Month: August 2024

I work 4 days, but due to health reasons, physical and mental as I am disabled, I want to go to 3 days. Company policy states the minimum required hours is 24. He says he isn't going to let me because he can't and needs me and he promises he's trying to hire people, but I can also resign if this is a problem, which doesn't add up. The company is wholesale and starts with the letter C. I only have a single manager due to working at a logistics location, the other was fired for kidnapping, anyways… do I escalate this to HR? Cause I'm not working 4 days anymore and he is going to continue to schedule me 4 despite me telling him not to.

I've been working the registers at a small franchised hardware store. My direct supervisor is…how should I say it? Not great, for the month he's been head cashier so far. He's frequently gone against what the store managers have told him is policy. Everything needs to be done “his” way. When we try to offer suggestions, he naturally says: “Who's the boss here, me or you?” Other incidents include: Yelling at me when I was on the phone with a customer-in front of a line of customers, then scolding me for not answering the phone when I'm with a customer, scolding me for standing around when there's absolutely nothing to do, then scolding me for walking away to assist elsewhere, Telling me that he's here to help me, then insulting me to my face in front of a customer because I asked for his help. Yes, he's on a power…

I usually like to preface my posts about my job with saying that actually, overall where I work is surprisingly nice, but there are a few things which consistently annoy me, and I have just recently encountered another one. But for real, in general at my job (which is at a used media store) I get paid well, have good benefits, it's a healthy and non-stressful work environment, etc – it's just the things that pop up every now and again that get very annoying. So, I've been working at my current job for the better part of a year now, and I'm getting annoyed with how slowly the benefits at this job are sorta “drip-fed” to employees. When you first get hired at my company there's a 3-month probationary period, which is pretty normal to a lot of places. But it's annoying because you're not really supposed to use…

I’ve been doing software engineering at a big company on the east coast for a few years now. 100% remote. I have to be on the phone 1-3 hours a day. But I only get like 1-2 calls a day. Maybe. 99% of my tickets are from Jira. Management expects each team member to do about 80 tickets a month on average, be on the phones for X amount of time. I average about 200-250 tickets a month. Which is about 20-30% above the average person at my company. Lowest tickets counts are around 50. And highest is around 400 My daily schedule: Clock in 7am. 7-9am. Bathroom break plus personal time. Checking in the seldom instant messages if any. 9-10am. Get on phone queue and start working on the tasks/tickets assigned to me 10-11. Work on tickets. Hyper focused. Multi tasking my own tickets and taking tickets off the…

As a person who very passionately and strongly supports the antiwork movement/mindset, what do you think are some of the more advisable approaches to the whole ‘need to work to pay the bills/survive’ issue? In the absence of a UBI, in a corporate-owned, capitalism-driven society, what do you think is the best way to try to survive? As someone who is adamantly team ‘antiwork’ all day (as, presumably, at least some of you are), what do you look for in a job? Are there any good examples of jobs that meet those standards you can recommend looking into? I’m as down with this antiwork mentality as anybody, but unfortunately, in the society I live in you do need a job to survive, and the jobs generally are everything we on this sub tend to denounce, and I’m a bit very confused as to how to best approach the need to…

I’ve never heard of a working interview before this job at a dog facility. I felt great while working but when they told me at the end they’ll let me know… it makes me question Will I get the job? Am I going to get paid (this happened in Texas)? I thought for sure I’d get the job because they were very accommodating to me when I had to have surgery 2 weeks ago & kept on asking when I’d be better so I could do this “working interview”.

Well, after working at this job since October of ‘22, got my first write up today, for ‘negligence of job duties’ (accidentally gave too much change after no issues or anything since being hired). Been thinking about quitting anyway since it’s customer service and the job is meh, last year, I made $9500 and about 5k was from that job, this year, it’s gonna be about the same total, but more like 3k from this job. So I am debating if I quit since I don’t need that job. (I am in college and have multiple streams of income, loosing this one would be a downgrade to my life, but not awful)