Month: August 2024

Last week I took the week off. I didn’t take the time off to travel or do anything interesting but just to stay at home and recuperate mentally. I was so happy that week and felt as light as a feather. I would wake up early morning and just smile and feel peace and content. Sadly my holidays ended yesterday and I’m back to work today. I’m feeling so nauseous at the thought of going back and am practically fighting with my body and every cell of my being to force myself out of bed. It’s so unnatural living this way. I can feel my mind crumbling with every second.

It's 108+ where I am. We work inside a hot ass building with no A/C. Don't really want to go into too much detail for anonymity. But anyway………I hate it. This is my 3rd summer at this place and i don't remember it sucking this much the other years. My boss does not give a flying fuck about us working in the heat. Some departments don't even have fans!!!!!! There's all these OSHA signs posted about taking rests if you feel overheated, making sure you get plenty of water, ect. But of course taking a rest isn't allowed. There are some departments I'm sure the temperature is reaching above 115°. One day I really thought I was going to die. I started getting dizzy and couldn't see. I really fucking hate it. I just wish this company could actually give a little bit of a fuck, like they pretend to.…

I was less than 3 minutes late logging in to a virtual meeting with a client. I called. It failed. I reset and called again and was successful. This lady starts laughing hysterically “Are we ready? Do you need a minute? Are you having a rough morning?”

Right off the bat in the first paragraph, I see that “I acknowledge the company has paid my salary, accrued PTO, etc” The 2nd paragraph says they will not pay my severance package until I sign this paperwork and it's confirmed by the company. What action do I take from here? Do I need to get a lawyer to look over this? Edit: Perhaps I should've used “let go from the company” instead of fired. They were just cutting down on their budget, it wasn't due to any fault on my end

A common suggestion on many posts here is along the lines of “report them to the Dept. Of Labor or Fire Marshall” depending on the situation. For those that have reported employers, what happened afterward? How long did it take?

I’ve vented about work here before, and am so peeved about my schedule that I’m doing it again. For context, last week I worked 6 days straight, and had a 3 day break. Today is the last day of that break, so I’m going to be working full-time from Monday to Saturday. I then have one day off, then work another 5 days. Who the fuck decided this was okay?! Work burns me out so badly and I almost burst into tears from exhaustion last week, and now you want me to do it again with one day off?! This is fucking bull. I want to quit so badly. I get paid 14 an hour, have shit hours and the company I work for has horrible rules. I’m so tired of all of this! Is it possible to have a job that doesn’t make you want to end it all??

I need some help. I work for a dancer club in the UK, and registered as self-employed. I signed a contract when I started working but every time I ask for a copy i get shut down with various bullshit reasons. I don't get paid hourly, but I get paid for dances and VIP time with a client. The management gets 40% of my earnings there. If I'm signed up for a shift and can't make it due to sickness they lowkey threaten to fire me, and even if the club is dead, I am forced to complete the entire 10 hour shift. Sometimes I make 40£ in one night. Of which 40% is not mine. I know this is fucked but all I want is a copy of the contract I signed and they are refusing to give it to me. I know in the UK a contract is…

So i chose to cover some days for a coworker of mine so they could go upstate with their freinds, everything was all going fine until this asshole (who was sitting in the office most of the day on his phone) decided to yell at me for talking to someone for 5 minutes, he made a whole scene of it and i just couldnt take the disrespect of him yelling at me and another co worker to ask him for permission to do anything and i yelled back at him, told him that we are all adults and to fuck off and got some dumb speech about how “no job in america will let you guys do that” and he “wont tell us again” shortly after i went home as i could not stand being with that asshole anymore that day, today im going back in to cover for my…

I’m not just talking about employers never responding to job applications and getting a job being notoriously difficult, I’m also talking about how ridiculous job applications have become in terms of intelligence testing, personality tests, ai interviews and the like. What the hell has happened for it to get to this point?