Had to call off work for a last minute drs appointment, and the Company used my pto. When I asked why they said they Har to because we don't get sick leave. I also only accrue like 8 hours of pto every 6 months, working 50+ hours every week with no option to cut back
Two years ago I changed my relationship with work drastically. I no longer work a 9-5 (woohoo!!), instead I do seasonal contract work in the summer and in the wintertime I do a bunch of random small jobs. I have three jobs right now and I basically Tetris my schedule together. It’s great and keeps me very engaged in the work that I do (and enjoy). I am really happy in my life, and I get to do so many awesome things during my days. However, I have not been working as much as usual lately and I am really starting to feel guilty and shameful for some reason. Perhaps about the money that I don’t really have, or having so much free time. Has anyone ever struggled with these feelings?
I'm not really seeking advice but if anyone has insight, I'm all ears and do appreciate it. We're a team of 5. Most of management has been replaced, so the new management is trying to max out all of our working hours by making them do 5+ different things that don't align with each other. They're changing our skill-specific role to something that handles 5 different ones (think front end web developers taking on backend web dev, UI/UX design, app dev, and tech support). It's wearing multiple hats at once for 1/5th of the pay. Unfortunately there's a clause in their signed documents that makes it “legal” because of incredibly vague wording. My team is unaware of this, but it will happen soon. Every effort I made to improve the state and value of our team has been shut down for the past several months, but at the same time…
My work is now requiring us to come in twice a week. The problem is, I have no work to do and it’s an “open work environment” so I can’t just watch Netflix. What am I supposed to do so I won’t go nuts? *Also, I have to use a work issued computer (quitting isn’t a factor for a variety of reasons)
I hate how here in the US we are all pretty much at will employees where the employer doesn’t have to have a reason to let us go. I was wondering if this was a US only thing or if this exists in other countries as well.