Month: July 2024

How common is this? We're entitled to 4 weeks of annual leave. I requested leave for 3 weeks with 5 months notice to see my family abroad and they denied it and said they can only approve a week of leave at a time “due to all the changes within the company” but two of our managers are going away for a full 4 weeks this month. I'm really upset because I haven't seen my overseas family for 16 years. 1 week is not enough time my family lives in the other side of the world

Granted, I have not been the best employee. I've got surgical damage in my pelvis (very rare complication that almost killed me) and I prewarned them 4 months prior to starting and even signing contracts that I was very unwell, so there was an opportunity to pull out or deem me as unfit for post. Instead, they ignored every single communication that didn't involve me making them money. When I postponed their contractual training programme due to pain for a few months, they said nothing. And waited until im near the end of my contract/probation period to inform me that it's impacted my contractual agreement for employment, months later. It's being used as a reason to not offer me any work (yey for zero hour contracts) for the next 10 months and instead send me on unpaid training for 3 months, and then bring me back in next year when…

So im in a project i created on my own in september. did this until January alone And then two others members joined. Let’s call them Susie and Kate. (Fake names). At the beginning whenever there were meetings with senior people, we were all invited to get the full feedback. My job is to analyse all data and create all graphs on BI tools. Susie is to find the reauirements for us before we make these graphs or code any data tables. Recently in the office, I heard Susie in 4 / 5 meetings presenting our project, with my boss and without me and Kate. Susie is not our boss. My boss never asked us if this is ok and he knows that we know the exclusion. I asked Susie twice if there was going to be a meeting about the graph tool and she said no. I saw her…

Hi everyone, First of all, I hated my job. I was always treated unfairly and said yes to everything. I actually disliked people more than my job itself and felt constantly unhappy. However, I was good at freelancing and blogging because there were no offices or startup environments to deal with. I have about 2 months ahead of me. Currently, I am unemployed (2-3 months). Therefore, I want to start a business. However, I face some challenges due to focus problems, and I am on medication for that. I also have to deal with anxiety and depression. Please consider my situation before making any harsh comments. Here’s a bit of my background as a Software Developer and what I’m considering: • Upwork: • Since May, I have earned $850. • Completed 2 jobs with good reviews. • primarily a frontend developer. • Rising Talent. • On the verge of getting…

We've lost 2 workers from my department in the past 3 months for this exact reason. First one was the manager. He brought an AK in, started mumbling paranoid stuff about the homeless people sleeping outside overnight, then mostly unprovoked threatened to bash the assistants head in. In all fairness the assistant isn't too good in social situations and didn't realize repeating “Calm down man, just calm down” often has the opposite effect haha. Then management tried sweeping it under the rug, we didn't let them, and he sent a text of him holding the AK threatening the assistant to the store manager. He's been convicted on 4 felony counts (menacing, having a gun as a felon, and 2 counts for illegal mods) and will be out in 5-10. Next guy got mad about the store manager cutting one of his shifts (because of his own actions, which he acknowledged)…

Just started a new job last week and I already want to quit This is a minimum wage (plus some tips) job at an ice cream store run by the most strict drill sergeant of a manager ever. No matter what I do it feels like it's never enough for him and he's just going to yell at me anyway. I'm already moving pretty fast in general but he always tells him to move faster. I make mistakes cuz I'm new (today is like my fifth day on the job) and I'm moving so fast & stressed during rushes and he yells at me that I'm doing things wrong like giving ppl too much ice cream, making errors at the register or elsewhere and OF COURSE I'm gonna make all these mistakes when I'm new, going fast and under immense stress. Did I mention that I have not gotten a…

for context i’m a 37yo man living in miami florida USA. basically i been working at a warehouse as a shipper for a year and a half. a week ago, boss called me in the office and offered me a new position in vendor returns. i accepted. problem is no pay raise until after 3-6 months probation. the new position is much more chill and customer service/ clerical related compared to shipping that was very fast paced and physical demanding. i’m making $18/hr. my aunt referred me to a job opening at a airport about a month ago and i was able to set up an interview for next tuesday. it’s for airport operations specialist in the security department. i’m still unsure of what exactly it is. (feel free to explain) my aunt say i may not make $20/hr like i want cause of lack of experience. she goes on…