My cat had abdominal surgery, so I asked a manager if I could work something out to stay home over the weekend to take care of her. I work 12 hour shifts and there's a mandatory rotation of every third weekend, and I was expected to switch or find my own coverage the night before because they cannot be assed to call anyone in themselves. Also worth mentioning: they're having a hard time recruiting AND keeping people. They had to get temp agency contracts and none of the temps are renewing their contracts, other people have quit recently, and one of their new hires got fired for falling asleep. One would think this would not be the time to be obnoxious and try to retain existing employees, but here we are.

I thought my request was very reasonable and I actually don't think I've ever had a manager who wouldn't be willing to have an actual discussion. Unfortunately, their bluff backfired and I immediately tendered my resignation. I don't know what made this woman think I was going to work instead of making sure my cat was doing okay in the critical days after an emergency surgery, like I'm going to spend 1k on the vet only to not monitor that my girl didn't rip her stomach back open or develop respiratory distress?

Bonus: I work healthcare, so this person ABSOLUTELY knows how dangerous open surgery is.

Cat tax included.

I just hired a trans woman, she was by far the best candidate. I work at a place that has a diverse group of both employees and customers, many of which lean or are far right. I am terrified at the possible fallout that may happen. I worked hard to get to the point I'm at, and, it pisses me off that I have to be worried to hire someone so qualified because of bigots. I did my best to warn her, and she seems to be ready and willing.

I just hope for the best.

In a group chat with two other employees and a shift lead, am I crazy or are they super trigger happy with write ups and firing people. They just fired one of our other baristas back in July for calling out sick. Surprisingly this is one of the better coffee shop jobs I’ve had but something just feels off with how cool the management is in person and how strict they are over text.

To clarify I’ve never used hot water for the matcha, so I’m assuming they just put us all in here as a means to not call one person out, but am I crazy for thinking this is super harsh? I don’t like this whole vibe of “obey us or you’ll be kicked out”.

I wake up at 4:30 am, get ready and go at my boss' house at 5:45 am (we live very close to each other) to go with him to his shop. We are there by 6:30 am. And from there we go to whatever job site we have for the day.

I usually work from 7 am to noon, eat quickly for 15 minutes and then back to work until God knows when because we don't really have any fixed end time, which I hate. Same for the breaks, idk how it works. But for the past weeks I haven't been home before 6 pm. The ride back is an 1h30 long.

My boss doesn't count travel time as work, and we spend a solid 4 hours in the van just moving around. It's very tiring, and by the end of the day I'm absolutely exhausted and have zero free time for myself. I just go home, eat something fast, shower and go to bed immediately.

What do you guys think? What should I do? I really want to get my diploma but I don't think it's worth sacrificing myself for it.

I work at a home improvement store and we had a power outage that forced us to close temporarily. Our manager told everyone the time wouldn't be paid since we weren't actually working.

Fair enough, except he also told us we had to stay on the property in case the power came back. Someone asked if they could just go home and was told they'd be marked as leaving their shift early.

So about 15 of us sat outside for almost two hours doing nothing. Power eventually came back and we reopened like normal.

Checked my hours and sure enough those two hours are missing. Asked my manager about it and he said we weren't performing any work during that time.

How can you require someone to stay at work and then claim they weren't working?

I'm 23 and a senior in college, and I'm honestly exhausted with how life works. Sometimes I genuinely feel like an alien living on this planet because I don't understand how everyone seems so okay with spending most of their lives working.

Before anyone calls me lazy, I've worked physical labor jobs with 60-hour workweeks before. I know what it's like to come home exhausted, barely have time to enjoy anything, go to sleep, and wake up just to do it all over again. College is definitely better than that, but even now, I can't stand the thought of doing this for the rest of my life.

It feels like everything revolves around being productive. Go to school, get good grades, get a degree, find a job, work five days a week, pay bills, and repeat until retirement. Are we really supposed to be happy living like this?

I don't want to be rich. I don't need a massive house, an expensive car, or some luxurious lifestyle. I just want to enjoy being alive. I want to wake up excited about my day instead of dreading everything I have to do. I want time for hobbies, friends, relationships, and experiences without constantly feeling like I should be doing something more productive.

The loneliness makes it even worse. I've always struggled to make friends, and the few I do have are almost always busy. Everyone is working, studying, or dealing with responsibilities. Sometimes I just want someone to hang out with or play games with, but it feels like nobody has time anymore.

Video games are honestly one of the only things that consistently make me happy. I love improving at something because I actually want to, exploring different worlds, competing, and having fun. For once, I feel like I'm doing something for myself instead of because society expects me to. I just wish I had more people to enjoy those experiences with.

What frustrates me most is how everyone seems to accept this as normal.

Why do we need to work five days a week? Why is 40+ hours considered the standard? With all the technology and advancements we've made, shouldn't we be working toward giving people more free time? I genuinely think three- or four-day workweeks could be realistic for many jobs.

I'm not saying nobody should work. I understand that society needs people contributing. But why does contributing have to take up so much of our lives?

Why do we constantly need bigger cities, more buildings, more businesses, and endless economic growth? When is it enough? We're always trying to make everything bigger and more productive, but is any of it actually making us happier?

Sometimes it feels like humanity created this enormous system that we're all forced to keep running, even if it makes us miserable.

And whenever I express these feelings, I feel like nobody understands. People just say things like "that's life," "welcome to adulthood," or "stop being lazy."

But why is "that's life" a good enough answer? Why should we just accept something because it's always been that way?

I'm getting close to graduating college, and instead of being excited, I'm honestly terrified. I've spent years working toward my degree, and now it feels like I'm just preparing to enter another version of the same prison. Except this time, there's no graduation waiting at the end. Just decades of working.

I know this probably sounds dramatic, but I genuinely want to enjoy life. I want friends, adventures, memories, and things to look forward to. I don't want to spend most of my existence wishing I could fast-forward to the weekend.

I don't hate working hard. I hate feeling like my entire life is one obligation after another.

Does anyone else feel this way? Not just occasionally hating their job or wishing the weekend were longer, but genuinely feeling disconnected from how society expects us to live?

Because sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who looks at all of this and wonders why we're okay with it.

I also remember an anti-motivational poster stating

MEETINGS: Showing us that all of us are dumber than one of us.

According to recent reporting on Monday by The Washington Sun, the Education Department is working with the Department of Treasury to hire private debt collection agencies, which will start pursing defaulted federal student loan borrowers as soon as November. The Education Department previously entered into an interagency agreement with the Treasury Department earlier this year to handle its defaulted federal student loan portfolio.

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I'm not fluent in boomer-eze, legalese or corporate talk, it's not my first language. I have been working full time since 2011, both full-time jobs I have had, one lasted 8 years the other I am currently in, is 8 as well.

While both are retired, mom was in HR and now is a "life coach" and Dad was always in Law.

I pretty much stopped taking their advice when, far too many times, their advice backfired for me in real life situations.

41M (asthmatic/autistic/Crohn's/obesity) My boss is a "millennial manager" and has never once asked me for a medical certificate anytime I take off for a doctor's appointment or to have my monthly Crohn's infusions. He is "on the spectrum as well" and on, as he calls it happy pills, so any appointment I do have, is the equivalent of preaching to the choir.

The advice they give me always starts with "your boss will really appreciate" as if they know what my boss is like or if they have been "observing me" 24/7 at work.

They don't have a clue and never will.

Their recent "advice" was to, next time I have an infusion (which requires me to take the entire day, as I am exhausted after) was to, if it is too late in the day (like I have any control of a doctor's schedule) to take half days, instead of full.

I know they care, I know they want me well, I don't have a d wish, but I struggle with the constantly clashing ideas of "health is the most important thing" having money to do that/stay on top of it and somehow fitting it into a 9-5, the same for the doctor's I imagine.

What is a more professional way of telling my parents to "back off" professionally without "creating a scene" "getting emotional" or not "being dramatic"

My boss is fine with me taking the time I need to stay on top of my physical and mental health, has never asked for a medical certificate and the most crucial is I have over 430 hours of personal leave, that goes up every payday.

Be sure to protect yourself when you are counting money. Wrap those fingers up for safe work practices.

1.Told me that if I have a learning disability I don’t need to work there

2.forbid cashiers from telling customers they had coupons they could use unless they explicitly asked about it.

3.forbid cashiers from telling people we offered a military discount unless they explicitly asked about it

4.Called me a waste of payroll and a waste of hours after a minor mistake.

5.instructed us to ask customers for their email for their receipts and then sign them up for the reward program without telling them.(I never did this because what the fuck?)

6.During a period of renovation when all we needed to do was be in the building while construction did their thing the GM had me on my hands and knees wiping down the backs of shelving baseboards THAT GO INSIDE OF THE SHELVES AND HAVE NO HUMANLY WAY OF BEING SEEN BY ANYONE UNLESS THE ENTIRE SHELF IS DISMANTLED! Meanwhile the other manager just let me spend the shift on my phone doing nothing because there was nothing that needed to be done

7.GM waited two full weeks before she wrote me up and fired me for having my phone in my pocket. Wasn’t even on it. It was just in my pocket.

8.Told me that apparently I talk too much during transactions and that I need to shut up and don’t talk about anything besides the bare minimum.

9.When i asked for help doing something I had only ever done maybe twice before my manager flat out refused to help me and told me i should know how to do this by now and that I needed to figure it out. My drawer ended up really short because of it.

I think that's a more accurate title, because in my case I am definitely working. But just the bare minimum. I don't answer phone calls or texts on my days off. I don't go to the holiday party. I don't chip in and buy the managers a gift during the holidays. If I'm going to get minimum raises every year then I will give minimum effort.

It is honestly exhausting to change jobs e eye few months to every year or two…

But I genuinely cannot find a workspace that is not toxic… and if I do .. something will change or we get a new boss or coworker then BAM toxic again.

Had a call with two of my bosses today. 30 minutes of nearly entirely fabricated issues, or the issues seemed to be mostly silly. Suddenly something they said once six months ago is now turning into “oh we’ve told you this so many times.”

Or one person not liking the semantics used in an email or a zoom call turns into “well you’re not an effective communicator.

It’s the subtle gaslighting for me 😢🫣

And of course I’m stuck here because finding another job this year that’s part time and flexible and in my field is just not in the cards.

OH. And we switched our sons day are to be closer to this job too.

Because they didn’t get weird till 6 months in. Of course.

Damn. This shit is like dating. But worse.

I’ve been working at this place for 2 months now. Job is ok and pays ok. However my boss pulled me into his office after our daily meeting and said that he doesn’t like it when I “run for the door” when my shift ends and I had to talk to him if I “want to leave on time.” This is probably the strangest thing a manager has an issue with in my experience. I come in on time (if not early) and he has an issue when I leave on time. I thought that leaving work on time was a healthy boundary.

I haven’t even been on the job for a month yet but there are four incidents that are bugging me and I’m wondering if I’m being too sensitive. I’m going to keep it vague for privacy reasons.

1. I was accused of sitting something on a shelf where it wasn’t supposed to be, although I told the lady who accused me that it was not mine. She insisted that sitting it there was lazy. Another coworker had to step in and confirm that it wasn’t mine.

2. The second situation, another lady got irritated with me because I said that we had all of the items to begin working. However, because I’m new I didn’t know that we’d be expecting more items. When more items came down during our lunch break, she kept asking me why I said that all the items were there. How on earth would I know that the other department would put the rest out during our break?

3. Third situation, this coworker tried to get close to me and then started making disparaging comments about people of my race/gender. Specifically people of that gender and race. I told her that everyone is different and to not assume that a group of people act the same way.

4. Fourth situation, kind of sealed the deal for me. I was accused of using my cell phone during a meeting. The person then stated that she would let my supervisor and all the supervisors know and would escalate it to HR if she needed to. Here’s the funny part, my phone was off and fell out of my pocket. I picked it up and sat it on my chair under my leg. I never used it at all. The other funny thing is that several people were using their phones sporadically while we were in the conference room and she never said anything to them. 😳

Being productive/proactive versus protractive: hours being expended don't necessarily correlate with performance and time is quite the resource!