Month: August 2024

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. 🫡

Maybe this isn't the right place for this but not sure where else to turn at the moment. Worked at various places over the years, my current one is swirling the drain. I just don't know where to apply to, everywhere seems like a shit show one way or another. I feel like I've applied literally everywhere over the past 12 years. I feel unsure of where to go or what to do.

If everyone worked around 25 hours instead of 40+ a week, would the world end? Could we still ensure everyone's basic needs are met? Keeping the same jobs but working less hours (and consuming less, cutting out useless stuff, no fashion hauls, just a few new items of clothing a year etc.) People could choose to work 80 hour weeks if they loved their job. I'm not lazy. I will work 80 hours in a week if it's something that I see purpose in. But most “jobs” we have today are pointless, just to push more and more consumption of useless stuff. EDIT: In my opinion: If community gardening became more common, and if more people just realised how accumulating endless new shiny stuff isn’t actually satisfying, that’s a step in the right direction. I know someone who has 10 siblings. As kids they lived on a small farm and…

I found this community by chance, and all the stories brought back memories of some of my craziest moments working in Japanese companies… so I thought I might share. Background: I have lived and worked in Japan for over a decade. I speak/read/write the language quite well, and so mainly ended up working at Japanese companies, which is… quite an experience. Let’s go over the highlights reel: I worked for several years for an online travel company. I was hired to start up operations for a specific market, and created booking pages for all the various products. This place had some WEIRD rules. The first is that we all had to be in the office by 8:30 (usually starting time in Japan is 9:00), because one specific customer service team had to be there from 8:00 due to regional time differences. Apparently it would be “unfair” to them to be…

Been a long time lurker, first time poster. I have had a constant history of being overworked. Straight out of high school I started as a hydraulic lift assembler working 60~ hours a week. About a year later I wanted a change and enlisted in the Army as a combat medic. I think the workload of active duty military goes without saying. 4 years later my contract was up so I decided to get out and try city government work as a correctional officer because it paid good and I needed the money. I signed up for the job posting that claimed 1 week on of 12 hour shifts, 1 week off. They failed to mention that your off week came with a mandatory minimum of 36 hours on shift so you really get 10 days on, 4 days off- if you were lucky enough to slip through the cracks…