Month: July 2024

If I have to sit another hour of a PowerPoint presentation at work via Teams delivered by some man/woman with a monotone I am going to scream. I can't stand them. They are literally the worst way to learn imo. I can remember I had a full work day of training and no joke…. man had a 77 slide PowerPoint file. By the time it was over I almost lost the will to live. I barely remember anything. What is depressing is that actually being on this department for a few weeks the training could have been cut down significantly. These presentations are never neurodivergent friendly either. Crammed full of text onto one slide, the monotone, rush to get it over and done with. These people never have any passion for the topic either. Always just some presentation where if you just got the slides and never attended you'd be…

I am absolutely pissed. I've been trying to get a job forever now and today I got fired. Last night my step dad has a stroke and was in critical condition so I went to the hospital to support him and my mom. I texted my manager this morning telling her what happened and she pulled the “Im sorry for your pain but your services are no longer needed”. The text was a lot longer of course but how can people be so emotionless? Do they expect us to not give a shit about family and go do our job that overworks us while simultaneously underpays us?

I'll throw some benefits of the doubt out to our financial system and culture around the necessity of going to college to survive and admit that it took me three tries to finish university. That said, I eventually stumbled on a high salary with a few years where the salary was akin to Monty Python absurdism. I divorced two years ago and began aggressively paying down my student loans. As I mentioned, it took me three tries to finish college due to having a rather inconsistent brain (I functioned well sometimes, while at others, I encountered, as I believe they now call them, “full-blown” tonic-clonic seizures. It was a minor inconvenience, of course, but I failed two state universities before graduating from a prestigious university. Essentially, using student loans to fail two state schools and then using student loans to finish a very expensive private school left me over $130k…

Working in retail made me realise how fucked some employers can be about disabilities even though there’s legal protections. I have a neurological disorder that causes seizures and I often go nonverbal after these, not by choice. I had an accommodation put in place that if I needed to call out I could do so via text as I literally am incapable of speaking. I have an episode, I text my manager, he reads it. Next shift I get called in to a disciplinary meeting with the area manager too, and he brings it up, telling me that they hoped I felt better, and “if you noticed I did not acknowledge your text as you know it is a requirement to call in” I was actually so shocked and I think I started to cry and all I could get out was “I go nonverbal with seizures, I told you…

Looking for some advice – my supervisor says he’d like to take a step back from supervising me (apparently he didn’t ask for the role and doesn’t want to continue after 7 months). I get good performance reviews and complimented on work but I do slack off because I’m severely underpaid. Everytime this has happened in the past it’s been to push me out. How do I approach this conversation- my boss wants me to come up with a plan for my supervision, and find a new person to supervise me but I feel like that should be HIS responsibility not mine?? I don’t even think he discussed it with his own supervisor. He probably wants to take my plan and present that to them. How would you approach this situation? (I am resuming the job search. I’ve been applying just looking for a salary bump but took a break…

Hello, just wondering if anyone here has had an experience like this. I am working at an unpaid internship and my boss insists on having everyone at the company have “ID names.” Weird I guess but whatever, he can call me whatever he wants I s'pose, I don't really care. But the really strange part is, when I sign off my emails I put my real name like: “Thanks, -Real name”. He is not too fond of this apparently and sent me an email insisting that I call myself the nickname that HE made for me. He says I'm not respecting their company culture of IDs. I don't really even know what to make of this, it's just bizarre. But obviously, even though I don't really care what he calls me (unless it's actively disrespectful) I don't want to call myself some wacky nickname. My name is my name, I…

I see a lot of us here are struggling if not straight up suffering. We all know the world, and most specifically, the USA, is fucked— the American dream is dead, you’ll never afford a home, you’ll never afford children, you’ll work 40+ hours a week with multiple roommates/incomes and still barely get by while your boss is in the market for his third private jet. Put all 6 of his kids through college. Owns five houses and ten sports cars. We all know something needs to change. But what? I refuse to believe there’s “nothing we can do.” I refuse to believe that it just gets worse from here until we die. Everyone in this sub wants something to change— higher pay, WFH, four day work week, healthcare— but how do YOU propose we get there? I want to hear your ideas. What do we, as The People, need…

So my employer is switching payroll systems to paychex. They are wanting us to use the paychex flex app on our personal phones to be able to time in/out. This is for all employees at this company WFH or at an office. From my understanding it tracks via a cell phone tower to bing your location. Does this app still tracking me after I clock in and close the app? Has anyone actually bought a cheap smart phone without a data plan from Walmart and used that phone for this app? I have no interest in downloading this on my personal cell phone. But, I need to be able to pay my bills.