Month: May 2024

So earlier last month i was in a car accident. as a result i have some bad spine/back/neck/arm injuries. i had to get a mri and they found several herniated and budged discs and fractures. they told me that two of my bulged discs are in a “critical state” and tell me to expressly not to do any lifting, bending or twisting at work and gave me a doctors note stating that and gave them a date/duration for its effectiveness. ​ fast forward to work I scanned and emailed it to HR and they simply told me that it is just a recommendation and that if i cannot complete my job functions that i would be facing disciplinary actions and or termination. ​ fuck this place.

So I work a data entry job and the workload is brutal.We are severely understaffed and they offer a lot of overtime to try and make up for it. The worst part is they mandate a lot of overtime, they usually tell us the morning of and sometimes the OT is upwards of 3 hours a night. Like, sorry but I'd like to eat dinner and take a fucking shit! I can't because they're breathing down our necks and monitor every single click that happens on our PC's. I have many clients that I contact daily and I am the sole person who enters data for their accounts. It's a lot of fucking work but I have a nice rapport with them and it makes things a little easier. They've started commenting on how I'm replying to their emails far later than expected, and I would sometimes reply back that…

So, to start my friend/boss brought me into a high paying job knowing I was stuck at McDonald's. I appreciated this massively…well turns our the guy is a complete sociopath. It was apparent to my other coworker he brought me there purely for sexual desires. How did this come up you ask? I mentioned how he kept insisting I do MDMA/Molly with him. God bless my coworkers, he quickly told me “X do NOT do that, he's clearly trying to incapacite you and get you horny for sex.” I found this girl he knew before me and her statement “oh yeah he does that, I'd just take his Molly and fuck my husband. He constantly had fits bc I didn't get horny and fuck him instead” so great he's basically a sexual predator. I didn't know Molly made you want sex, I've never had an interest in drugs like that.…

Human progress and technology has advanced so far that we can have jobs of leisure; I feel as though this is a good sign for humanity and a signal to the end of work as we have come to accept it. With many people being paid a living to do 'work' that does not revolve around tangible productivity and more of these 'jobs' emerging all the time what does the future look like to you? ​

Been job searching since December 2023. Applied for two jobs yesterday at the same company. They have a lovely nugget on their career website that it can take from 1 – 3 months from interview to an offer. Do employers / corporations thinks we all live on trust funds? What is happening?

How are any of you conjuring up a time for work/life balance to having your own business? I know job markets are not paying the wages that we are looking for. But is there anybody sustaining themselves with their own business plan for extra money?

Started a new job in the beginning on april. For context this is a server position. In the interview I let them know I will be out of town the following week for three days. So I started training immediately for two days(April 5-6) and then i’m out of town starting the seventh. The owner tried to schedule me on the days I was out of town and completely ignored my availability scheduling me for full time and days I have class. When i mentioned it he made a snide comment about how “I’m so busy” and decided not to schedule me at all that weekend (8-14). I sent him my availability multiple times, wrote it down on a notes app and screenshoted it to him. Yet despite that he needed “more clarity” and told me to pick the days I want to work. Basically make my own schedule. Hence…

So a few weeks ago the company I work for notified all 30 of our team that we are all being laid off. About 2.5 weeks later I am told by HR that they have changed their mind and that they want to keep me on and that I will be the only one in my team being kept on. I don’t know how to feel about this, i’m devastated for the rest of the team and pissed off at the company messing me around as I’ve already wasted time and had interviews for other companies now. At the same time it’s obviously a massive weight off my shoulders too so I consider myself very lucky as well. If this was you what would you do? It’s hard to feel motivated to work for this company at the click of their fingers I could be gone. Am I right to…