I work in renewable’s. I was super excited when I started. I’m a journeyman and live in a O&G stronghold that hates the idea of people being green. When I started my boss said are you willing to take a pay cut at the beginning but within 2 years you should be exactly where you are now as demand is getting higher every year. Well it’s been 3 years and with inflation I’m now behind 10% where I was before. Not to mention all the stress I have on my plate running jobs and making tight deadlines being the only worker in the field. I’ve joined the union that’s screaming for workers. I’ll start in 2 weeks making 21% more then I am now and I’ll have way less responsibility. I’m nervous cause change scares me but my family will benefit from this. Guess my boss won’t be able to…
I am asking sincerely, because I clearly don't understand the unemployment rate or something. It feels like, since the rate is about 3.5% right now, it SHOULD be an employee's market. But I'm seeing SO MANY posts about folks not being able to find jobs, or being afraid to quit because of the scarcity of jobs. Now, my suspicion is that they mean they aren't finding jobs which compensate well enough to have a decent life, but I'm not sure. I also know that the tech industry (which I'm in) is getting absolutely hammered by layoffs right now (https://www.leftvoice.org/tech-layoffs-show-the-need-for-greater-and-more-militant-organizing/), so I get that tech workers are feeling the pinch. I'm scared, myself, but I feel like it's just my sector. But is this more about underemployment vs. unemployment? Sorry if I'm being dense, I just want to wrap my head around the posts I'm seeing. Thanks!
The reward for hard work is more work
I’m going to quit this afternoon
I’ve been at my job almost two years. I was only supposed to stay a year. I tried to change my availabilities due to my declining health and my boss freaked out because we’re a small team and if I don’t work Sundays, she has no one. So she screamed at me over the phone, accused me of rumours she’d heard and insulted me. I was shocked that a manager would speak to her employee that way. My bf was in the room and heard the call and he was disgusted at her lack of respect and professionalism. She told me I couldn’t change my availabilities without a doctor’s note which just plain isn’t true at all and called me lazy because I don’t do more than my every day task list during my shift (minimum wage = minimum effort). When I told her about my health problems, she completely…
Unresponsive boss
He has been out of the office all week (I believe he may be sick and/or working from home) but he has not answered any of my questions or time sensitive requests. I am not sure if he is upset at me or is just busy. Yesterday all he said is he was not near a computer to review something. Am I getting the silent treatment?
wrongful termination/ “quit”
So I walked out of my job a few days ago, and I emailed my supervisor that I will be going home and taking the day off yesterday to figure out if I want to stay. When I came back I got an email from HR saying that because I walked out I basically quit .. I emailed back saying that i didn't resign and I will be in tomorrow unless they fired me. So they just called me and keep saying that because I walked out I quit the job. I asked if it's in the handbook but he said “it's every companies policy”.. I'm tryin to contact lawyers but all are busy this morning Should I show up to work tomorrow?
So my work has a wellness program that rewards PTO for a certain amount of ‘wellness’ actions taken during a period. They have now stipulated that none of these activities can be done during work, including online training (that is all slideshows about improving workplace relations). As I’m trying to game the system and put in the lowest amount of effort for the PTO reward-is there a way to automate clicking through a timed slideshow? The information is almost pointless but it makes you wait 2-3 minutes for a slide with 2 sentences on it before allowing you to proceed to the next slide. If there’s another place to post this, or different search terms I can use to find an answer, I would really appreciate that. I wish I already found a solution that I could post here, but so far I’ve only found results on how to create…
Corporate gaslighters at it again.
WFH is “too expensive” making people yearn of the return of office life.