Month: July 2024

I worked for a door to door sales company for a few months selling home services (window cleaning, eaves cleaning, painting, landscaping, etc.). More recently the boss started putting a lot of stress on us regarding quotas, saying he was going to start cutting our shifts or straight up taking us off the team., while sending us to areas where it's clear that people aren't able to afford this (kind of hard to clean windows in a neighborhood full of broken windows). On Tuesday we all got together and decide that enough was enough and that we had to send a message to him. We got in a group call on Wednesday morning and worked together on a message for one person to send in the work group chat and everyone else to react to with a . In response, he said “I'm sorry you feel this way. You can…

I've handed in my resignation 2 days ago due to my mental health taking a turn for worse… but mainly because my manager has been emotionally blackmailing me, inconsistent with communication and always negative towards me for the past 3 years. I did not state why I was leaving, just the end date. My manager was fuming when they have confronted me, stating I have disappointed them (they said this 5 times in their conversation with me) because I didn't text them beforehand or they claimed to try and be supportive for me. Thing is, I have requested for a demotion but would end up doing the same workload for less pay. Transfer is impossible as majority of the other branches are too far for me to travel to or the work culture is not ideal for me. When they started a template to help coach me, my manager said…

Based on productivity we are 3x more productive than in the 1960s. So Instead 40-50 hours – we should be working 15 hours max. But no we have to work 40-50 hours a week with 10x more stress than in the 60s doing 3x more work than Boomers had to. Meanwhile the rich pigs that won the birth lottery dont work at all. I just want to work 2 days a week – even if its 2×10 hours and get a full time pay. I dont even want something extravagant like a big house and big cars. Just 5 free days a week and a month of vaccation every year so that I can read all the books I want, train regulary and stay in shape, have enough time to cook and visit relatives do some community service and just live my life. With 40-50 hours a week I am…

We have to drive two hours for a training, but only getting paid for the actual training hours. So four hours total are unpaid for. This is lesser than our normal shifts. Is that legal? Edit: the training is actually 2 hours and 50 minutes. My hours this day are 8:30 to 5, we are only being paid for the hours of the training which is 9 to 3.

I’m not sure what subreddit to put this in but I wanted to talk about it somewhere. So I work in design and a year and a half ago I found this one woman online that does similar designs to what I wanted to do and I reached out to her, I never got a response. A few months later I was going to a design show that I knew she would be going to so I printed out work examples to show to her. She was very very rude said no design studio would touch my work and that I looked young and it was kinda bad because I was really excited to meet her. I started a job a few months after that and then around 7 months in she was hired and I was shocked. I was kinda scared at first but they put her over me…

I get that high-earners are far more likely to bring up their income online, but it's still depressing as hell to open this subreddit and read posts that go like: My boss was mean to me at my 150k/year job so I showed him by getting a 250k/year job!!!! I'm not saying that these people are part of the problem but, holy shit, is it demoralizing to know that I'll never earn anywhere close to what they made at their “shitty” job in my lifetime. Like most people, I wasn't born to the right set of parents and didn't get to network in college to meet the right set of people in my early 20's in order to achieve a high-paying career. Edit: I just want to clarify that I'm not trying to call you out if you make six figures. I only made this post for solidarity with the…

I 100% believe work can be improved (even/especially in the short term) by the above sentiment. But I'm really tired & demoralized. I already struggle to communicate, and it feels like there are other barriers beyond that I can never get past: I'm now the only woman in my workplace, the last several left or were let go for being “not a good fit.” (read: “dramatic.”) It's really hard to speak up when you're worried about ending up like them. I'd quit too if I could. I'm stuck needing a job, and this is a fairly “progressive”(lmao) company with slightly more labor-friendly policies & employees. I can tell my coworkers are over all of this too, I'm just sick of waiting around for more people to get on the ball.

This past week my manager came over and said that he picked up the last case of water for the workers outside (I work inside) and if we can all chip in a few dollars to get more bottled water. This immediately had me kind of confused because from what I understand of worker’s rights, it’s the employer’s responsibility to provide water to the workers. We also have water bottle filling stations that dispense cold water so there’s no reason for us to buy water bottles except out of convenience. I responded asking how that works and if I should keep my receipt to claim it on my taxes as a work related purchase. He responded that it’s not a work related purchase and then proceeded to (in my opinion) subtly shame me for not wanting to “donate” water. I don’t think this is fair considering we all get paid…