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Is it about idea to attempt to transfer to another job after 6 months in?

Been at the new job for about 6 months and have pretty much learned everything as it is an administrative role. There is a job posted internally that would give me a 22% increase which I would love to have but it is another admin role which I will probably become bored. ​ The issue is that my job requires us to inform my current supervisor if we want to transfer. I know deep down my boss would not be very happy about this and there is no guarantee I would get to the position either, which could have greater ramifications as I would have to still work with him. Although I am an admin, I have always been very good at my job and I have unfortunate problem of being so good at times, that I cannot move into a better role. What would you do? I work in…

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Anything I can do about new boss lying about my job

I don't know if this should post here but I'll ask anyway. I work at a very popular resort. I love it there in general. I want to stay. Even after working there 6 years, I'm still considered a relative newbie. There are only a few people there who have worked there less but most have worked there over 5 years to 10 to 20 and upwards of 30 years. However, my former supervisor and manager started acting really sh*tty, taking my shifts because it worked better for them, and totally dismissing my complaints about it to add to the multitude of issues I'd been putting up with but that was the last straw. Meanwhile, there was another manager who manages two departments who had been trying to woo me away from my last department to work for him. Once that scheduling thing happened and I wanted to transfer, he…

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Forced to work with a hate group

I'll be giving extremely limited details to protect privacy. I mostly want to vent, but could use some advice, too. So my job hired me and my coworkers due to belonging to a minority group, to apply our experiences to assist the company's partners in creating inclusive and relevant content. My program is federally funded. Last year we were told we would vote on some new partners. I researched each of them, and one is known as a hate group. I actually knew this already, as I've already dealt with them online over the years. But I learned more about this group's work, and it would be extremely harmful to the content we want to create. I brought this to the attention of my coworkers, and we voted unanimously against approving this partner. The boss partnered us with them anyway. All attempts to protest or fight this have been shut…

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Was told I was going to get a promotion and now I’m not

I have been at this company for about 8 months. My coworker has worked there for 5. To preface this, the team before me had not really had great luck with bosses for a couple years, lots of changes. When I joined, my boss was really excited to have me and as we started working together, he started to talk about how I would be a great fit to eventually lead the team. When it came to salary negotiations, he gave me a line about “there is likely going to be some movement here on the team soon, so I don’t want to overdo your raise now for you be way over paid when the ‘movement’ happens.” So we agreed on a decent raise, but not as much as I was hoping for. We just had a meeting the other day where he said “so actually we are likely going…

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I think my job is flaring up my depression

Hello people of reddit I genuinely just wanted to share a bit in the hopes someone might be able to give me advice. Basically I was unemployed for almost a year cause of Covid I am in the lucky position of being supported by my family so i could get by without ending up homeless. I got a job like 3 months ago in the governments crisis management. I work 7 days in a row 10-11 hours a day and then we got 3-4 days off depending on the shift. The pay is ok it's way more i would get at any other job with my education level. But the 7 days working a piece basically close to 80 hours a week exhaust me so much I don't think I can handle it anymore. I do not have any other job options and i have been looking for a way…

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On those that tell others to “start their own business”

I'm using tires in this example because it's what I know. Let's take Discount Tire/America's Tire's founder Bruce Halle. When he started in 1960, he had “six tires, no plan” (literally his book's name) He borrowed $400 and opened up a shop in an old plumbing shop. Now, to do this in 2022, I was curious and found the following: …you would need a minimum of one hundred and eighty – seven thousand, nine hundred and eighty USD ($187,980) to establish a medium – scale but standard tire retail shop business in any city in the United States of America. source This can probably be trimmed, but the point remains: Starting a business while in poverty is damn near next to impossible for most people.

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In Alberta there is a lower wage for students than for anyone over 18. This is the conversation I’m having with some one.

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That’s Vytal Options. I’m not over this still. I asked to go from 17.34 to 19 and was refused. Even when my manager fought for me.

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It doesn’t make sense to me.

I paid $5k and did 120 hours of unpaid placement to qualify as a support worker. Found a job at a residential facility, only to find out I get paid the same as a service station attendant (last job). Why would they require a qualification that takes 6 months $5000 and another 1 month of unpaid work, just to care for elderly and assist with daily living activities (showering, toileting etc), and pay them the same hourly rate as other jobs that don’t require no qualifications or even experience? No wonder they have shortage countrywide and plan to deploy military at aged care facilities if this continues. This qualification to me is a null set, no set of skills was acquired. I basically hold a certificate which proves I can brush someones dentures, listen to abuse and and wipe shit off their back. I quit the third day, and asked…

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I hate tips.

As a European, I have to say that I find tips absolutely disgusting. I would hate for that to ever become a thing in my country. Oh, your boss doesn't pay you enough? That's the client's fault, they should reward you personally! Ugh. Like I see people here comment stuff about how they're being paid “11$/hr+tips, so 16$/hr” and I'm here baffled by how tips are basically essential to their lives. It's truly sickening. I wish tips just didn't exist and workers just received the right pay for the value that they produce and should rightfully own.