I worked for a company with over 400 employees. Last Tuesday, we all logged on to a Zoom invitation letting us know once the call was over, our company was no longer an we were now unemployed. We were given 2 days notice to find health insurance which won’t be continued, and received 0 severance.
Got hired on with the job description of “7-4pm Mon-Fri, no weekends.” Job title was basically sorting parts and controlling the flow. During the interview it was described as “alot of sitting on your ass.” First day: full on breaking down oilfield tools and being shopt grunt. Fast forward to today. In a little over a year and a half, we went through atleat 10 or more people hired to be help. Originally it was 7-4pm, no weekends. Then it became 7-5pm weekends optional. Then 7-whenever we fucking tell you and weekends. I got fired today because even though I had the approval of the shop supervisor to not work weekends, the person above him decided after 21 months, that me not working 7 days a week was a problem. Lesson learned: Fuck Halliburton
I’m leaving my current employer, as a restaurant manager after Monday. I’ve taken a lesser position with more benefit at a non competitive company. I’m currently in tears, because for the past ten years I’ve been an advocate for them. I’ve given everything to make sure their needs are met. But this job has been killing me. I mean that in the literal sense. I’m down to 140 lbs, I haven’t had a day off since December 25. I’ve told the big wigs that they need to pay more. But still I’ve been bled dry. I need a change. I will not die for this company. But who is going to look after my people? What fresh hell am I offering them to? I hate what I’m doing to them.
I work in education with Pre-K. Typically I am support staff which means I cover lunches and provide support… lately I have been put in a class all day where the child bites, kicks, screams and another child as well. I wouldn’t mind it as I love to help/ do my job. However they have begun leaving in there for the whole day. It is to a point where I am exhausted, the kids are a huge liability and I spoke to admin… “It was (insert principals name’s ) decision but I will speak to her and see if some days we alternate you.” The next day and weeks I was given a schedule with only my lunch as the period where I was not in the class. The other person who also holds my position gets to cover all lunches and floats through, teachers complain he/she does not help…
I've had a reddit account for the better part of a decade, but have only recently (in the past year or so, and only because reddit start sending me digest-style listings of things I might be interested in, which resulted in me reading more across the board(s)) actually started taking part in posting things on various subreddits… After reading some of the items on here, it's made me wonder if I should post my own story as a contractor… I was doing freelance work for a company with a very nice product idea for about 2 years solid, as a front-end engineer… They had an original product that had an admin management dashboard, and then a secondary launch attempt of trying to update said admin management dashboard, which flopped, and then they decided they wanted to try a React.js re-launch of said admin management dashboard, and a buddy of mine…
I want to first say I’m not advocating for this bill. It is a resolution to abolish the IRS by making all current tax code void and instead setting up a 23% federal sales tax. Everyone here talks about the rich paying their fair share. Well here is a perfect opportunity to do so. Sure prices go up a few cents but having more money will help out overall.
Back in the summer, we took a two week vacation to see family, and my wife properly relayed the days she would be gone and, properly, put in the PTO request. It was approved. Today, however, she was told that there was a mistake made by someone on the team, and as a result, no PTO was utilized. Now she's being given two options: surrender the PTO equivalent that she's accrued or pay the company back. She was also told that this was her fault, not the company's, because she could've checked to make sure everything was right in December. Not back in the summer when the person whose job it was to enter it apparently entered it wrong, but December. She came home in tears tonight and is frantically looking for new positions elsewhere, even thinking about a month break because of the stress that other factors at work…