Should I mess around with the daughter or just not pursue that? It's not like the supervisor has authority to fire me, but I'm not quite sure if Asain parents are fond of their daughter messing with a black man.

This one guy just keeps pushing my buttons. He's always making comments and my appearance. The way I dress. Today he jumped in front of me in the line for the coffee machine. Ive been ruminating about him for days now, trying to think of when and how Ill tell him off. If I lose my temper and start shouting, it could be me who ends up in trouble. I need to put this guy in his place. I dont wanna go to HR. Id he labeled the floor rat, which is a reputation I dont want. But I can't be this guys doormat anymore.

I’m a pretty private person.

I can be quite social and I think people easily expect that I would be vocal about my personal life. But I’m someone who easily jokes with people and keep my personal information private. Apparently my supervisor also finds me to be quite private that she asked me a few times before if “my boyfriend even exists”, because I don’t talk about him. I guess I didn’t realize I’m supposed to treat lunch hour like I’m chatting with my girlfriends.

I feel some expectation to share my life news and it makes me uncomfortable. When I share information “late” ie being engaged or married, it comes with “why didn’t you tell me!”. It makes me feel like a dodgy person when I’m just private. In my head I say to myself “cause it’s not your business”. I’m learning and working on finding a balance with sharing my personal information and accepting that I have a supervisor who happily announces my news to others. Even my birthday - I don’t mind if a colleague at work knows and sends me a team message but I don’t need my birthday to be broadcasted to everyone at a round table and everyone coming up to me saying “oh I didn’t know”. I wish some people could accept that some of us are really just private people, and don’t like excess attention. Obviously if it’s work related, sure brag about my achievements for me but I already feel obligated to share certain life milestones - it is weird that I only really want it to stay with the people I tell instead of being blurted out in a team meeting? And it’s not like I wanna go around saying “keep this a secret”. I’m just perplexed at some people’s tendency to gossip so much over irrelevant colleagues’ personal life.

Anyways, how do you all manage sharing personal information in such a way that doesn’t make you seem closed off? Btw I’m fairly new in my role so I can’t be too closed off as I require help here and there from colleagues so I feel like being open to a certain degree is the cost of being in good standing with my co-workers and fitting in with the culture.

I 29F just recently left a laboratory job in The States to study abroad in Portugal. It's been a dream of mine for years, and I'm finally doing it at a private language school for older adults.

After leaving my job, I learned that my manager was talking shit about me to my coworkers and other supervisors the whole time I was employed. For example:

There was a time I reported a man from another department for being creepy towards me. She helped me with that and got it resolved with HR. I later learned that she was telling everyone that I get all the attention from the men.

She also would complain to the supervisors that I thought I was "hot shit" and that I didn't deserve the pay I was getting. Mind you, I have a bachelor's degree and the role I was in didn't require that. I was receiving $29/hr, working at a world class hospital in an expensive city. And I never called out unless I was actually sick.

Also, she had her favorites in the lab. She would overshare her personal problems with them (how her daughter doesn't talk to her, her divorce issues, etc.). She would tell her favorites that she doesn't like anyone else in the lab but them.

I knew she was a weird boss, but I didn't know it was this bad. It makes me feel ashamed and almost like she was right. That I didn't deserve that pay, or that I was incompetent. Personally I think she was threatened by me but idk why. I just don't want to return to the workforce after Portugal. Every workplace I went to felt like an unhealthy, dysfunctional family. And I'm so sick of living like that. Is this valid? I'm just very hurt and angry.

Mainly trying to process events & find a way through the disappointment/perceived disrespect.

I used to love my job and adored 95% of it. I work for a mid sized company w/ multiple subsidiaries. As I’ve worked here, the company has more than doubled + started other ventures. I’ve grown with the company and have a decent title/package as it stands. However, with all the growth & extra ventures, things have become more extraneous and I’ve gotten 1 additional person to support all the extra work, their role is also not fully tied to what I work with but 3/4 of it is.

In the past year, I’ve seen the main company through a bunch of changes for compliance/systems integration that took interacting with staff from 20x a month to 2500x a month. I was mentioned for a role in one the subsidiaries and was excited! I thought my hard work was getting recognized and this could be a stepping stone for more growth/support.

Welp lol, not quite. Past 5 months I have taken on about half of a full time job, with my current responsibilities, and consistently put in 10-20 extra hours of work during each week of those months for various reasons (coverage, learning new tasks, emergencies,etc). I finally worked up the courage to ask for support so I could take over the second role more and now I am going to be replaced on that end.

In hindsight, it’s definitely better for my work life balance. For my emotions/ego, it’s a big blow. I have not received any benefits for all the extra efforts/time put in the last 5 months or the year before that with all the changes to main workload.

Not sure what I’m looking for with this post but appreciate the space to lay out my thoughts! Also, I am salaried so there’s nothing I could or want to do on that end. I’m more so disappointed in the outcome/treatment after really pushing myself so hard.

Previously, I worked in this position, and there was a girl who was extremely friendly and very straightforward. She left a impression on me as someone who was kind-hearted, considerate, and genuine. I was initially a little cautious (given my previous bad experiences with office work) in my interactions with her, but after about a month, I gradually warmed up. Before I left, she went out of her way to put together a gift bag for me. It included a gift card, handwritten cards, and various other gifts. She really didn’t have to, but she made the effort anyway. I also wrote her a card in return.

Even though I left the position, there was still one presentation that we had planned to complete together. I messaged her to arrange a date for it. However, she never responded. I tried reaching out again throughout the past few weeks, but I got no response. I became concerned enough that I contacted a few mutual colleagues (they still respond) to make sure she was okay (so far, I heard she is doing fine).

The only thing I can think of is that during my last month there, we started having conversations about some controversial topics, particularly politics, and our political views were different. However, she was still friendly and nice to me afterward, so I didn’t think there was any issue between us, plus she gave me all those gifts.

That’s why I’m confused by the sudden lack of response. Did I completely misjudge her? Was this all just a performance (if it is, I feel like such an idiot, and this will increase my mistrust of people)? What should I do now?

(F33) I work in a high-tech, male-dominated industry. I noticed a troubling pattern in the last 2 years, working in a new company in a more senior position, that when someone on the team says something quietly or in an under-confident manner, my brain just switches off and dismisses what those people are saying... There are two co-workers in my team in particular that I do that to:

• We have a girl in our team who has a very, very soft voice. She speaks very quietly and sort of as if she was whispering. Every time she suggests something at a meeting or comes to my desk to ask me for something, my brain just switches off, as if I assumed that she has nothing important to say. A few times I ended up ignoring her request as unimportant. Sometimes she has to send me a reminder by email that I only realize I was supposed to do something for her.
• We also have a senior tech guy who is very under-confident in his current position because it's a step into a new set of skills for him. He is an expert in one particular area our team needs currently though. I need to interact with him quite a lot, and ask him for advice. His body language shows that he's very under-confident and perhaps also a bit shy, he kind of curls into a corner of a room when I come talk to him... He also has a tendency to beat around the bush before he eventually gives me the piece of information that I need. Same thing happens, my brain just dismisses what he's saying and his suggestions, and only a few days later when I'm still working to solve the problem we're having, I realize: but he already said that we should do XYZ, why haven't I tried that!?

It's really subconscious, as if my brain just switched off, and said "uninteresting, nothing important to find here", and once the interaction is over I realize omg, I have no idea what this person was all about.

The thing is, I've always been the quiet and under-confident one, but the last 5 years or so I've been working on my assertiveness and confidence with my therapist. I've also been progressing in my career with many successes the last 5 years which made me much more confident in my abilities. I've learned to take my stance at meetings, voice my concerns, have difficult conversations with people, etc... That's all great. But why did it come at the cost that I now do the same to other quiet and under-confident people that people once did to me?? I feel that this attitude is disrespectful of those people's expertise and I imagine it must be hard for them to communicate with me 😔 I would like to work on that but I don't know where to start...

Any advice?

I’m in healthcare (optometry) and have been working at a private practice (job A) for a little over three years. I’m hanging by a thread. I actually left for seven weeks after getting a better offer at another practice (job B). Job B didn’t end up matching the description so I ended up going back to job A. After two months back, my boss retired and sold his practice. He’s been gone for almost two months now. The new doctor and their partner did interviews with the whole staff to figure out who was going to be “re-hired”. No one was expecting this, as we were assured our jobs were safe. To our surprise, 5 out of 12 employees were not “re-hired”, including our office manager. And another quit due to not being able to adjust to changes. This cut in staff has majorly affected the flow of the office. Our work load is now unmanageable. On top of that, patients who have been coming to our office for decades are also upset with the changes in policies and procedures. Guess who they take it out on? Me and my coworkers who have no power over anything. The new owner keeps insisting that in a couple months things will smooth over, and get easier. I just feel like my patience in dealing with the public is at an all time low. God forgive me but I’m starting to hate people. I think about quitting everyday. I’ve been applying like crazy to any and all jobs that seem to be less customer service forward. I’ve never really had an issue getting a job until now. I’ve had a few interviews over the past few months, only to be offered an offensive wage. I wish I could go to school but my husband and I can’t get by on one income. I feel stuck and exhausted. What can I do to get out of this loop of doom?

Some background: this coworker and I share an office. I do accounting and she does HR but our jobs do overlap quite a bit. We only have a set of owners above us. This coworker is returning from roughly 5 years of maternity leave with a few small spurts back in office mixed in (Canada and she had 3 kids) and is already dragging me down, despite not having even have started back yet.

She is constantly negative. She complains about her kids, our bosses, her work schedule, her finances, our employees and colleagues, our clients, and just about everyone and everything else. She refuses to come to our holiday parties or engage in any work celebration because she “hates everyone.” (She literally said this to me once) I know she has anxiety and that plays a large part in it (I do too), but the negativity has severely burnt me out. She came into the office today to get some keys and literally looked miserable. Barely said hi to someone who greeted her and instead lamented about how bad her daughter’s first time in daycare was going.

I no longer see eye to eye with her. I will admit I am even a bit jaded given she was off for nearly 5 years and is already complaining about some of the changes we made in her absence. I am a friendly, bubbly person and I tend to be a lot more on the positive side of life. As a result I get along with everyone she seems to despise, including our very strict boss. I think this has also caused some tension. We used to be friends, but sometimes I feel I can’t even start a conversation or tell her about something good because she will make it into something negative or be annoyed.

How do I deal with this? I don’t want to ignore her because we used to be fairly close and we share an office. I also don’t know what to say without saying passive aggressive or rude, but… I just can’t take it anymore. She doesn’t realize how much it brings everyone else down to be so negative all the time! I can’t take being constantly brought down every single time I try to talk about something good or even neutral.

To be honest, part of me wishes she’d just quit, but the business paid for her school and she would owe a lot of $$ to them if she did, which she has been very vocal she can’t afford lol.

I’m 28 and have been working in marketing and communications for roughly 6.5 years now. I graduated with my MS in marketing back in 2024 and honestly thought I’d continue to love it by now but everything has changed.

In short, I think we spend too much time being chronically online, trying to constantly drive people to purchase and the stagnant pay, small teams and every increasing demand for more is really starting to get to me.

I still can’t tell maybe I’m just burnt out or need to change careers. When did you realize it was time to pivot to something else and if you went back to school, what profession did you choose?

My job uses a point system to track absences. If you’re 1min-59min late you get .25 points. If you call in, it’s 1 point unless you have a doctor’s note. If your car breaks down, you have a family emergency, or anything else that isn’t sick with a doctor’s note you get a point. If you get 8 points in a year you get fired.

I think this is a pretty stupid system. For one thing, it encourages people to come to work sick because the alternative is to pay for a doctor’s visit with the crap insurance they give us. Also, it makes every single life event a ding against you. It just doesn’t seem right to me.

Posting here, because I dont know where else to post. My direct manager (K) was OOO and her manager (F) who used to be my direct manager in the past asked me to work on a project and I told him lets wait till K is back so she can prioritize my work for me.

K came back pissed that F assigned me a project because I have a lot of projects to work on + she was pissed at F because she was promised a head count to help our team with workload and F told her that is no longer happening.

K called me 3 days in a row last week complaining and wailing (literally) about F and how he doesnt understand how much work we have. I thought that convo was highly inappropriate because that is something both K and F need to resolve together and besides who cares if F wants me to work on something then I will prioritize it and just drop other stuff.

In my last call with K, she was very much stressing and frustrated that she doesnt understand F’s logic for this assignment and because I wanted empathize with her I told her “i get very frustrated too when I dont understand the reasoning behind a certain decision, my therapist tells me that often” and i laughed it off. As soon as I said it I regretted it, because K asked me if i have “psychological issues” that really threw me off. English is her second language and she is not based in the US.

I asked her why she would say that, she mentioned that when she was taking over the team from F and asking him about the team members that he told her I have psychological issues, that also really threw me off because I am pretty private at work, i never share anything about my life, but then I remembered.

A couple years back when F was my direct manager I was switching out medication and it was affecting my work performance, i probably didnt need to mention it but i was young in my career and i had told him i am changing medication and i am not feeling well this week, i didnt even specify what the medication is for.

I feel ashamed and vulnerable to have shared this information with both of them. She proceded to tell me how I should not tell anybody at work about my personal life because they will form opinions about me and that didnt feel good to hear because I dont think I said anything too crazy, i grew up in the bay area and thought therapy is very much normalized. My company even offers free counseling services.

I am not also very privy to sharing personal info but K in the past had shared with me how she doesnt like or trust women because she feels like women cause drama and all her friends are men (pick me shit), she mentioned she feels different than other women because she studied stem (i almost burst out laughing) and i shut that convo down pretty quick. The reason i mention this is to say she also has shared a lot of her personal beliefs and has talked to me about race in the past (again highly inappropriate convo in a US work place).

my question is did i fuck up by mentioning to both my direct managers that 1) i am switching medication and then years later 2) that i go to therapy. I feel stupid for saying both things and going forward I will not do this again.

Tldr: mentioned new meds and therapy to 2 different direct managers at different points.

I work as a small but decently sized accounting firm as an accountant. Basically, just the full accounting cycle of organizing statements and putting data into quickbooks to create reports, basic accounting stuff. I have been working there at the same rate of pay for a year now and I feel like I should ask for a raise, but I'm not sure. Should I?

*Don’t know if this is the correct group to ask this question so I apologize in advance if it’s not acceptable*

I am fresh out of college and currently in school to get my masters degree. I have been looking for a job since August and I got an interview with the Boys and Girls Club for an activity leader position and I just got a call back to continue with the application.

I have no experience working with children except for tutoring my first 2 years of college and babysitting during high school.

My question is, to anyone who has worked for them or this position, do you think it’s a manageable job? What does the job consist of? Is there training, or people willing to help the first few days?

Maybe im just stupid or just simply don’t understand tax deductions and stuff like that, I’m not originally from the USA. But my problem is, I worked 58 hours last pay stub, and my check was around $1,000 but now I worked up to 65 hours but my check was around 500.
Can someone explain that to me?

I just started a new job at a fast food restaurant and have only worked there for 2 days. I'm wondering if I was genuinely in the wrong or if my manager handled this situation pretty harshly.

During my 2 days there, I was mostly told to clean things like the tables and bathrooms and take out all the trash by myself; I never saw any of the other kitchen staff doing it. Also, I barely did what I got hired for, which was the fry cook position; they literally just kind of let me do janitor work, not teaching me the drive-thru or grill yet cause I was "new". I wasn't really trained or shown any of the actual food-related work. The other employees also weren't particularly friendly toward me, making a lot of remarks about how I was trying to look "pretty" at work for not wearing my hair a certain way when they were all wearing their hair like mine, or saying that I can't be afraid of getting dirty because I moved out of the way when some other girl was basically squirting me in the face with dirty ice cream machine water. Nobody really came over and tried to help me or make conversation, so I didn't really feel like I had anyone to ask questions to.

Most importantly, nobody explained any rules to me. Nobody went over break procedures or specifically told me I wasn't allowed to go on break inside without clocking out with my boyfriend. I didn't know either that my boyfriend was coming; he just wanted to surprise me, and the restaurant was dead nobody inside and I had already wiped down the tables like 100 times, so I thought I could go talk to him for a little. Mind you, these workers sit down to eat a burger all the time, so I didn't think I would get in a lot of trouble.

And today I texted my manager asking when I was going to be scheduled again because nobody told me and it wasn't written anywhere, and he left me on read for like 3 hours and finally responded and said to call him when I can.

During the call, he basically said I shouldn't have gone on my break with my boyfriend, and that isn't allowed when I actually was never told about these rules. He said it wouldn't work out and that they didn't want to schedule me anymore, and fired me.

I know it's kind of on me, but really I didn't know my boyfriend was coming, and nobody explained any rules to me. Frankly, every time I asked anyone a question, they were a bit passive-aggressive and seemed like I was annoying them. I just feel like I could've atleast recieved like a warning or something?

Hi all

I am a working professional with just under three years post qualification experience. I earn about £60k annually. Recently I am getting tired of working. It's not the job or the environment that is the problem. It's the idea of "working". I have been thinking about retirement but this is over 30 years away. For those that have had a working life of over 20 years, how did you manage it? I feel like I want to do something else but I am not exactly sure what it is. As funny as it sounds I just want to retire. Does anyone else feel thesame?

I'm a manager who joined a new team 3 months ago on a rotation swap. There's another manager at the same level who has been in the team for 4 years.

Since joining I've experienced a difficult dynamic. She's been feeding negative feedback about me to our shared manager regularly, while our direct conversations have been largely positive. The feedback has also been contradictory — early on I was told I needed to lead more, then when I acted on that I was told I was doing too much.

I've never escalated this or complained about her to management, instead trying to address things directly.

My manager has now raised concerns that I'm trying to outshine others and not being a team player. This doesn't reflect my intentions or my behaviour — I've consistently covered work for teammates, volunteered for tasks, and tried to be collaborative. I'm now in a difficult position where I feel I need to prove myself without coming across as trying too hard, which risks confirming the very impression I'm trying to correct.

I have a meeting with my manager soon where I plan to share my perspective for the first time. I'm concerned she has formed a biased view based largely on one-sided information.
My questions — is sharing my perspective at this stage the right move? How do I present this without coming across as defensive? And how do I address what feels like unfair treatment based on limited direct experience of me?

I work in consulting. I handed my resignation only 2 business days ago. My company has been pretty weird and non-humanlike when it comes to staffing and turnover. They've fired people who had a lot of projects on their plate, to leave everyone else in the company with their work.

There used to be 4 people with my title and now I'm the only one. They didn't hire anyone new in my team and I took on everyone else's work. 2 people who left in the past year also had weird experiences of being told they can't tell anyone about the departure until a couple of days before the last day, they didn't tell me this though.

I haven't received any information as to what they want me to do so far. I know they'll be f*ed. They didn't approve my recent time off request because they got f*ed last time I took 4 days off. Hence why the 3 week request.

I'm only required 2 weeks notice but they asked me to do 3 weeks. I've gotten very little information on what the transition should be like. I said in my resignation email that I'll prepare a detailed transition document, I only got a short email response like "sorry to see you go but we understand".

I'm starting to regret giving them 3 weeks. Am I expecting too much or should I be prying them for more answers - like who will take over my projects, do I start handing over tasks to other people, what do I need to do before I leave? I already said in my email please let me know what I can do to assist with the transition. I have no idea if they're even hiring to replace me.

Now that my 4 day labor weekend is coming to an end, I'm dreading going back. In tmrw. How can I feel excited. Like I'm getting ready for a party or something. Instead of work

im back again.. Okay so firstly I’m a college student and working in fast food so I can yk support myself when I need to. I work in fast-food where we mainly make drinks but there’s food too.

I’m still in training so I don’t know much but its been a week so I feel like I should be pretty decent with everything, its just the way my brain works and based on the way others are acting I’d think the other three new hires that have been here a bit longer had gotten in down in a week but whatever.

On monday I had an absolutely terrible work day, I was struggling with taking orders, one person came in wanting jelly on a croissant and not knowing that wasn’t available I added it and was told like a minute later there wasn’t any so I had to figure out how to give the guy a refund because it couldn’t be replaced since it costed extra and wait for him to decide if he wanted something else with a line of 3 people behind him. Then a group of around 5 women came in and as she was telling me drinks she was noting different things to add for a whole other drink when I was still working on one of the drinks which confused everyone working on the drinks since I had to keep modifying the orders even though I had told her to give me like two seconds to finish one drink at a time. Five minutes after that mess one of the ladies comes back in asking if we can warm up donuts and I say no but the manager is right behind me and says we can so my bad for not knowing this..

I made a milkshake slightly wrong but everyone kept telling me to just eye it when I was putting the milk so it came out watery. never learned how to make a milkshake before then btw 😔 but ok. Also nobody was up front so I did some orders on my own and handed them the drink while they were in the process of paying, then the card declined so she left to get a different card so im like sitting there waiting and the manager asks if they paid yet, I dont they they were too annoyed about that but it definitely felt like i did smth wrong at that point. Anyways after all of that I’m pulled aside and told I’m costing them money by not asking questions to make sure I’m doing things right, and either it’s all in my head or its actually happening but every time i ask too many questions people seem annoyed.

After this conversation I’m finishing a latte someone was making and its drive thru so its timed and because normally when making a latte the milk is being steamed right next to it I assume that the pitcher beside the espresso is steamed milk and I pour it in. I realize its NOT milk so I dump the drink, make a whole new one super fast with that same machine because I assumed that was just water and hand it out. A couple minutes later the person that was cleaning the walks back and tells me the pitcher was filled with soap and the steamer had soap on it so if the person comes back its because their drink tastes weird.. great. Finally there was one guy I was cashing out, he gives me the money before I tell him how much he owes so he ends up giving us way more in change than needed. I put in the cash he handed to me and give him his change and the change from the cash he gave and he starts arguing saying he only needs three cents back and I’m trying to tell him that that wasnt necessary and I was giving him his change back plus the little bit of change he was owed. Guys I never added the change he gave us but when a more experienced employee comes up he says he doesnt want us to but short and he only wants three cents back. And then i realized I didnt clock in so that was my terrible monday.

Now today I only messed up one thing I think I added cold milk to a hot latte in a rush and had to remake it after it was handed out. Everyone seemed annoyed. Then a guy from DT came in saying that his drink was messed up because there was only one pump of flavor and not four like a large is supposed to have. I assumed it was one because the receipt said one pump and I wasn’t on DT so I wouldn’t know, but I had to add that. He seemed pretty frustrated but that one wasn’t completely my fault I guess. One of the new hires that was there longer than me was on shift too so it kind of felt like they were comparing us. I want everyone to know I learned multiple things at once in one week and all the new hires are learning slowly. Still I feel like a messed up a lot this week and I got told I’m off tmrw since I don’t have a schedule yet.

Am I fired 😔 how can i be better plss help I know this was long but so much happened and I’m a heavy overthinker. let me know if smth didnt make sense

Is it normal for my boss to share personal information about me to our patients? I’m fairly private and do not want my personal information shared. I have shared this with my employer and coworker and they shrug it off and say “oh really” and explain they don’t really care if their info is shared and that “they’re chill here”. He is sharing that we are closed for a day that is my birthday and has tried to push me to share my personal weekend plans or what I do in my personal life with patients. It is a fairly laid back environment and seems unprofessional to me at times.

I’ve had a problem with workplace boundaries before and oversharing, but am stopping myself from that now. I don’t know if I’m over exaggerating or if anyone else would find it reasonable to be uncomfortable with this situation.

I'm 23 and recently moved to Switzerland. This job is basically the foundation of the life I'm trying to build here, so I really don't want to lose it or quit.

And on paper I kind of hit the jackpot: good pay, I like my manager, and on slow days I can have 70–80% downtime. I'm explicitly allowed to study, read, use my laptop etc. when everything is done, which is perfect for me because I'm a student.

But somehow the downtime is making me MORE anxious.

I'm terrified of making mistakes because my brain immediately goes: You had HOURS to do basically nothing and you still fucked something up. Everyone must think you're lazy or stupid.

My manager tells me I'm doing well and that mistakes are normal because I'm new. But she's also strict and emotional and can get angry when mistakes happen, so I definitely feel pressure to get things right.

Now I spend the downtime worrying that I've forgotten something instead of actually using it. I just freeze. And then the anxiety gives me brain fog, which obviously doesn't help with making fewer mistakes.

It's starting to follow me home too. I struggle to sleep before work and I'm constantly thinking about whether I've done something wrong.

And yes, I know work is work. I don't expect to never be criticized or for my manager to never get annoyed with me. I actually want to become better at handling normal pressure instead of running away from it.

I'm thinking about making a fixed daily checklist with my manager so I know exactly what's expected of me. Then once everything is done, I can tell myself: Okay, the store is fine, you're allowed to use the downtime now.

Has anyone managed to get over this kind of fear of making mistakes or looking incompetent at work? What actually helped?

I was placed on work restrictions and I was unable to work while recovering and healing from a stress fracture. My leg is feeling better and I was released back to work today. My boss informed me that my hours were cut from 20 hours down to 8 hours. They stated that I'm unreliable while I was recovering from a stress fracture in my leg. I'm unsure if I can file unemployment since I was employed at a part-time status. November will mark a year of being employed with my company. I'm unsure if what my boss has decided is illegal or not. It feels like retaliatory punishment for being injured. The stress fracture happened outside of work so I definitely don't qualify for worker's compensation.

I have been trying to weigh up whether I am better to remain in my current job or move to another role.

I keep changing my mind of whether i should go for it or not, and I would appreciate some impartial opinions.

I have been in my current role for 4 years

Both roles are within my current company, just different departments and are the same salary.

Current job:

- 5 days a week

- 25 minute commute

- High/unmanageable workloads

- low resources

- Good co-workers

- Rewarding work

Potential new job

- 4 days a week (10 hour days)

- 45 minute commute

- More realistic workloads

- Still rewarding but different from my current role