I graduated last December and started working my first job this April. I work for a big company (not in US) where the work culture is fairly competitive and people always work overtime during the weekends. I have been working on tight deadline projects for 2 months now and have been burned out to a point where I cannot ease myself even during off days because people who work overtime at the company will send messages in message apps and I feel compulsive to check them out to see if they concern projects I am working on. What should I do?

I’ve been hospitalized with 3rd degree chemical burns twice. I slipped on another persons mess they refused to clean up because “I’m not getting a raise for being a lying lazy fuck” and shattered my hand. Had to have surgery and say I did it at home because my dad (in management In another department would have been embarrassed that I had pot in my system if I had to drop. Pots legal here. Half the building laughed at me because the new hire on heroin hurt himself his second day and still had a job) double hernias that I watched pop out of my stomach last month because the gaggle of dudes thought it was funny to not help me lift the machinery I was installing. My manager told me to say it happened at home 🤣 and when i laughed at him I had to sit in the er for 8 hours THEN as a punishment go to their special clinic for 6 more hours after that and piss. Two surgeries,two months off. No fault of my own and I was alone and literally crawled to use the bathroom so I didn’t piss my bed and now I’m back and being watched hardcore and screamed at like a child and made to work with the worst people to try and instigate me. All the while my teeth are falling out and my cars on death’s door and there’s nothing I can do because the position I was promised and planned for was taken away two days after I switched shifts and rearranged my life so the other guy could work with his best friend but hey it’s just my life so who cares. WELL I lost it and called the best injury lawyer available nearby. We’re going to take them for as much as possible and more and if there’s any retaliation we’re double suing. This isn’t going to be “quit and retire in my thirties “ money but it’ll be enough to help fix things and you know what? Good. Fire me. I already gave up all of managements names and how they told me that I might be let go after the accident because I don’t kiss ass. Two of them are getting sued separately as well as the owner and whoever else we can go after. I was terrified but now I haven’t felt this great in years! The cherry on top? I have video of the “favorites “ smoking a joint on the clock and there’s so many that I’ll SUE AGAIN if my thc to sleep once a week is used against me. Scorched earth ladies and gentlemen.

2023 World Economic Forum, first 5 minutes in the linked presentation (YouTube); what do you think about employers analyzing your brain activity while you’re working and even outside your working hours?

Link: https://youtu.be/hfqD5aW0X5U?si=NgGwg9css2IjCfHw

This is a very real, and serious upcoming technology that’s already being normalized.

I was a helping hand for a tree service for a week. I had experience in lumber jacking in my hometown where I grew up. I decided to move to my dad’s which is closer to the big city. In urgency to find work, I decided to apply or check in with the local tree service since I had some bit of experience. The guys got back to me right away which I should have known for a labor job. I tag along with the crew and am throw into the fire. The first job I did with those guys was remove a big ancient pin oak. This was quite traumatic to me as I am a tree lover and do my best to preserve nature. I decided that I mined as well deal with it since the tree would be gone with or without me, as this is this guys living. I’m quite plushy for this type of work so at the end of the week after a 12 hour day, I sure as hell was beat. A lot set in. I realized it’s time for me to work on what I’m good at and not act out of desperation. I told the boss where I’m at and told him I don’t have the passion but I’d be a helping hand if I needed cash. Which I never ended up picking up my last check. I’ve kept distance and don’t look back but I do think about it. They were cool guys and were fun and funny but I knew it was wrong for me to be there. Not quite built for that chaotic type of work, in a bonehead so of course made silly mistakes like grabbing the wrong tool or not backing the dump truck into the trailer the right way. Lots of stories with me in that type of work but it’s time for the change.

Today I went in to ask for a raise after finding out someone hired 6 weeks ago is making more than me, even though I've been there since the restaurant opened, General Manager said after 90 days I'd get a performance review. I mentioned them getting paid more and he went off on me, and said that they had a policy against discussing wages, when I let him know that was illegal he doubled down, threatened to fire me for discussing wages, and then I got another manager involved and recorded the conversation with all of us, he then threatened to fire me for insubordination because I guess it's insubordinate to let them know federal law?

I filed a complaint with NLRB, and will be with my states Labor board tomorrow.

Ohhh it’s cold, a hoodie is inappropriate 🙄 dress code is just another way to play power games and take away individuality and comfortability at work. We are in cubicles all day, there’s no reason how we dress affects our productivity. What really gets me is that there are only certain approved days where we can wear casual clothes. I refuse to participate in them cause why would I let another adult tell me when I can and can’t wear something. Stop policing us.

Today I got scolded because as usual at the end of my shift (2nd shift) I was leaving home but then someone from management screamed "hey you can't leave until someone from 3rd shift arrives and covers up for you" but in fact someone from 3rd was already there but as soon as I leaved my position which he was supposed to take on, guess what.. the F dumbass also leaved just because he didn't want to work at that position, and then I am supposed to be the one to be scolded?, nah this is BS, F that guy.

So yeah I just wanted to vent this bs situation that just happened to me, and well guys do you think I need to speak out this situation?

A few months ago I had my annual review with my boss where she basically said there were no growth opportunities for me. All the white males she'd previously employed were promoted on the one year mark every year until they had no more room to grow and joined other companies. Current team is 3 Asians + 1 black (all males except me) who are honestly very mediocre and have way less experience in the industry than myself. They have also been with the company 2-3 years without any promotions, despite us covering for this witch while she was on maternity leave.

Anyway, besides the fact that she now only hires people who are less threatening to her ego, or are immigrants with accents and self esteem so low they do nothing but bow down to her, after she told me I had no growth opportunities I basically started stealing company time and working on my personal projects on my personal laptop. One project in particular is specific to my industry and is something I could sell to my company (a hospital) and other hospitals for a ton of money. I had been working on it in secret for months, and then last week went to a conference where I discussed the idea with people in my industry who did not have the technical knowledge capacity to even understand how to take on a project of this scope. My boss is also not that technically advanced and literally spent 10 minutes the other day asking us if we wanted to track our projects in excel vs another platform.

ANYWAY, last week she told me she wanted me to do more work relevant to my interests (lol) and mentioned how she knew I was interested in AI. Well my dumb ahhh decided to share with her my general idea for my personal project. I sht u not this happened on Wednesday and this morning in our team meeting she suggests this idea as a group project for our team, not even giving me credit for COMING UP WITH IT. I have trusted this woman up to this point but her fangs have truly come out and now I'm rethinking every conversation with her and how it wasn't truly as innocent as I thought. I want to approach her about it but I truly have no one to blame but myself. My main reason for bringing it up with her was that she was much more knowledgeable about the data I'm working with but not technically savvy enough to ever do it herself. So now she is having her little Asian workhorses do it for her, and they are just dumb enough to do so. End rant I have a lot more feelings and anger towards this issue than I'm expressing because this was an extremely profitable idea.

I will try to keep this brief but still try to convey the issues this is mainly a vent. Here goes I work in an industry that is manual labor that is paid by performance. It is a very tough simple job that takes a certain type of person to thrive in it. I have worked hard to condition myself for its demands because of this. Basically the management has been having troubles finding the correct person/people to run it. I have been with the company close to three years and have had my supervisors change about 7 times and their direct manager had been replaced 4 or 5 times. I try to not let the lack of vision and direction get to me and just do my job because it pays well and I am good at it. Here is the issue the lastest iteration of management that is currently in power has fucked things up worse than ever. In my work there is not a set schedule as far as when you get off work each day you get off when all the work is completed however late that may be. This is where the problem is arising they had in place a flex day schedule where you would get a day off during the week but still be full time. I had my one day and was making enough at 4 days that everything was going well. It helps since the job is so physically demanding to get another day of rest. Well this part of the year is the busiest so to prepare they redid the flex scheduling and took away a lot of peoples day off including my own. That was crappy enough but in doing so it caused a massive quitting shift. Four of my direct coworkers in my department left in the past two weeks. So now the work load is too much for the current staff and they can’t hire people fast enough that stay long enough to replace them. So now it is extremely frustrating and stressful working such long weeks. This is longer than I wanted and not formatted correctly since I did on my phone. I just wish they would have left the old schedule in place it would have had everyone stay a little longer but still less than it is currently. Worst part is I don’t see it changing most likely before the end of the year. I can’t leave before I find another job but I am fully vested and hate starting new. Sorry for the wall of text but had to get it out somewhere.

I’d like to hear people’s opinion on the “living wage”. That seems to be so prevalent in the current political scene. My only request is that to make this fair, we’d like to know- ...geography what part of the country you’re in ...current take home pay …state of your household. Ie “ it’s not easy”, “we’re making it”, “we’re fine”, “what are y’all talking about, we’re fine”.

Let’s keep this clean, I’m not asking anyone to trash political members, and if this gets too out of hand we’ll get rid of it. Let’s have a mature adult discussion and see how this pans out.

So because I no longer work there, I don't mind saying that I worked for Lumio Solar up until October 23rd. I was hired to SET, a PNW solar company back in October 2021 designing solar arrays, and within my first year SET merged with four other companies to form Lumio. We hired a ton of new designers and sales reps, and things seemed okay at first. It didn't stay that way, obviously. We were promised annual raises, of which we only got the one in October 2022. The 2023 and 2024 raises were both "put on hold." There were about 6 rounds of layoffs between 2022 and fall of this year, because the higher ups have no idea how to manage a company. Each time our managers were blindsided and had to suddenly fire multiple members of their team with no warning. The last layoffs before the company went under left our manager sleepless for multiple days after, as he had to fire two employees who were on vacation at the time, and that particular manager genuinely cared about us.

There's a lot of factors in Lumio's downfall, and I don't claim to know all the details, but I do know that a big problem we wrestled with that entire time is sales reps lying. They'd lie to us designers, lie to installers, lie to customers, then take their paycheck and leave Lumio hanging, often leaving necessary paperwork blank which caused Lumio to not receive payment for extended periods of time. It didn't help that the company was mismanaged, hiring so many new employees with the promise that the company would prosper, then laying them off in waves because the company did not in fact prosper. Earlier this year they fired the entire initial design team (by then I'd been moved to the revisions team), which was a team based in the Philippines. They did excellent work, but the company was still losing money, so they fired them and hired an India based team instead. They had no design experience, so there was a long period of time when that lack of experience caused problems, which no doubt lead to the company losing yet more money.

Earlier this year the company declared bankruptcy, and they had a buyer lined up. Apparently that sale fell through, and on October 23rd just about everyone at the company was blindsided with an email that said that we were all on furlough "until further notice." Designers, sales reps, account creations, site survey, the revision team, and all their managers, suddenly out of work. Just under a week later we were told that Zeo energy was buying Lumio, and we were officially no longer employed. It's been a shitshow through and through. Thankfully this happened just close enough to a UI design boot camp I'm enrolled in that I can make it through to the end of the class on unemployment and savings, and ideally get into the UI design industry after that. Still, it was a real rug pull for hundreds of employees. Lumio was garbage. I don't know anything about Zeo energy, but hopefully they aren't shitty and can actually manage the assets they get from Lumio's corpse. I also hope my coworkers and manager will be okay; they're good people.

I found out that a job i had like 6 years ago is still shit talking me and effecting me getting a job.

Now, I did provide my own references to this new place..but I think they went buckwild and decided to call the company instead of using my references. By their behaviour I know that something awful was said about me. They won't admit to doing this however since it's technically not allowed due to confidentiality...but we all know these employers do what ever the fuck they want.

I did not leave that job on good terms. I was also a different fucking person 6 years ago. I've worked a lot on myself including my mental health and not drinking anymore. Not like the job or manager helped those issues at all.

Apparently you are never granted a second chance in life. You will forever be labelled as something from your past. This cancel culture bullshit is pissing me off.

Yet again, I get a young couple coming up. At first they want to pay separately for their things, but the white knight grabs her stuff and says 'got it' with a wink. Cute stuff I guess.

So he has a bottle of wine among his purchases and is already reaching for ID when I say "do you both have your IDs?"

She backs up a couple steps. "Not on me."

They both assure me she's of age (and tbh I wasn't doubting it- tonight is not a good look for her, maybe a long day?).

I tell them that if they're together, I have to assume that they will both be drinking the alcohol.

He gets mad. She is pretty calm but still repeating her age.

I tell them nicely, sorry I can get in trouble. Lose my job. Get costly fines from the state. She gets it.

He leave while stating what he must think is gonna make me feel so bad. "Well, I'm 30, and she's 24. I wouldn't date someone underage." His voice cracks a bit. Maybe from mainsplaining without taking a breath? Maybe knows he's full of shit?

So I told him what he deserves to hear. "Sorry, I don't know you, I can't risk myself on your word." While thinking *by the way dummy if you had bought separately we're allowed to let it pass even if we /know know/ that you're together.

TL;DR had to imply that some guy was a pedo in front of his girlfriend because he tried to get all big on me for asking for his chick's ID.

and then, for the grand finale, I get to face off against four people at once-because why not make it feel like a live studio audience? Just to hear, "Thanks, but you have 4 no's! Come back to audition next time". "Well thank Simon Cowell, but no" Recruitment now is like a cruel comedy routine: so intimidating, so upsetting, and absolutely a masterclass in wasting your time. What a joke!

In my town in the UK there is a port and you can work security and the shift pattern is 4 on 4 off now the problem is I do believe these are all 12 hour so im worried that will be too much. Still 4 unbroken days off sounds incredible and will actually give time to get stuff done. Do you think this is better than a 9/5 or worse or just as bad? As anyone ever worked a pattern like this?

I understand regular 9/5 is shorter shifts but I really dread the thought of just 2 days off

Me and a teenage boy on the smaller side were carrying heavy picnic benches part way across a field, down a hill, through a large car park, round the back of a farm and up another hill. I have an eating disorder so even though I'm far from skin and bones I probably don't really get much protein, especially since I'm autistic so eat mainly grapes, porridge without milk and chocolate. So yeah, my arms are noodles. More context, I was meant to be making and serving food in a cafe beside a farm, so I didn't sign up for physical labour

I kept accidentally dropping the benches, probably about fifteen times, because my arms kept going numb. I wasn't lowering the benches down beside I was tired, I was genuinely unintentionally dropping my side of the bench. I could hardly breath and my arms and legs were shaking. This sounds dramatic but it felt like my fingers were being pulled out and without meaning to I was almost crying because we'd been in constant pain for forty-five minutes. I was so scared because I knew eventually I'd drop the bench on my foot and it would break it

The farm is also open for families to look around, and toddlers are running everywhere. They're always interested in what farm workers are doing so they run around your legs and follow you, so it wasn't just us two it was endangering, it was the children visiting

The boss was teasing us about how we needed to "Use our muscles!" and saying we should be grateful that we were "Literally getting paid to do a work out!"

Eventually I physically couldn't hold the bench up even for a few seconds. My arms were completely limp and numb other than that they were shaking like crazy, and my legs were shaking so much I had to sit down because I was scared my knees would give way. I could hardly talk I was struggling to breathe so much. At this point I'd asked twice if I could stop or swap out with someone else temporarily, and I got told to push through and even more benches were added on to what we had to carry. I found another boss and explained to her that I really really tried but I genuinely couldn't, I'd been trying all sorts of psychological tricks to distract from how much my arms hurt and the fear of dropping the bench on my foot or someone else's foot like counting and naming everything I could see, but I physically couldn't anymore

I'm not lazy, I wasn't trying to stive off, I physically could not pick up the bench at that point. When I did after a few seconds I would drop it again

So I was put behind the counter and my arms and legs kept shaking for an hour and a half, I couldn't write or scan barcodes properly. I still kind of hurt

They gave my job to a girl even younger and smaller than me, she was about five foot and very thin, and I felt so bad for her

Someone who was looking round the farm with his kids asked me if I was okay and he said he'd seen us really struggling with the benches and said he was shocked there wasn't an accident, and our employers were breaking the law. I told him they'd swapped me out when I couldn't do it anymore, and he said there should be at least three adult men carrying something that heavy, especially back and fourth for forty-five minutes, not two smallish teenagers

I feel like I'm not the most competent worker anyway, I do my best but I need very clear detailed instructions (probably the autism) so even after a year of working there I spend a lot of time confused about what I'm supposed to be doing and making stupid mistakes or asking for help too much or taking to long to do things. And earlier this week I had two days marked unavailable because I was out of town, and got in massive trouble for not being at the emergency training that was arranged while I was away. And my last job promised they'd pay me everything I earnt when I turned 16 then when I turned 16 they fired me. So all of that combined made me feel like I couldn't afford to complain. But, as melodramatic as this sounds, it was kind of a scary experience today

So my husband was just let go from his full time job because he has been out of work for 4 weeks due to back problems. No, not a work injury. The first week he took off, they asked him for a letter of resignation and then dropped off his work things from his desk (he never insinuated he was quitting). I said do NOT resign. Fast forward to the next week he gets a doctor’s note for a leave of absence for 4 weeks. We were waiting to get imaging results and a consult with a neurosurgeon for next steps and so then would have a timeline of when he’d be back.

They seemingly agree to this leave and then after about 2.5 weeks email him he has been terminated. He’s the sole provider and we have 2 children. They know this. They had ZERO issue firing him because he doesn’t know when he will be back (but intended to come back). It’s a smaller business so no mandated FMLA for him. The cherry on top was at the end of the email they go “when you’re feeling better and if the position is still open we’d love to have you back!” Like wow, thanks so much for your charity.

I am not naive, their actions do not shock me. I know employers do not value their employees whatsoever. But I am just so angry. The lack of compassion, the lack of respect, the lack of THOUGHT that this person was supporting himself and others and the fact there was zero regard for that. When he got this job the owner BRAGGED about the amazing healthcare they had, yet didn’t end up paying my husband enough for us to afford said healthcare every month. We are all on Medicaid right now. I truly just don’t have words for the state of things in this country right now when it comes to employers/employee relations. Makes me sick. Thanks for reading :/

I’m feeling totally drained, and I need to leave my job so badly, but after a year of searching, I still haven’t landed anything. The job hunt started last year after my coworker’s behavior became unbearable. She was practically harassing me—always at my desk, following me to the kitchen, even to my car, and bombarding me with inappropriate Teams messages. She once even said, “I wish I didn’t know how to do anything so I could just sit and watch you.” The messages were non-stop, especially when I worked from home, and she’d throw a tantrum if I worked remotely. One time, she even showed up an hour early, pretending it was a “OneNote error,” and I’m not even sure if I’m imagining things, but I swear she’s tried following me home a couple of times.

I reported all of this to management, and all they did was move her seat. Other coworkers have also filed complaints about her, but they say she’s “hard to fire” since she’s past her probation period. It’s like they’re not taking it seriously because she’s a girl (I’ve seen male coworkers dismissed immediately for less). And it’s not just her behavior; she actively sabotages our work by leaving crucial documents in “read-write” mode, which slows the entire team down.

On top of that, this job doesn’t even align with my career goals. I took it as a stepping stone to gain office experience (I studied fashion business), but now I just want out. I’m interested in buying, design, product development, ecommerce, and content creation. But we haven’t had any new hires for three months, and I’ve been overwhelmed by extra work with unrealistic expectations from my TL and manager.

The constant stress and lack of fulfillment are wearing me down. I cry myself to sleep and sometimes have to step away just to cry at work. I know some people will say “suck it up,” but juggling all this on top of my mental health struggles feels like too much.

Since March, I’ve interviewed with 17 companies, made it to the final round with four, yet it always ends with “we chose someone with more experience.” It’s exhausting, especially since quitting isn’t an option right now—I’m trying to move out by the end of the year to ease things for my mom, who’s supporting my sister and me on her own. I feel stuck, exhausted, and out of options.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you cope, or finally make that leap to something better? Any advice would be really appreciated.

TL;DR: I’ve been trying to leave my job for over a year due to a toxic coworker who has harassed me and made work unbearable, while management has done little to help. On top of this, I’m overwhelmed by an increased workload, unrealistic expectations, and a lack of fulfillment in my current role (merchandise management). I’ve applied to 17 jobs, reaching final rounds but always losing out to more experienced candidates. I need a stable income as I’m planning to move out, but my mental health is really suffering. Just feeling stuck and exhausted from it all.

Leaving a long time job. Will still be doing a little pickup work for them. I was full time 18 months ago. Then PT now starting tomorrow just one or two hours a week supervising. Social Work feild.

I have 22 hours of PTO saved up. I live in Hawaii. Should I bring it up today in some way? What are my rights around unused PTO? I know what I want... it's mine. But what 8s the law?

There were already some red flags. This was a team where the hiring manager admitted that most of them had been shuffled over from another department after layoffs cleared out their original team. They openly admitted they didn’t have much experience in this area and hoped whoever took this role would basically help everyone else—including the hiring manager—get up to speed.

Then came the pay. They wanted to offer $24/hr for a role that typically pays between $70K - $100K, depending on the region. It was a little unsettling, considering they’d need me to practically train the whole team.

But hey, I need a job; it’s been months since my layoff. Plus, it was remote—had to count for something, right?

In the interview, I mentioned how I saw the hiring manager had advanced within the company and asked about their development culture. Usually, managers like this since it shows interest in staying with the company long-term.

The hiring manager just smiled and said, “Well, gone are the days when people advance here like I did!” (For reference, they had consistently moved up over the last five years). Apparently, the company no longer rewards with raises or career advancement—just “resume building.”

According to them, over time, my role would get more responsibilities, and I’d even get a fancier job title to help my resume for future opportunities! 😃

Oh, and this is an established, publicly traded FinTech company.

The day after, I got an email declining me for the role, and honestly… I wasn’t surprised. The look on my face during the interview probably gave everything away.

Got this email yesterday from my boss' boss about how Mercury is about to be in retrograde and how that applies to work, I... guess?!

I don't know how to react. On the one hand, he's not telling us we have to do anything with this information, so it's pretty innocuous. But on the other hand, it feels really strange for someone in a position of authority to send out this kind of info in a serious manner, especially in the more technical kind of field I'm in (medical communications).

People have the right to believe in astrology if they want. I dislike when anyone claims it's a science, but as long as it's not hurting anyone, it's their business and not mine. Still, this email feels really inappropriate in a professional setting that isn't related to astrology (or even astronomy) whatsoever. My partner said I should give HR a heads up about it, but I'm still undecided.

Also, the "Astronomy ↔️ Astrology" not made me want to drop-kick my laptop.

So the DOL increased minimum salaries for exempt employees in July, with another increase to happen January 1st to just over 58k/year which is about a 15k/year increase. My company is thinking about moving my position to hourly to avoid the pay increase (across the company this would be hundreds of people in the same position). 15k would be quite a huge relief and honestly I would finally be getting paid what I feel is a fair wage for my job. I knew they would pull something to avoid the increase whether it's this or downsizing how many people have this position but it still just feels bad to avoid paying a fair wage. I hate it here

In my company, which is service based, I work as project coordinator, but do everything, right from documentation, client coordination, development team handling, testing and even help in deploying. The company doesn't hire experienced people and most of the work has to be outsourced to freelancers, some of them do not work as expected, and I'm answerable to the Client. I get several panic attacks when it is close to due date and I have nothing to show to the clients. Apart from that, they expect us to manage very extensive project management board and also log each and every task of ours in what we do in 8 hours. Also I'm handling 12 projects at the moment each of considerable size and complexity. There are days in which I had to lie and listen to the clients yell, get angry and even curse me. I still try to be nice to the engineering team, but it has been so stressful, that I fear reaching out to the clients, my head start paining with a terrible headache, and can't sleep several nights, my body heats up and I feel like resigning but my marriage is in 1 month and I need money to expense it. I'm 24 y/o only.

I work as an Amazon delivery driver, and my company that goes through Amazon doesn’t allow us to take days off unless we have the PTO for it. Is that normal? I’ve never worked a non-career job before that requires you to use PTO to take any days off. I’ve tried to take non-PTO days off and they won’t let me. The rate is 0.04 hours of PTO for every 1 hour worked. We have 10 hour shifts, so it takes about 6 1/2 weeks of full time work to get enough PTO to take one day off. I hate the job anyways, but this PTO thing is about to push me over the edge of quitting because I’m finding different jobs in different fields of work that pay more. Am I over exaggerating about the PTO deal or is that some total bs?

My job has always accommodated me to work remotely for in-office days when I'm injured. It's worked great for 2 years until management started being difficult bc of appearance . Actually from the moment I submitted an application to the job I've let them know I will always choose my health bc I don't have the Luxury to not.

Well they decided to not accommodate me anymore so I'm going the official route. Turns out that in my state I can get a full days pay for 3 months out of the year for every 1 hour of my sick leave and I have over 100 hours. And I'm getting official accommodation bc I have several disabilities one that makes me prone to dislocation. I called my union rep and they are ready to fight for me bc of pushback. I called my doctors and they are ready to fight for me. I'm calling my vocational rehab counselor as well. Also just completed a program for people with disabilities so I'm contacting them too.

I dislocated my shoulder and instead of accommodating when literally 100% of my work function can be done on a computer. In fact sometimes we gather together in a room for a meeting that is online and we all go thru zoom. My company found the right person to cause trouble with tbh. I've lost everything in the past and this time I'm fighting.

Moral of the story is that you cannot fight a company or system alone. We need to fight as a village!

Edit: I just drove an hr to an appointment in the rain with a recovering dislocation for trigger point injections in my muscles.i was told it was a 15 minutes appointment. How inhumane! 15 for injections in multiple locations. Let me tell you all the systems are broken and working as designed. I'm sure the state would love to hear that after working with me on education and reentering the workforce that the state public university cannot accommodate me. I'm fighting all the system at this point.

I cannot stress it enough. Your job is not worth your health! Lots of hard work ruined my body bc I didn't know I had underlying condition. I wouldn't wish my body on my worst enemy.

But I'm going home singing praises to my God bc the battle is already won.

I just received my first check with my pay cut. Hurray!

The loosely defined company policy regarding annual raises is that it maxes out at 3% per year. This year I was not given an annual performance review, and my raise was 2.25% with no explanation, bringing me to $21.268/hr. They refused to round up to 21.27. Now after the cut, I'm down to $20.20/hr, not 20.2046, so they were cool with rounding down... so MY cut was 5.02%

I hate it here.

I cooked for a living for ten plus years. Almost my entire life post college. I've done everything from dish to line to management. It's fucking lame that you have to work 60 hours to survive. I just walked out of a bar for a cigarette and saw a man in the parking lot in an apron, leaning into the window of a car giving a kiss to a little girl who I know is family but am assuming was the daughter from other context. It's a terrible industry that prioritizes killing yourself over any kind of life. The amount of times I sautéed someone something with a 110 degree fever because of coverage is vile. If you're stuck in that position, find a way put dude. The grind isn't as important as seeing your family or friends. It ain't no kind of life. Sorry, that shit just kinda triggered me to see. Stay strong culinary bro's, but also get out of the life.

Hello all,

So my mother just turned 59, and she has heart failure. All the improvements she’s made, hours she’s slaved away at her job, family events she’s missed because she was so worried about missing work and making sure work was covered have left her with nothing.

She might hit 65, maybe. Either way, just remember, you may not make it to retirement age, so enjoy your life now, fuck Dave Ramsey, yada yada yada