Month: August 2024

Let me preface by saying that I have worked salaried positions for almost all of my adult life, with only a few exceptions for part-time work. I am working my first hourly full-time job. When you get paid overtime for working too long, your manager suddenly becomes very insistent that you don't work past your scheduled hours. However, if you are salaried, then there is always an expectation that you work until the job is finished. At my current job, there are salaried employees and hourly employees. The salaried employees are almost constantly in meetings and sometimes work 70 hours because they are obsessed with completing work. As an hourly employee, I don't really care that they're wasting their own time with countless meetings. I think salary pay also strongly encourages workaholism. Workaholics are hurting themselves to get ahead, but also really hurt other employees by setting implied work expectations.…

For years I didn't get a dog because my work schedule was so full and unpredictable. Once I became a WFH consultant I got a dog. He has been life changing. It got me to thinking the other day – what if I'd gotten a dog early in my “career?” I'd have less money. I'd have to wait longer to retire. I'd be MUCH happier. Because I would have made work decisions based on spending time with my dog. Want overtime? Nope. Want me stressed all the time? Nope. Need someone to work extra days? Nope. Maybe other people have figured out how to achieve that without the dog, but for me, the dog is the canary in the coalmine.

Working an extremely toxic, disrespectful, and unprofessional job the last 6 months. Couldn’t stand my dickhead boss anymore and the overall stress of being there and quit last Monday. First time ever quitting a job without a new one lined up already. Got a decent amount of savings and my home / car are both paid off. Spent the last 5/6 months looking for a job while being employed there and couldn’t find one. Worried if my savings will last while I am still looking for a new one. No health insurance starting in 3 days, pretty nervous about that to. I didn’t want to quit but it was seriously fucking me mentally staying there. Don’t know how to feel really. I know I’m in a better spot than some other people who have more significant bills still but even still my savings will run out eventually if I don’t…

First off forgive me I'm writing this on my phone and using text to speech because I am dyslexic. I just kind of need to rant. So I have gone through 7 rounds of interviews for one job at a university in my state which would have been full time in my field. The final round interview or should I say interviews because it took 4 fucking hours and I interviewed with over 150 people. And by 150 people I mean I presented to 150 people three different presentations to multiple groups that added up to 150 people. Now look I understand I'm asking for a job at a university that pays $50,000 a year which from my broke ass is a lot of money. This was at the end of July and because this was a final round interview I assumed I would at least hear something even if…

I've had multiple jobs that have given employees pizza parties or some other work hours “leisure activity”, and not a single one reduced the workload we were expected to do that week. Every. Single. Time. All it has done is put me behind on work and added more stress.

Every year, my company goes all out for a crazy holiday party with an open bar, fancy food, speeches, the whole nine yards. I think it's silly that they can somehow afford this but still not give a holiday bonus, but that's beside the point. One of the main benefits of the party is it gets the whole company together because half of the workers are fully remote and live out of state. But those of us who are local are still forced to come into the office twice a week – which is strictly enforced. I have told managers and executives countless times how I produce my best work from home, how my commute is an hour long, how I have more seniority than all the fully remote works, and each time I was ignored. We're told we have to come into the office for “company culture” and “collaboration”…