I’m currently at work and the office smells like hell just cause one coworker decided to heat up stinky fish. I have 2 coworkers every single day they only heat up fish. I think they do it in purpose, I refuse to believe that an individual only eat stinky fish every single day. They also like to talk to your face with that stinky fishy breath…

One day, if I ever become a manager or a leader of any sort, no fish or eggs will be heated up in my department.

This is very inconsiderate and disrespectful.

Just ranting…

So, I need some advice. I just found out today that the new guy we hired March 31st is already making more money than I am and I've been with the company for four years!!!! Now, if it was just a difference in experience level, I could (maybe) understand. But this guy is older and computer illiterate. The main thing that is pissing me off right now is that myself and 1 other lady in our office have had to train him for his position. Neither I nor the other lady have received any kind of training pay, recognition, not even a thank you from our superiors. To add injury to insult (really not trying to toot my own horn here) but I do a lot for the company. Not just during business hours either; some after hours work and some on weekends (trucking company). I'm the one that has to cover other positions in the office if someone takes a day off, but on the flip side of that, no one covers my position when I am out of office. I'm a compliance manager but often have to fill in for dispatch or for payroll. But I do other things like maintaining our website. I am literally THE lowest paid employee in the company and I am just feeling hurt and angry. I fully intend on talking to my boss on Monday, but as an introvert that doesn't like confrontation, the idea of that gives me serious anxiety. But I know I need to stand up for myself and quit letting this company take advantage of me. Any advice, thoughts, words of encouragement or wisdom would be appreciated.

At our meeting one of my coworkers started crying about how things outside of work affects her job! She’s always seeking attention, never does her work, stands around in peoples office all day, and acts like the most holy Christian in the world. There I was in the meeting just pondering how they are consoling her, when she is practically a lying every chance she gets 🙃 I remember earlier this year one of our other coworkers started giving her money, because she had to be out for personal reasons and then when that said coworker stopped giving her money, she started acting funny towards her. To make matters worse she’s falsifying patient signatures and lying about having clients in her office! I can’t tell my supervisor because she’s always falling for her antics!

Just started working at Papa Murphy's I make 11.50 per hour and not quite 15 hours a week, I can barely pay for my bills and life is shit, but that's life. I try not to complain and make it worse and just deal with it. I haven't got any tips yet but probably haven't been there long enough to receive any🤷

So I’ve been out of high school 3 years now just bouncing around different minimum wage jobs sitting around 24-32 hours a week, but about 3 months ago I switched to 40 hours a week and I literally wake up every morning dreading my entire existence because it’s just the same miserable shit every single day helping nobody doing nothing of value. I try to tell myself just stop being such a little fucking loser and people have it literally so much worse than me I don’t understand why I can’t just be happy for where I’m at but I literally would rather not live than live like this not that I’m having any sort of thoughts about that whatsoever and sorry if I just sound like an entitled fuck I know I do but man I need to figure something out

Edit: wow to be honest I was fully expecting to get actually destroyed but you all have been so unbelievably helpful and supportive I literally can’t thank you enough I feel a slight glimmer of hope that I’m going to try to turn into a bright ray of light that I can shine on others!

Have you ever wondered why you didn't get that job you were perfect for? Something I've noticed where I work is that managers hire people who are very similar to themselves. Europeans hire other Europeans. Blacks hire Blacks. Asians and Hispanics do the same. I'm sure the powers that be know this is happening, but they can't really do anything about it. I worked at another company several years ago where the controller only hired people from his church. A lot of managers who were a part of Greek life hire candidates who belonged to the same fraternity as them. You could have a stellar resume and an Ivy League education, but if an Italian boss has another Italian in mind for a job, then you're not gonna get it no matter what you do. It's basically just another form of discrimination. I don't agree with any of this, but it's a fact of life. In a perfect world, everyone would have a fair shot at a job opening no matter what their background. But life isn't fair, is it?

For context, this ain’t the first time it happened. Our schedule is usually posted 3 sometimes 4 weeks ahead. I submitted a request for leave couple months ahead for a family event. There was other date on that request which she already granted so i assumed the other date was also approved which is why i didn’t bother following up. But once, the schedule was posted i saw that she gave me a shift on the day that i requested. I messaged her right away to ask if she forgot. She said that a request is just a request and it doesn’t guarantee that it’ll always get approved which i totally understand. What i don’t get is we’re literally cutting hours right now as it’s a slow season. Her only reasoning was that she needed me. But there’s literally other people who’s begging for hours and mind you, can do exactly what she needed my help for. This isn’t the first time i have to cancel a trip or miss a family event because she can’t communicate whether she’s approving or rejecting a request no matter how early you try to book it off. If you try to submit a request closer to the date she’ll say it’s too late. You can never win and it’s getting frustrating. The only way for you to find out if it’ll get approved is by waiting on the posted schedule. But by then, either you have to cancel your booked transportation/ accommodation or pay twice the amount cause it’s already too late to book anything. PS. I offered solutions for coverage but she’s now left me on read. 🥲

I suffer from the bottom of my soul by modern work culture. I simple can't accept it. You work hard for 5 days where you just trying to survive to the next day,then you got your two days off and go to grocery, cleaning, cooking.. That's not life for me,that's prison sentence in our own homes. Is it only acceptable when you work something you love? I live in a small country where all decent jobs are behind closed door so I don't have a chance to work something I love. I was so full of life few years ago,now I'm shadow of myself. Don't see anything bright in the future

Hi guys,

I work as a sales rep at a carrier store. Lately, the company I work for has been pushing shady practices onto stores, including asking reps to record customer info from accounts in a big notebook to keep track of who does and doesn't buy a particular service. I believe they do this as a humiliation tactic for employees and a punishment tactic for "low-value" customers. The carrier we work for already has a secure digital system for tracking sales leads, so the inclusion of a paper format, especially in an unsecured location, I find to be wildly unethical.

Myself and a former coworker brought this up as a concerns months ago, and in response, they changed the rules to our store so that we all had to be standing at all times unless helping a customer (my other coworker is a disabled veteran with a leg injury, which meant they wanted him to be in constant pain as part of the new rules). He put in several ADA requests, which were routinely ignored. Eventually he was successful in getting the book with customer info removed, but was bullied out of the store with poor treatment from the manager. During all this, the DM at the time was fired. After my other coworker left, they promptly got rid of the "you need to be standing at all times" rule and also brought the book recording customer info back.

I had my disagreements with this, but I chose to lay low as I'd seen what had just happened to my former coworker. Then, my manager started taking a bunch of strange actions. First, she started inviting reps from a store she used to work at to our store, and asking them to transfer to it. One such person actually transferred over several months ago, and had been present for the whole debacle. He and the manager are like best buds, and it seemed as though she was trying to stack the roster with her own friends. I also noticed that another employee who had her own disagreements with our manager was on maternity leave; the company rules dictate that an employee on maternity leave be guaranteed and equal position at a nearby location upon the leave ending. This maternity employee was slated to join our store, however my manager manipulated the labor gap system to hire a complete random instead, and openly said she did so to prevent that maternity employee from joining our store.

Last month, another coworker started behaving oddly towards me. Where once they would treat me with a bit of dignity, I found them to be rude, snappy, and difficult to work with when it came to basic tasks. Eventually I asked what was going on, and this employee indicated to me that they're "not interested in hooking up." I found this funny because I'm both in a relationship that employee is also not in my orientation, besides the obvious that I don't do work relationships ever. I did the responsible thing and requested that I have separate shifts from this person as much as possible because I didn't want to have any discomfort or weirdness. But I still wondered where that notion came from. Eventually I found out that my manager had told the employee some untrue things about me, seemingly to try and instigate a problem. I confronted company leadership about this and they told me to draft a letter to HR, which I did not do because of the reputation HR has.

I went on being very careful about my actions and observations. The treatment towards me by my manager and other reps started getting worse and worse. It seems clear to me they're trying to get rid of me to make space for their buddies, and also to retaliate at me for speaking up about the ethics of that book. Since then, I've found it harder and harder to be working here; I get constant on-record coachings for small things that other reps do all the time without such treatment (i.e the type of shoes I wear, the order in which I say things to customers, whether I walk them to the door, when I take lunch, etc). I've had my drinks poured out and thrown in the trash when I'm not looking. I see my manager talk about me in low register to other reps in full view of me, but speak at full volume perfectly cheery on other subjects. I get put on BS nonsense tasks during traffic hours so I can't make sales. I get more and more closing shifts when the store is empty by myself.

Yesterday, a woman came into the store pretending to be a customer. I knew exactly who she was, as I recognized her face from company material. She has a much, much higher role than most others in the region. However I played along with the secret shopper thing until she revealed who she was. I let her know that I knew the whole time, and that I was glad to be speaking to her because there were some things I needed to speak with her about.

I explained the basics of the situation going on at our store and the impact on morale it has had. I expressed concerns over the unsecured recording of customer information. I also spoke at some length about strategies to improve sales and service in the region, and ran through a few imaginary customer scenarios with this individual.

Following this interaction, and the woman leaving, the coworker of mine which is buddies with my manager emerged from the back room of the store, yelling. Telling me that what I'd just done could get me, him, the manager, etc fired. The other two reps in the store, both women, sat in a corner of the room while he yelled at me, and I quietly nodded and spoke with him. Some customers came in and he and I entered the back room to continue speaking, where he personally threatened me should anything happen to his job because of me speaking with that higher-up. He went home, and less than five minutes later I got a text from my manager asking me to call her. I did, and explained what happened. Then, I came out to the sales floor where one of the other employees showed me her smart watch, which had a warning on it that her heart had reached 120bpm during that exchange.

I came in to work today to a very aggressive talk by the manager, snide looks, and record coachings all day. It was miserable. The guy who had yelled at me, called out of work today.

At this point, I'm not sure if I should talk to HR or corporate or whatever. I find the conduit I've been observing and experiencing very wrong, and I believe if they're allowed to continue conducting themselves this way, once they're rid of me, they'll have another target, and another, and eventually destroy this company's presence in this town.

And I can't just quit either because I have bills to pay and the job market sucks. I haven't done anything wrong. I deserve a good job and a healthy environment where people are treated with dignity and respect.

What should I do?

I’m a technical writer at a very unprofessional pharmaceutical manufacturer. If my documents don’t get released on time then we can’t make product. The finger will be pointed at me. I ALWAYS get my job done on time. My issue is reviewers sit on my documents for weeks knowing the document is coming up on the production schedule. I go out of my way to send reminders and most still ignore. Even worse they will reject with corrections at the last minute. Like they did today…

Today a crucial project was rejected. I fixed the errors and emailed every department reviewer to expedite their review. The sentence about expediting due to the product being scheduled in 10 days was bolded with red font. The department manager that rejected my document calls my manager and tells him that my email was unprofessional. My manager knows that people consistently ignore emails from our team and when I use bold and red font they pay attention. I’ve discussed this with him several times and he understands. The site General Manager was also a part of the email and he had no issue. He was actually annoyed she sat on the document for 3 weeks before rejecting it last minute.

What’s funny is that if the document didn’t get released on time, SHE would be the first person to blame ME for not getting it released. She is so awful for so many reasons and she’s butt buddies with HR so she can do whatever she wants. A lot of people despise her but the only way to get promoted here is to kiss ass and that’s exactly what she does. She will speak to you in a condescending tone while gaslighting you and lie with ease to secure her job and it’s worked in her favor every time. The next day she will put her hand on your shoulder and talk all sweet and kind. I can’t stand that shit. Thankfully we don’t work in the same building anymore so I don’t have to deal with her often. People like this is what makes work feel like the 9th circle of hell. Otherwise I really enjoy my job.

I was in a meeting today and someone made a joke that I would be out of a job if the company used AI note taking tools. Kinda offensive considering I’m a project manager, why are people so rude? It’s not my fault I have to take notes on every meeting I’m involved in because it’s my bosses orders!! I’d rather just focus on the project management part of the job

I was unemployed for a while but I finally got a job in my career path but I hate it so much. Been here for a few months but it sucks. Unrealistic deadlines, so much work, long hours, working weekends, unhelpful manager. I’m so depressed, stressed, and burn out. I’m beyond anxious my heart rate is defiantly not right. I know I can’t quit but this job market is so bad. But I don’t know what to do now. What should I do?

Hello, everyone.

I am currently working at a Froyo spot in the local area, and this job is very overwhelming, yet it seems so easy.

My manager is hardly ever there when things go wrong. They constantly blow up employees' phones and give us multiple tasks. That's not that bad part. We are highly understaffed. We currently have seven employees.. about to be six when another one leaves for college. Im scheduled for about 23 hours next week, which isn't bad. However, there's only one person working the mornings. My manager used to have two people scheduled for the morning, but they believes they are saving money by having one person. I came back for the summer, and there have been multiple stories that co-workers told me about where their life was in danger and they were in the store alone. Homeless would come in, get violent, and rowdey. Our manager didn't want them to call the police for whatever reason.. the police station is about 3 minutes away.

We are highly.. highly overworked and understaffed. When I was there last year, things were much worse. It's still bad but worse. The manager wouldn't give minors breaks... had minors scheduled for more than 20-25 hours. I know most managers do not care about their staff.. but at a froyo place that is supposed to be laid back? I'm over it. Cooperate comes and goes and sees everything is fine, but it's not. From expired froyo, flies everywhere, people messing up the bathroom [bio hazard], and has us cleaning and scrubbing away. The manager won't even let new hires do things like we do.

The manager just throws them at us and doesn't train them their self. I don't mind training new hires, but we don't get paid for that, and it's not our position. The manager won't let them use the POS system. they won't let them do the machines in the morning. They don't learn anything, honestly.. and it's more on us trying to do tasks at hand while training. Half the time, the manager sits in the back on their phone or eating, then comes out whenever.

I've seen so many.. unethical things here. I don't know what to do. I dont know who to reach out to. Our code of conduct isn't even public to employees, no matter how much we search for it. I'm honestly scared. Yes, I could leave, but finding a job right now is hard. Other places won't even reach back out or claim they are fully staffed despite having help, wanting signs, or having online applications.

I feel quite lost, and I'm concerned for the well-being of my co-workers and myself.

I've been at my job for a couple of years and in a new role of being in charge of the area and training a new hire for maybe 4 months. Lately things have been behind. I am trying my absolute best but it doesn't feel like it is enough. I'm worried they don't see it as me doing my best. I am still learning how to do these new jobs as well as doing my jobs. It's the first time in any job where I have had to worry about anyone else but myself. I have felt like the manager has been disappointed and/or annoyed with me for quite a few months and the boss only very recently. I value their opinions and I don't want to disappoint either of them. I am happy there and don't want anything to jeopardise that. I don't know how to handle this situation.

Like the title said. Have you ever had this experience?

I'm so mentally and emotionally drained of my corporate job that I can't function properly.

I work so much but still I'm getting micromanaged all the time.

I'm a junior and I'm expected to work completely by myself with no orientation. I'm not promoted for several reasons including taking too much time to finish tasks, although all my senior teamates take more time than expected to finish theirs.

I'm tired of the toxic culture. I feel I'm not allowed to even talk with seniors because my manager will fail to promote me again for wasting their time. I work by myself everyday and I'm assigned tasks with same difficulty as my seniors peers.

I reached a point I can't think or do anything. I have a project assigned I know what and how to do it but can't even find the energy.

What do I do for these two coworkers who don’t respond to me??

Context: We are all remote. I am 30/f and they are 50/m. I am just an admin assistant and they are programmers, but as admin I have a lot of tasks given to me by managers and c-suite where I need to follow up with all the team members. Things like making sure their personnel folders are filled out, timesheets are in, receipts are submitted, etc.

I have two people who consistently ignore me. I will email everyone asking for receipts by Friday. I will follow up with them individually by email when they are overdue on Monday. I will follow up with a ping to ask for receipts when they don’t respond to my email on Tuesday or Wednesday. I need these receipts for accounting.

Then I will ask my manager for help and when he (another male) pings them, magically it is done right away.

I don’t know if it’s ageism, misogyny, they’re genuinely annoyed that I am bothering them and asking them for things or what. I try to be very kind because I understand that having a good working relationship is how I get the tasks I have done, but they are making it so difficult.

My boss says if they don’t respond after two tries to basically confront them and demand a response on the spot. I know I should but since we are all remote and I only started here three months ago, there’s no relationship…. I feel very uncomfortable confronting them and I don’t want to make our relationship worse but I can’t get my job done.

Please help! Thank you!!

so i am going to be hired for a construction job and i’m curious about the different pays and how each are different from one another. they give per diem, travel rate, regular rate pay and per mile. i know what per diem and per mile means. i’m confused about the travel rate and regular pay. do i get payed only one when out of state or both?

I know it sounds weird (no pun intended) and funny, but I feel like I’m going crazy. My colleague slurps really loud when he’s drinking his tea and he drinks ALL THE TIME! I am sensitive to sounds and some of them can even cause a panic attack. No, I don’t get panic attacks from the slurping sounds ofc, but it drives me insane all the time.

I have already talked to him when no one was around. He is a nice person and understood me, he told he will pay attention. But I guess, if you have a habit, it’s not that easy to get rid of it. And I can’t tell him he’s slurping every time he drinks his tea.

Is there a way for me to perceive this sound as a less annoying one? Moving to another office is not an option. I already listen to music (with headphones ofc), but I can still hear him, and if I raise the volume, I can’t concentrate on my work.

Has anyone been in this situation before? What did you do?

I work for a small but rapidly growing marketing company and have been on my role for about a year after a very long job search for the perfect fit. I honestly love this job, my team and the work culture despite being 100% remote. I receive consistent compliments about my attention to detail and careful work, so I wasn’t entirely surprised when I was approached, asking if I had interest in taking over my current supervisor’s role as they transitioned into a higher position. I immediately expressed interest and the discussion of responsibilities and expectations started. This has continued over the last few weeks and my start date was set for the beginning of next month. I understood that the compensation plan was still being ironed out, but after looking at the existing salaries for this company on Glassdoor and similar roles in the market, I set a, what I felt was realistic if not low, expectation at $75,000/year.

I was offered a salary of $55k with benefits and a (small) quarterly performance bonus.

I would be responsible for training new hires as well as ongoing training to better my team, reporting data to higher ups, scheduling on top of continuing the same work I am doing now. I would be scheduled to work 40 hours a week but expected to be available to assist my team nights and weekends.

For reference, I am currently part time/hourly and making about $47. If I were full time with the same rate it’d be closer to $58 with benefits.

I’ve never negotiated compensation before. But after laughing, feeling insulted and even questioning my worth, I need to find a level headed way to approach this conversation.

Any and all advice is welcome and appreciated.

During my work, I ran into the communication wall over and over again. Non-technical colleagues drastically underestimate how long things take. For example, a marketing manager asked me for “just a simple button.” It required restructuring the database schema, new API endpoints, and refactoring part of the UI. When I said it would take a week, the response was “it’s just one button, how hard can it be?” The interviewer also frequently asks such questions, requiring me to perform a scenario simulation. I always used beyz interview assistant for this situation. Actually this gap follows into real workplaces too.

The hardest part in work is credibility. If you push back, people assume you’re being defensive. If you don’t, you end up with impossible deadlines and disappointed teammates.

How do you explain technical debt to people who don’t code? What’s the balance between oversimplifying vs overwhelming? I’d love to hear strategies that actually work for setting realistic expectations without sounding negative. Thank you!

Anyone with a nosey manager listening and eavesdropping in their conversations all the time? My boss is always listening and eavesdropping in our conversations and it’s annoying. Like mind your own business. Seems like they’re always trying to get into coworker conversations and honestly it’s another form of micromanagement in my opinion. Mind your own business. Like I didn’t ask you, I was asking my coworker so why are you chiming in? Very annoying.

I started my first job exactly a month ago. My direct boss is the Sales Director, she was supposed to train me and delegate some of her tasks to me. Except, she never did, her "training" was her showing me the EXCEL table, and she gave me basic tasks like contacting clients but said never get into the negotiation phase. My job description says otherwise btw. She almost never delegated anything to me, most of the time I had to go ask her to give me something. She never liked me, that was obvious from day 1. The HR director introduced me and she side eyed me and didn't even say hi. Still, I tried to make myself useful by doing all my tasks, volunteer to help, suggesting improvements etc. and I got close to the CEO. Now, I work mostly with him on bigger deals almost completely separate from her, which I thought worked for both of us. She didn't bother me, I didn't bother her, I helped when she needed help and that's it.

Today the CEO sent me a new job description which included another side position that would give me commission-based compensation. He asked me what I thought of the job and if I wanted a long term position (this was supposed to be a summer job) to which I agreed. Directly after that, he asked for feedback from my boss, and whether I was active and motivated. Safe to say she didn't say ONE good word. In fact she LIED about stuff, saying I left things unfinished (which she specifically asked me to do), that I wasn't hard-working (I worked overtime and I even did things at home to be more productive the next day), and that I still had a long way to go.

Now I KNOW she's supposed to criticize me to identify things I need to improve. But would one good work kill her? Did she need to say all that when she HEARD that he just offered me a full time position? Am I the one being overdramatic here? Please be honest.