Has the American workforce conditioned us to feel guilty when we use our sick time or vacation time? I won’t lie, sometimes I feel guilty when I call out from work, but then I snap out of it because I know it’s not how I truly feel. Anyone else experience this?
8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest, 8 hours of sleep is normal. Nice and symmetrical. Feels like it gives me time to get done what I need to do during the day. I can even deal with 10s, where I don't have much time at home other than to make dinner and get to sleep 12s are unnatural. The shift drags on no matter how busy I am. If you have a pretty reasonable (read very generous) commute of half an hour, it leaves you 11 hours left to cook, keep up on household chores, spend time with family and significant others, and otherwise have a personal life, all while also getting enough sleep that you don't go to work feeling groggy Fuck 12s
so about 3 and a half years ago I was working for an oilfield company operating vac truck. it was the fall, and I knew due to the size of company and weather in the area, the already slowing work would be coming to a grinding halt. I discussed this with my boss and told him that I was gonna start looking at other jobs opportunities, because I knew the winter months would be too slow to keep me going. he offered to send me for training to get a boiler ticket saying “if you run boiler you'll have so many hours you will be begging for a day off” I agreed because I knew it would mean a wage increase and advancing of my own personal skills. the day before the course, (about 16 hours before it was to start) he called me and said he wasnt going to…
I work in sales and I started to realize I was severely underpaid for what I did. I mean base pay was 30k a year and we had a 2-3 month long selling cycle. I got no help from the company when it came to getting warm leads and they didn't even attempt to train me on the products. I decided to look for a remote job, found one that pays 63k base a year, great benefits, and everything I was looking for in a company. I go talk to HR and let them know that I found a new job and that I am going to be leaving in two weeks. My manager says lets just have you stay till the end of the week and when I show up on Wednesday we decide that it's best for me to stay home. Before I quit I closed a deal…
So, my office is a bare-ass beige no-window nightmare. Been working here for over two years so I’ve been making my office more fun/homely. Then my family caught COVID a few weeks ago, my supervisor gave me permission to telework for two weeks. Her supervisor got mad at her and it was only supposed to be ten days for teleworking/quarantine. Well, they terminated my telework agreement because they got mad at me working from home for two weeks. Union is PISSED, I am PISSED and I’ve already got three other offers from in-house departments. (All with 100% telework agreements) We just need to sign the paperwork. I started hauling all my “fun” stuff home, just a bare-bones office now. My supervisor finally stopped by to introduce a new employee (I’m internally screaming for them to run) and she comments about “Oh wow, your office was SO NICE! What happened to…
