My company recently hired a 3rd party marketing company to do an anonymous survey of its workers. Mostly geared toward how we see companies in general in the same line of work. Typical useless info that the company already has with a sprinkling of company feedback. The kicker? One question asks for your role and a second asks for your postal code. I've read enough posts about surveys that end with the company finding out who is posting what. Not gonna be apart of that.
I wasn’t sure where else to ask this, so I hope this is a good place! Long story short: I left my other job 2021 Oct because it went to shit and they switched back to In Office and there’s so much more lol. I got this new job and everything was GREAT except they were only offering 10 Days off, 3 Emergency, 5 Sick. During the interview process I asked them if I could have those 5 Sick as PTO instead because I was coming from a place that I’d have 23 days off the following year and that if I was sick, which I rarely get, I could still work from home as we are remote. This was denied. I was able to squeeze by last year but this year is trouble. I have several weddings, two bachelor parties, a Euro trip we are trying to plan, and…
I currently work in a casual zero hours contract role, where its understaffed with its busiest days friday and saturday being and just one person managing ticketing for events and cinema screenings. People tend to not want to work those shifts aswell because of the day and nature od how busy it can get. They've offered us a contract with guaranteed 24 mins hours providing that we at least work 4 friday and saturday evenings each month. We would have to reapply and reinterview aswell. In the new contract the rest of the week seems slightly unclear as to how they will create the rota but each shift is a minimum of 4 hours. The contract doesn't mention anything about sick leave or holiday, so I asked them more about how that would work because currently it seems like they're banking on one person to cover those shifts consistently but…
I work as a legal assistant. Our office has about 8 legal assistants and about 12 attorneys. On top of that we are supposed to have 2 people in front desk/reception area: 1 person is an actual receptionist taking calls and the other person processes new cases. They’re supposed to back each other up if one of them is out. Well we used to have those positions filled until the actual receptionist quit. This left the person processing new cases handling the job of 2 people. Besides that, this person got promoted to be a legal assistant and she can’t leave that reception/front desk position until the office finds 2 new people. We’ve been short staffed since August of last year. This caused more workload put on all the assistants because we essentially become backup to the front desk person. The manager always pulls 2 specific people from my unit…
What can be a reasoning for a daily tracking form? i was just handed one along with everyone else. Do i have to fill this out if the form is not in the employee handbook? it feels very childish.
This is a past story from a few years ago when I was living in my hometown. I used to bus tables for a brand new sports bar, shifts were often 12 hours long. I couldn’t stand the management and ownership, bunch of phonies who pretended to care about your life before making you do busy work. My cousin was getting married and I gave them two weeks notice I wouldn’t be able to make it to my shift as I had the wedding. I knew better than to find cover, thats not my responsibility. Management ended up calling me wondering the hell i was, told them I was at the wedding like I told them. Safe to say they weren’t happy with my decision to choose a wedding over cleaning tables.
I truly don’t know how much longer I can keep going like this, especially without a vision of a better world. I am clinging onto a sliver of hope for our future, but it’s becoming more and more difficult every day. My partner is working 6-7 days a week (salaried) at a warehouse in NYC. She’s been denied a raise multiple times. No other jobs she’s been applying to have been fruitful, no matter how eager hiring managers seem. I am trying to pick up the slack financially and at home, but I’m overdrawing my account every month to pay bills. I feel depressed. I feel angry. I have no energy or motivation. It’s hard to discern if the lethargy is long COVID or exhaustion from being drained of any little bit of money I make. I want to connect with my immediate community and support/organize with my neighbors and…
Somehow, my resume made it past through to the second stage. It's a job paying almost 6 figures when the most I've made in the past is $14/hr. Do I want to try for it? I have a guaranteed I can do position already lined up with a starting date and everything, but it pays half what this job would. Do I try to BS my way into the role? It's something I genuinely think I would love doing, and may even be good at.