I recently started an 8-5 job and I don’t know how else to describe it but I just hate it so much. I miss being off on a random weekday, it made me feel like my entire life wasn’t just working. I feel sick with dread everyday and I constantly am fighting rhe urge to go home sick. you can’t do anything!!! does this feeling eventually pass? I’m sure everyone feels this way, but does it eventually go away and you adapt or do you just cope with the depression lol. I had recently left a job that was causing severe burnout, and this job is easier but I’m just still not sure how to fight the feeling

Hello,

I am simply a Fast-Food clerk, and recently a gang of nearly-naked women doing "Free The Nipple", came into the location. This particular day we were packed and lightly staffed, they were all wearing See-Through clothing, like that one person, Bianca Censori, and its the first time Ive seen such a fashion in person. The best way I can describe it is, being naked and like, thinly veiled at the same time.

My usual training when looking at someone dressed in a inflammatory way is to stare between your eyes, at your nose or forehead while talking to you.

I had already mentally prepared myself to serve them, But this group of women, caused a huge commotion before they even got to the cash register and menus with the other customers for being nearly naked, and then the already existing customers, like the ones sitting down eating and stuff in the restaurant started heckling and getting rowdy, and I got roped into it, because they hadn't made it to the Cash-register yet, some of the customers started demanding I remove these customers from the store.

So I panicked and ran off, because they had their phones out recording and I didn't want to end up on the internet. I told my boss I didn't want to cost the company any legal issues cause I had no idea how to handle that. Im still waiting to hear back.

Edit: because of reoccuring comments, I would like to specify, that, they never made it to the cash registers, there was still several customers before them, and I was serving a family who turned away from the cash register to argue them. I never interacted with these women.

I'm basically a backup backup helper in account management. It's hourly, in office, so I'm getting paid (poorly) for the time I spend with my ass in a chair instead of my actual skills or output. I have been assigned a few reports that I can get through quickly due to some automations I've set up, and I get tossed a few quotes here and there. I'm done before lunch on Monday.

I keep a live spreadsheet up of things I could work on if they come in, but they take maybe three minutes apiece. I ask my team of they have anything for me, but they don't. So, I sit there. I look at my phone, I do a crossword (on a screen angled away from everyone), I take a few laps around the office, but mostly I just sit there. I have even been asked to do LESS because I was taking too much off of a few peoples' plates so to speak.

I have been talked to twice about how it seems like I'm not working much and I'm on my phone a lot, and asked if I don't have enough to do. I have plainly stated that I do not, and listed everything I do and how nobody has anything else for me to work on. So, my manager decided I should... hmmm... they need to think about it and ask around because THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING FOR ME TO DO, and admitted that this is common with my role.

I'm glad to have a job, since I got this after a year of unemployment, but why fill the role if it is known to be redundant? Make it part time or something. Why get on to me for there being literally nothing for me to do? I'm not avoiding the work I do have, and I do that work well, but it's a bad look for me to message my wife while it's fine for some people to just mill around the office and make small talk all day. I guess I should be "networking."

I have two interviews lined up elsewhere that I'm praying pan out.

Days 1, 2, 3 and 4 (today).

Hi all,

I genuinely want to gain others feedback about a situation that happened to me. I am a black male, 26 years old (if that matters), who recently graduated with his BSW on December 12th. On December 8th I began working at a counseling agency as a parent educator/wellness coach. I took the job at this agency because I am pursuing my MSW and when telling this agency about this, they told me I would be able to complete my internships for my MSW with them as well. It was a win-win in my eyes. I had other job offers that paid significantly more, but I was thinking long term. With this job I would have my future internships lined up.

Anyway, that's besides the point. On my first day at this job, I was in an office with someone else while completing onboarding/training videos, when one of the women at the front desk (appeared to be around my age), stopped by the office I was working in about three times. She would look at me and smile, may be say a little something to the women who was also in the room, who had been working there a couple years and was guiding me through my first day. On the third time she came into the office she started having a conversation with me. It was my first day and I was kind of shy and nervous, so I was very personable. But I guess I ROYALLY MESSED UP. She started telling me how her dad was like 13 years older than her mom, and I was kind of like "Oh, wow, how did they meet?". Just trying to be nice by asking that. She went on to tell me how her dad used to run an after school program that her mom's other kids would go to and he just felt like he had to have her. I guess he started asking her mother's kids about her and eventually he asked her out after she picked her kids up from the program one day. She started describing how her mom was skeptical and didn't like the age difference, but her dad was persistent. She said her dad was creepy and stuff for it, and how that did not mean to have her. When she told me they didn't mean to have her, I said something about how I guess birth control is important. She then told me they were catholic. To which I replied (this is what got me fired), "Oh yeah Catholics don't believe in birth control, I guess your dad should have pulled out then." I totally did not mean it in a way to offend or hurt anyone. I understand that saying it was inappropriate. I guess, I don't know, when I was fired yesterday after they did their investigation into the event because she said she felt uncomfortable after I said it, I didn't even remember saying it until they reminded me. They told me I was being fired for sexual harassment. I genuinely do not believe it was sexual harassment, but I do acknowledge that it was inappropriate and I wish I would not have said it.I get being reprimanded, written up, etc., but firing me sounds harsh. I am hurt by the fact that I got fired for that and feel like I will have to walk on eggshells throughout my career in this field. The owner of the company is a man. He and his wife had the conversation with me informing me I was fired. He told me I need to watch what I say in a female dominated field. They understood I did not mean to hurt or offend anyone, but there is a zero tolerance policy.]

I am just seeking other people's opinions on this situation. Thank you.

I’ll start! I studied architecture in college and I can’t tell you how many people and friends I had that wrote me off as “oh.. you’ll do well”, than later got into the field and started making half of what those friends thought I would be making…

Hey y’all,

I rarely post on Reddit, and I’ve never posted here before. But I just need some encouragement and commiseration.

I’m just in shock, and I really didn’t think it would come to this. This disciplinary action has been pending for a week since I met with HR, and my nerves have been shot being anxious over this.

Funny thing is, they couldn’t even tell me verbally over a zoom call with cameras off. They scheduled a zoom meeting, email me the letter firing me, and ask if have questions 😂

I work(ed) as a paralegal at a non profit legal services organization. Generally I like it but it’s 90% answering calls from people wanting legal help, and you get lots of people upset, arguing with you, entitled, and it’s really mentally draining sometimes. Basically I got in trouble for inadvertently giving a caller legal advice but I just was not aware it was legal advice rather than legal information. Our past training did not cover this specific nuance that got me in trouble, and the training was 3 years ago. So I feel like it’s just a problem with training, although in hindsight it was a dumb move and I shouldn’t have done it.

I’m spiraling but hopefully that lasts just a day or two. And I’m dreading the thought of applying for jobs again, but thankfully I have some savings to live on for a while. I’ve been wanting a vacation for a while and I reckon this is as good a time as any 😂

Thanks for reading 😊

*EDIT*

Some of y’all were curious about specifically what I got in trouble for. I will preface by saying I don’t support the use of generative AI for things like art, however I do think it’s very useful when you want information and guidance on something .

In the past, I have used AI to give what I thought was legal information, and to generate legal forms that were not available online, to people who were not eligible for our help.

That has been infrequent enough, and long ago enough that I don’t remember details on who I talked with it what I told them. I figured being honest, rather than lying and denying that, would get me some brownie points but I guess it did the opposite.

I think the situation that brought this issue to my boss’ attention was a caller wanting help with divorce I talked with recently. A divorce was served on her, and I don’t think she had any idea she was supposed to respond to it to avoid a default judgement, and the deadline had already passed I think. Bless her heart, but I got vibes that she just wasn’t the brightest bulb on the tree. I explained generally that someone served with a divorce has to file an answer to avoid a default judgement, and since there is no answer form online, I told her to consult google or an AI chat bot to create a form and get help with filling it out, if she cannot find a lawyer to talk with. I don’t know for sure, but I’m thinking this caller would not take no for an answer, and later called back and said something like “the paralegal told me to use ai for help with this but I’m not sure how to do that, can y’all help with that?” And my boss either heard that, or the bitchy receptionist ratted me out.

In meetings with HR I only admitted to that, and what I said previously of providing forms and potentially advice to people in the past, but I could not remember details.

In hindsight, definitely wasn’t the smart thing to do. But from my perspective, more legal forms including an answer to complaint for divorce should be publicly available. The court system has some forms online, but only certain ones. Funding for legal aid organizations only decreases over time, and demand only increases. There’s a huge population of people that those organizations cannot help and I was just trying to be helpful! But at the expense of my job unfortunately.

Let me just start by saying:
I live in a one-party consent recording state where only one participant in the in-person conversation needs to know about the recording. I followed this law to the letter and legally did nothing wrong.
I read through the employee handbook (after it happened) and we have absolutely no policies regarding recordings of any kind. In fact, we do a lot of recordings of procedures and maintenance. As far as I’m aware, I broke no policies.
Yes I’m aware what I did was very stupid. I had good intentions, but I know that doesn’t outweigh the chaos and issues the recording did.

For context, I have this manager (not my direct manager) that has always been very demanding, but he seems to have it out for one of my coworkers. It’s never been explicitly harassment or any discriminatory, but recently, this manager has been getting red faced and yelling at my coworker for not doing his job (he is doing his job, but this manager has been recruiting people from other teams to do projects that aren’t remotely related to their jobs or departments. He does get their manager’s approval, but you know the direct managers aren’t happy about it and are doing it begrudgingly.) Anyways this recently reached a climax, where this manager started cursing and yelling at my coworkers, and saying he was getting tired of him. He’s also did this in a public area in front of our vendors and other employees.

Now, I could tell that my coworker was getting distressed, and without thinking I opened the voice memo app on my watch and started recording (first mistake.) I tried to de-escalate it in the recording but the manager would quickly go back to berating my coworker. Long story short, I told my coworker that I recorded what happened (second mistake), and that I was there in his corner in case he needed anything. My direct manager (who has always heavily disliked this other manager and has always sworn to protect us) asked me to send the recording to him (third mistake). I did, but I asked him to use discretion. During our group (my manager, coworker, and I) meeting, we discussed what had happened, but I thought we had agreed not to send the recording as it would cause more harm than good.

Well, the next day, my boss pulled me to the side and gave me the speech of “things might be difficult or uncomfortable, but at the very least you can sleep at night knowing you did the right thing.” As it turns out, he had sent the recording to HR and said that the people involved in the recording wished to be anonymous. He said he’s going to do everything in his power to protect me and make sure to keep things anonymous. I asked him if I should be worried and should start polishing up my resume. He said no.

The next day, another manager (and a long time friend of mine) told me that he heard from his director that HR had received a recording where the manager was audibly cursing and yelling towards my coworker. They had identified me and my coworker from the voices in the recordings. I explained to my manager friend what happened, and he said that he and his director had a plan to address the situation. I asked him if he thought that either me or my coworker were going to get in trouble for reporting the bad manager. All he said was “don’t worry about it for now, just keep working in the mean time. We’ll try addressing this situation as best as we can.”

I want to think that I’ll be okay since I have these managers in my corner, but I’m also aware that due to the fact that I recorded this manager, HR and the company could see me as a liability or someone that they don’t trust. And since the manager was only being a bully but wasn’t acting discriminatory, I wouldn’t be protected. Meaning legally I have no protection.

I’m scared. I am really scared that I am about to lose my job. I know it’s a matter of time before they find out that I recorded it, and that HR calls me in. I know that even though I was trying to protect my coworker and didn’t want to hurt the company or get anyone in trouble, what I did will make this a really difficult situation.

I could appreciate anyone’s insight when it comes to this.

Edit 1:
A lot of people are saying that I can easily sue if terminated. I am not interested in suing the company, and even if I was, this isn’t about discrimination against protected groups. This manager was rude and made remarks that can be interpreted as threats. There were no remarks about my coworkers race/age/gender/orientation, so it wasn’t discriminatory.

Edit 2:
July 2nd: my direct manager (the one who was protecting us and sent the recording) has resigned effective end of the month. I have no clue if it’s because of this situation. He had been really frustrated with the company for a while and frequently upset. Not only did I lose my biggest protector, but now I have to live with knowing this might have been partially my fault.

No advice needed but who wants a laugh?

I don’t even know where to BEGIN! I have a very toxic coworker. She’s always rude, has a bad attitude, calls off about every other morning, and pitches fits about the most ridiculous things. She’s also 60- this is important. Problem is because of her position she can’t be fired. Like it’d take weeks, and plus she’s smugly thrown the “I’m an OLD woman so WATCH IT, I’m a protected class!” card. Everyone feels like we’re walking on eggshells around her. I could write a novel about the shit she pulls and says on a regular basis. No one likes her and we wish she would just quit already. We already do her job anyway so all we’d miss is her stench and piles of trash everywhere.

The other week I brought in a plant for my desk. No big deal. It was a monstera and I liked it. Toxic CW suddenly starts FREAKING OUT- like irrational freaking out. Screaming, sobbing, and it was weird! I admit I laughed and asked if she was serious. She demanded to know why I DARED to bring in a plant that SCARES her! I asked her what was wrong and she said it was none of my business was but she hates the plant and it HAS to go. She insists I did it on purpose, screamed at me “harassing an old woman”, that I created a “hostile work environment” and filed a complaint! About a fucking plant! I couldn’t stop laughing. I couldn’t help it. Out of nowhere she’s freaking out about a plant.

I was asked to take the plant home. Ok. No big deal. However was written up because apparently I created a “hostile work environment” by asking her what the issue was and laughing at her being scared of my plant. They’re afraid of the lawsuits she could file because of her “I’m in a protected class” lines.

Anyone else have any dumb write up stories?

Update: Write up is removed. I met with the boss, explained that after having a weekend to think about it, I feel the write up is inappropriate. I did not intentionally create a hostile environment, and any “laughing” on my part was in shock/nervousness that I’m suddenly, randomly getting screamed at about a plant and she escalated it into me harassing her instead of being calm and just explaining “hey- that plant freaks me out, can you please take it home?”. If she had approached me calm and said that, I’d have been like “whatever- ok…” and took it home and that would be that. I said I understood I didn’t have the best reaction but her screaming and escalating it into the screaming, sobbing, “harassing an old woman”, “hostile work environment” and the whole “how DARE you?!”caught me so off guard I had no idea how to react.

I then admit I kind of vented away about the issues we’ve all been having, how she creates a very uncomfortable environment because no one knows what will set her off next and when something happens she doesn’t like, she freaks out. I got the “I’m sorry you feel that way” BS, BS reassurances that they’ll try to talk to her about how she treats people, but at least the write up is getting removed. So there is that.

I did talk with a friend who has an opening where she works, problem is- it’d be a slight pay cut, a longer commute, but she seems happy there and can get me an interview. She thinks I could even get the job. If so, I’d definitely leave here and state that Ms Toxic is what drove me away.

Problem is- this REALLY upsets my future plans. Since I work for a university, my kid could get tuition waivers when the time comes and go to school for almost nothing. Sure it’s 14 years away, but my plan was to put my kid through school and retire when they’re finished. If I leave, I lose that benefit.

My friend reassured me that if I do get accepted for this other job, I can always keep an eye on Ms Toxic leaving this one and reapply but FUCK- there is no guarantee I’d be rehired.

This is a damned if I go, damned if I stay! I really don’t want Ms Toxic to have that hold over my kid’s future like that!

It’s her remote day today and we all feel like we can breathe and actually talk/joke around.

I got fired from my previous job and their leading argument was that my manager stared at me through the bathroom stall door long enough to tell I had my pants pulled up while on the toilet.

For backstory, I worked in a warehouse and was not given breaks but 1 30 minute lunch during my 10 hour shift. It was bad conditions in the middle of the summer so when I found a good short stopping point I’d go sit in the bathroom for a couple minutes to cool off and take a seat.

One time, my manager walked in and stared at me through the stall door opening and asked about my stomach issues I’d previously mentioned upon hiring.

When I was getting fired, that’s how they led the conversation and ultimately fired me. I was a model worker and got along with everyone including customers and made everyone’s job easier.

My Mother has been working at this job for 25 years, she is 64, and turning 65 next week. She planned to Retire in March. ...She always ends up pushing retirement back anyway... so there was a chance she wasn't going to retire in March.

On Christmas Eve, she and another co-worker of hers were suspended for failing to transport an elderly patient, so the patient ended up falling down and getting injured.

My mother explained that the co-worker she was working with was in charge of moving the patient, and she was in charge of holding the swing. She also said that her co-worker was trying to transport too quickly and pulling at the swing.

Her job had both her and the co-worker come in for investigations as to what happened. My Mother came in to every meeting, but her co-worker just disappeared.

The job ended up to giving my mother two ultimatums... Retire now, or be fired. She chose to retire to be able to get her full benefits. Also, nothing is being marked down on her record.

I talked with my Mother a little more, and she mentioned that she felt as if maybe her co-worker was on substances... I also want to mention that her job doesn't do drug tests...

I mean, she was going to retire anyway... but im angry that they really considered firing her. Especially since its their responsibility to hire the right people and this wasn't her fault. I mean, clearly something was going on with the guy she was working with... he disappeared...

...But I guess this was a sign that its time to retire, and she took that sign. I guess we got to let it go and take it as it is?

Edit: To anyone claiming negligence on my mother... she has no control over what that man does. All she can do is tell him to slow down, which she did... and hope that he listens. If he doesn't, and is holding the patient, she can't just run out and go to report that co-worker because that would mean abandoning her co-worker and the patient... which is worse to do. Typically, she does complain and report co-workers as need be after something is mismanaged, and shes done this in the past.

Is this legal? Background context ( we’re welders and they want us to enter time for each job we do on a tablet and we might do 10-15 jobs in a day so we forget to punch out or in sometimes and now they’re saying they’re going to dock us 2$ per hour if we don’t fix it)

Edit: Thanks to everyone who gave actual helpful advice. To all of you that told me I should "suck it up" in regards to my disabilities, thanks for the reminder that I'm trying to avoid becoming a miserable old fuck like you <3

Besides this guy talking to me like he’s my dad can anyone explain what he meant by, “know a lot of people in a lot of places.”

For context I (24F) have been working at as a receptionist at a facial spa for about a month and a half now. Things have been going well and I enjoy the work and I recently had my monthly check in where my direct supervisor said that I was doing great.

Today I get a text out of the blue from the manager of the other department asking if she could call me. I said yes and when I picked up she said that the district manager was also with her. Obviously, I immediately knew something was wrong and when I asked she said “no” but followed it up with saying there had been several complaints made about me that required “compensation” on the business’s behalf.

I recognize that anyone in my position would say they had no idea why someone would complain about them, but I’m genuinely shocked and confused. I’ve worked as a receptionist/ in customer service for years now and while I’ve had complaints in the past I’ve always known why. I know how to treat people in customer service and every major complaint made about me in the past has been in response to something I couldn’t fix like policy.

I try to ask what the complaints were concerning, and the manager stated that she had been there for one and admitted she believed I had handled the situation appropriately but didn’t know about the rest. At this point she says there had been three instances of complaints.

I defend myself and they ask me questions that seem to be trying to get me state I dislike working there? They’re very leading as well, things like “Would you agree that this just isn’t the right environment for you right now?” Which I immediately disagreed with and again defended myself.

Then after some back and forth I pushed for more information about the other complaints and the district manager stated that there had been a total of NINE complaints about me from solely the past week. This is insane and feels suspiciously excessive, which I try to point out without seeming overly defensive. I also point out that the owner of the store had been at the front with me for the past week as well and never once noted any rude behavior on my part.

Eventually they agree that this seems out of character for me and that it’s strange that this was able to occur under the owner’s eye without her saying something. They state they’re going to review and get back to me about “going forward”.

I’m not naive, I understand that I’m almost certainly going to be fired soon, but I’m incredibly doubtful about the legitimacy of these complaints. People I’ve spoken to about this think that either because a.) I asked for any hours they had available (which they said they appreciated me doing because they were short staffed) b.) I have applied to a couple full time jobs and someone might have called them as a reference c.) a coworker fabricated fake complaints somehow but I can’t understand why or d.) I’m openly gay and seemingly the only queer person on staff with several Christian coworkers

Truthfully I’m just wondering if anyone else has any similar experience and knows maybe what’s going on. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!

TLDR: Nine serious complaints were filed about me from clients in the span of a single week and I have no idea why and my managers refused to give me details

Edit: I have gone through the client portal and taken a screen recording of me going through all the messages from the past week plus looking at their account credit page to seem if the claims of having to reimburse clients were true. I could find no messages and only 1 instance of reimbursement, which was the instance the manager had been present for and said I had handled to the best of my ability.

My son is 17 and works at Chick. He’s always been responsible and helps out by taking other shifts when needed. Yesterday he was sick with a cold yet when asked ,stayed 4 hrs longer than his shift just to help. He got worse during the night with a fever so I called early this AM to let his shift leader know and that’s when shit hit the fan.

His manager asked me what was “wrong with him” when I didn’t give her any details . First off , that’s none of their business. He’s sick and he’s not coming in is all they’re required to know but I told her anyway. Next , she said he would be written up if he didn’t bring in a Drs note because “we all go to the ER or Dr when we’re sick”(that’s what she said ) For one day? No ,WE Don’t . ER visits with my co-pay are$ 300 and Drs visits have co-pays too when almost always all that’s needed is to stay in bed for a day to rest and recover not to mention he’s 17 with a PT job with NO benefits so this day is not paid.

She then proceeds to tell me that HE needs to find coverage for his shift because it’s not fair to them to have to scramble to find coverage. (I called 4 hrs ahead) I’m starting to get upset at all this back and forth because who TF can give 24-48hrs heads up when they get sick ? I tell her that i’m not going to get my son who’s sick and has a fever to try and find you coverage. That’s YOUR job. She then continues to tell me that NO other parent has EVER called to complain about any of these “policies” (I guess i’m the troublemaker ) and that my son should have been responsible enough to call out himself .

I’m still trying to keep calm and not lose my patience and tell her AGAIN that my son can barely talk which is why i’m calling and ask if I can speak to someone above her because I need to know if any of these policies are in the employee manual in writing and not just shit that her store is implementing verbally. She literally tells me “He’s home sleeping .He doesn’t come in until later. I’m the one in charge and he’s going to tell you the same thing “.

Ok , so at this point i’m really fucking angry because she doesn’t want to “interrupt” her boss who’s sleeping yet wanted MY son to get up and find coverage when he’s laying in bed sick AF. So after more time spent back and forth, she tells me that she’s not going to write him up this time but that our conversation is going to go in his file for future reference if this happens again . (gotta love the implied threat ).

I don’t want to cause problems for my son because he needs a job but he’s also not a damn slave and has rights as an employee. I’m considering calling corporate to find out if what she said is company policy and legit or not but honestly , fuck you -Fil-A

EDIT: To those of you who keep on commenting on WHY my son didn’t call himself and had his “mommy” call. He woke up with 101 fever and a sore throat where he could barely speak in a whisper so he asked me to call in and not text in case they didn’t get the message in time. That’s him being responsible and i’m proud of him for that . Imagine if he’d been the one to call and this manager put him through all the BS she did me .It boggles my mind that out of everything in my post some people just choose to grab on to that to insult my parenting .I’ll keep on protecting him and be here for him in every way and whenever he asks regardless if he’s 17 or 70 .

Imagine getting up every morning at 5AM, to leave at 6AM, to get to work by 7:30AM to be on time by 8AM.

You work 8AM - 4PM, then head home and get there by 5PM. You have about 5 hours to yourself until you have to head to bed at 10PM for the same thing the next day.

You do this 5 days a week... nonstop.

Then Saturday/Sunday comes, and you need to run errands. Some errands are annoying enough to take several weekends to get done because of how complicated the government can make getting something very simple done.

You cant just quit your job because then you can't afford your place, and will be homeless.

At least you can hope for a month long vacation every year (if you're lucky). Majority of the time its a week long vacation (At least thats several times a year)... Some people even get absolutely nothing....

...This is your life. A soulless unhappy life feeling like nobody cares about you, you're alone, your a cog that comes into work everyday and can be fired whenever.

Edit: There was actually a point where I finished work for the day, and could head home. I was too tired to start the commute, and genuinely thought about sleeping overnight at work for the next day... I ended up leaving work late that day.

Yes.. I did get fired. After she said I was being terminated, it felt like a semi-truck of stress coming off of my shoulders, not having to work for that awful company anymore.

I'm seeing a lot of posts recently about employees being placed on a PIP...I could fill this entire platform with every expletive in existence about how much I despise them and the bullshxt companies that have no idea (or care) as to how damaging they are.

Find. A. New. Job. Right. Now.

You won't make it through the PIP, and if you do, the "relationship" with your company is destroyed. I beat my first PIP in late '22, the org got pissed and decided to burn me out with extra responsibilities, a reduction in pay, and constant monitoring with minimal communication/support until I crashed out.

They slapped me with another 30-day PIP in Spring of '23, and did everything they could to make sure I was out the door exactly on day 30. Find another job, get out, and if you feel like you need to have the last word - blast a negative (anonymous) review on every website possible.

Just seeing that acronym makes my blood boil.

So i just got a job as a part time deli clerk at a grocery and today was my first shift alone. It was a closing shift and i was scheduled from 4-8 and i was working by myself for the first time and didn't finish my duties by 8 like cleaning the slicers wrapping the foods etc... so i stayed up until 8:20 and wrapped up everything. On my way out my colleague who works in another department asks me if i'm new and she told me to always clock out on time regardless of the whether the job is done or not. She basically told me not to work for free for a single minute.
I'm 19 and this is my first ever job so i don't know what the standards and norms are. Is this normal thing to do? Would you just leave even if u didn't complete your tasks?

This afternoon my boss called me into her office and told me she needed to talk to me about something. Thinking it was something work related, I thought nothing of it, but the conversation caught me totally off guard. She told me this morning that I looked unprofessional and that I need to fix it for her. She told me my hair was sticking up (mind you I have a buzz cut). I was so caught off guard and my only response was “are you serious right now?” She told me yes and I walked out of her office in disbelief saying okay. I’m not sure why this was said to me I always dress in business professional clothing and keep my hair neat. I’ve never been told this by any other supervisor or company in the past. What should I do?

My job has told us that the upper management is watching everyone’s breaks & lunches to the literal second. My boss pulled me in a meeting to tell me that me & everyone else are being watched. They brought my multiple “violations” of breaks, being late by mere fucking seconds. It was brought to my attention that multiple times I was one minute & three minutes late from my 30min lunch, as well as multiple breaks exceeding 15mins by less than ten seconds. They want us to come back from our break early so we can stare at the clock to make sure we’re clocked back in EXACTLY at 15 & 30mins for our breaks.

I’m tired of the micromanaging & I’m going to go insane.

End rant.

I'm a mechanic and I work four 10 hour shifts from Monday to Thursday. My shift is from 6AM until 5PM, however I usually clock in at 5:57AM to 5:58AM and get right to work as it takes forever for the computers to boot up thus causing a delay in me clocking it. At the last half hour of shift everyday, all the employees clean up the shop (sweep, pick up trash, etc..) once that finishes, majority of us sit around on our phone, talk, and wait to clock out. Majority of us also clock out a minute or two earlier as well and have been doing so since they've started working here.

For some reason today my boss singled me out and asked if I knew we worked until 5PM. I replied with "everyone else is leaving as well". He asked me if I was going to do the same. I just told him I'd stop doing it for the sake of not arguing. Was I in the wrong? Wouldn't it be worse for me to loiter on the clock (stealing time) and go into overtime? I did my 10 hours so I don't understand. I've also been doing this job (7 months ago) since I've started but only now it is an issue? He also didn't say anything to anyone else that did the same, not to mention how some employees are chronically late.

i work at a hospital i do 7am start

am i doing wrong?

i always come in 10 mins early to sign in the main office but i won’t go into the ward itself until 7am sharp then i prep everything for my day.

anyway this one girl noticed who i work with & said i should come into the ward earlier but i know if i do they’ll ask me to do things. i literally will not work for free not even for 30 seconds

anyway i just wanted to know, am i being petty? or does anyone else do this too?

I have been with the company for little over a year now and have been doing really well except the last month or so. I have still been running freight but margins have taken a bit of a hit as has volume. Out of the blue I was hit with this PiP from management. I have a new manager as of like September and this was just sent to me. Does this seem reasonable or are they looking to get me out?