Month: August 2024

Its been nearly a year, I wrote a post on here of how I worked at a large financial firm and ultimately told my manager to suck it, walked off and never came back. I started my own business which now has just hit its first year’s anniversary and I’ve never been happier with my life. I still read the comments of that post to this day and it gives me so so so much motivation to keep pushing. I just wanted to come back here to say thanks There’s light out there folks.

Never, ever disagree with management because they will find a way to punish you. I started working for TeamHealth in October 2023 and was terminated today. Will lose my health insurance at the end of the month. No verbal warning, no meeting with supervisor, nothing. Just a phone call. Will file for unemployment and am networking as I type this, but just feeling so frustrated right now.

Obviously not all of them are like that, but I'm sick of the ones who think they command respect and are even intimidating to a certain extent, because they're being themselves. No. Literally it's not because you're being yourself. It's because you're abusing your power and could seriously fuck up a person's life by firing them. Take away the title and you're just a miserable human being with life issues you take out on everyone else. Low self-esteem, failing marriages, health issues, addiction, estrangement from family – these are all things I've seen in these people. They'll get up close into your face with an angry look and a faint grin, like they wouldn't get the ever-loving fuck beaten out of them if they did that out in the streets. They'll insult and humiliate you as though you're not aware they themselves live in a glass house. And when you…

A grocery store in my area is trying to ice out a long time employee because they have cancer and don’t really GAF about this kind, hard working deli worker – they actually sent someone from outside the company to lie about his job performance to a customer and then have that get reported back to the general manager of the grocery store.. the deli worker told me they had him in tears as he’d worked there for years and actually believed they cared about him!

I graduated with a bachelor's in May 2023, majored in a foreign language, minored in graphic design, but once I realized that the linguistics industry I'd dreamed about going into is mostly freelance these days and I'd have to find clients and manage my own taxes and follow up with people endlessly to even get paid in the first place, it was too late to switch majors and I became completely uninterested pursuing a career there despite loving studying it. That said, there technically *are* plenty of other career paths I could wiggle my way into if I networked properly, but… Everything just looks incredibly bleak. I do “informational interviews” with alumni in fields I'm considering and they all just tell me things like, “Yeah I went into sales because I couldn't find a social media job so don't get your hopes up” and “I enjoy what I do but…

I was working at a M-F typical 9-5 American corporate office job, hated it in the end. Types of environments they really discriminate against introverts even though my job 90% of the time could've been remote since I just made social media and design work and would email back and forth between my boss 2 offices down, but I always had to show up anyways. My boss would talk bad about me to the CFO and who knows who else but I had overheard these conversations and had enough. She was continuously aggressive and rude with me and had made me cry on multiple occasions. She sent me an email about my performance and CCd HR on it and I thought I had been put on a PIP. I replied very well to everything outlined and had even mentioned my autism since my boss said she didn't like my reactions,…

Sorry if this is out of place or has been said too much but I just need to get this off my chest. How is this even legal? My body doesn't even fully adjust after a week, how the hell do they expect me to work 12 hours lifting 50 lbs in the heat, with 48 hours to adjust? After I just worked 36 hours over the weekend on nights? I feel stuck because nowhere that pays better is really hiring, and I'm not even paid that well. I live in Canada so rent is astronomical and groceries are right behind in cost. I haven't missed a day in months because I feel like I can't afford it, but I'm genuinely exhausted after a long weekend of working, and now I feel just sick and out of order and have to go back already tomorrow? I already do not care…

My boss puts out a schedule about a month in advance, occasionally makes some changes but nothing has ever changed drastically without him saying something. On Friday, he changed my week by adding another shift on a day I was off for this week. He didn't say anything but just sent the new schedule out. Today I told him it's unfair to change my schedule without talking to me especially 4 days in advance. He had the audacity to say that normally I say what I'm doing or if I'm planning a trip, so he didn't think I cared. I told him what I do on my scheduled days off are not his problem and he needs to talk to me beforehand if it's within 2 weeks. He looked shocked. This was after I flat out refused to download any app from my work on my phone. I don't need…

I work in the treasury department at a bank. I deal with all types of business clients, from large corporations to mom and pop shops. These large corporations that y’all work for, who require years of experience and a college degree for their payroll departments, are morons. I am constantly processing reversals that the payroll person has mistakenly paid (which happens more than just a one time deal), fixing transactions for ACHs taken out of the wrong accounts, on the phone with them for 15 or more minutes while they try to figure out how to reset their online banking passwords. Don’t even get me started on how terribly inept the CEOs are. If you’ve ever had a problem with your paycheck, know that it’s because the payroll associates are brainless.