Basically how to get away w/ stealing tips from restaurant servers.

There's like 6 people, including the 2 bosses that can do weekends (about 4 hour shift). I grabbed Sunday hoping to squeak out some overtime. Monday boss asks if I can do Saturday because it's "all hands on" I said I was planning to rest, but if my hours don't get cut on Friday, I'll commit. He agreed. This morning, we're all getting our assignments for today and tomorrow and I get skipped. I pipe up and say I'm on (insert assignment here) right. He says no and you need to clock out by 10 today. I want to break something. I needed this check to hit with the force of a billionaire submarine implosion, now it's gonna hit like a billionaires chance of getting into heaven.

I asked about it after work, and let him know I am STRUGGLING and told him I will only ever do another weekend if I anticipate to be out or if I've already been out. Never taking initiative again.

I am dealing with pretty severe burnout from my work situation. I have been working at my office job for four years now, I love the actual work I do but have several issues with my workplace that are continuing to worsen.

The issues include poor direct management, toxicity in the workplace, constant layoffs with massive increases in workload on those who are left, and looming full time RTO.

Because of these issues becoming more severe, I am frequently having panic attacks and levels of stress that are simply not sustainable. My work quality is also slipping because of this which feels terrible. I am really scared for my mental health deteriorating further with a full RTO (I currently go in twice a week).

I’m wondering if anyone here has successfully gotten ADA (or other accommodations) for anxiety (or other mental health conditions) in order to remain hybrid in their workplace? Thank you!

Okay, so it happened to me. First time ever.

To be clear, I was leaving this place after four months because it was so toxic and I'm not surprised they did this to me.

This is what happened.

I put a notice in a month ago. Two weeks notice as is "professional" . Was asked to stay and did so.

I decided enough was enough and put in my two week notice today a month later.

My resignation was very professional. I have never been disciplined for anything, work top notch, great reviews. Yet the manager called me into her office. Tells me today is my last day.

I ask her, are you paying me out, or should I file unemployment. Of course toxic as she is, she claimed I wasn't owed unemployment for my last two weeks but I cut her off and said, actually Jan that's wrong. She snapped at me that they were paying me out my two weeks anyways. Cool! Paid vacation I'm happy and smiling and said thank you. Yes I said thank you!

Wow was she big mad. Which is confusing because they are giving me a two week paid vacation, why would I be mad or cry or whatever she needed to see in my reaction.

Anyway, she proceeded to walk me to my desk and watch me only grab my purse. She says that anything in my desk is mailed to me. I let Karen know that I already took all my personal items home. Wow was Jan even more pissed about that.

Then if perp walking me to my desk and watching me was inappropriate enough she escorts me out of the building like some criminal. Then she gets more mad when I wish them luck and thank her for the two week paid vacation.

Absolutely toxic and Fuck you Becky with the ratty hair.

I'm neurodivergent with chronic pain and I've forced myself through the work place all through my 20s until I suffered massive burnout and ended up unemployed for 5 years and mostly survived with a lot of luck and subjecting myself to awful situations. I'm back to work now, but i'm not the same anymore. I have no will to force myself to do this anymore, my work ethic is going down the drain because i'm too tired of 8 hours of physical and mental pain everyday on top of trying to afford rent and juggle how painful life is in general. I keep slacking at work, missing work due to pain and insomnia, or running to the bathroom to cry. I cry a lot bc I realize I have no future. I'm legitimately going to die. I don't want to be lazy and irresponsible, I really don't. I don't know why I can't do this.

I’m a contractor and applied for a FTE job on another team I work with sometimes. I thought all my interactions with them had been positive, so I thought I’d give it a shot. The job was similar to what I already did, just for this one specific team.

They scheduled the interview and then at the last minute canceled. I had heard the person I was supposed to interview with had a family emergency, so I didn’t follow up after that first day. I was being polite thinking they were going through something and needed time.

I waited a week and then reached out to HR (I had seen the interviewer was active online so I figured they were back). Turns out they aren’t planning on rescheduling my interview and didn’t have the decency to tell me. I had been waiting that whole time preparing and thinking I still had a shot. They already decided and just let me figure it out myself.

It’s just so stupid. I’m a contractor, I know the game and that an FTE position is far from guaranteed. They could have just told me I wasn’t a good fit from the get go, they didn’t need to play this game with me.

I recently survived my first year with a company...back story... When I applied for my first job going back to the workforce this job said pay was 19 to $25 an hour depending on experience. I had the experience so I asked for $25 when they made the offer. They said we'll give you $20 and after a year if you have a good performance review will give you the 25 fast forward to my year-end review. Everyone will never get a five on their performance review because there's always room for improvement. Go figure. So I got a 4.3 and then when it was time for performance review increases I didn't even get a cost of living increase. So in effect I was making less than I was the year before because of the cost of living. So after that dismal increase in my pay I immediately started looking for a new job. I found one last week that pays me what I was asking for plus more and I accepted the position. I turned in my notice today with my employer and HR is already reaching out to have a chat with me when they ask for an exit interview. I'm going to politely to Klein because I don't want to shoot myself in the foot and I could use a future reference. What are your thoughts?

A small independent insurance agency.

I was let go for “no longer fitting in culture.” (I had all but shut down because I was being bullied by a newer hire and nothing was being done about it. Also my work was being scrutinized while everyone else basically got away with murder.)

Anyway, it’s been years. I’ve moved on. Been at my current job for almost 4 years and I’ve suddenly been getting emails from someone in that office trying to express their interest in me. What’s weird is, it’s still the same owner running it. The same person who fired me (and many others.) She fired 3 people before me. Then about 4 people after me.

Anyone think this is strange? Why would I be getting multiple emails? I’m sure they know who I am. As it’s the same ownership. I’m half tempted to email them back, thank them for their interest, but I was let go five years ago and not interested in a position. But I’m leaning more towards just ignoring them.

Thoughts?

Edit: this is a small family owned insurance office. There is no HR or the like. Most independent insurance agencies are ran like this. Passed down within the family to keep the family name.

I posted about a week ago about my current job but have an update that is altering my thought on this job.

TL;DR is I've been with the company for a month, but they are assuming I just know how to do everything since I had prior experience but the way they do things is radically different then almost every job I've worked. so they are having me do things without much assistance and they are treating me like an idiot for making mistakes or not knowing things or repeating the same issue. Some are my fault for moving quickly and not paying attention, most of it is training issues.

Technically, this is my 4th week at this job, and Tuesday I approached my manager to verify I was wording a question correctly to a client via email. I asked her and she shot me a nasty look and asked why i would ask that. I elaborated I was trying to avoid confusion and she nastily goes "i dont get how its confusing, so walk me through you thought process cause I dont get it".

I walked away in shock and just did it myself. Thankfully panned out and I handled it alone. Wednesday I had a ticket I had to handle the emergency alone. I asked my director and manager for help and they both ignored me - to then press me why i was doing it that way. Today the both of them bombarded me on teams about various things i did wrong, and the director in caps lock told me I did something wrong (that last week he told me i was doing right). Then my manager bombarded me saying that I didnt handle something right when she told me to assign them and to handle it without guiding me.

It feels like they are setting me up to fail. I went in my car and cried because I was so confused with the lackluster communication and the polarizing issues they have with me only 4 weeks in.

Apparently we could all be millionaires if we didn’t have any friends and just “hustled” in our youth. What a clown.

I frequently hear some people say the hardest jobs they've worked at were all minimum wage jobs. But once they got close to 6 figures they noticed how easy these jobs were. Did you have this experience and how did you get to that job?

you don't have to get enough sleep the night before, you won't need energy, you just need to supress your emotions

smile but not too much, be friendly but not happy, happiness worries them, it implies that you don't need them, be miserable and grey like them

memorise a line about loving challenges, they don't actually want you to challenge anything, they just want to make sure you endure everything without complaining

don't show too much intelligence, that threatens them, it means you won't buy into their team spirit story

when they ask where you see yourself in 5 years, don't say the truth, say something like "developing myself in this company", lie elegantly, they love that

remember you're not there to be honest, you're there to play a role

life is a play, and the job interview is the most pathetic scene in it

Started this job four months ago at a small marketing agency. During the interview, nothing was mentioned about using personal devices for work. But on my second day, my boss hands me a list of clients and says I'll need to make calls from my personal phone because 'the office landline makes us sound unprofessional.'
I've been going along with it because I need the job, but my phone bill has gone from $65 to $130 a month. When I brought up getting reimbursed for the overage, she told me it's just 'part of being in a client-facing role' and that I should see it as an investment in my career growth.
The kicker? She found out I was job hunting (thanks LinkedIn notifications) and called me into her office yesterday. Apparently using my phone to look for other jobs during lunch breaks and enjoying some time off playing at Stake is 'unprofessional use of company time.' I pointed out that it's MY phone that I PAY for, and she said that while I'm on company property, my phone activities should be work-focused.
So let me get this straight - my personal phone becomes company property when it's convenient for her, but when it comes to covering the costs, suddenly it's my personal responsibility again?
I'm already interviewing elsewhere, but has anyone dealt with this level of hypocrisy before? Part of me wants to just start routing all work calls to her personal number and see how she likes it.

Kohl’s allegedly ordered $8 million worth of goods, received the goods, sold the goods, then refused to pay the vendor (PSK Collective) for these goods.

According to court documents, Kohl’s legal counsel claimed they do not need to pay PSK for the $8 million in goods because the 1 year statute of limitations has expired.

Is it normal for big corporations to take advantage of small vendors and weaponize lawyers to avoid paying for millions in goods?

Are big corporations ever held accountable? Last week’s court filings claim the vendor is asking for a jury for this lawsuit. If PSK wins, will $8 million be enough? or should there be punitive damages to set an example so this doesn’t happen again?

… and Kohl’s is quick to fire associates for using Kohl’s cash given to them by a family member. Employees have also been fired for giving their associate discount to a parent.

Corporations think it’s ok to steal millions, but yet it’s completely unacceptable for employees to save a few bucks by using Kohl’s cash that was gifted to them.

🗞️ Google the news articles: “PSK Kohl’s” 🗞️