Month: June 2024

I work retail full time. Specifically at a book store. I can barely afford my $400/mo rent. I don’t have a consistent schedule, which means sometimes I work a 10 day week. The only consistent thing is that I never get Saturdays or Sundays off, even when I’ve asked for it. I get yelled at all day by customers. Sometimes it’s funny, like when someone asked for “The Scarlet Sweater by Nathaniel Hawthorne” and got upset when I asked if he was thinking of The Scarlet Letter. Sometimes it’s less funny, like when I got screamed at by an old man for following policy and checking that the dvds he was buying were in their cases and my manager saw what was happening and ignored my request for help. Aside from being emotionally draining, it’s physically draining work. I’m constantly shelving books, which is kind of like lifting 5lb weights…

Hey guys! So when I got offered the job I let them know about my soonest vacation which is July 3rd-7th but I’m only taking July 3rd off since the office is closed July 4th-5th. I also offered to work half day July 3rd and my manager didn’t have a problem and approved it. Now I’ve started it’s my last day of my first week and I remembered I should mention a vacation that was planned for December 16th-21st and I already booked flights before I started working. They didn’t ask for any future vacations and this is also 6 months from now and I won’t be leaving anymore than that. I brought it up to my manager and he got pissy right away and was saying you can’t without PTO and was patronizing me and saying didn’t they mention the interview all of the benefits of this job? And…

I’ll start by saying that I like my job. I like the location, the role, and I get on with my colleagues, with the exception of the manager. He is incredibly toxic and is the reason that 7 out of the 12 people in the team are actively seeking other employment. Here’s the issue: My contracted hours are Monday to Friday 8-4. Recently my boss has been granting leave to anyone who requests it without checking whether there’s cover. He’s given all the weekend staff the weekend off and he’s asked me to cover. I have plans (tickets for events, family commitments, etc.) every weekend in June and my boss is pissed that I said no to covering leave he has already approved. So now he’s told me that, from now on, I need to let him know any time I make plans (and what the plans are) on weekends.…

I’m wondering what you would do if you faced the following? My boss is an outright idiot. She can’t use her computer and it’s a 99% online role. She can’t use Word, Excel, Teams.. she fumbles her way through the basics but constantly asks me how to share her screen, undo a change, format wording… really really basic stuff. She has a bad memory problem and forgets things CONSTANTLY. I think it’s dementia. She replies all to emails where she means to email only me scolding me about something and then gets angry she looks stupid and blames it on me. She’s always banging on about her image and reputation and how I can’t make any mistakes because it will make her look bad. (lol you make yourself look incompetent lady, you don’t need any help with that). Typing an email is basically the only thing she can manage so…

Was talking about how fucking miserable life has become lately with inflation driven by corporate greed and how I don't know how much longer I can sustain being a slave to rent/a mortgage with little left over to live before I burn out, and how I hate that I've had to go from working 4 days a week to a full 5 because of corporate greed. Everyone in the comments carried on like I said Hitler had a point for daring to suggest we'd be better off working 32 hours a week for the same income because how DARE I want work life balance, that's so entitled millennial of me! People kept talking about how 40 hours is normal and fine and jfc, how are things going to change when so many people in my country are not only licking the boot, they're fucking eating it and then kissing the…