Month: August 2024

Hey, work for a pretty well known brand and it's my first corporate job in all 30 years of employment. I'm an individual contributor. My direct supervisor works from home in NJ (I'm in Florida). In the Florida office I have seen the director 7 times, and the SVP maybe 3. Working in the office is expected, even though there is no one in my department at the office, nor do I interact with anyone pertinent to my job in any way. Just hoping you all go feral explaining why I have a 2 hour commute back and forth each day. Have fun.

I worked for a 3PL for HD, and they just went through major layoffs which trickled down through the 3PL’s. No severance. Just a letter talking about how it wasn’t a reflection of my hard work and dedication to the company. Now I’m in an already volatile job market competing with everyone else who just lost their jobs. I am recently divorced and just moved into a place with my 10yo son and 3yo golden two weeks before the layoff. I have $13 in my account, and I don’t know when unemployment will come through. At first I thought it would be a good move because the company was so toxic, but now I am overwhelmed and scared with suicidal ideations. I would never kill myself, but the weight of financial stress is so heavy. I’ve had a few interviews, but nothing seems attainable. I’m tired of hearing that nobody…

Let me start by saying I'm not 100% sure this is the best place to ask this type of question. But I read here a lot and I would appreciate your input. I work as a “data analyst” for a large company in the U.S. I have worked for this company for ~3 years but in this role for ~2 years. I earn about 85k salary in a fairly HCOL area. It's enough to live comfortably on the somewhat minimalistic lifestyle I prefer while also putting some aside for savings and retirement. Company has decent benefits as well I should mention, insurance, retirement matching that sort of thing. I have not received a raise larger than 3-4% since I started, despite my responsibilities far outmatching my job description. I have been told to go far and above my role on numerous occasions and imo brought a lot of value to…

Like explained. A link is okay also. Hate the orange man now that it seems his going agaimst his own voters.

I deal with admin/accounting and budgeting stuff. I cover for two people at work. For one of them (Let’s call her Zoey, it’s mutual (she covers for me when I’m off and I cover for her when she’s off) I cover for another person (Let’s call her Linda) who sorts mail and does reprographic stuff but she does not cover for me cause her skill sets are limited. When I cover for Linda, I’m basically expected to do two jobs at once. And according to them use my best judgement in prioritizing tasks (cause according to my managers what I do isn’t that hard anyway) Now I put in a sick day like two weeks in advance for a mental break. I get a text Saturday saying I got to cover for Linda cause she suddenly fell sick and won’t be able to make it in for like three days.…

I love what I do as my work and I’m often a top performing team member. Sometimes this bites me in the ass. I’ve recently started a new position and I accidentally forgot about maintaining work and life boundaries so…I’ve found myself working nearly 60 hour weeks (including Saturdays). My position is in management and I am salaried. I am burnt out to the nines and am finding myself needing those two days of rest. The company I work for has a great culture! I love my team, I love my work, and my ceo is super understanding, but I am struggling with the long hours. How do I negotiate a slightly adjusted schedule for myself and avoid them expecting to stay such long hours? The other thing is I love taking time off within reason. Welp, they have the old mindset of “you must ask for permission from us…

I work for a fairly large tech company with a ‘prestigious’ background for several breakthroughs they accomplished in a pretty tumultuous part of the world. I started here right after graduating college and was finally promoted into a higher paying position (that I’m still making 20-40k less than my colleagues on my team because I’ll be ‘training’). On my first day with my new manager, we covered a BUNCH of new topics like : 1. Their (wrong) opinion of trans people 2. Politics 3. Why the US should bomb any Muslim countries in the Middle East… 4. Illegals immigrants and how they should be ‘dealt’ with I don’t think I need to continue. I have not loved my time here prior to this promotion but a job is a job but I don’t know now. I feel like I can’t go to HR and feel forced to quit even though…

I want to open this view up to the floor and introduce it into society. I've been having this discussion a lot recently with colleagues who overwork and are under appreciated. Thinking about work is work. If you are thinking of how to approach your day and how to approach a project on your commute to work, that is working time. Therefore it's perfectly acceptable to include that in the hours you have worked for the day if you have a micromanager as a boss. In many careers, work is not just if you are sat at a desk clicking on a screen or taping on a keyboard.

I put in my pto request and got it approved a month ago. I got a call today when my shift would have started saying they have me on the schedule for tonight. I wasn't able to answer. My boyfriend proposed to me this weekend while my family was visiting from out of state. I am worried they will blame me for not checking the schedule. I have been on a set schedule for 2 years and don't do rotating days so I do not usually check the schedule when it comes out unless ot is to pick up shifts. I had a couple days off last week as well as part of a separate request and that wasn't an issue. Do I respond? Should i ask them to ensure i am not in the schedule for tomorrow since that was included it this same pto request? I had heard…

It’s getting worse out here. Everyone is getting desperate. I’ve been in some sort of retail for 30 years now, everything from worker, to owner and back down to worker again, and I’ve never seen people so aggressive about theft. The other day, a group of three men, all much larger than I am, filled their shopping carts with expensive items and then pushed them out to their cars. I sell $200 bags of specialty dog food, so this was a huge hit. Later we were asked “How did you try to stop them?” We did not. We will never die for dog food on the wages you pay us. But the thieves are becoming scarier, and I’m getting out of retail. I’m too small and old for this now. A 5’4” middle aged woman who weighs less than some of the dogs that come in is no deterrent. 🫡