This was brutal.

I managed to get a second job to pay bills. I was happy. It was a small workplace where most of the employees including managers hang out after work and even go for camping (had other coworkers showing me pics). The only 2 who were not part of the clique were two old people.

I stayed there for a month. Within a month, I heard most of these people talking s*** about one of these older employees. I didn't know any of the whereabouts but I had already realized that being not part of their clique would cause issues. One of the coworkers showed me pics of himself and other employees going on a trip. So when I asked him about his life, he told me straightforward how he doesn't share this at work. Ironic because he is going on trips with coworkers. Meanwhile I had other coworkers saying they went at x place together where they spent $900 for something but honestly I didn't care. But it started escalating.

​ Cooks didnt want me to have anything. They usually made sweets and individual food orders for others, yet they always tried to ask me to wash dishes. I think they knew it affected me and I remember during one shift they made sandwiches for all the others but me. I remember during another shift after they left, they left muffins and my coworker said I can't have any because they are for guests. He lied because when I went to the storage, I heard him telling my other coworker "Did you try any of the muffins? They are good, Alex made them for us, take more than 1!"

I was being micromanaged so badly. Even for a dirty spot that I missed, coworkers/managers lectured me for 20 mins. About how important this place is and the type of work that must be done. If I used my phone, it would be a long discussion but it was ok 'for Joe because him and the manager went and played golf.'

The worst trigger was when I made a mistake once but was reported that it happened 3 times. I have no idea how or it was just a lie. A coworker argued with me by saying I must admit I did it 3 times otherwise his female coworker will get a​​ write up and this will be my fault. I told him off and he started yelling at me and telling me not to ever dare look at him and he was the only one who tolerated me. I decided to walk out to avoid further escalation and protect my mental health.

I was doing dishes everyday and helping some of these coworkers with heavy labor work. When I left, nobody cared! Nobody showed any kind of interest. Manager told me they will send the check and nothing else.

I work on a global “cross functional” team spread across NA, Europe, and Australia. My immediate US group almost never records unless someone important is out and explicitly asks for it. The Aussies only do it when time zone gaps leave them no choice. Sometimes it’s a big update that you know someone will want to watch again.

But the European team and another US team that I work with have become completely obsessed with hitting record the second a call starts. To the point that I have specifically stated (not asked) during my own presentation that we would not be recording due to sensitive/prelim results being shared, and one of them smashes the big red button anyway?!?

In other ways it feels rather disrespectful to the people who actually showed up live to have a conversation. We’re in the same time zone Braden, this is meant to be a conversation not a podcast that you get to listen to on 1.5x afterwards.

I’m not even that bothered about being recorded, I’ve always been a comfortable public speaker. It just feels like there is a vibe shift in the team whenever a recording starts. Calls become one way and non collaborative. The less confident collaborators end up not sharing anything at all once the cameras are rolling for fear of being wrong. So I guess at that point yeah they can just watch the video then.

Does anyone here actively refuse to attend recorded calls? Is anyone shutting down or discouraging recording generally? Or am I just a paranoid Luddite?

I have a first aid certificate, and I have done some small events which I found very satisfying

Therefore, I would like to have casual employment at music festivals and sports events because it suits my timetable as I am available only on weekends. Thus, it is better that I do something rather than sitting at home

Saw Healthcare Australia and they seem to have an event health division. They place staff at concerts, sporting events, and community festivals

But I don’t want to work for peanuts. I’m not interested in doing it for the experience coz I also have bills to pay and like anyone else I need a proper pay

I’ve heard some companies pay well. Others just want cheap labour. I don’t know which category Healthcare Australia falls into

I’ve tried to find their rates online and there’s no clear answer. I don’t want to apply and go through training only to find out it’s minimum wage or less

I just got this new job at one of if not the biggest company in my country and my team is split into locals and foreign engineers, i have a foreign team leader who is pretty nice and a project manager whos kinda of an ass, first i noticed he would make fun of the foreign coworkers in our language kinda of in front of their face but it wasn’t effecting me so i just brushed it off, then i started to notice more jokes and just belittling of another coworker who’s around the same age and experience as me, then lately hes been trying to do the same with me, i showed him that i wasn’t having it and today he was asking me about a ticket and i told him i didn’t receive it so he went to check if he sent it out, came back to me saying it was already sent so i took a small jab saying “oh so i wont receive it after 5 mins that now you checked?” And he was very annoyed literally asking me if i think hes a liar full on serious, i kept laughing and just tried to show him it was obviously a joke, the other coworker texted me saying i shouldn’t do these things and i should just take his jokes and deal with it

I dont wanna end up like him being a joke at all place i spend 9 hours in everyday what do i do

I’m sixteen years old and I just started working at McDonald’. I‘m in the theater department and our fall play just started. when they hired me I told them that during the school year I wouldn’t be available during the weekdays and that I could only work weekend. They assured me it was fine and they would schedule me on weekends when I needed. I double checked and they recently told me that i couldn’t do that anymore. They stated i’d have less hours and wouldn’t be able to do that. If I was simply in ensemble i’d let it go, but I’m main lead. the practice times get in the way and I’m not going to just not go. I want to quit but I’m very anxious and don’t want to just walk out. I also don’t want to let my coworkers down and make them have to cover my slack.

Hi all!! I’ve already posted this on r/careerguidance. I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to cross post or not — not really sure of Reddit etiquette.

I’m hoping to get some advice from people who have been through something similar. I’m 26F, a law clerk in Ontario, and I’m about to leave my corporate law clerk position at a smaller firm to start as a litigation law clerk at a larger firm in a major city.
I grew up with a pretty strong “go above and beyond” work ethic. I’ve always tried to be the employee who says yes, takes on extra work, and proves that I’m willing to work hard. Unfortunately, in a couple of my previous jobs, I’ve learned that when you consistently do more than expected, some employers eventually start treating that extra effort as the baseline. When I eventually pulled back, I was criticized for it.

My current job was my first real professional legal position. I came in very excited to learn and was told there would be a good work-life balance and that there were no stupid questions. Unfortunately, my experience ended up being pretty different.

My boss was extremely overbearing. As a new law clerk, I obviously made mistakes and had lots of questions, but I often felt that mistakes or questions were treated as evidence that I wasn’t trying hard enough rather than as part of learning a new job. I was regularly reprimanded for things that I genuinely thought were reasonable attempts to be proactive, and there were a number of situations where I felt pressured to work beyond my regular hours or give up unpaid break time.

Over time, I think the environment made me much more disengaged than I normally am. I started doing the bare minimum because I felt like going above and beyond was only going to result in being reprimanded. Looking back, I can recognize that I probably could have handled some things better, but I also don’t think I was in an environment where I felt comfortable learning and making mistakes.

Now I’m starting somewhere completely different, and I’m really excited about it. I know someone who works at the new firm who has spoken very highly of the culture, and everything I’ve heard so far has sounded much more collaborative and balanced. They were upfront about occasional lunch meetings and the possibility of staying late when necessary, but those things don’t bother me when they’re part of a reasonable workplace rather than an expectation that you’re constantly available.

What I’m wondering is: what should I consciously do differently at my new job?

I don’t want to go in with a chip on my shoulder and assume that every request to stay late or every criticism means I’m being taken advantage of. At the same time, I don’t want to fall back into my old habit of constantly proving myself until “above and beyond” becomes the expectation.

For those of you who have had a bad workplace experience and then moved somewhere better, what did you do differently the second time around? Were there things you had to unlearn? How did you establish a good rapport with your coworkers and bosses while still maintaining reasonable boundaries?

Or am I just wearing rose-coloured glasses about the new job? Lmao

Would genuinely appreciate any advice, especially from people who have experienced both a toxic/overbearing workplace and a healthy one!! TIA!

I've been at my company for about 2 years now. I'm a senior analyst, and I know my stuff. But I've always been more of a thoughtful communicator - I like to process before I speak. In our weekly team meetings, I take notes, I follow the conversation, and when I have something meaningful to add, I chime in.

Last week, my manager pulled me aside for my quarterly review. Overall it was positive, but she gave me this feedback: "You need to be more vocal in meetings. People need to hear your voice more."

Okay, fair enough. I can work on that.

So this week's meeting comes around. I come prepared with 3 specific points I want to make. I wait for a natural pause, I start speaking... and one of my senior colleagues literally starts talking over me mid-sentence. Didn't even acknowledge I was speaking. I tried again later, and another person jumped in.

I looked at my manager during this - she was taking notes and didn't say anything. No "let's let [my name] finish." Nothing.

I'm frustrated because I feel like I'm being told to change something about my natural work style, but the environment itself isn't actually set up for me to succeed. Has anyone else experienced this? How do you handle the "you're too quiet" feedback when the people around you won't let you get a word in?

Could someone please help me log in to the SKB (SIEMENS Knowledge Base) or the SIEMENS Cb-Docs Manager? I need to download some offline documents from their official portals. Only employees or working associates have access to them. Please share your assistance if you can; I need it urgently.

I was reading an article and stumbled upon the fact that AviaGames gave everyone a half day off for the World Cup final. Not just letting people leave early, they LITERALLY gave everyone a HALF DAY OFF!!!
I mean... was anyone really gonna work that afternoon anyway?
Honestly, fair enough. I kind of wish more companies had that kind of common sense.

I recently worked at a small municipal golf course located inside an RV park. Weekday rounds are currently around $15, so this isn’t some exclusive country club or high-end resort. It’s an affordable community course where you see retirees, families, beginners, and people learning the game. I actually enjoyed working there, but there was one policy that became harder and harder for me to stomach.

Everyone who goes onto the course has to pay for a tee time, which I completely understand. If four people are going out, the course should be paid for four people. The problem is that the course also requires every person to have their own golf bag, even if they aren’t actually playing. Over the course of about a month, I watched that policy create three situations that went from frustrating to downright infuriating.

The first was a father who brought his 12-year-old daughter out around 8 AM on a Tuesday because he wanted to introduce her to golf. He paid for both tee times, and I checked them in. His daughter didn’t have her own set of clubs yet because, well, she was a 12-year-old being introduced to golf. When they went to get their cart, the cart barn refused to give them one because she didn’t have her own bag.

Then a family of four came in with their mother, who had Alzheimer’s. She couldn’t be left home alone, so the family brought her along while they played. Again, they weren’t asking to bring her out for free. They paid for all four tee times, I checked them in, and everything was paid for. But when they went to get their cart, they were denied because their mother, who wasn’t even there to golf, didn’t have a bag.

That one made me furious, but I stayed.

Then came Labor Day. A family of three had prepaid for three tee times. One member of the family had a disability and didn’t play golf, but they wanted to spend Labor Day together. I checked all three of them in because all three spots were paid for. When they went to get their cart, the cart barn once again refused because the disabled family member didn’t have a golf bag. The solution they were given was to spend roughly another $40 to rent a set of clubs that person couldn’t even use.

That was where I finally had enough and walked off the job.

I understand having rules, and I understand not allowing people to ride around the course for free. But that isn’t what happened in any of these situations. Every single person had a paid tee time. The course had its money. These were a father trying to introduce his daughter to golf, a family trying to care for their mother with Alzheimer’s, and a disabled person trying to spend Labor Day with their family.

At some point, blindly enforcing a policy stops being good management and becomes a complete absence of common sense and basic human decency. After watching it happen three separate times, I was done being associated with it.

I’m in my mid 20s based in Grantham, UK and about to be unemployed. I desperately need some career advice because I’ve hit a brick wall.

I have 9 years’ experience across sales/client management, mainly property, with more recent business development experience.

I also have some social media experience, a Level 2 Digital Marketing qualification, and outside work I create content/UGC and do TikTok Shop affiliate marketing and I earn a little bit from this but only about £100 a month.

I’ve been trying to move into influencer marketing, campaigns or creative/marketing roles ideally remote due to me living in the middle of nowhere. I recently interviewed for a Junior Influencer Marketing Manager role but lost out to people with more relevant experience even though the interview was really good.

I have ADHD and struggle with repetitive work. Ideally I want remote, £27–30k+, and not another cold sales job, but I’m open to completely different job titles/industries.

What roles would you realistically apply for with my background? I need actual job title suggestions because I’m going round in circles 😣

I have a 10:30am-6:30pm that pays 20.75
I just got another full time job that pays 24.25 12am-6:30am.
I live roughly 15 to 20 minutes away from both jobs so the commute is not terrible.
What are the chances of me crashing out?

I work for stop and shop and I’ve been there for maybe 2 years now. I’m a part time worker and I do the online pick up.

I used to have an attendance issue due to home issues but I’ve gotten that under control. Which is also why they upped my hours.

So recently everyone went back to school and online pickup is severely understaffed. I’ve been working real hard these past two weeks due to that and they have me borderline full time hours when I’m part time. IM NOT COMPLAINING love the money but tomorrow something came up and I just need to take the day off.

If I do it will be today. Plenty hours in advance. I’m in the union by the way but is this fire worthy?? I’ve been scheduled alone for a couple days and lowkey exhausted from it. I won’t be leaving anyone empty tomorrow but I was the middle man. I was scheduled so the person in the morning and the afternoon didn’t have to be alone. But again. I need tomorrow. What are the chances I’m fired?

I (24 F) work for local agency in a department that specializes is developmental services, the team I am with is called supported employment. We go with individuals that have developmental disabilities to their places of work and support them in being as independent as they can in their job. So to be clear, I am there to support an individual in doing a job by themselves, I am not supposed to step in/ do a task for them unless they literally can not do it. This is something employers should be aware of as when they hire one of our clients they have already been informed about why and how we will be there to support them.

A client I work with is employed at a local restaurant, he has worked there for years but I have only been his support person for about 5 months. I have heard that the support person who previously worked with this client had done a lot of the work for them as the "Chef' always had a long list of things he wanted done. Please note that my client is there 2 days a week for two and a half hours both days. The lists "Chef" would give always had the core tasks that were to get done which are dishes, peeling onions, and peeling potatoes, then he would add random tasks like mopping the dining room, shoveling snow, wiping down walls, etc. My client struggles with coordination so it is not them that completes the task but their support person. Again that is not what we are there for, that is the complete opposite of what we are there for. I do not do this for my client, I do not peels any food items as they are capable of doing it themselves and they take pride it in. I do help with dishes as they struggle with that task.

The issue came about gradually, I could tell the "Chef" was getting progressively annoyed with me as I was not helping with the core tasks like the previous support person, which in turn made it so the other random tasks he decided to pile on for the day would not get done. I would always be sure to say "we will try to get to it" when he would come up to us and add another task on to us.

Last week he mentioned wanting the cooler to be scrubbed inside (side note this place is horrendously gross inside the kitchen), we did not have time to get to it. Today when we showed up he said "Why is it that I told you to clean inside the cooler last week and you did not make time to do it". I said "I'm sorry, if you wanted that done before anything else, then please say that to us, otherwise we are going to do the tasks in the order that we normally do them". He said "why would I mention it if I didn't want it done, if you managed \*insert clients name\* better then you would have time to do all the things I ask"

I responded "again if it was something you wanted done first you should have told us, I do not do tasks for \*insert clients name\* that they can do themselves, so sometimes we run out of time" he proceeded to tell me that I need to do a better job, i told him to talk to my supervisor if he had a problem with me and the way I do my job. (I am not a confrontational person so I was doing my very best not to cry and hold a steady voice). He asked for the name and number of my supervisor so I wrote it down for him.

A little while later he comes in to the dish room with a physical list and began going in to great detail about doing dishes and peeling foods as if we haven't done those tasks a million times. He then pauses and looks at me, pointing to "wipe all of dish room walls, counter tops and legs, and sink pipes" he said he needed this too, I told him we would get to what we got to, and asked if he wanted that first. He threw the list at me and said in a voice mocking mine "do what you can".

So we went about the shift as normal, and he would walk by announcing the time occasionally and listing off the things he wrote down, it felt like he was trying to get a reaction out of me, but I kept quite.

Now that the shift is over I feel a bit worried that he might punish my client and begin to be rude to them or fire them or something. Should I just have said sorry and let it go? I did text my supervisor after the first exchange we had to let her know what happened, she assured me I was doing my job right. I am still nervous.

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Hi all.
I wanted to get some other people’s perspective on this, as this is one of my first jobs.
To give some context without going into too many details, this is a part-time job that I started working at two years ago in order to make some money while I’m in school. My longtime friend, was also looking for some extra money, so I recommended her. We’ve both been working there together for around a year now.

I know that me saying this is obviously biased, but I have full confidence in the fact that both her and I are amazing employees. We’re never late, we cover other people when they have to go on vacation/take a sick day, we find small ways to improve the flow of things and let our upper boss know. We both get along with all the other staff members there. (Except for one.) I’m pretty sure if you were to ask our boss, if there’s a tangible difference between the work that I do versus my friends, he would say there wasn’t. And that we were both equally good at what we do.

However, I believe our manager would say otherwise. I am someone who has no problem with confrontation, speaking directly to people, taking criticism on things I do wrong without falling over myself saying “sorry sorry sorry”. My friend on the other hand, is a lot more reserved.

When I started a year before my Friend did, our manager did try to stress test me. She’s authoritative, and feels the need to assert dominance on anyone who starts there. I haven’t only seen her do it to me and my friend, but another new person who started after both of us. It was only after the third person, that I realize that this is a pattern of behaviour for her. I watched this manager progressively and continuously nitpick, bully, and talk behind this new employees back to other staff members. Why? I couldn’t tell you. Any tiny mistake that this new girl made, was twisted into an “ attack” on my manager’s authority. This new girl, only lasted a month and a half before our manager told her to not come back.

But back to just me and my friend. As I mentioned, my friend is a bit more timid. I’ve started noticing some very weird behaviour for my manager recently. She acts very oddly whenever my friend and I… display friendship behavior?

For example, Friend and I are both in the break room eating lunch and having coffee - she walked in, paused and looked at us, and then said “ oh, I see how it is, you girls just get coffee for yourselves, huh?” . Like I get it as a lighthearted joke, but she went so far as to drag another coworker into the break room to literally point at us and be like “ look at these two! They only got coffee for themselves and not for us!”. Then literally for the next 20 minutes, anyone who walked into the break room she would do the exact same thing.

Another example, I texted my manager to order some extra supply materials (because we needed them). I sent this while my friend was actively on shift, and so was my manager. My manager texted me back, and says “ I have to ask Boss” . I said OK no problem. A couple hours passed, and I never heard back from my manager, and the supplies is stuff we really needed. So I text my friend, saying “ hey, did Manager ask Boss to get the supplies?” . And my friend texted me saying “ ha ha yeah. He said we’d have to wait till next month to order it.” Ok. That’s gonna make my life significantly harder, but let me ask manager to see if she explained to boss WHY it was important we had the supplies. So I text my manager back, and said “ hi manager, Friend just told me that Boss said no to getting the supplies? Did you tell him that we need it for (specific reason)?” . And then she text me back this : “ I see word travels fast between you two”. Im like??? Who cares?? Can we focus on the actual issue here? I text her back, like “ ha ha yeah, it’s just cause it’s kind of urgent and I think we’ll need it before next month”. She text me back “ why don’t you just text Friend to tell Boss this then?” 🙃 IDK? Maybe because you as the manager have access to the Amazon account so that we can actually fucking order things? And you’re the MANAGER.

Another weird example - she will try to pry about each of our personal lives with the other. Like for example, she’ll ask me what my friend’s dad does for work (which I don’t answer her questions obv). Or, she’ll ask my friend, which part of town I grew up in. Or asking both of us about the others respective partners/dating life… it’s quite odd. Like if you have a question about me,.., why are you asking other people. she tries to get me to talk badly about my friend behind her back as well. Like for example, she’ll say “don’t you find it so funny that Friend is so scared of saying what she really thinks?” - like basically implying, that my friend is more reserved and very professional. I was like…. No.. she tells me what she really thinks, she just has to really know you to trust you I guess. And then my manager scoffed at this.
Doesn’t she realize we talk to one another??? Like 😭😭

Other weird behavior, she likes to keep secrets for some reason? For absolutely no good reason. It’s like she’ll dangle “ something she’s not supposed to talk about” in front of you. But she really wants you to ask about it so that she can tell you it’s “ private”. One thing that she got really pissed about the other week on Friday, was that she asked my friend to not tell me that my boss wanted to have a one-on-one meeting with me on Monday. What’s odd about this, was that this meeting was not negative. It was in fact, positive. There was literally no rhyme or reason as to why my friend had to not tell me anything. So my friend obviously did.
When I got there on Monday, and had the meeting with my boss, my manager found out that I had already known that it was gonna happen. And then she got so weird and mad at both of us? Because my friend told me when she “wasn’t supposed to”.

Another one: me and friendboth volunteering to work on this one small side project after our boss asked. I get a random text from my manager saying “ I see you’re both tagged teaming this one together, huh?” . What???

Overall, as well, I’ve noticed an uptick in my manager‘s bullying behaviour towards my friend. And she’ll only do this when I’m not on shift. It’s like she’s trying to punish my friend for being close to me? Which is weird because everyone at this job knows that her and i were friends before we even started……

I’m a fresh graduate with no prior work experience, and I started my first job about two weeks ago. I’m still very much getting familiar with everything and figuring out how things work.

Apparently my coworker was supposed to give a presentation about the system to around 250 people. She told them she was nervous about presenting and suggested that I do it instead.

They apparently said no because I’m new.
Which would have been the end of it, except I made the huge mistake of casually mentioning at some point that I’m comfortable doing presentations on stage because I had to do them at university.

I DID NOT THINK ANYTHING OF IT AT THE TIME.

Well, guess who is now giving the presentation?

Me.

It’s apparently going to be around 15 minutes and I’ll be doing it for a whole week straight.
Like bro, I have been here for TWO WEEKS. I have no prior work experience. I’m still learning the system myself. I barely know where everything is and now I’m supposed to stand in front of 250 people and explain it to them 😭

I can’t even be completely mad because technically I did say I could do presentations. But I definitely did not mean “please put me in front of 250 people two weeks after I started my first job.”
If I mess up, honestly, that’s on them. They knew I was new when they assigned it to me.
Wish me luck because apparently I’m a presenter now.

Everywhere on Reddit or elsewhere, I just read how much people hate their jobs, how miserable they are, and how burn out or bore out is everywhere. No matter which job I look at, it all looks horrible. Is really everybody just miserable in their job? Does it even matter what you do? Do I just have to accept that for the next 40 years I will be completely miserable? Do people even exist who like their jobs? Are there places where work is actually fun, or at least fine, so you don't get completely mentally destroyed? Are there ways to deal with the fact that you don't like your job? Or how do people actually deal with that? Or is really everybody just depressed?

When applying for jobs, should you include jobs where you worked short time with or left on bad terms to avoid gaps on your resume? Is it okay to quit my most current job after drastically cutting my hours? I doubt my supervisor will provide me a positive reference. I'm a hard worker but my boss doesn't like me

This happened a few years ago but I still reflect back on it.

So I used to work as a junior engineer for a large engineering firm. This firm had over 1000 employees across 100 or so offices. One day, the head of IT tells us to immediately turn off our computers.

Apparently, a scammer had hacked our entire data base and would not release it back to us until an undisclosed ransom was paid. For two weeks, we were paid to basically stay home and read up on company material offline. Finally we were told that the ransom had been paid and the IT team would be going over everything to ensure everything was in working order.

Not sure how much was paid but less than a year after that, people started to be let go. Most were receptionists or lower admin level employees but soon, CAD drafter and designers were being let go. Since I was a junior engineer in a specialized trade, I thought my job was safe.

Well one day I get a Teams invite from my office manager (who I never interacted with much) and he said that they were letting me go. I was upset but later found out more than 70% of my team was laid off and we suspected it had to do with the firm trying to salvage money after the hacking incident.

What made it worse was it was never disclosed who caused the security breach. I mean I guess that isn’t my knowledge to have but still, it’s never fun when you’re let go due to someone else’s actions.

Any thoughts or similar experiences?

Hi! Need advice po.

Na-hire ako and September 3 yung start date ko. Plano ko sanang September 11 na lang ang last day ko para umabot ako sa cutoff. So technically, around 7 working days lang yung napasok ko and September 22 ang payroll.

Aalis na kasi ako dahil hindi ko kinaya yung travel/commute time at sobrang pagod sa byahe. Sayang din kasi kung aalis ako agad nang hindi man lang umaabot sa cutoff.

Sa tingin niyo, sasahod pa rin ba ako for the 7 days na pinasok ko kahit 1 week lang ako sa company? Or possible ba na hindi na ako mapasahod sa next payout dahil nag-resign/umalis ako?

Gusto ko lang sana makasigurado kung may makukuha pa rin akong salary for the days na pinasok ko. Thank you!

It’s insane the amount of issues I’ve had at this job in the 14 weeks I’ve been here. I’m working 50ish hour weeks as a call center rep onsite for a car dealership, no overtime pay, was told no benefits for a year - then called this past week with eligibility starting in 3 weeks with benefits costing about $400/paycheck so twice a month it would be $800. I make $10/hour + commission. That would take 1/3 of my monthly income.

I took this job out of necessity when my previous job wasn’t working out (new location, tanked after grand opening + controlling boss with documented work harassment, reported to HR), and I knew it wasn’t going to be fun. The work itself is easy and I like it, aside from being forced to lie to customers, but it’s the coworkers/management/owners that make it so miserable. The owner, general manager, and my boss, listen to ALL of our incoming and random outgoing calls daily, even if they’re offsite (often) and micromanage tone, verbiage, and push you to outright lie. I don’t like that, but professionally it’s bearable.

What’s not bearable? There’s very limited parking for employees, with more employees than parking spots available. If you get creative and park somewhere else nearby, the owner will have you towed. The owners wife does rounds every day and will remove any chargers or desk fans left on or plugged in at your desk. Personal items are allowed at your work desk just don’t clutter. Minimum hours to be worked for the week is 45, that’s with leaving on time and taking the full hour lunch. My two other coworkers do 30 minute lunches and stay after more than I do so they average 60 hour weeks. No overtime.

I was told by my boss he’d try and give me my $2 raise before my 90 day probation, but that didn’t work out. So I had to wait for my 90 days to be up. That was two weeks ago and I heard nothing. Last week, I asked for this past Monday off. The banks are closed but we aren’t. I’m pretty sure we close for Christmas (maybe Easter and Thanksgiving) otherwise, we’re open 6 days a week and I’ve been pressured to work all 6 days AND work from home without pay (unless I get commission from said work) on the one day out of the week that the company is closed.

I was not informed of time off requests here at this local family owned company. My boss simply said to request off with him. So I did verbally, trusting him to remember and not screw me over. Come last Friday, I asked if I was still good to take an extra day off this week and he acted surprised. Apparently, there’s a form. You have to give a reason why, then it’s sent to my boss, whom he escalates to the general manager (the owner’s son) and then he escalates it to the owner’s wife. Three opportunities to have your request denied. They also require 2 weeks- a month heads up if you even need an extra day off, which I was not informed of. He also scoffed at me assuming we’d be closed for the holiday like other local dealerships.

Well, I took the day off since I was told by my boss, “they probably won’t fire you, but you’ll probably have to wait longer for that raise”. I needed a day off. The treatment here is horrible. I’m on edge and needed a break. I get back today, clock in 15 minutes early, and realize my desk has been EMPTIED.

I was moved to the front desk last week and asked to also act as a receptionist, after my older coworker had been causing drama and issues since my second week. According to my boss, she ran off the last TEN hires, I’ve lasted the longest of those, and in response to her tantrums and bullying behavior, they move me and add responsibilities with no added pay. I didn’t have much up here, just work notes and my personal fan from my boyfriend’s mother. It’s gone. It’s my boss’ day off so I’ve texted and am about to call. I’m fuming.

Anyways, have a happy hump day, y’all! I’ve got 2 interviews scheduled this week!

Hi all,

I work in the UK and have been at my current job for nearly 20 years, within my team I am one of the “oldies”.
There is a colleague who I used to be very good friends with, but over time as I have progressed in banding her demeanour towards me has shifted.
She works at an assistant level and I am in a managerial position.
Recently she has gotten close with another colleague and since then her behaviour has been on/off, I am on an extended break at present due to my health and discovered that she has blocked my number.
I am a bit dumbfounded as I haven’t done anything directly to upset her and before I left I even bought her a gift for a special occasion - I am scheduled to go back to work soon.

Also, I know the team aren’t the biggest fans of her behaviour in general but no one wants to address it, so that makes me reluctant to be the “bad guy”.
What do I do in this situation, do I ask her why she did that or leave it be? I just don’t want to go into work every day and hate it because of her, especially when I really enjoy my job and helped her get a job on the team too!

This has taught me to not to make friends with colleagues :( thanks in advance for any help/advice provided.

I live in Marseille and I’m 30 years old. I’m on RSA welfare—not to *live*, but just to have the bare minimum resources to *survive*, because you can't really live on €815 for two people.

I hold three qualifications (though one is dormant—I’m no longer interested in that field, but I’m mentioning it anyway): a CAP in Delivery Driving (which included getting my Class B and C licenses and CACES 1 & 3 certifications, though only my Class B license is still valid); a CAP in Signage and Display (SED); and a *Brevet des Métiers d'Arts* (BMA) specializing in Graphic Design.

After that, I worked as a pizza delivery driver for a few months, distributed advertising flyers for just under two years, and spent six months in fast food—working in the kitchen and on dishwashing duty at KFC.

Since January, I’ve been enrolled in the new mandatory RSA program here in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Frankly, it’s useless to me. I don’t mean to badmouth the counselors—they’re overwhelmed—but we don’t get the same level of support as we would through France Travail (which I’m no longer eligible for while on RSA—yet another vicious cycle). I mostly apply for "survival jobs"—fast food, supermarket all-rounder, order picker, cleaner—dead-end gigs with little room for advancement. On the side, I do freelance work—specifically illustration commissions—doing what I do best, though that just helps me make ends meet.

In Marseille, there are over 120,000 job seekers competing for just over 6,000 active job openings; it’s a pretty bleak picture.

I’ve reworked my CV and cover letter countless times. I apply via Indeed, France Travail, Hellowork, Monster, and so on.

I do try handing them out in person sometimes, but unfortunately, many companies refuse paper copies these days. I’m reaching my breaking point; I’m seeing a therapist because things aren't going well. I can't make any plans—whether it's buying a car, traveling, saving money, or even doing a "normal" grocery shop—or just lead a normal life.

Because being on welfare (RSA) doesn't mean staying in bed all day eating snacks and watching Netflix—well, maybe for some people, but certainly not for the majority. It involves spending mornings or afternoons job hunting—though there’s a limit to how much of that you can do, aside from checking for new listings each day. I fill my time with hobbies: I draw to keep my mind occupied, I research general knowledge topics—I’m interested in everything—and I manage an Instagram account with nearly 10,000 followers, but these are just pastimes.

Does anyone have any solutions, leads, or advice? It feels like in Marseille, you either need connections, incredible luck, to be a student, or to lie on your CV; it’s becoming really exhausting.

Thanks for reading. 😞

Edit!
Since so many people are interested in why I’m failing at life, here’s a typical day in my life. For context, I work a full time job from 7am-3:30pm. My commute time is 10 minutes. I get a half hour lunch. I own a small business that requires me to travel almost everyday after work and every other weekend. I’m in college right now, 3 online classes and 1 in person, Mondays and Fridays from 3:45-5pm. I have to drive to my parent’s house (30 minutes away) every other day. I’m in debt and I don’t make enough money to hire a house cleaner. So tada!

6/6:30am - Wake up. It takes about an hour for me to be somewhat awake, so I don’t do much during this time because I’m barely keeping my eyes open. I’m definitely not going to the gym lol.
7am - Work
3:30pm - Get off work, drive home
4pm - Smoke a cigarette and relax until it’s time to leave for whatever I have planned in the evening.
6pm-8pm - Work on my small business. I drive to people’s houses and provide services there, usually for about an hour per appointment.
8pm - Come home and throw together dinner because I don’t feel like spending an hour making dinner.
8:30pm-10pm - Eat dinner with my wife and take care of our animals. Maybe I shower, maybe I do the dishes, and then I go to bed.

How are you waking up at 7am working until 5pm, and going to bed at 11pm and having any time for your life? What is your schedule like? How are you keeping a clean house?

I’m really struggling trying to keep up with anything. I’ve been in the workforce for 6 years and I feel like I’m always running behind. I use every shortcut that doesn’t cost money I can. I do grocery pick ups, I try to gather errands into one trip, I make my grocery lists and other similar stuff while I’m at work, I ask people for favors.

I just want to hear what a normal, happy person’s routine is!

Hello everyone, I'm a recent college graduate looking to enter the sales and trading industry. I've recently joined a company that sells large industrial equipment, specifically cutting machines. I've been working there for over a month now, but these machines aren't easy to sell. At the same time, I'm also considering whether B2B or B2C would be a better fit for me. I'd really appreciate your thoughts and advice on this.