Month: August 2024

I'd like to disconnect my identity from my work more. However, I find that I put up my own psychological roadblocks to developing an identity outside of work. I do have some hobbies but I never seem to be able to get past thinking of them as things I do in my free time rather than who I am. My work identity feels a lot more solid but I'd honestly rather care about it less because I work as a cog in a large corporate environment and would rather not get so frustrated when things don't go my way. I hate feeling bothered by work so much when a lot of it is completely pointless. I guess I feel scared that if I focus so much on things outside of work that I'll possibly forget about my job and get fired or lose money or something? I'm not sure. Either…

I work at a non profit “maker space” that offers adult memberships to the space, and year round education programs for k-12. That means that during the school year we have schools field trip To our space, or go to local schools and do small STEM classes. Other than that we have camps. Spring camp, summer camp, and some In between. I have been here for around 7 months. I have an associates degree and I have about 6 years experience in education (I’m 24). I was hired as an “assistant educator”. When I showed up for work, I soon found out I was the only one in the education department besides my boss. The two people who own the company are husband and wife. The “wife” (we’ll call her lily) is my boss and runs the education department. So it was literally just me and her. For months I…

I just got a job emailed to me from Indeed. It is for a warehouse supervisor position with Innovative Distribution Services. Here are the best parts: You get to work from 5:30 AM to 4:00 PM as a salary employee. And I am willing to bet that the 30 minute lunch is not guaranteed. You have to manage productivity, supervise, train, and discipline employees. And you also have to unload trucks, sort product, and build pallets. Because this is, as described in the job position, is a “working” supervisor position. As if running the entire shift isn't enough. This position pays a whopping $65 – $72,800k a year. I am a retired logistics manager. I recently found a paystub from 2002 when I was making $57k a year only 4 years out of college. Things have gotten a little pricier since then. It is amazing that you hear a daily…

I work at a smallish brewery in Greater Vancouver in an area pretty well known for its multiple breweries. The business is not doing super well due to market trends (less people drinking beer, higher prices, all the usual) but also due to a series of really stupid decisions on the owner’s part (too many to list and don’t necessarily want to give too many identifying features of the biz for obvious reasons). Yesterday at our quarterly staff meeting, after our manager spent about 10 minutes going on about how much better we’re doing in sales compared to last year, she promised us a “summer staff party” to thank all the people that will be leaving at the end of the summer. The catch? It’ll be at the park down the road (free venue) and she wants it to be a POTLUCK. Like, we bring our own food. So basically…

So, long story short, my hisbamd is probably getting a job in Raleigh to transfer to, but that would mean that I would have to quit my job. This job market does not give me high hopes at all for getting a job secured in a reasonable amount of time after we move or before. It’s kind of stressing me out.

Recently my mgr became my mgr bc of restructuring. I accepted it , bc I have no choice. I adapted. I had to train on her on a few things but it was masked as showing what tasks I complete in a day. Clocked it. I was due for a promotion once we brought on a new person on my team of 1.. the new girl comes. Yes I got I the promotion, but it was remixed. That’s another topic. So, My mgr tries to train her , some things were correct , but many were not. How can you train s1 on my division if you’ve only watched me for a week and I gave a mini sprinkle of a training. Fast forward to today. She’s had to help with items bc the new hire, onboarded and left until further notice. I didn’t need the help bc I can…

I went on short term disability mid March of this year. Luckily, I'm still on disability. My manager was aware before I took leave of my mental and physical illness (the cause of my disability leave). I work(ed) in a call center. So it's been 4 months now and I haven't heard a word from anyone. Coworkers don't ask about me, my manager hasn't reached out to me asking how I'm doing. I don't plan on going back to work there. Just going to use the rest of my time and find somewhere else to work. For a team that touted how we were like family and everyone loves each other I feel like I don't matter as much because my numbers suffered while I was working due to said disability. Had to pull accommodations out like teeth and it still wasn't what I needed. Don't even know where I'm…