Author: Olivia

(Cross posted in r/legal) Originally, I found a recipient for In Home Supportive Services (caregiving) online. Both he and IHSS themselves have assured me that I can work from then until I get my provider number, and when I receive it in the mail I can then backlog all my hours and get paid for them. Now, originally I was told I'd get my provider number within three weeks. Calling back on Monday, I was told 3-6 weeks (it's already been three weeks since I got my final paperwork in and my background check went through). So here I am thinking it'll be another 3 weeks tops. Come to find out from a potential new recipient, that her last provider didn't receive their number for MONTHS. Imagine my frustration, having already worked nearly two months with no pay, just to find out it could be much much longer. The question…

I'm conflicted with this statement because it doesn't work. I work in a union and all we have is the option to work now grieve later. Our JD are very defined and basically minimal leeway but no the employer can tell you to do anything. I spoke with a steward on this too and been told exactly that. I would love to just say to management you're under staffed and the work belongs to a higher pay grade or we need more help but that falls on deaf ears. The problem with the statement “it's not my job” is that I'll get put into a disciplinary hearing for insubordination. Honestly I don't know how you guys, in or out, of a union do it. I feel it's easier to do it in corporate. It's challenging to navigate the work environment.

I genuinely don’t know how i’m supposed to have a healthy work/ life balance when i work 55+ hours a week just to survive. My girlfriend broke up with me last night because she feels that i “work more than i need to” yet i’ve told her a million times “i work because i have bills to pay”. This is the second relationship that’s been ruined because of my job. I’m heart broken. I’m a 23 y/o man. I make about 50k a year. it’s back breaking work but i don’t know what else to do. How am I supposed to maintain a social life if all i do is work??

I’m disappointed. My work got bought out by another company. A company that does what we do but better. So they fired my boss and others who didn’t live in the community or close to it. They want people who live here to be the ones running things. Heavy emphasis on local. Our new GM came in and promised us he would not repeat the mistakes of past managers. They would vet extensively and hire my new direct boss to help me and my team improve and be better. I’ve never had that. Ever. My last two bosses were more concerned with stroking their egos and making themselves feel and look good than helping our teams improve. The GM even pulled me into his office to ask my opinion on one of the guys that applied because he'd worked here before in a nonmanagerial role. He wanted to know the…

I work with a team that does ticket based data work and we generally need to make regular schedule changes in order to handle the directional shifts of our work. This week our team decided that the stakeholders can do the planning themselves. If the stakeholder are unhappy with the order of our work and the way we structure it for everyone then they can all meet to negotiate the 40+ projects we are supporting. Once they determine the priority of each project respectively we will adjust plan but not until. ~20 people prioritizing projects across multiple departments should be fun.. for them… I assume we are process as normal for a while. I’m look forward to seeing who blinks first.

This is mostly a rant, and I know most people who post have it way worse. I just need to get it off my chest. A couple of years ago was the first chance that a job opened up at my plant that I was eligible for. I had a shot to get out of operations. I didn't get it, but I was a “really close second”. I've come to hate that term. About a year later, they created a new job. It was suppose to be like a step between operations and supervision. I also didn't get this one, and it instead went to someone who made it very clear that they did not ever want to be a supervisor because of the lack of overtime. Soon after, a supervisor position that I actually had the experience equivalent of opened up. My superintendent said he only wanted internal candidates.…

Hi guys, Sorry for the rant, and I’m not sure if I’m supposed to post this here, but today really sucked. I got fired today on the spot, in front of my coworker an hour before I was supposed to clock out. She just told me to give her the office keys and to not come back tomorrow. No warning, no explanation, just fired on the spot and I’m really embarrassed, hurt, and angry. I just started this new job at a law firm in CT. I started in April and I was hired as an office assistant. My duties were to file, scan, draft documents, answer phones and emails, and basically do clerical work. But the attorney I worked for was really hard to deal with. The attorney and my coworkers micromanaged everything I did. Nothing was ever good enough for the attorney, and she would be very rude…

Here’s mine, very American and lofty. Free Education until 24. Universal Health Care Universal day care Retired by 59 36 hour work week 4 week PTO minimum, plus holidays and an additional week each decade worked. 1 year combined parental leave per child Detached home or apartment 800 SF per single dweller, +200SF additional resident. Weekly fruit, vegetable, protein, grain package Fresh Water, electricity, A/C below 85, Heat above 60. Weekly trash pickup Basic clothing Public Life and accident insurance Great public libraries Great public transport +1 vehicle per household Great public parks I’d like all this before another yacht is built.