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Recently was promoted to a managerial role after about two and a half years of unrecognized abuse from my manager. I tried to push through their comments and verbal outbursts, and was successful in tuning it out for my own career purposes. However, when I got into the new role and was already burnt out and now dealing with even more chaos, I decided this isn’t worth ruining my physical and mental health anymore. Our team manager was reported to HR by 3 different people on a small team (max 6-7 people at the time), myself being the 4th person to report. HR did nothing. Everyone brought the issues of verbal harassment and abuse, retaliation for reporting to HR, etc. to the attention of the director too, including myself once I was bumped into my new role. It was swept under the rug, and I haven’t heard anything since. I…

My wife has worked at the same Fortune 500 company for nearly 20 years. It was her first job out of college. I can't say the experience has been completely horrible. Compared to a lot of people, she's been very well-compensated, but it has been difficult at times when they've asked her to make a move to another part of the country, or even on one occasion overseas for 2 years, and we've had to be apart. But the last experience was just too much. I've been a medical resident for the last 4 years, and there are not even any residency programs in areas where her company had locations, so we compromised and live about two hours apart. Because of my crazy hours and her work schedule, we can only see each other on the weekends. And we have kids, which complicates things. So, I applied for fellowships last…

One of my old employers from several years ago reached out to me begging me to come back to work for them, as most people who they hired after I left were quitting for better opportunities. This has left them in a huge bind, so they looked up my contact info from LinkedIn and reached out. This is a wonderful employer who I left on good terms and still run into on a regular basis while out and about. I would love to go back to work for them, but I also want to make sure I’m not lowballed on salary. I fully expect them to lowball me, and I plan to negotiate without spilling how much I make at my current job. What I’m afraid of is their HR team will request exactly what I make and that my current employers HR team will reveal it. Is compensation something…

Sorry in advance for format; on mobile and been drinking. I called off of work yesterday, I told them family emergency and a family member was sick. I really just needed a day. I work as a hairstylist for the past 6 years and the job has gotten progressively more demanding since covid. Many local salons have closed “due to staffing” in my area so we are always slammed from open to close. It’s cutting into my personal life bad. My mental health is non existent. I’m finally starting to go back to school in spring and although my partner and I just got a house together, they are willing to help with more financial burden to compensate me finding a lower wage, hopefully lower stress job until school starts. I texted, didn’t call, my manger. They made us sign paperwork about a month ago that texting isn’t acceptable for…

ill try to keep this short. so ive been working at chuck e cheese’s for about a year now, and when i got hired, i expected to be working a gameroom position. halfway into my job, i got put up at the door (to keep track of families going in by giving them a uv stamp and checking their stamp when they go out) more and more, to the pot where i rarely, if ever, actually did the job i applied for in gameroom. so today, at the time of the original posting, was about the busiest day of the week. there a shit ton of families, around 120 families in our store. a shitty manager, who had past issues of giving unwarranted write ups to a handful of people, came up to me and essentially told me off on how the security guard was helping me check people in…

Any time landlord's are mentioned on this sub all the comments are hate-filled. You do realize a lot of us want/ need to rent? Landlords provide that. It's shortsighted and illogical to suggest landlords shouldn't exist – can some give an counter view please? I don't understand how you think society would work without landlords. Do you consider hotels/motels/airBNB landlords? What would you stay on vacation? Would you have to buy a house ? I don't get it. Thanks in advance.

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