Author: Olivia

Hi everyone. I’ve lurked in this sub for a while and it has inspired me to leave my job. I’ve been at this tech company for the past year, and I have grown tired of the micromanaging, controlling behaviour from superiors, and the general company culture. I’ve been discouraged from having small “how was your weekend” type chats with coworkers, witnessed coworkers berated and looked down on. Been talked down to and treated like I don’t know how to do my job despite being here for a year. It has overall contributed to me hating this job. It’s not a sustainable environment for me and I know it will be for the better once I leave. I am starting my job search, but I don’t know how to go about asking my manager to be a reference contact. She is the type of manager where you have to ask yourself…

So I’m currently in school full time for radiology technologist. I already have a part time job been there 17 years full time and part time. Great place, great benefits need them since I’m type 1 diabetic. But can not pick up more hours do to the fact my department does not run 24/7. I also have another job where I work per diem which mean you give them the days you are available and if there are shifts open you can get them and it’s a hospital so runs 24/7 but since they have finally filled all the full time shifts was getting like 6-7 days a month now down to 1. Been there 11 years. I don’t want to quit either place because they are both union and seniority means everything when to comes to apply for jobs and vacation time and other things. Ok since the background…

Thanks to all who are reading this. I'm a long time-lurker who has been trying to understand the different views this subreddit has. As someone who was raised in a pretty conservative, Christian household, a lot of the ideas on here are extremely different than anything I've come into contact with. I've found it enlightening and thought-provoking to read a lot of the posts on here, so thanks! Getting down to the meat of my post, though, is that I like everyone else, would prefer to do as little work as possible. As a US resident, one of the most likely ways to be able to do that with where I am in life is to maybe get a few investment properties, do some house-hacking, and get to a point where I can stop working because of a comfortable income stream from a handful of properties. However, a lot of…

I work for a pretty large company and keep getting asked to restructure things and make things that no one else in my same job class is ever asked to do. When I finish those things I don’t even get a thank you, let alone helped with anything like more pay or better career opportunities. It’s soul sucking to work there and I know I could get paid better somewhere else but this job has decent benefits and pays for my schooling. I’ve thought about demoting myself or just mentally detaching more but I’m unsure the best way to do any of those things. Work is crushing and I want to create and learn more than anything but my brain is so anxious about the next thing at work I’m tasked with completing that it seems impossible to focus on things I love.

Hey guys, I have a family member who is really against Unions because he believes they lead to people holding onto job positions too securely and then they get lazy and don’t do enough to justify their pay. Was curious to hear what salient arguments people have against this point. Thanks!

First time posting here. I work in at a small business right next to some train tracks. Greyhound passengers can see right into the windows and one of those windows looks directly into our bathroom. I noticed that people could see in there while I was cleaning at night a few months ago. I relayed this concern to the owner and her response was something like “I just hurry up when I hear the train coming.” I told her that isn’t ok since clients and their children use that bathroom every day and that we need a curtain or reflective film on the window. Her response was a no because it would ruin the aesthetic. I was unfortunately relieving myself of a hefty pee the other night and the Greyhound passengers all got to see me go pee and clean up in full view. My boss is on vacation out…

Leader of our division is not very bright. He confirmed a methodology to attribute revenue among the team mid last year but now that it’s time for commission checks he is simply reneging and I won’t be paid 50% off what’s owed to me. Am I really just at the mercy of a bad leader changing his mind on a whim? Apparently there is no other option or solution I am shit out of luck according to him.