Month: August 2024

“Should have people skills that including adjusting with different employee personalities and beliefs” Why should adjusting to people personalities and beliefs fall on my shoulders? I don't give a damn if you don't like me, but I sure as shit am not going to change my own beliefs so you feel comfy. This is nuts, right?

I got in an accident recently, but I still managed to work my shift that day. I was running on adrenaline, but I don’t think I could have handled it the next day. I had to take the day off to get checked out by a doctor and get some x-rays. The following day was my day off, but I had to take another day off the next day, which was a Saturday, because I was still pretty shaken up and sore still. I worked for an hour that day, but then I had to go home. I spent the whole weekend sleeping. When I came back to work, I got a written warning saying that I would be terminated if I missed any more work without notice. I was furious. I told them I had been in an accident. But it fell on deaf ears. Still getting over being…

Hi everyone, I've been working as a social media manager for the past 2 years. I just kinda stumbled upon this career and thought I could have some freedom and peace of mind as it's not a position with a lot of responsibility. Boy was I wrong. My previous job was in media, the employer was a heartless tyrant and going to work made me want to puke. I actually developed chronic depression and anxiety and I'm currently still on medication. I don't go to therapy because whenever I mention anything anti work they try to convince me that I'm in the wrong. I just don't know how to deal with the system we live in. I don't know how to accept that I HAVE to work and that someone/something will ALWAYS stress me out. Currently I'm working remotely for a foreign company and I honestly thought that would solve…

I am trying to figure out what the hell is happening at my workplace. I started less than half a year ago. It’s an admin roll in social services, extremely fast paced, lots of deadlines, I have minimal support. The work is fine, I’m smart and picking up on things quickly. But I’ve worked in social services my whole life, and it’s never been like this. What I’ve experienced in social services has been the genre of toxic where everyone is trauma-bonded, professional boundaries blur due to the fucked up shit we’re always facing, everyone’s going out for drinks to brain-dump, etc etc. This is something else. The first thing: there’s this culture that we don’t “do” pleasantries; i.e. when I walk into the office in the morning and say “hi, good morning!” to the room, or I answer a phone call from a colleague with “hi ____”, “This is…

Me and a coworker were talking about this today, and I thought I’d ask on here for some funny stories of people being stupid.

I have this coworker who is rude to me constantly. He'll intentionally call me my twin brothers name (he has never met him) & I started totally ignoring him when he'd try to get my attention. Apparently he had a task he needed me for since he wasn't strong enough to do it himself but I ignored him because he was calling me the wrong name. He almost hurt himself trying to do it alone & started yelling at me after & shouting my last name to get my attention. I calmly looked down at him & said “That's wild, I'd never talk to someone who could kick my ass like that” & just walked away. Some of our coworkers heard & laughed. He reported me for threats of violence & I had to discuss it with HR, I explained how factually what i said was true, I don't talk…

per the regional director, upon receiving two weeks notice from an employee, they are to have their resignation accepted immediately, sometimes with an option to finish out the day. thanks for letting me know what to do when I move on one day!

Hey everyone I just gotta talk/rant about this for a bit. So my IT company recently completed a major project, like I'm talking Project Engineers working 14+ hr days and high stress for a few months. During the go-live day our Service Desk got slammed with calls, normally we get 100-150 calls a day….. we got 300 calls in an hour. Management pretty pushed out an emergency announcement that EVERYONE needed to hop on the phones and do T1 tech support. I got a bit of knowledge on how we do billing and charge clients. Doing some quick math, this project brings in about $6,000/month in reoccurring profit, not revenue, profit. Plus whatever one time payment the client made. My guesstimate is a few hundred thousand dollars. Today management announced the special reward for all our hard work….. a pizza party. Unless you work remote (which a good chunk of…