Month: June 2024

I recently got fired from my job of 4 years with no reason provided, just a lie of “we're fully staffed.” I worked for a local business basically running the entire place for $15/hr. I mean I did everything: got them into of tax trouble, managed the front and back ends, did inventory, cleaning, business development, contracted partnerships, sales, customer service, and HR kind of everything. I had raised their margins by over 200% and was basically the saving grace for the business after covid hit it hard. Important context: Recently my husband left his position there (the owner knew and was okay with our relationship) for a better opportunity which the bossman encouraged him to take. My direct boss is the owner though he was transitioning ownership to his son in a position above mine (his son who I put money and effort into bailing him out of jail…

This is my second “real” professional job after graduating. I actually enjoy my job (engaging work, autonomy, flexible, payment aligns with market), but my boss is very manipulative to me despite me being the most senior/highest ranked person in my small department (4 years at the company). She isn't the same person who hired me too, so I think that might play a role (pride for the people she did hire) into this. Although, she became my boss a year after I stated anyway. Here are some recent things that have rubbed me the wrong way (feel free to call me out if I am being too sensitive). Praises my male coworkers who she hired directly for completing basic tasks, but reprimands me in front of them for any minor mistake. Will excuse my male coworkers when they make mistakes or exhibit bad habits, but will drill into me if…

Ok so first off I'll just say I lift a lot of heavy shit, I can't lift a lot of this stuff fully because I'm on Estrogen (I'm transgender) Also I'm just kinda tired mentally and emotionally, I have good days but I also have bad days. This job is literally soul sucking. Why did I sign up for this? I'm trying to cope I really am but it's all going to come down on me soon. It's not like I can find a different job either because that'll take ages and the job market here is shitty anyways. I just feel I'm wrong and feel like shit that this is what I do.

2 years on the job, the only employee at the site and I’m responsible for everything. Doing 4-5 people’s jobs. So I asked for a raise and a better position in the company. He said okay, give me a couple weeks and we’ll increase your salary. Couple weeks have passed now. He’s now on a 2 week trip to Puerto Rico. Now I understand that this trip was already planned out but man what horrible timing. I don’t want to be angry but I can’t help but be resentful. Like I can barely buy food to eat and my boss is taking a nice 2 week vacation. It’s like a big fuck you. It took a lot for me to sit down and say this is what I want and need and I wasn’t heard. Maybe it’s an overreaction but man, I am pissed. update: so I did get a…

Hello, i have an autoimmune disorder that has been much more difficult to manage since transitioning from 1st shift (6a-3p) to 2nd shift (3p-12a) 4 months ago. I went through the reasonable accommodation process and provided all applicable medical documents and a letter from my doctor supporting this. I was informed today that my request was denied by HR. I have not received a formal letter stating the denial and reasoning but am wondering if anyone has gone through something similar and/or has any insight on this. I believe there reasoning for denial will be that i knew the position was for 2nd shift when i interviewed. Sadly i did not anticipate the disruption to my condition that this shift would have on me. Thank you edit: i also want to add that i am apart of a union so seniority is what determines shifts

Edit: Got Fired today. Fuking manager snatched away my quitting moment 🥲 but I appreciate all my colleagues reaching out after hearing the news. Felt good my colleagues valued my work. Felt good Hey community, I'm reaching out for some perspective because I'm too close to the situation to make an objective decision. About eight months ago, I transitioned from a retail job to a corporate role at the same company. Since then, the company has undergone significant changes, and our team is entirely new. Initially, I was overloaded with tasks, including: Learning two new HR systems. Creating scripts to print letters depending on type of employee movement for 20,000 employees. Developing payroll reports from scratch with no training. Creating guides for various processes. Handling 20 cases per day. Answering phone queries. Despite receiving no training, I managed to tackle all these tasks. I consistently volunteered for extra tasks and…

So I work at a aerospace shop in Cleveland, Ohio, and it's being run by literal morons. They recently started up a trial run of a four-10 hour work week with Fridays being overtime. Sounds good, I volunteered for it, a lot us did. Problem is, they've made three of the four Fridays mandatory overtime every month since they started. Management also treats that one friday we get no mandatory OT as a “free day” as if we didn't already get 40 hours that week. Now we have literally no to very little work in my department and in others, but still since last Friday was the “free day” we have to come in tomorrow. Sure they might send us home early, after like four hours of standing around doing nothing, but more often than not they “find us work” and send us to other departments, do all their work,…

Placing undue stress on something insignificant in a workplace but not letting on to the people you have authority over that the thing in question no actually has bearing on their employment status in terms of promotions or termination, that’s some kind of accepted cruelty right? People die from stress related illnesses over nothing because of this. Let’s use my job for example, I’m a compliance manager. I’m in charge of the pieces of decorative cardboard in our store, renamed “POS” to sound more important for the sake of keeping ourselves grounded let’s keep calling it cardboard. Customers obviously don’t base their sales on this cardboard and it’s not built with care as it often falls apart. But head office marks us down on store inspections if this cardboard is missing, they’ll personally insult you for it. Buuuut… Store inspections don’t actually have any bearing on the stores ability to…

I know a lot of people were verbally told, incase someone did not get the message, work tomorrow, normal start time.