Month: August 2024

Sometimes I'm much, much meaner but I was feeling less mad and more silly this particular day.

My bosses like to think because I’m on salary I’m owned and they make me work 60+ hour work weeks so their labor is low and they don’t have to pay the hourly workers much money. I’m sick of it. I’m tired of “being on call” with my personal phone. Boss called me today after therapy and yelled at me and accused me of trying to pull something on him because I wasn’t working this morning, I was closing tonight instead and I didn’t tell him that, even though there is literally no reason I had to. I hate them. I hate my job. I hate working for someone who makes more than me and yells at me from the comfort of their home because they don’t have to come in and work like me. oh and they never work weekends, take all the unpaid time off they want and…

So today I was going to stay after and help out and do some overtime. Recently my Foreman has been harassing me for the past couple of days and I've reported her. Just today, she came up to me accusing me of hazing and spreading rumors about her which is not true. I've only mentioned issues with her to management. She said that if she finds anything else out she will cut me and make my life miserable. I'm off for the next two nights but I just don't feel comfortable at all come into work afterwards. She found out that I was trying to transfer and said. “I know people higher up, I have people close to me, I know people at that place and I will make your life miserable if you fucking try me. If I go to jail I will hurt you. I know you go…

I don’t like this person one bit, she’s a project manager in her 40s and she has made some ignorant racist comments in the past, but that’s not what this post will be about. So I made a little mistake regarding the delivery date for one of our orders and instead of telling me to be careful next time, she speaks to me in an annoyed tone and says “I don’t trust you anymore”, grabs the pile of orders to double check them herself and just leaves the scene

It rhymes with Eee Bork, booked a day pass and the images online showed desks with comfy task chairs. Nope large kitchen tables with hard wood stackable chairs. So I bit the bullet and splurged on a room. No extra monitors, no key to lock it (you have to leave your stuff and find staff to lock it), maybe the coffee was free, but that was really it. I saw tons of private offices on lease filled with high end jumbo monitors, tech, etc. I can see having one off long term offices in such a place, but the price for a private room with checks notes a computer chair and 4' desk, doesn't seem worth the cost. Not even a view to get momentarily distracted. So how are companies able to afford such high rent there? Most the rooms had stuff, but were basically empty most the day except…

The Work Number report (used by recruiters and HR) is quite comprehensive, and includes information on a job seeker’s employment dates, salary history, paystub information, health care provider, whether someone has dental insurance, and if they’ve ever filed an unemployment claim. It also now shows business income, which I suspect is being sold by QuickBooks. Previously, procuring this data was illegal, but Equifax found a work-around, and sells it as an HR product.  How does Equifax obtain this sensitive information? With the willing aid of thousands of U.S. businesses, including much of the Fortune 500. Government agencies (as much as 80-85% of the federal civilian workforce) use the service, including schools and healthcare workers. In order to access the data, these organizations also allow a quid pro quo – they allow Equifax to tap directly into their HR systems so the credit bureau can sell the information to others. In…

They fired me with 2 days left on my probation

I work at a small company no larger than 10 people. This woman has the title of “Director” but isn’t even my direct boss. She suggested we have one on one meetings to go over what I’ve been working on week to week. At first it seemed friendly but I now realize it’s just so she can gauge my timesheet to point out where she feels I am wasting company time. These meetings have zero point and zero resolution to them and I’m realizing this is just her way of digging out information she can report to our actual boss to justify her role in the company. How can I get through these meetings without really giving her anything? Edit: I should add our company isn’t exactly doing great at the moment. We’ve failed to acquire new leads and this woman was brought in for that sole purpose, only for…