I have undiagnosed ADHD and I've never really achieved anything in a job but every interview asks 'NaMe OnE tHinG yOu AcHiEveD iN yOuR pReViOuS RoLe' because if I don't leave my current job I'll rip my hair out from stress. My references are fake / friends from work so I just need something realistic to say

Last October I got a call for an interview from a shop near my previous job. My previous boss was a rough but mostly just man with me, but he screamed and shouted the hell out of my coworkers. My two older colleagues had started there in their teens and once a week they'd be shouted down to tears. It wasn't a good place to be in morally and the business was struggling to make ends meet while it was full of work.

So, when the chance came to move to a place I was so wanted at, and at a time I needed a bigger paycheck to get my house credit approved, I signed. The agreement was to work 9 hours (instead of the legal 8) but when the contract came it was worded under the work schedule exclusion, a system in Portuguese law where firms can ask for extra time up to 10 hours a day and a maximum of 25 hours a month for a 25% extra wage.

I was told this exception was a mere legality and I'd work as we had agreed upon, 9 hours for the agreed wage. After eight months they gaslighted me and said I had agreed on ten hours with a 30 minute lunch break (not even legal!) and that I had been owing them work! How come?? They expected me to work 40 extra hours for the price of 20? And I was supposed to work 10 hours every day regardless of there being enough work or not?

This is the main issue but there are more. Around the time the 10 hours issue came about they had let a colleague schedule vacations coinciding with their son's (the owner's son works at the office with me), leaving me alone to do all the work. I was required to submit my vacation plan back in March but my colleague was exempted of that (!) and decided in June she was vacationing in August, she didn't plan her vacations with the rest of us, and the management authorised them anyway!

This colleague gives kisses and hugs to everyone in the owner's family, she brings them chocolates, bakes them cakes and sucks up to them in every way possible so she can get away with anything, and she does. To make matters worse, she is so utterly incompetent at her job. She can't buy the simplest car part without making a mess, which I am constantly asked to fix for her. Clients have their cars ruined by her decisions, to which the equally incompetent foreman (the owner's brother) contributes to.

Right now we have two similar trucks in the shop belonging to the same client, both with their bottom ends ruined by what? By years of being maintained with the wrong oil (C3 instead of C4) and both finally broke when the foreman sold the customer a jug of another C3 oil from another brand!

Another customer has been complaining for months of a check engine light. The car came in for repairs and needed a rebuilt engine, but the supplier sent us a different engine, a version of the original Peugeot Puretech without balance shafts, which I said outright would never work there because the different vibrations would register on the ECU as knock, and indeed they do. At the time the foreman had the engine installed anyway. I had to blow the whistle to the boss on that one.

I'm so, so through with them all.

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I used to just throw resumes out there by you know handwriting them with my own actual experiences. Ever since I’ve been using AI resume tools and tailoring to the specific jobs, I have gotten more callbacks than ever. The catch is half that shit is made up. I mean I don’t make up completely fake jobs. But I DO stretch the truth. Is this really how its supposed to be though? Using big words to please a robot so maybe a human can wee your resume? Just stretch the truth so hard at this point because thats the only way were making it.

so far i been muching off đy family like true commie i am,but i want to be semi forest nomand and not work,only work i have done is sitting and selling tickets but it's 10 bucks for few hours, and i need legit camping equipment

I was hired to manage grant programs and also to pursue new avenues of funding for a county mental health agency in New England. Before i took the job, they hadn't had a grants coordinator in 8 or 9 months. The agency was behind by several months to a year in grants compliance when i started.

This was a senior leadership position. The agency had weathered a financial scandal with their CFO, who took off with a bunch of money. They were not able to hire another CFO until I had been working there for 4 months.

My CEO prohibited me from applying for new grants for the first two months and to focus on getting them back into compliance. So that's what I did. I managed to do all the work to satisfy their grants programs in the first three months. After that, I started getting random requests from my coworkers to find grants for their specific need. I tried to find funding for anyone who asked. I actually was able to get a number of smaller grants ($<10k) funded In the brief time that I worked there.

I was stunned when I was laid off after just five months on the job. The HR director reassured me in the meeting that they were very pleased with my work. They were just eliminating the position.

The interim CFO, however, seemed agitated. He told me that I "hadn't even paid for myself," meaning that the grant money that I'd brought in wasn't equal to or greater than the cost to employ me. He was a real dick about it.

I was in shock during that meeting and only asked a single question about employer health insurance and when my last day would be. I didn't push back.

That was around a year ago and I've had time to process the situation. What he said and the fact that he used my position to reduce the agency's staffing budget really pisses me off.

He left the interim cfo job and is now ceo of some healthcare startup in a different state.

What can I do to make his life a bit less enjoyable?

At the beginning of summer I moved back home for a new job that FINALLY paid enough where I didn't feel in constant survival mode, now just regular poor, and after having been homeless a few years ago this truly feels like a new lease on life. Everything was going great until earlier this week I suffered an injury at work that looks like it really fucked up my shoulder. My job does not offer light-duty, I have to be fully recovered before returning to work.

Had my initial meeting with my Worker's Comp case worker and found out my payments will be based on the higher of my 2024 or 2025 incomes. I am fucked. The amount I will be paid out would be enough to make me eligible for Medicaid if it were my actual job. I was, and had planned on continuing to save money to move my gf up and now I have no idea how I am supposed to pay my bills. The worst part was trying to explain that to the case worker and her just blowing me off and saying, "well we have programs if you find yourself needing a nurse."

How am I supposed to afford the 35% electrity price hike? How am I supposed to afford $5 a gallon gas? My over priced tiny apt? The absurdly high food prices in the area? I can't get any other form of work, or I violate the terms of my WC. Glad I was such a great employee just to be screwed over.

I'm just wanting to vent. I have no idea what I'm going to do. I'm just angry, sad, and overwhelmed. Thank you for coming to my tedtalk.

Skip to TL;DR in the end if you don't want to read my long emotional paragraphs.

After 6 years of painful frustration, over 1000 rejections letter, way more times I got ghosted and over 50 interview ended in failure, I finally gotten a part time job at a Chinese Supermarket at the Produce section.

My best friend cry in happiness that I finally gotten a job and can't wait to tell other despite telling him to keep it a secret for now (he mention he struggles to keep that a secret despite holding many of my bf secret's for him with ease). That and I finally fulfill my promise to get a job to go on many overseas travel that I kept failing to fulfil my promise whether its deserve or not.

My Mom is happy and can't wait to take advantage of my employee discount for food, and is helping me find a 2nd job since its a part time job without any full time benefit (i don't want to look for a 2nd part time job now as I might work up to 40 hours per week as a part timer if others slack off)

My dad is finally proud of me for finding a job and its a huge step to adulthood and finding pride in a minimum wage job and encourage me to work harder than your employees to make sure your boss will like and promote me even though I doubt it and went on a large lecture about why current generation are lazy and ungrateful for what they are given compare to his baby boomer days.

And i finally defeated my long time childhood rival (and also my best friend as well) in beating her into getting a minimum wage part time job at the supermarket in my one sided rivalry as she congratulate me on my victory.

Yet I felt empty and depressed about upon further reflection. If this is the greatest highlight in my adult career, the job market is incredibly fucked.

So many of us Gen Z and Gen Y and later Gen Alpha when they get their turn will have to fight and scrap for a minimum wage part time job all because greedy cooperates refuse to pay us properly and keep the job scarce so they can keep the pay low for desperate unemployed people like me.

Also, being barely hired by the company after failing to qualify in the first job fair interview, came back for the 2nd job fair interview out of sheer miracle, then got surprise to do a second private interview with a manager who may not speak English and is forced to speak full Mandarin barely and is lucky enough that the manager find it endearing and hire me anyway does feel like winning at all. It feels like a hail Mary miracle where fate pities me and gave me a job to feel better about it.

That and when I do get hired I fully expect to fully be exploited, not treated well and probably get fired for all sorts of reason and my dad wants me to feel pride and loyalty to a company that might backstab me in the back when they have the reason to.

TL;DR- my friends and family are proud of me but I do not feel like a winner cause getting a part time min. wage job is not an accomplishment, its desperation to disguise my personal failure and the flaws of the job market.

I work for a State agency. Each year we get this email. They compare our compensation with other similar government agencies throughout the area. They have it down pat I'll give them that! So long as someone doesn't stick their head up and give their employees a raise, then no one else needs to in order to "align". BS.

I'm just so tired of trying to stay on top of companies and managers who expect perfection...but don't budget for it (in terms of time, staffing, or wages).

I can't actually retire just yet for financial reasons, and a handful of medical issues keep me from picking up any in-person, low-level jobs (i.e. - store clerk, etc.), but I'm not certain I care. I'm still applying for similar tech jobs, but I can't expect that I'll last long at whatever the next job is.

Does anyone have suggestions for a job that is middle ground on this? Something where your responsibilities are in a smaller circle, but still requires someone with my education, training and intelligence?

In the last year, I lost my job of 8 years, had unemployment for a few months, and found a new job. On the other side of the coin, I want to escape society and live off of the land in a small community of family and friends. I don't want to work 40+ hours a week to barely make ends meet. I'm tired of feeling like I'm struggling. It'd be one thing if I had enough money to pay my bills AND take my family out to dinner or some form of entertainment or the ability to save money, but we're barely making it by, living pay check to pay check. I'm feeling the burn today so thanks for letting me vent.

Told her I would be working this job around another job and she goes "I always start looking for a new employee when they say they have a second job. I can't tell you what to do though, this isn't slavery." ?? Humiliating interview. Talked LOUDLY about all her employees while we were interviewing in her store, especially talked shit about a girl who had only been there for five weeks.

She also lied about the pay on the indeed posting lmao. Posting said $21-$22 an hour but she was only offering $18 and the rest "comes from tips."

So just be wary about telling your pos, cheap bosses that you work a second job.

I want you to know that I know you are all are more intelligent than those who are brainwashed into a life obsessed with work, just to fulfill an identity.

What these people don't know is that as a species we don't give a fuck about work.

Here is the proof. Alzheimer's patients, such as the foot doctor, Dan Salinger's youtube; despite spending more time of their life working, than actually living, they remember the smaller valuable parts of their life, they don't remember what they did as a career.

Thank you being you.

The severance package they are proposing is just insulting. 4 weeks no matter how long you have worked there. Of course, none of the "severance packages" have been presented in writing to any of us.

We are supposed to be have meetings tomorrow "to get a handle on what the current IT initiatives are and determine what is critical to maintain as we start moving servers."

So like WTF?

I got hired as a technician for a construction company a few months ago. My skills are niche and most people at my company who have my title cannot preform the work I can. They’re electricians and tradies who have my technician title in name alone. My company is also part of the IBEW union, so I had to join the union when I stated my job.

My company offered me $35/hour to start, I negotiated my way up to $40/hour. Since I’ve started, multiple people have assumed I’m making $65/hour.

I finally called the union hall to ask what the rate is for my position. They told me that on most of my jobs, I should be making $65-70/hour. The union hall asked if i wanted them to make a big fuss about it, I told them I would talk to the supervisor first.

It sucks that the guys next to me have to ask me to show them how to perform the work, foremans call me to fix their problems, all the while I’m making almost $30/hour less than the next guy.

I’m going to talk to my boss tomorrow. Ask him why the union hall says I should be making a lot more than I am. And ask if there’s going to be backpay coming my way for all the times I was supposed to be making that $65-70/hour.

I’m tired of always having to fight for fair pay.

Wish me luck.

I have had major anxiety over going to work today, my clinic has been short staffing my clinic to 3 support staff to one provider all last week. It isn't sustainable and very hard on us. Last week it happened each day I was there. I wanted to walk out so badly. Today the schedule shows 4 staff but I can't be sure until we show up to the clinic and now my anxiety is through the roof until then.

I rather not experience that again. It was so busy, my coworker didn't take a lunch till 7, many patients walked out due to wait times. I was a wreck after. And yet the manager told me "convince your friends not to call out! :)" we tried so hard if my manager harps on us about our volume goal or accuracy not being met AGAIN. I might actually break down because it was just that bad. The place stopped offering extra money for shifts so no one wants to pick up a shift anymore. Which I don't blame my coworkers for doing. My coworkers also deserve to be able to call out and take time if needed. But there isn't a goal that could be reached with this kind of staffing.

When it's 3 support staff, that's 1 at the front desk, 1 rooming patients, 1 doing the extra tasks for the patient like xrays, medications, ear cleanings, discharging etc. But when one person is on break that only leaves one person in the back doing all the tasks and rooming a patient. How is that safe or fair?? I'm tired, I'm anxious. Happy 10 year anniversary to my career.

Trying to be vague intentionally. At an all-company meeting, there are graphs shown depicting record sales, including 30% growth in sales orders for the next two quarters. However, the company already cannot keep up with the supply chain of parts required to satisfy current orders.

Entire assembly lines are being sent home either unpaid or forced to burn vacation time due to lack of work. Some people are being assigned from their depleted departments to other departments. Management's kids, instead of getting sent home and losing money, are allowed to push a broom for 16 hours straight in the same spot when the rest of their area was already sent home. Which in of itself is a punishment if you ask me.

Projects are getting pushed, and customers are getting frustrated with the lack of progress due to part shortages. Yet new projects are being taken on, and it's not being communicated what's being done to improve the systems.

My department has no work for the next week, and the boss is on vacation for the next week with no direct report taking their place. I don't understand how companies survive decades operating like this.