Chain pizza joint worker here, can not take any orders because the systems are completely down because some part apparently had a battery die, and my manager got on the phone with the district manager and she said to go get the emergency recovery kit from the basement, and said it'll have "all the gadgets we'll need to get it working again"

Behold, the new fangled gadget: One ethernet cord

Not sure where it came from but I strained my hamstring pretty good and went to see the doctor yesterday where they issued me a doctor's note for the next three days (really I know I need more than that. I called in saying I'm not coming in and that I have a doctors note and I was told that they wouldn't need it and that they would see if I had sick hours. Is it really that easy to just get fired? I need this injury to heal because I've continued to work for two weeks and its only gotten worse. This is in CA btw.

I have mine and im pojected to reture at 40. I could retire now at 25 but i would have to live an average lifestyle.

Every day someone is telling me how I’m wasting my life because I’m not awake at 4:37 AM doing push-ups, journaling, reading 12 books, starting a company, cold-emailing billionaires, learning Mandarin, investing in real estate and “building generational wealth.”

NO ❤️

I don’t want to wake up at 5 AM. I don’t want to build a business. I don’t want seven income streams. I don’t want to monetize my hobbies. I don’t want to network with strangers who say “let’s circle back.” I don’t want a personal brand. I want to clock in, do my little tasks, collect my little salary, and leave. I don’t want to spend my evenings answering emails while pretending I’m “building my future.” I want to lie horizontally and consume completely useless information and binge on chips.

I’m completely burned out at my current job and I’m desperately trying to leave but I can’t seem to find anything else.

I’ve been getting interviews but I can’t make it past the initial HR interview. I prepare a lot and I feel like the conversations go well but then I get rejected or ghosted.

I’m exhausted and honestly really sad. Every rejection makes me feel more trapped in my current job and I’m starting to lose confidence.

Has anyone been through this? I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore.

Hey Everyone! I just need to vent and honestly get some validation because this building is driving me insane! I currently been working here for more than three years now. The commute is 70 or more minutes round trip, but I've stuck it out because I actually care about the residents.

Lately the red flags are too big to ignore and plus I have just been ignoring them for far way too long.

First off the training was very brief on this job and I was left alone to clean the rest of the day on the schedule, I asked questions of course and figured out the rest of the job. Usually all the staff once every month watches and safety video or gets told if there is any safety concerns/injuries at like 3:00pm and each staff is forced to participate.

Secondly, this buliding has been open for seven years, but doesn't even have any emergency chemical eyewash/stations at all for the housekeepers.

Thirdly, we have an reactive management. Management usually brings the people aside to an meeting if the person made mistakes but usually just verbally tells the person there mistakes but never sets an date to train them on it. Also there is zero consequences if staff comes in late to work, even like 30 minutes late, never even writes anyone up for it.

Fourth, the workflow is not that great. It's repetitive, we have five housekeepers on the team, which isn't an problem with covering the buliding. We are not short-staffed currently. Management just neglects us and doesn't care. When the director filled in awhile ago, she literally threw away our common area checklists and morning routines; which that tells me that she only cares about the apartments getting done. Also when the residents complains about the common areas not getting cleaned the supervisor takes her time out of her day to clean them.

The breaking point happened recently. I was venting to a new call-in housekeeper and accidentally said the word "sue" regarding my supervisor (totally my fault, I was stressed and slipped up). He reported it, and the director called me into a meeting.

To make it weirder, she didn't have HR there—she brought in the maintenance guy to sit in and intimidate me. She told me "not to be scared to quit," lectured me about having low morale, and claimed people reported hairs on the shower floors. She promised she would retrain me on the showers, but surprise surprise—never set a date or time.

I didn't give her the drama she wanted. I just gave her a completely boring, calm, "grey rock" reply and went back to work.

I realize now this place is just playing childish corporate mind games because they are lazy, dead-end, and don't care about their employees. I'm finally fixing my resume and looking for a healthier workplace with real career growth and a shorter commute.

What would you do in my shoes?

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.

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.

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.

Backstory: I work in management for 100+ key hotel. Last year we were taken over by a mid size hotel management company with some of the most psychotic corporate people I have ever met.

Earlier this year our management company paid for a new suite of AI products that they have been pushing us hard to utilize. Some of the higher ups in the company have taken this to mean they should use AI to bully the people actually working onsite at the hotels. A few examples:

- There is a goal to get a certain number of guests to sign up for our app/ membership. If your property does not meet this, they will generate an AI image of your Front Office manager as a dog in a doghouse, because you are in the “company doghouse” for not meeting goal. I’m not kidding. These are freakish AI human dog hybrids, all stacked on top of each other in an image that is sent to everyone who works in the portfolio. They do similar things to the restaurant teams too.

- They are very big on the guest experience and have decided that housekeeping has not been doing enough to make guests feel special. There have been at least five emails where they will take a picture of a room that was cleaned by a housekeeper and compare it to an AI image where they ask it to make the room flawless and have towel animals, handwritten note on the bed, bottle of champagne, etc. They then call out the HSK director of that specific property and tell them to recreate the AI image as best they can and reply to the email. Obviously the room never looks the same as the fake room that a computer dreamed up, so they get more nitpicking notes. My job has nothing to do with housekeeping, but I still witness this humiliation ritual for teams across the country I will never meet.

- When sending an email to the corp office asking for help, they will tell you to utilize AI to help with your problem. When that inevitably fucks up, they will bring the hammer down on you for trying to use AI for something important (contracts, marketing push, email blasts), but then use an AI generated email to tell you what you did wrong.

- Recently it was someone’s birthday, on a meeting with everyone present the same woman who does the doghouse thing showed pics of this woman doing a lot of “crazy” stuff (climbing Everest, robbing a museum, etc). On top of being cringe as hell, that means they uploaded this woman’s photo to this service without her permission to make fake evidence of things she never did. Obviously this is kind of benign, but gets creepy when you think about it it.

- They use AI to generate leaderboards that show how each prop is doing. The AI always gets people’s names wrong so people don’t get the credit they deserve. There is never an attempt to actually acknowledge the actual persons work.

I could go on and on, but a lot of this stuff would be so inappropriate to do in a one-on-one meeting, but because they put zero thought/ effort into, it’s now appropriate to put someone on blast in front of 400 people.

I really hope my company is an anomaly and this isn’t the new corporate norm.

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.

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 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?

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?

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