Month: August 2024

Had my mid-year review. Mostly positive feedback and constructive feedback about my performance around things I already knew and we both talked about (i.e. showing up to meetings on time.. did this 2 times oops.. and taking meetings at my desk instead of in a cramped room with my team..) One area of feedback she gave me was around my general lack of “hungriness.” One of our core values as a company. She basically wants me to appear more interested by asking tons of questions and “diving into the role” more. Sorry but the only thing I’m hungry for is food and thats what I’m at work to pay for. Any other tips on being “hungrier” to work?

This is by far the slizziest crap ever. The company I work for is using it to justify not to hire. Pulling mission critical people from their duties to do other things to improve the monthly numbers. I can't imagine we are the only ones.

I was catching up with an old friend last night and she was telling me about the latest holiday she came back from. She loves her travels because it gives her something to look forward to. As someone who neglected their mental health for a long time now, I wish I was more generous to myself and did the same. I ended up getting burned out really badly to the point where I didn’t care if I did the minimum amount of work and it made me look bad professionally. I couldn’t muster up the energy to work as hard as I could in my early 20s anymore. Now, I’m changing careers and planning out my new budget and fitting in a new future hobby for a horse riding class each week so that I’m won’t keep checking the calendar for the next public holiday so I can sleep in…

So for context, I work at a retirement community in California. A couple months ago I switched from the swing shift to graveyard, but overall I've been working there for a couple moths shy of 2 years. It's work for sure, and it has its downsides, but I like being able to help people. For over a year now, there have been thefts around the building, residents loosing money (anywhere from a few dollars to almost $2,000). But last, there was another theft that happened “on my shift”, or at least that's what management says. There are only two people in the building at night, so it was just me and my coworker. We get a long really well, she's really active in the community, and I would never think that'd she would do something so petty and selfish. She's also pretty livid that management is trying to accuse us…

The company I work for employer cleaners who attend people's houses and some office buildings in the area. We have a clock in system that the cleaners have to use that tells the company what time they start and finish each job etc. The boss requires that the cleaners not clock in until they reach the first job. This does not account for the fact that some cleaners have to come grab a work car before starting work. And then travel time to the first job after that. For example, if one cleaner isn't scheduled to start work until 9:00 but the have to get a car first, they are not being paid for the extra time, even though it is a work requirement. Sometimes it can take up to 30 minutes to travel from the office to the first job. Is this legal. Or is it a reasonable expectation…

Meh. I work for a hotel and I had to call for a mandatory meeting on my day off. They didn't even pay min 4 hours but just 2 hours. Our managers picked employees who work 'hard' to give gift cards. All these people hang out after work and of course each of them gave it to their friends. Their friends usually do no show no call and they get away with it. Meanwhile they hired someone who smokes heavily and def does some kind of drugs like coke to work with me directly.

I hit two and a half years with my corporate job. And it’s not one of those positions where you stroll in at 9, send a couple emails, eat a free lunch then leave at 3. It’s a bottom-of-the-barrel facilities position. I am here before most, and I leave after most. I think what made me want to quit is the fact that I covered a position for 9 months out of the last year, and got a 36¢ raise for it. 36 whole cents for essentially working two jobs. I work for a company with a market cap of $51 billion, a CEO who made $89 million in 2022, and the best they can do for me is 36 cents. I do my job. Could I do better? Absolutely. Do I want to? Not one bit. My boss doesn’t help either, she used to be a prison guard and…

I (24F) entered the professional world after finishing university two years ago, and I am beyond burnt out. I’ve wanted to be a music journalist since I was a teenager, but worried that I wouldn’t actually be able to make a career out of it. I wound up deciding to go for psychology at university with the aim of becoming a psychologist and supporting industry musicians with mental health, most likely for a charity but eventually with my own independent practice. I’m an American in the UK and my options are really limited as I have to keep to specific roles with registered organisations for a visa to stay here. I started at a homeless charity and within the first couple of months all of my colleagues left, leaving me to be the only support worker with 3 managers. So I was doing all of the assessments, acting as a…