I got a new job that starts in a week from Monday, even tho I told them I need two weeks. I am in a big conundrum now. For my current job I’m working as a contractor. They have put me thru hella without paying for overtime, on call or for holidays. I have to be on call in a week from now for a whole week. They are also low on staff already and will be more if I leave, which I will sooner or later. Should I just quit Monday and take a week off before new starts?
First post here, and I'll start off saying I have no idea how to format on reddit, so I'm sorry for that in advance. I had worked for a local county-level government with a clerical position in the Social Services department. I can't really go into much detail about the actual job due to confidentiality concerns, but fortunately this is more about the treatment received by the bosses that went (and unfortunately still goes) ignored if not encouraged by the higher-ups. Off the bat, being openly queer was met with resistance from a boss with comments like “Oh, that's so gay” said to me when a printer stopped working, just small things, but they started building up. The job had a six month probationary period before even getting the starting pay, instead getting a lower wage for the 6 month period. During this time, although I was walking on eggshells…
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Is this anti-work?
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ALL MONEY WORTHS NOTHING
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Walked out on toxic shith*le
I spent a good year and a half on site at a client taking care of the employees needs, only to be under mind by the ethically compromised plant manager, his boot licking lackeys, and willfully inept supervisors. There comes a tipping point where enough is enough. I’ve never considered walking out on a job before. The environment was so combative it was conducive to this type of behavior from the employees. If you push someone enough, they break. I’m not sure if I feel like I did something wrong, but I know that things could’ve been handled completely differently, mainly by the toxic management. I am so glad I’ve moved on, within a week I was offered a boost in pay and the title worth holding onto.
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My employer closing with no notice
Worked my ass off for 6 months for this company, was promised a raise twice, and then with no message or call, I went to work and the door was locked with a different key, I had to call these idiots for them to tell me the business had shut down. I honestly don't know what people are thinking.
CW, depression, suicidal ideation. Edit: I wrote this as a comment in the above thread, and found out after I tried to submit it that it had been deleted. I figured it might be worthwhile for some of you to hear what the inside story sounds like, and how variable it can be. Currently coming up on three years Costco after fifteen in retail, two of which were as a salaried manager. My time at Costco has been almost refreshing. The store functions as perfectly as can be said of any business in history, even in a pandemic. Everything that can go wrong has a plan in place with mostly good authorities in charge of it making the changes necessary when someone calls in, or someone gets hurt, or a department is getting crushed. People are cross-trained to cover, extra help is there. The worst thing that happens is a…
