Month: August 2024

As the title says we needed to register to a customer website and we needed a phone number for authentication. Everyone has a work mobile phone which we normally use for this stuff, only this time it just did not work. My boss suggested that I use my personal phone to see if it works. I refused to allow access to it and she got mad at me. She then bullied an other colleague to use their personal phone and they did. She then gave me the stink eye for a week. Such a stupid situation. I wasn’t even mad, just tired of her bullshit. This is a rant… and a throwaway account.

I've been really caught up lately on the fact that so much of my life is work. I am an RBT, and I have to be “on” for children for 8 hours a day every weekday. It is exhausting. I get home and I am just wiped. And the weekends feel shorter and shorter. It just feels insane to me that we are only given 2 days a week to enjoy life. I feel stuck in a machine that just churns out misery. I work so hard, and can barely pay the bills, nonetheless go on vacation. And there's no way out of this; this is just how things are designed and I feel trapped. I know I'm not breaking new ground here or sharing some new perspective, but I just want to scream about this all the time.

TD:LR below Apart from the fact that he is totally unorganised, messy, and always 30 minutes late in the morning, takes a day off for his kid every other week, went on sick leave and holidays in the most crucial times, never bothers to schedule meetings with me (I always have to or he asks me to), makes me self-doubt my colleagues by implying that he talked to them about me and I need to talk to them to get feedback (without him revealing the topic), being ambiguous with action points and feedback, can barely communicate efficiently (he only has a background in engineering and he is managing the communication department?), and apart from the fact that this issue is recognised by the whole team. Like APART from all that… He said I am not proactive for not reaching out to him about a meeting that HE scheduled with me.…

I was just let go. I had spent over 2.5 years working at a convenience store, became a shift leader, and even met some amazing people. For the last year, I have been debating on whether I wanted to continue there or look elsewhere. My search into something more has become more prevalent with my mother's health becoming more of a concern for me. I was let go for something that I personally admit was my fault. The thing is, I don't feel bad, or sad, or anything negative about it. It sucks, sure. But I feel a weight lifted. I feel good that now I could freely look into new jobs. I feel okay with it. I feel that someone took the burden of me questioning if I want to leave or not and made it for me in a way that I don't feel like I'm fucked. How…

This was the first thing that really hit me hard when I started on my first job as a kid. I'm here at this place (grocery store) doing shit that I don't really want to do and when my shift is over and I go home, my day at work cannot be replaced. I'm giving them my time and my youth for a little money? And what would I have to show for that spent time? Me stacking shelves and moving pallets around for somebody else. And then I heard people talk about how they've worked there for 20+ years. That kind of scared the shit out of me. Is it really worth it to spend upwards of 50% of your life inside a freaking grocery store? You suck away your time and then you get some measly money for it in exchange. Is it really worth it?

Recently started a new job. I work in entertainment which is typically crazy hours, but this new job is a little insane. Super small company, usually hybrid from home and then from my boss’s house. this week because we have so much going on my boss asks me to work from her home. I’m there from 9am-730pm every day with NO lunch break or any breaks at all. I told her I was gonna go drive to get lunch and she told me to be quick. I’m not sure if I’m just not used to being a real executive and maybe this is normal, but I can’t help be feel so burnt out after every day all I want to do is cry. 10+ hours non stop is just too much? Thinking of going in tomorrow and telling her I have to leave every day by 630pm to make a…

Dillards is by far one of the worse places I've ever worked, the credit apps, the long hours, the store manager not caring about any of us, don't even get me started on the entitled customers! The only good thing about them is the pay, but how can I enjoy such nice pay when I'm basically chained to them? I get it, it's retail, it's not the best thing ever, but there should be limits! I'm thankful that I'm in the position where I can leave but part of me still has that small voice saying I shouldn't (mostly because of the pay), is there anyone who has worked for them/knows someone who worked for them who now regrets leaving?