Author: Olivia

Decided to change up my career path from hospitality to trades because I felt stuck with nowhere to go and wanted something with more growth and better finance. After several months of search I had finally found a trades job that I was actually interested with great potential! Met up with the boss, gave me a nice run down of the work and promised me comprehensive training, schooling, certification, equipment etc. (sounds fantastic!!!). I've told at beginning before I was hired that I am not used to this line of work as I am a bit more spoiled and would need some time to get myself adjusted on getting dirty and operating dangerous machines. Started the job as a basic laborer, nothing fancy but something enough to understand the basics of the job, boss even check up on me twice during my first week to see how I am liking…

I just got hired at a donut shop & they sent me the stuff to get set up on the app for getting your schedule & requesting days off. However, there are several days/weeks that are “blacked out.” Some of them very random like the entire first 12 days of August. I texted the GM to confirm that these days cannot be taken off at all & she says “correct.” Tomorrow i think I am going to tell her thanks, but don’t think this job is for me. My sister thinks I’m overreacting, but some of the days they have blocked off are days I actually need off bc my son has no school/no day camp during summer. Not to mention I was told I’d be working a certain schedule, & now they’re already trying to get me to work days/times outside of my availability & I haven’t even started…

I just need to vent, FUCK YOU COMPANY! SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK NOT PAYING ME MY FINAL PAY CHEQUE on time because you lost my hours worked THEN SAYING I worked less hours I did when you had a damn month to contact me and let me know so i can sort it and you fired me might I add just because I swore once with no one around besides one other employee who lied and made it seem worse then it was no meeting and no warning just gone AND i was there that day for training on that day so you didn't even fire me in person you actually waited until I got home and send me a damn email! what the actual fuck!!! I want to add that I am now fucked for the next month because yes I'm starting a new job but but I need…

Been at this place for a month and ended up getting fired because I did not want to work with the crew I was with. Truth is, I absolutely hated working them and felt severely uncomfortable everyday. Every day verbal and physical abuse. Had sheet metal tossed me, air handler/ furnace dropped on my collar bone and etc. Everyday the guys ridiculously talked shit to me. Yes, I got pictures of my bruises and scars. I texted the other manager shortly after I got terminated and it seems like he doesn’t care. Should I move forward with the complaint? I fear my “replacement” is going to have to deal with this and the previous guys before me didn’t want to work with the install crew.

Last week I had spoken with the CEO of the company I was working for about working from home. My daughter was sick and I needed to pick her up from school. She asked if I could work from home, to which i said yes. I also asked if I could work from home the next day if my kid was still sick. She approved both days as long as my direct supervisor was okay with it. I cleared this with my supervisor and worked at home Monday and Tuesday. On Friday when I submitted my time sheet I received an email from the CEO asking why I worked from home for 2 days, even though SHE approved it, and I put it in my email with my time sheet. The email also a used me of taking advantage of my new supervisor’s “learning curve” by working from home for…

i worked for a publicly traded company. building materials. i programmed and operated a 5 axis CNC router. i produced door stiles and rails. the way i was taught, producing stiles and rails for a 1 lite door, 2 stiles, 2 rails, took over 22 minutes. this was the cycle time… from the time the router picks up the tool, runs its routine, drops off the tool was over 22 minutes. i was able to eliminate unneeded operations and set the start point of next operation closer to end point of last operation. i got the cycle time down to 7 minutes for the same door. management's response?…”that's good”. no increase in pay. no questions about what i did, how i did it, or “what else do you see that we can improve on?” after that, i did just enough to not get bitched at.