Antiwork

I worked at a small startup in Texas. Job doesn’t matter. This afternoon, a peer employee who doubles as our HR informed me today was my last day. It was a lay off, not a firing. A severance letter was received of which I would be getting about 2 weeks worth of my salary. However, 3 weeks ago my company restructured the PTO program. (Stay with me) In my severance letter, it stated I would be getting a severance but nothing about the remainder of my PTO. What grounds do I have to ask about my PTO remainder versus severance?

my college professors are smack talking me in the comments of my classwork because i refuse to blow smoke up corporations bung hole when doing assignments. my opinions are backed up with research, journal articles and real world experience and they are just brushing it off as if i just worked for a few bad eggs instead of the whole bunch being shitty. still making a 3.2 GPA in a college algebra intense major so I'm OK.

Seriously “entry” level jobs are such a joke. I was working part time sales (retail) throughout uni while studying Computer Science and I quit in my last year to focus on graduating with good GPA and building a personal portfolio. Now I've been graduated for over six months and still haven't been able to find a job. Every junior position I apply to has multiple years of experience required and often on sites like indeed or LinkedIn will have 100's of applicants. I honestly would have been better off working full time in a minimum wage job for four years instead of uni and teaching myself programming on the side because it really feels like uni has not taught me any relevant skills for the work force as most jobs require languages and tools that I was not taught in uni. Instead now I am stuck with no job, having…

Located in the United States At my job, we take turns going on call each weekend. Being on call just involves being available to take calls and provide technical support. We get paid per call taken, in addition to a daily flat-rate for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I have been at this job for two years and I have never received a call while being “on-call”, though I have spent ~90 days on call while I've been here. My training for being “on-call” was extremely poor. For the first year, I didn't even know that we got paid a flat rate per day. I was only told that we got paid for time spent on calls. At the beginning of the second year, there was an announcement that some of our rates were changing, and it was announced that we would receive $123 (not the actual number) per day while…

For the record, I am absolutely not encouraging others to do the same. But to anyone who is considering quitting and knows they have a decent, human first HR department, I really encourage you to do your best in speaking with them to remedy your situation if you too are in a bad working relationship situation like I was. After 3 separate meetings with my HR department and my boss's boss, I decided to give my resignation. For all of you who enjoy reading the details about stories like this, the articles that deep dive on why I quit and what it was like after I quit are here.