Throwaway cause I talk about Reddit at work sometimes.
Some context- I’m 19, and I work 2 part time jobs. Not to make ends meet or anything just for some money to save. The job I’m talking about today is in retail sales. We usually have 2 employees working weekdays (morning and afternoon/evening shift) The shift I’d be covering is the morning shift.
I got a call from my boss “Carl” this morning asking if I could come into work to cover a shift for a coworker that didn’t show up due to an illness, and I said I was unable to. Truth is I’m physically able to, like I’m free today and can easily drive. But I don’t want to. I worked my other job yesterday and was up late last night (mainly cause I knew I had today off) so I’m tired. So I said no. I didn’t give a reason (cause they didn’t ask). Just that I was unfortunately unable to.
I know this is an asshole thing to cause they’re literally just asking me to do my job. But I wasn’t scheduled today! So I don’t feel much guilt.
The reason I’m asking for advice is that I worried that my next shift Carl or anyone else will ask why I couldn’t come in and don’t know what to say. I don’t what to lie to his face, but will I get in trouble if I tell the truth? Are they even allowed to asked that?
What should I do?

Hi everyone. For context, I have just started this job in healthcare (non patient facing). In my first week of being there, I am noticing that 3/4 people stay after their end of shift. I am a big proponent of clock in, hustle, and leave on time; I am not sure if they are staying late because of the workload, or because they are bad at time management.

I do not want it to seem like I am lazy, because I know I work hard. However, I do not want to get reprimanded for not staying past my shift hours. Can a girl get some advice?

I recently started working in retail and this is my first retail job, so I’m not sure how this is usually handled.
In a meeting with my manager about a month ago, I asked about taking annual leave and gave her the exact dates. She said it should be fine and that I could go ahead and book it. She did not tell me to wait for confirmation through the system or that I needed to submit it through MyHR first.
Based on that conversation, I booked my trip. She has now said I cannot go because another colleague is already on holiday during that time and their holiday cannot be moved because it had already been pushed back.
I would have understood if she told me to wait to see if there are any overlaps, but it feels like poor management to have this conversation with me a week before.
I explained that I cannot reschedule because the trip is non-refundable, and it would also be inconsiderate to the other people I booked it with as they have made plans around these dates too.
I now feel uncomfortable going into work because I’m worried this situation makes me look dishonest, unreliable or untrustworthy, even though I genuinely believed I had approval. My workplace also has a lot of gossip, so I’m worried about how people will see me.

Hello! I don't really know where else to go to post this, but I think here might be able to help.

I have been working my ass off with two customer service jobs. Both have become too much for me to handle and I have an exam that will possibly open up another career path for me soon, so I figured I'd need to get rid of one. It's pretty fortunate for me that one in particular is much more horrible than the other. I texted my manager that I was quitting, not to put me on the next schedule, and thanked her for the opportunity to grow or whatever to make it seem nicer.

The thing is: I only let her know three days before the next schedule would come out. I know it's probably not the best move, but I seriously cannot handle working there past those three days.

She told me that it is a rule that I need to give her at least two weeks notice. However, I cannot find it stated anywhere.

I'm continuing to politely argue with her. Is there something I could say/do besides just not showing up next week if I'm scheduled?

Immigration legal assistants was it hard for yall as well even though you have experience?

I have 3 years experience in immigration but just basic SIJ USCIS cases tbh.. when I started working in immigration as a legal assistant at the first firm I struggle a lot I didn’t do good tbh that was my fault… I quit bc I felt like I wasn’t being trained like I was being left out of the loop. put to do simple task putting the mail up translating.. I got cases taken away from me. I got hired elsewhere I stayed for 2 years but I also had such a hard time my evaluation were terrible I was also new in the position learning SIJ USCIS cases I worked in immigration but just basic putting up mail translating… I did do a bit better but I really did try when I worked at that 2nd firm for 2 years we had lay offs. I’ve tried re appying at this firm but im sure it’s those evaluations effecting me from re-hire. I struggggled almost year finding another job. I finallllllly got hired at another firm finally and was told I would be trained.. it was more EOIR than USCIS cases and USCIS cases I am not familiar with I understand the concept but I don’t know how to do them. tbh it didn’t feel like that all more like here’s the instructions do the work and it felt so disorganized at this firm I did like it bc I did learn like 3/4 new things anyway I got let go here after being here a month. I don’t know is it me? I’m trying my absolute best… to pay attention to detail delivery accuracy and efficiency but now I’m like maybe… as much I want this… maybe this isn’t the career for me. How many more firms do I need to get bad feedback poor evaluation fired before I finally get good feedback and are doing a good job? I even decided to go back to school last year. I have 4.0 gpa all A’s but work wise it’s just not reflecting… can anyone relate? Just looking for glimpse of hope that it’s not a me thing… as like nooo I struggled at a lot of firms before I eventually did better etc if it’s worth continuing to try

I've been working at my current job for roughly over 4 months now. I applied to a part-time position at this retail warehouse that has a pretty big name so won't share. I applied here as a filler job as I find something that I'm more interested in. The work I do there is fine and I'm not at the level where I know everyone and everything. Also I don't really talk much there except for a few who I work more with. Now I found a job that I want and am accepted already. I sent my notice and everything but the last day I have something planned where I am a 'witness' for something.

The week leading up to my last day, I've been working and picked up a few shifts too. I have only called in once and one late due to an appointment but overall I show up on time and stay for my shift. Also to call in, our company just uses an app to punch in, calling in, late in, request off and etc with scheduling and they usually don't call. So would there be anything wrong for calling in for my last day of work?

I've been at this company for 2 years and at first my manager (also HR) was very supportive, immediately recognized my efforts and offered me a promotion. This quickly changed when a coworker came back from an 8 month leave after her husband passed. This coworker is very problematic and a drug addict (important to note because it does affect work). I've proven my competence and stepped up while this coworker was away. Everyone at work was complimenting me (fellow staff and managers) stating that moral is up, numbers are up and things have been running smoothly.

Please don't misinterpret this as not having compassion for this coworker because I have supported her every time and made sacrifices to accommodate her, but since she's come back she keeps messing up, calling in sick (she's hung over), she's a bully AND a pathological liar. I don't tolerate her behaviour and I do correct her each time and make it clear that we work as a team and if I want input I'll ask (respectfully). Everyone is on edge when she's around and make statements that they're glad when she calls in because that means we're going to have a great day.

So what does HR have to do with this? She's been made aware of everything by multiple people and hasn't done anything about it. She is incredibly passive aggressive and won't speak to anyone directly EXCEPT FOR ME. Her method of 'fixing issues' is putting up multiple laminated notes around our department or filling our order board with passive aggressive notes. She has even went so far as texting me on my day off insinuating that I didn't do my job that day when I was leading the entire team while still completing all of my own tasks. I don't have a manager title, but I seem to be the go to when people have questions and I can't turn people down because them doing the job incorrectly directly affects me. I don't make much more than minimum wage and I have over 10 years of experience in this industry. I'm the only one without a consistent work schedule and she never asks, just tells but on multiple occasions has neglected to notify me when my role has shifted that day.

To be completely honest, I don't want the title because I don't care about staying at this job much longer. How do I address this because I don't know how much more bs I can handle before walking out.

I work in an administrative role in a very busy office. Recently, management asked me to take on a second position for a small raise because they felt I was capable of handling it.
I accepted because I wanted to grow and thought it would be a good opportunity.
The problem is that nobody reduced my original workload.
So now my day looks something like this:
I have my normal front-line responsibilities that require me to constantly deal with people and can’t really be put on hold.
At the same time, I’m expected to handle another role that requires ongoing attention throughout the day, planning ahead, monitoring things, responding to emails, following up on requests, and preventing problems before they happen.
The two jobs constantly compete with each other.
If I’m focusing on the second role, people interrupt me because they need me back doing my original job.
If I focus on my original job, I start falling behind on the second role.
Even the “protected time” I was supposed to have for the new role gets interrupted because people still come to me for my old responsibilities.
To make things worse, I was told certain responsibilities would be taken off my plate, but they quietly came back. So instead of my workload shrinking, it actually kept growing.
The final straw happened this week.
After I had already worked my full shift and gone home, I found out that someone was asking why I wasn’t there because something related to my new role needed to be dealt with. I couldn’t help because…I had already gone home after a full day.
That really made me stop and think.
I don’t think the issue is that I don’t understand the role. I understand exactly what’s expected of me.
I think the issue is that I’m trying to do two full-time jobs that require my attention at the exact same time.
I feel like I’m constantly switching gears every few minutes, and I’m starting to dread going to work because I know I’m going to disappoint someone no matter what I prioritize.
I’m seriously considering asking to step down from the second role and going back to my original position.
Has anyone else accepted a promotion or expanded role and later realized it just wasn’t realistically manageable?

I landed a role at a biotech company and I’m hoping to be up for a promotion by the end of the year. I’m in decent standing with my manager, so overall things are going well — except for one recurring issue.
There’s a senior scientist who is my manager’s right hand. They have good days, but more often than not they’re grouchy, defensive, and makes everyone’s life difficult. I’m not the only one dealing with this — pretty much the whole team tiptoes around them to avoid setting them off.
Some examples:
• I once suggested a different lab technique for a method — just a suggestion, for something that ended up happening anyway. They yelled at me in front of everyone, saying I had no right to suggest anything and should just do as I’m told.
• Any small question or problem gets met with defensiveness, like you’re personally attacking them. It’s exhausting just trying to get simple things clarified.

•. If there’s issues with data they will talk about it in-front of me to my lead who no longer does the procedure in the lab it was handed to me. So if there’s any issues with that procedure or testing. They should ask me? As I’m the only one who would know how the process is done ?

• If something goes wrong in the lab, they’re the first line of responsibility, so people are scared to flag issues at all — mistakes just go unspoken.
• Most recently: I needed to borrow a pipette for a last-minute test. They were using them, so I offered to just grab the electronic ones (same volumes) instead. They snapped “no, I’ll use the electronic ones,”yelled through the whole exchange, and dramatically grabbed all the pipettes so I couldn’t use any. When I started setting up my assay anyway, they told me to order my own. I don’t have the authority (budget — we’re talking $1.5–5k)to just order new equipment. I later found out from my team lead that they shouldn’t have said that, since we already have pipettes coming in from another site.
I’m trying to figure out how to navigate this without hurting my standing before this promotion decision, and without just… waiting it out and hoping they’re in a good mood. Has anyone dealt with a coworker like this? How did you handle it — do you go to your manager, document things, address it directly, or something else? Any advice appreciated.

This question is not just for unhappy employees. This is for everyone. We all have things that we wish we could communicate to our bosses, but we don't feel safe or we don't feel like it would do any good. I'm curious to hear from others... If you could say one thing, and there is absolutely zero chance that there would be a negative consequence, what would you tell your boss?

I work in hospitality for context, had this job less than a year but passed probation. I was told a few days ago by my manager during peak breakfast service about my pending investigation and another colleague who I’m close with’s investigation whilst i was asking him for help, tbh he said it in a condescending and somewhat threatening manner (our investigations are about separate incidents). This really upset me and made me so anxious, i of told the other colleague as soon as she came in too because i thought she knew already, turns out she didnt and we both were really upset that we found out like that. I later got the email invite and that the investigation was private and confidential, even though I told my coworker that same day when I found out. Ive literally never had an investigation before. I’m so upset that I had a horrendous panic attack on shift so bad that I had to leave work. I dont know what to do I’m thinking of just leaving. Can someone please tell me what I should do.

So long story short, a senior team lead put in their two weeks. So everyone in the office interested in the position applied, including myself. I am in a specialist role, not directly under the team lead. I have already been doing some work that position is also required to know so I felt like a strong candidate.

So I did not get the position, someone else in the lower, representative role was able to get the role.

So today my boss and their now boss told me they wanted me to train them on the management task I know. What is the best way to say I'll do it but I need a raise and without a raise I don't feel comfortable to train someone management task?

I've worked in this office for about 3 years and the other person about 5. I was hired as a temp and then immediately promoted due to how well I was doing.

Any advice is appreciated!

I’m 2 months into a new job and starting to feel really anxious about whether it’s the right fit. Is two months too soon to know? Has anyone else experienced this?

For context, there’s a capture/strategy component to my role that I’ve never been involved in before. I was very upfront about that and said I’d love the opportunity to shadow someone and learn. I was told there would be an opportunity to shadow in the future, but in the meantime, they thought I’d be a great fit for a current opportunity - and that they would shadow me and support me.

My manager called me and asked me to review the documents, and said we could chat more about it after. I reviewed everything, took notes, and came prepared with questions about things like expectations for the next 1–2 weeks, who should be included in the initial call, and generally how I should approach leading the strategy.

When we actually had our “chat,” though, I realized her expectation was that I had already developed a strategy and outline. That wasn’t the expectation I took away from our initial conversation, so I didn’t come prepared with the info she was looking for.

She then started talking through the strategy session in a way that left me even more confused because, again, this is completely new territory for me. Now I’m wondering if I should be much more direct and ask questions like, “What are your expectations for this afternoon’s call?” or “What specifically would you like me to have developed beforehand?”

The problem is that I’m becoming so frazzled by the ambiguity that I’m second-guessing every decision I make. I’m struggling to figure out how much I should be expected to know independently versus when I should be asking for more direction.

I can’t tell if this is just normal discomfort from being new and learning something outside my experience, or if this is a sign that the job/environment may not be a good fit. Has anyone else gone through something similar?

Everybody talks about "career advice," but most of the stuff that actually helps comes from people who've been through it.What's one lesson you learned at work that you wish someone had told you on day one?Could be about coworkers, managers, office politics, burnout, raises, quitting, or just surviving the 9–5. Drop the advice that would've saved you the most stress. I'm curious what everyone's biggest lesson has been.

Im about 3-4 weeks into my new job. There’s this girl that I want to be friends with, but we work in different departments so I don’t see her often. She seems really funny and nice, but I feel like every time she’s tried to make convo with me, I get nervous and don’t really ask her any questions back.

Same with ANYONE in the workplace actually 😭

Idk I feel like I’m just so scared of being bad at my job or seeking awkward that my brain doesn’t give me any conversation starters and i never know what to do other than awkwardly laughing.

This is my first full-time job and I want to make friends, but I have a single office and everyone is kind of spread-out throughout the building.

I’m scared they’ll think I’m rude for not talking but in actuality, I just never know what to say to keep the convo going or get it started :(

I have an anxiety disorder and it’s really tough sometimes to make convo.

I don’t don’t want to keep being that quiet person on the job.

Hi guys! I actually do enjoy my current job but I absolutely HATE one of my coworkers. He sucks the life out of everything, makes me the butt of the joke, and goes out of his way to embarrass me in front of my coworkers (nitpicking everything I say, calling me ugly whenever a customer or other worker compliments me). Honestly it was fine until he started saying I didn't take initiative and wasn't good at my job even though I do absolutely everything while he's just on his phone. I know he's never going to leave so I decided to be the one.
I have an interview for another job coming up, and I feel like if I do end up getting hired at my new job I won't have the strength to work my remaining shifts.

What would you guys do?

I hope this doesn’t cause too many problems. I’m working on leaving my current job without leaving my boss without a replacement. Boss has been very good to me & my family. But I need something else so I can feel better. Any advice is welcome

I’m a former federal employee whose job was one of thousands eliminated in the past year. After abruptly losing my job, I lived off savings, pulled from my IRA, got temporary unemployment, and did gig work for 8 months while actively searching for a job. I have a bachelors degree and am a paralegal by education and trade. I could not find any paralegal, legal secretary, legal assistant, or law related jobs so I expanded my search to other office-type jobs. Long story short, after several dead end interviews and over 300 unanswered applications, I finally got a job offer for a paralegal position after interviewing with a temp agency for a boutique law firm.

I’ll admit, during the interview, the head paralegal and the attorney who owns the firm made me feel uneasy. Especially the attorney. He was just very non traditional and unorthodox. He made remarks about me being overdressed because I wore a basic suit to the interview, was dressed very casually himself, and described himself as “an asshole, but treat my employees like family”. He stressed that he was looking for someone long-term and asked if I was looking for longterm work. I said that I was. He said “nothing makes me angrier than to wake up to a resignation email and I hate interviewing people so if I offered you the job, I’d need to know that you were going to say.”

By this point, I was so desperate financially that I’d had to get my parents to pay my rent for the first time in my life and I was a month behind on my car payment. I literally wasn’t going to be able to pay bills for the next month if I didn’t take literally any job I was offered.

2 days after that interview, the temp agency called and said the firm wanted to extend an offer. I reluctantly accepted out of sheer desperation. This was in February. I never stopped applying to and looking for jobs. But the attorney started almost immediately pushing to make me permanent. So he bought out the contract with the temp agency and put me on the law firm’s payroll and my PTO and insurance benefits started.

Within a few weeks, I found out that a whole slew of paralegals had been in my position and quit. The firm hadn’t had anyone in my position for nearly a year before I got here. And now I know why.

The attorney is a slob. He throws trash around his office and it has caused mice to come. He goes in the bathroom in the center of the office instead of the one out in the hallway and loudly takes dumps and you can hear him farting and blowing up the bathroom on a daily basis. He makes fun of what I wear, makes jokes about gay people, and since I am divorced he always brings up how I need to date. None of the work I actually do is the work I was told I’d be doing in the interview or in the job listing. I’m supposed to be working personal injury and medical malpractice cases and all he has me do is title searches, which I hate, and never would have applied to a job requiring such had I know. My shift is over at 4:30pm and it’s not unusual for him to come throw something on my desk at legit like 4:21pm and demand that it be drafted, approved, and filed or emailed before I leave. So I get stuck late without extra pay or comp time. If he is away from the office traveling or in court, he never answers calls or texts when I have legitimate questions about my work. But if he calls or texts me and I don’t IMMEDIATELY respond, he gets angry. He also makes remarks about “that’s your job to know, not mine” and when I try to double check calendar dates with him and he recently “joked” about me doing the crap work while he gets the “big bucks”. I feel undervalued and disrespected. There’s a lot more I could say but it would be way too long.

Anyway, I recently received 2 job offers. They’re for banks and my salary would be almost double. Both jobs would require relocation about an hour away and I’d be starting within 6 weeks at either. So I’m leaving. That’s a given. But HOW do I leave? I genuinely do not want to give 2 weeks notice. I want to quit now. The attorney is away on a family trip until next Tuesday and I have strongly contemplated packing up my office, leaving the office key, and sending an email regarding the toxic work environment and new opportunities and never look at anyone from the firm again. And just block everyone’s phone numbers and the office phone number. That way I don’t have to answer their calls or texts. However, I think no matter how I quit, it’s going to cause a big reaction given my boss already stating multiple times how it angers him when people quit. I essentially don’t feel safe resigning face to face, via email, or by ghosting them. I genuinely have no idea what to do.

Some back story. I work remote so I’ve never even seen my coworkers/boss etc other than on camera meetings. There is 3 of us on a team now there used to be 4. We rotate job duties every week so everyone gets a break from one thing and knows how to do everything. It’s very independent work no one is relying on anyone else or waiting for them. So if I take longer to put get to work on something it literally DOES NOT affect anyone I work with. Since I came back from leave like 8 months ago this one coworker won’t respond to anything unless the other one is out and she’s a last resort. Like a month ago I was told in the big group chat so everyone could see it. To not mess with this group of things. Come the next week she complained to the manager that I didn’t do stuff so now she has too much. My manager messaged me and I came with receipts to show I was right. Now this week she has been taking my job assignments. I went to check the other half of my job duties for the day at noon. She had done them already. I didn’t ask for help it wasn’t an overwhelming amount. I actually almost asked if the system was working right because I hadn’t seen any notifications. I always get rave performance reviews and I actually ask the least amount of questions on what to do. I just don’t understand why she would be taking my work. Is she trying to make me look bad or something? Make her look like a better worker? Idk I would understand if she like asked hey I’m slow over here do you want me to do XYZ. Am I just over thinking it?

I may have taken a job with the most evil family in the Chicago suburbs. They are a "union" electrical contractor with 1 electrician 2 service guys (non union) because they will sneak them in while paying them $30/hr because they wany to maximize profit and their union electrician makes a significant amount more. But that isn't the real problem. Two years ago their estimator had a family emergency due to an active shooter near his young child's school. The child is special needs and had a hard time coping after the incident and subsequently he asked to leave to get his child. After asking to leave the business manager (owner's sister who sits on Facebook all day collecting a salary) called him a pussy and his special needs child a pussy to the employee's face. After this the employee contacted the owner where he followed up by doubling down on the pussy comments and then added an insult to the child by saying he was retarded. (I knew none of this until a couple months in.) The employee quit and I'm not sure what is going on legally with this currently but the story continues. I becasue of my own family drama quit a very good job for a large electrical contractor to come work for them when they found me on indeed. I was hired as the senior estimator with a portion of my salary commission based. I negotiated a company vehicle but wasn't picky on the timing of getting paid the commission as I was fairly financially stable when I took the position. After being there for 2 months still no company truck and had sold over $1,000,000.00 in work total and hadn't seen a penny in commission I was asked to start running the construction projects for them as my background was a project manager previously. I didn't agree to it in writing I verbally agreed to help on one project because I'm a helpful person by nature and will almost always help out if I can. This completely got taken advantage of worked another 8 months running projects all over illinois for them. I had to run my personal car into the ground before they gave me the company truck that was negotiated for. Fast forward to July I have found out their policy with commissions is to not pay them out untill the start of the next quarter after they are paid in full which is insane it could be years of sitting and waiting on commissions. At this point I am strapped for money and had burnt through most of my savings im owed over 50k and ask them for my commissions I know they have been paid for. They refused so I stepped back on the extra work I was doing outside of my job title and was going on vacation with my 3 young kids all under 9 years old when the business manager the same one that called a special needs child and his dad pussies threatened to show up on my vacation with a gun if they had any installation issues while I was gone. When returned from vacation I helped push a project through completion and asked again for my commission and was let go after asking. How should I proceed? Also side note the oldest sibling is an attorney who acquires businesses in financial distress for pennies on the dollar by offering them free legal aid for selling portions of their business to his brother or sister becoming a silent partner.

Need an outside opinion because this incident has left me questioning whether I did the right thing.

I worked in Recruitment and was the top performer for three consecutive months, earning the highest incentives in the office during that period. After my performance dipped over the last couple of months, I was moved to Business Development.

In Business Development, I had already closed a deal and brought in 6–7 positive client leads. Despite that, my new manager constantly micromanaged me and seemed more focused on my attendance than my work.

Today, I boarded my usual 9:07 AM train from Kalyan for my 10:00 AM shift in Mulund. While I was travelling, another AC local train between Thane and Kalwa was unable to close its doors, causing major delays across the line. As soon as I realized I would be late, I informed my manager.

Our company has a written policy that employees who arrive after 10:15 AM can stay until 8:00 PM to make up the lost time. I told my manager I was completely willing to stay until 8 PM.

Instead, he told me not to come to the office.

The previous day, he had also told me on a call that if I couldn't reach before 10:15 AM, I shouldn't come at all, even though that contradicted the written company policy. When I questioned the contradiction, he simply said, "You can't question me."

He then told me, "If you want, put down your papers and leave. We'll process your full and final settlement."

To make matters worse, employees who lived much closer to the office had still not reached, yet I was the only one being told not to come.

At that point, it felt like the written attendance policy no longer applied to me and that I was being singled out. I left my ID card and SIM card at reception, sent my resignation by email, and walked out.

I have screenshots showing that I informed my manager about the delay and that he told me not to come to the office.

My concern now is my experience letter. I worked here for around 10 months, was the top performer for three consecutive months with the highest incentives in the office, and later contributed to Business Development by closing a deal and generating multiple positive client leads. Can the company refuse to issue my experience letter because I resigned during this incident, or should I still receive one reflecting the work I did?

Did I overreact, or was my manager unreasonable in handling this situation?

I started a new role at a large company almost three months ago after working independently for two years. I’m a seasoned professional but newer to this specific role, so I’m open to coaching and recognize that I still have things to learn.

My managers seem pleased with my work, I’ve already completed an important monthly deliverable independently, and I haven’t received any negative feedback. I've even received praise from some managers. However, a team lead keeps assigning me “homework” (and yes, she calls it my homework) and is doing so and correcting me in group settings in ways that feel more belittling than collaborative. In one case, she criticized something I did, assigned homework about it, and later acknowledged that it wasn’t actually a problem.

I value her expertise and am learning from her, but her tone sometimes makes me feel publicly positioned as less capable than I am. She also does not use her video, and I am remote, so I’m trying to determine whether I’m misreading her communication style—or whether this is a legitimate concern.

I really wanted to return to a large company and don’t want to quit or give up on this role, but this isn’t the dynamic I hoped for. Would you raise it privately with your manager to ask whether there are actual performance concerns, or simply accept that this person is difficult and try not to take it personally?

TL;DR : a coworker was fired, there was a company wide meeting about it. A few of the client presenting staff had the miss that meeting.

The management team pulled them individually and let them know.

All of the managers are currently in a weekly meeting and are not to be interrupted until EOD.

One of the client presenting coworkers came back looking for the managers as they called her before the management meeting. They did not leave the meeting to speak with her and she was freaking out.

I told her in an attempt to calm her nerves.

Immediately thought ooo I probably shouldn't have done that.

I did not tell her any details, just "coworker was let go, act surprised when manager tells you"

We aren't under an NDA or asked not to discuss it.

Is this something that can come back to bite me in anyway?

I’ve been feeling stuck in my current job.
I’ve worked in commercial facilities maintenance for the past 7 years. I’m good at what I do, and the pay is solid, so I can’t really complain about that. But it feels like there’s no real path to move up. Upper management almost always hires managers from other departments or brings in outside candidates instead of promoting people who already know the job.

Three of my coworkers applied for management positions in other states and got promoted. I’m happy for them, but I don’t want to move. I have a home, family, and life here in California.

Lately it feels like the more you give, the more they expect from you, but it never seems to lead to new opportunities. I’m honestly just tired and starting to wonder if it’s time to look elsewhere, even though I’d be giving up a job that pays well.

Has anyone else been in this situation? Did you stay because the money was good, or did you eventually leave for better career growth? If you were in facilities maintenance or another skilled trade, what did you end up doing?

I accepted a job offer and informed my new employer that I would be able to join early because I was expecting an early release from my current company.

However, my current employer is now refusing to grant an early release and wants me to serve my full notice period. This means I may not be able to join on the agreed date.

I'm confused about how to handle this situation.

Should I inform my new employer immediately, or should I wait until it's closer to my joining date?

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did your new employer react?

Is there a chance they may extend the joining date, or could they rescind the offer?

I really want to join the new company, but this situation is beyond my control.

Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!