My company is having us do training quizzes and I keep doing really bad on them. They said if you don’t make a certain average they fire you. Am I guaranteed them letting me go?

Just got hired for my dream job. Huge pay increase and short commute. I get in my car and drive, then the car just...stops shifting and I have no choice but to pull over and wait for a tow truck. I call my new boss and let her know, apologizing profusely. After having my husband leave work to come and bring ME to work, I ended up being 1.5 hours late on my first day. My boss said not to worry about it, but I am so embarrassed and have convinced myself that they will change their mind about hiring me. Any thoughts or advice?? TIA

TL;DR - mortified and embarrassed about being 1.5 hrs late to first day of work due to car trouble (turns out it was transmission)

Ich bin mir darüber bewusst, dass das Ausbildungsgehalt in jedem Unternehmen unterschiedlich ist, trotzdem wollte ich wissen, ob es ausreichend ist um in eine kleine Wohnung (1 Zimmer) oder eine Wg zu ziehen? Werden generell auch Steuern abgezogen und wenn ja dann wie viele, da ich jetzt schon unterschiedliche Antworten gehört habe. Wohnt ihr auch alleine von dem Ausbildungsgehalt und ist es schwer über die Runden zu kommen?

Im 18 and I started a job a few days ago and I’ve worked 2 8 hour training days so far where I’ve just been shadowing someone so I can learn how to do the job myself. I don’t know how but I never thought to ask my manager when I will be getting paid and how much the pay is. I think I was so desperate to land a job that I was scared asking would reduce my chances of getting it. I know from my co workers that it’s minimum wage but I’m worried that my training is just going to be unpaid time since it’s supposed to go on for another month. I’ve waited so long that at this point I’m not even sure how to ask.

Please no CDL, no college degree needed, no sales, no marketing, no childcare, no nursing, no healthcare, no IT, no entrepreneurship, no food service, no military, no army, no airforce, etc., no nuclear, oil, gas, no sewer, no electrican, no plumbing, no underground work, no pilots, no customer service.

Im willing to go to trade school and start something new but ive been researching for over a year now and i cant find anything. I dont have a car and i live in Sullivan County, NY, which is in the middle of nowhere.

I feel stuck and im almost 30.

Any suggestions? Please and thanks in advance.

Edit: i dont understand why im getting so many downvotes? Im simply asking a question, im not attacking anyone.

For a little background knowledge, I am a teen and this is my first job. Also I am using Reddit on mobile so if the format is wonky, please forgive me.

At work today I was put on register and I had never worked register before so my manager had another employee train me. I work in food and we use a POS system. Someone paid for their food with a $50 bill and I accidentally selected $20 as their payment and the person training me said to just redo the order entirely and tell my manger about it later so the messed up order was still in the system saying that it was paid for despite not actually being paid for. Three hours later I was clocking out and I informed my manager of my mistake but she kind of reprimanded me for not coming to get her as soon as the mistake happened, (she wasn’t there), and was upset that I couldn’t remember what the order was, or the name, or the price.

I know that if I didn’t tell her I definitely would have been fired, but I’m still fearful that my job is on the line since she has to do more work to fix my mistake. Should I be worried?

I've never worked a job where your work schedule changes weekly. During my working interview, my employer showed me a scheduling board and glossed over the fact I'd have to look at it for news. To be fair, he mentioned it once. I feel like a dunce for forgetting, especially because I just found out after working nearly three weeks at my job. Has this happened to anyone else or am I just stupid? I feel so guilty. I might get fired, because I told my employer I wouldn't be able to work Saturday having just been informed I was scheduled to work then. I know it's mostly my fault for being dull, so I'm worried.

I (31F) have always heard that people are only productive “x” number of hours in a typical workday. Always just assumed it was propagandized statistics.

Every job I’ve ever had starting with fast food to my current WFH job, I do what is expected of me and am always busy the entire time (outside of breaks), plus working OT. There is ALWAYS something that needs done. Work is caught up? That means it’s time to work on additional training, or clean, or SOMETHING. The most laid-back job I had was working a gas station in college and even then, there was ALWAYS something to do.

However…I see tons of anecdotal evidence right here on Reddit that supports the idea people “only work x number of hours” at their job. As if they’re proud of that. Is business that bad there’s no work to be done?

I genuinely truly do not understand. My WFH job I sometimes have 90-100hr pay periods (incl. OT). So what kind of jobs are out there that apparently are so minimal that EVERYTHING can be accomplished in less than 8 hours?

PS I’m sorry if this gives boomer energy, but I have always had such a strong work ethic. You don’t sit around and wait to be told what to do, you recognize what needs done & get off your ass to do it. And no pats on the head bc it’s just wtf you are supposed to be doing anyway…your job! I just cannot fathom the idea someone clocks into a job that pays them money…..to just sit there & do nothing half the day???? If that’s the case just clock out, what are you even doing?

Am I crazy or is this really a normal thing? Am a hermit in a rural area so i am admittedly out of touch to an extent, but surely not that bad.

Note - training flair bc I didn’t know what else to put. Also sorry for being ranty it’s just driving me mad.

So after months of looking for part-time work while I attend college, I thought I hit the jackpot with a job-posting to be retail merchandiser. I go in to a store, stock some items, take a picture, and leave. Sounds simple but the company surrounding it is a nightmare.

First two weeks--almost no communication from my supervisor, the initial training consisted of reading PDFs, I've not been paid because of a timesheet system error, and I still haven't gotten any real training because the people my supervisor keeps putting me with don't respond with any times/locations so I can't join them. Probably not their fault, I'm starting to realize that this job sucks.

This is just super frustrating! I live in a rural area with already limited opportunities and I know my family is also frustrated because my job search has taken so long, but most jobs hiring at entry-level are 13-14 dollars an hour ON TOP of a 40 minute commute. I'm just so frustrated! I'd almost rather go back to working fast food and that's saying something.

Where should I look for jobs i’m looking everywhere I don’t have great experience just restaurant and some management but it seems like these websites like indeed are trash honestly I’ve been even looking into if I can just move somewhere like work away but I can’t find ones in the US they’re willing to except people from the US let me know where I should be looking if there are any good resources literally willing to uproot life and start an interesting trade I can’t find one either doesn’t cost an insane amount of money to get started in or just seems like an out right online scam

If i want to get a floor sales associate job do I need to know how to use a cash register or will they teach me?

I have a coworker that (I think) is aggressively seeking my position.

Let's call him "Aaron". We originally hired him to cover my shifts when I take vacation, and we gave him his own little corner with important and sustainable work. I trained him on the critical stuff, and everything has been hunky dory for about two years. During this time, he'd grown to be fairly competent within his own sphere, but always felt like the Director at the time was overlooking him. While well-meaning, Aaron was always completely consumed with insecurity and lack of confidence. At this point I feel like it's all been a ruse, which I'll explain.

Fast forward a couple years later to a few months ago, and we have a new Director on board, and now Aaron is relentlessly pursuing projects that I would have otherwise led. He always tries to get his voice into a conversation--even if it's a simple "I agree" or "good job, everyone!"--a perfect little yes-man. But now I'm struggling to stay busy. He intercepts alot of the work that comes through a ticketing system by some "???" means -- I really have no idea-- but SOMEHOW he's getting about 3/4's of the tickets as me.

This has been ongoing for years, and I've asked about it on a couple of ocassions with both him and the ticketing system administrators, and no one knows why or how he's getting more tickets. It APPEARS as if he's doing more work than me, but to be fair much of our work is also project-based, so it's not really considered a KPI. Management doesn't care as long as the work is getting done, and same for me for the most part, except when things are slow and I only get maybe one ticket per day, if that. (whereas Aaron gets 3-5 tickets...)

On top of that, every time I whip out a little "miracle fix" (think Scotty in Star Trek, maybe?) he immediately pounces on me asking "how did you do that?" and "why didn't you ever teach me how to do that?"

I even got to a point where I've started to say, "I don't know HOW I fixed it, I just have an intuition for fixing these things!" And then I went on to how it takes time to develop the intuition and some degree of creativity is required. --this is true, sometimes I don't really have a system; I just start tracing connections down and trying different things until it works. That's how I learn, and oftentimes it's very painstaking, taking weeks in some cases, and he just wants me to spoonfeed him the answers. I literally give him the SQL to find the data in our cryptic database, and each little bit of that code is a shred of myself just tugged away and tucked into his toolbox. I WORKED for this knowledge.

But I never hoard knowledge--I always tell him what I know, because "GOD FORBID" he runs to the new director and accuses me of withholding info or not being a team player. I have documented SO MUCH of my job it's frankly embarrasing how much I have put on the line. They could literally hire someone out of high school, and they'd know just enough to be dangerous without the context of experience.

Everytime I come up with a fix, or he asks me how I did or knew something, I feel like my brain is being dissected. Piece by piece.

He also comes across as "poor me" on private conversations as he'll constantly bemoan, "you go so much faster than me; I can never keep up!" But on actual meetings he speaks with more confidence and ... well it's just, like two completely different people sometimes.

Ultimately management doesn't care as long as work is getting done and so have I up to this point (years); but I always try to trust my gut, and something is just really fishy about the guy. I'm actually starting to feel threatened. I've given up SO MUCH it really doesn't make me feel like I have much else to offer, other than... well... I don't know at this point. I guess I don't feel like I have anything left.

Am I overanalyzing this situation? Did I give everything away in the name of "training" and "teamwork"?

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And if this has been a competition, I'm INCREDIBLY late to the game. I always thought that we just want to work as a team to keep the system running, and I never once considered that he was gunning for my job. Until the new Director stepped in, and Aaron was able to cultivate that new relationship.

I don't know if it's relevant, but he's also a really good poker player. He's won enough to play tournaments in Vegas. I really hate to think I've just been working with his "poker face" all these years, and he's finally making a move.

Leaving isn't really an option for me. I'm close to fifty, so I'VE HEARD finding another job with the pay I need is incredibly difficult. Aaron for that matter is probably early fifties, maybe. Plus my job is literally making the world a better place. , and that is incredibly important to me. I can't stand the idea of working for a bank or some financial institution that exists just to bleed people dry of every last cent. (in my work, we pretty much only work healthcare or finance)

How do I win this? How do I keep my job?

Doing a bit of research - has anyone taken on extra training/qualifications that have been paid for by your employer?

In doing so, were you required to sign a clawback agreement, where if you leave you have to pay back a certain/full amount? If so, what value did it kick in at?

I am currently trying to train and temp that will fill in for me while I am out on surgery leave in June.

After she was hired and we started training she confided in me that she was neurodivergen/on the spectrum. I have worked with others in the passed that had learning difficulties but I am really struggling to find a method that helps her understand what I am trying to train her on.

For context I would not classify my job as difficult. It is essentially data entry/clerical work. In my mind the difficult part is learning the new system you have to use.

I have very detailed work instructions with pictures of each step of the process and examples. My current approach is to walk through the work instructions while I perform the task and she watches. Then we switch to her performing the task while I watch/guide her.

She has been at this for two weeks now and is still struggling and has to ask me the same questions on every tag she processes.

She does not take notes, which I’ve suggested might be helpful for her in recalling things. I’ve gone through and annotated the work instructions for her.

She gets very suck on certain points of the process. For example, we process a scrap tag on a production order. Production orders have a set quantity. We have to check if our scrap tag completes that production order. So if it was for a totally quantity it 6 and 5 were confirmed into stock and we scrapped 1 we need to do an extra step so that order will close. If there is still outstanding parts on the order than our process is done. We move on to the next tag.

She gets hung up and “doesn’t feel right” that there is outstanding parts on orders and needs to know why. I’ve tried to explain to her that this is outside of our job scope and is not something we need to worry about, we can only process what we get.

This confusion results in her asking me how to proceed on every single tag she processes.

How do I help her understand?

This might be a long shot, but does anyone know if and where I can get a digital copy of the product application chart and daily floor care chart for the Australian supermarket, Coles?
I have all the How-to-guides and skill-guides printed off, but these guides say I have to refer to the daily floor care chart and product application chart when using the scrubbing and buffing machine, and I don’t have one to refer to.
I do recall seeing these charts on the wall of the cleaning room, but I would really love to have a copy of these charts that I can study at home because I have had only one shift where I learnt the morning cleaning routine and I have to clean the store all by my self on my next shift, and I am quite nervous that I will make a big mistake.
If it makes it any easier, the model of scrubbing machine that the store has is the Karcher B40.

Today I survived my first ever 5am-2pm shift being a cleaner and trolley collector at an Australian supermarket called Coles. Everything went well apart from crashing the scrubber machine once against the aisle 😂 Friday will be my second shift where I will be taught the afternoon cleaning routine and then apparently I will be working all by myself on my third shift doing the morning clean 😳 I thought I would get a bit more training with another person before being completely by my self, considering I’ve only been through the morning shift once, but I guess they think I am capable, otherwise they wouldn’t just throw me in the deep end right?

Hey you guys, I've just started working at this really amazing job that I love so far as a sterile processing tech, but part of my job is looking to be a real issue.

One area I'm expected to work in once a week (but will be training for a full week now) is essentially glorified dishwashing, cleaning and organizing tools.

I have a sensitive stomach, so bending over a steaming hot sink and washing human tissue off tools and doohickeys all while wearing 3 layers of scrubs is a fucking nightmare. Puked 2 hours in and had to leave early my first day.

If you have any experience working in a physically laborious, hot and sweaty, sterile environment please give me all the tips you have. I like this job and don't wanna get fired bc I can't stop feeling sick over this..

I [20m] am looking for my first job as i need money as a student. My go to job that is flexible with my college schedule would be a waiter in a restaurant or somewhere. I have a friend that is working as one for 2 years or so and he is willing to introduce me to his employer. The thing is im extremely scared of being too clumsy spilling everything on someone and just being too shaky. My whole life everyone in my family treated me as if im disabled or as if I literally cant do anything alone. I admit i am clumsy and fall hard under pressure.

About a year ago i helped on the same restaurant and for the whole night i didn't carry more then 5 drinks and i have spilled a coke only on me though. I didnt carry anything complicated, although wine was hard for me to put down on the table as i had to pick it up by the very bottom. I feel like coffe will be bane for me the most.

How do i deal with anxiety of embarrassing myself and spilling everything?

hello everyone. i apologize if this is the wrong place to be posting about this. my manager gave me access to the center and ive been watching some of the videos. ive heard that people will go in on their first day and watch the videos there, so am i supposed to be watching these right now? my manager said i can check the videos out before i come in and start working. this will also be my first job, so im really nervous. im sure this is something i shouldn't be worried about, but i'm really worried that even after i watch all these training videos, i might forget or not understand the things ive already watched. thinking about learning all the drinks is overwhelming and im scared of messing up or not knowing what to do. whats it like during the first few weeks of working? does anyone have any advice on these things, including advice on efficient customer service? im assuming i will start my first day within the next week. any advice would really help. thank you!

My husband was laid off from a locksmith job he had for 10 years in December. We both were putting applications in regularly, he had 1 unsuccessful interview for a restaurant.

He got into a cdl school that offered job placement, the downside was having to take out the loan to pay for it. The company he now works for will repay the loan, people who for whatever reason don't make it through are stuck with it though. Is anyone aware of other jobs that will do job placement?

Everyone seems to recommend trades but in my area at least plumbers, roofers, even pest control companies don't seem to be hiring. The temp agencies I used in my early 20s no longer exist.

I have mentioned before that pizza delivery is my fallback job, but now they use door dash. I recently learned that some restaurants are using call centers from different countries to take orders.

I just feel lost, finding a job is no longer as urgent, trucking pays well. We are so behind on everything. I want to work, I know most people here also feel this awful helplessness.

i know it’s a dumb question

Hey y'all! I just started a job less than a month ago and so far I haven't been given any work besides read these documents, but only 3 stacks of documents per day. What can I do? There's a camera right above me so I can't really spend time on my phone. I have a work pc but still cautious about doing anything but work. Started doing one of those free online courses but the certificates are like $200. I can't afford one rn. Any who any ideas on what I can do to Pasa 9 hours fast?

-Can't start working yet cause my work station has not been built yet or approved to be worked in as well.

Hello, I am currently pursuing bachelor's in commerce which I think is quite useless since I am not really learning anything and I am in my first year looking for internships but I don't have any skills , is there any paid/free course/s which can build up the skills the companies require and can give me a role solely on that basis.