TL;DR – Boss told me I wasn't good enough to run my own business. I've just taken one of his more lucrative clients off him whilst also earning double what he was paying me. For context I work as a tradesman. Mid last year I was working for an insecure, micromanaging nightmare of a bloke with an extraordinarily fragile ego. His expectations started to become ridiculous and so I began putting together a plan to move into self-employment as a sole trader and start my own business. He picked up on my absent mindedness whilst working and asked to speak to me. He asked how I'm feeling about the work overall and I mentioned I felt I was not enjoying working for him. His response? “Well I actually brought you in here because I wanted to tell you you're not a good fit for the team anymore.” Like what? That…
It is really disgusting and sad that I get paid more to do fuck all sat at home with a laptop than actually improving someone's life
Come back to the office they said!
You must come back to the office, its good for you, you are missing out on the teamwork myth they said! That way you can also enjoy: Having less time Eat worse quality food Do Less Exercise Spend more money Be less motivated / Happy Be more tired Leave company quicker Not to mention, less time with your loved ones! Great!
anyone else been job hopping?
Ideas meeting!
I don't know if Stromae is famous it your neck of the woods (where ever you're from) but I listened to this some (which subtitles) and figured it belonged here. It is an homage to everyone that deserves celebrating but cannot do it themselfs, because they are not given voice or they are poor or in general not heard: Stromae – Santé (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Uniform policies are getting ridiculous.
Do I even need to explain? Companies are out there firing people or sending them home without pay because the uniform isn't a certain way. It's just wrong.