Month: August 2024

I work at an escape room and my coworker's car died and they need money for repairs, they already work full time at this job and the owner always said we could set up tipping so here I am. Tried asking on the escaperoom sub reddit but I think they fucking hate game masters over there. Everytime I bring up game master wage everyone downvotes it and says oh it's not a job deserving of a proper wage and you get business owners coming out getting all defensive about gm pay and it's so depressing seeing an entire subreddit for an activity just absolutely not give a shit about the people who make that activity happen for them.

I am absolutely sick right now. I was given a promotion last week, complete with a title change, raise AND they said they’d be hiring me a part time assistant so I can offload my smaller duties and focus on big picture stuff. Have been flying high ever since, as this promotion has been my ultimate goal after slowly climbing the ladder for 6 years and showing them how hard I’m willing to work. Fast forward to today’s complete slap in the face. Boss calls me to say that in looking for someone to fill the part time role of assisting me, they were referred someone who has a higher degree (but the same level of experience, in a neighboring industry.) It would be “an insult” to pay this person part time to help with my duties, so instead, they’d like to bring them on part time but NOT as…

I work a job at a smaller aviation company in a right to work state, and its terrible. I've worked here for a little under a year and a half, and I have no clue how I made it so long at all if I'm being honest. I have a fellow coworker that everyone very heavily dislikes, except for upper management, which is not suprising. He has issues going back before I even started, with being an utterly uncontrollable asshole to anyone thats not management. Even when my job had not much to do with him he would still come to my coworkers and I area to make complaints, demands, and just be terrible in general. He's the type to act like a supervisor but isn't. He eventually got promoted to an inspector role somehow, and now works directly with the area I previously worked at inspecting things before they…

I want to start by saying that I generally like my job, my manager, coworkers and most of the customers, I'm also not underpaid, so I will not be quitting my job over this. I just want to rant about something that happened a few weeks ago and read what others think. A little context first. At my job and position, they have different grades and salary ranges for each grade. For example, this means that it is possible for someone with a high salary in grade 3, to have the same salary, or even slightly higher than someone with a low salary in grade 4. I've been with this company for 7 years now, and in that time I've received 2 promotions. While the difference in salary between grades has been significant, I've always been in the low end salary range for my grade. I don't like it but…

Cubicles are the worst. When I started this job it was a hybrid position and I had created a space at home where I was productive and comfortable and could work in peace. Then we were brought back into the office full time and I am in a shitty cubicle, having to listen my boss yell at his computer for his meetings and just get filled with anxiety every morning as I walk in the doors. To me working in a Cubicle is the most depressing thing. And before everyone says “quit”.. I am working on it. I just needed to vent on my hatred of cubicles as a whole.

Title says it all, absolutely yes happy to provide fingerprints and be certified in cpr/first aid/aed but the fact that is a REQUIREMENT TO DO THE JOB but has to come out of our own pocket just irks the hell out of me. If it is a requirement to be able to do the job then it needs to be paid for BY THE JOB! Thanks for coming to my TedTalk

My work had a mandatory meeting for all supervisors last week with a hired outside group to teach us the dos and donts of conversations with employees. And how to legally discourage them from joining. I felt sick to my stomach the whole time.

I've seen quite a few conversations about a specific topic on here, and that topic is company loyalty. A little while ago, for example, I saw someone post about how they weren't sure if they should feel guilty about getting paid for a full 40 hours but basically doing all their work every time in far fewer hours. And to everyone who might be feeling immoral when they do something like that, or may struggle with guilt, or feel disloyal or whatever, I want you to be aware of something: you are being manipulated. Corporations often intentionally attempt to induce feelings of loyalty and guilt. Why? Because this is a way that they can control you without having to expend additional resources. If you have to incentivise someone to work 2 hours of overtime by paying them a lot more, that costs the company resources. But if you can get…