work.