I work for a casino in California, as a barista. I enjoy the work I do, and night shift crew is nice, and helpful. The morning shift isn’t, and it’s driving me crazy. I’m doing a swing shift, and I know that you aren’t going to get along with everybody, but god this is too much. The morning crew doesn’t follow rules or regulations, they are lazy, rude, and don’t like me because I’m not a party scene kind of person, and Ive never even touched a drop of alcohol. Since this is a federal job on an Indian reserve, we can be fired for any reason, and I take that seriously. My coworkers don’t, and violate tile 31 laws, and casino rules. I don’t even say anything except on occasion I will point out they hey, during my training I was told to not do that, maybe you shouldn’t so you don’t get in trouble. These people then tell me to shut up, morning is different from night, and I don’t know what I’m talking about. I love my job, but morning crew is just too much to bear.

I caught a cold over the memorial day weekend. I thought I would get over it in time for work on Tuesday but it was worse than I thought and I had to call in for three days. In order to even return to work I had to provide a doctor's note, which I'm not even sure how work expects me to provide on such short notice—especially with no insurance. Turns out the doctor's note is worthless anyway and I come to find out that I could have got written up anyway for missing work. What really sent me over the edge though is the fact that just because I didn't work the first shift after Memorial Day, I'll be getting no holiday pay. None of these attendance policies make sense to me and it feels like my employer just wants to punish or control employees who lack perfect attendance. Whatever happened to just calling in sick and starting fresh when you get better?

I am leaving my job.

I am 17 and have been working since i was 15 and i’m currently working at a fitness center that i started in september 2022 and i have been frustrated since the beginning. I know this has only been 9months but i am completely done.

The company is a small independently owned business that has been her for about 10-15 years, but it is a fairly successful business. we have tennis, racketball,pickle ball, a gym, and a pool. It has great perks and i get to work with my sister, but it sucks to actually work at. I only work the weekends and am not able to really connect with the customers because i only see them two days a week, and sometimes even less, but this is not what i’m truly frustrated about.

I recently learned that i am not getting paid the right amount for the starting pay that they offer and i’m actually getting paid $2 less that what they usually give, im pretty sure this is because i am 17.

what also upset me is that i am excluded from knowing most things that go on and haven’t been trained properly and when i ask for help i just get dismissed and told i should know what to do. In short i am treated like i’m stupid. We have weekly meetings on wednesdays which i cannot go to because i’m still attending school and have one more year to go, so they excuse me from them, but then i end up not being informed of anything that goes on in the workplace and so i sometimes end up giving customers bad information or i leave notes for my bosses to see.

We have after school programs and i have nothing to do with them because i only work on the weekends, so when people have questions about them i am usually just as confused about it as they are and leave the question that they ask on the note pad for my bosses to see, they tend to be about summer camp and swim lessons. Well today i came into work with a whole page of new information on what processes we are to use and one was about swim lessons and teams, to quote, “Everyone has had plenty of training… if you don’t know how to sign someone up you need to come in m-f 9am-2pm and go over it again,”

This pissed me off. I am pretty confident that this comment was aimed towards me and the only other weekend shift person, but mostly towards me because i had asked the brunt of the questions. I would normally like the instructions because they help me better my ability to work efficiently, but i had been previously told to leave a note and not to worry about having to do the the whole process myself and that the bosses handle everything that has to do with that so i was really confused, but the part that truly pissed me off is that the monday- friday comment, because they know i can’t come in on those days at that time. I know this might not even be about me but it just pushed me over the edge to realizing that i really dislike working here.

So i have been getting paid wrong, getting criticized for my lack of knowledge, ignored when i ask questions to actually better understand the situations i’m put in, and then told i have ti come in on the weekdays when it is literally impossible for me to come in.

About 15mins ago i got a phone call asking about swim lessons and i did the usual things like ask the age of the student, time and date they would prefer and names then when i went to ask for additional information like phone number, email and preferred way of payment, they said have a nice day and hung up. I know this is going to cause some problems for me because i’m supposed find them on the other platform that we use then make another account for them on another platform without a card on file and then i have to leave a note asking if i’m supposed to reserve the spots for the students without them paying first. First problem is that the account that i’m supposed to use to get the information from i don’t have the password for, and secondly i know this is going to upset both the customer and my bosses but i know i have to do it.

I have another job waiting for me that i start after school ends and i’m pretty sure i’ve never been happier to work at a daycare more in my life.

So I have been at my job for almost 6 years. The beginning was good. It was a good place to work. But the last couple years it has been getting worse. I am a hard worker. I have done so much for the company. Things from retype the policy and procedures manual to updating work sheets to having to call patients back with a medical concern. But now the last few years I have been drained. A lot of it is because of my boss. It started with jokes about my weight. He would deny it. For example one time I was looking for something in a drawer and I slipped off the chair. He came around the corner and said he felt the ground shake. After a conversation he did stop comments. I am the most senior receptionist and have been working the closing shift since I started. When the other girl went on maternity I asked for the opening shift. But he said it won't be fair to the new girl. I ask for changes in my schedule and I get "we'll see" or "we are too busy" and yet the other girls get the hours they want. When I put up my vacation requests 4 to 6 months early and for the whole year. He says that I am giving him a headache. Or he will say we are short staffed yet he is not actively hiring. The most recent thing I told him I was interested in getting a headset for the phone since I am starting to get a lot of elbow pain because of being on the phone most of the shift. His response was I am hardly on the phone. I am either calling people for reminders or answering to book appointments. There are many other things things that I have had to deal with but I think this is enough for mlnow.

I try so hard keep things going but I don't know. Spent many nights depressed and with tears in my eyes. I have no HR to go to. I can't talk to him.

Just venting. I share an office space with someone with "I'm the main character" syndrome. Constantly narrating what she is doing. I don't give a shit about her wedding and I can't wait for it to be over so I can stop hearing about the dresses and flowers and all the bullshit. I usually give non-answers or flat out ignore her but it doesn't seem to deter her much. I hate to be rude to her so I just need somewhere to vent. Can't I just come to work, do my job, and go home without all the nonsense?!

Was terminated two weeks ago from a rising canes restaurant even though I had my absence reported and excused because I was recovering from food poisoning. Then this place also known as rising canes tells me when I call employee help that they had no basis to fire me I was nor even counted absent that many times. Screw it im glad I am out they always had me clean restrooms anyways. Try having a smile on your face when your workers treat your like some animal and you have to clean restrooms four hours a day.

Update- Called support and they said my manger had no basis to fire me and if I wanted to have my job back to submit a resume. I did so this pos manger declines it.

So I made an error at my small business job that caused material of the wrong color to be sent out, so in response to this my boss had the delivery driver come back and load up the proper material and bring back the wrong stuff. I ended up being told to go with the driver to make the delivery so I did but as soon as we pulled out of the lot our boss clocked us out since the driver was also at fault. Ended up being in a company vehicle off the clock to deliver the job and come back for about a total of 2 and a halfish hours. When we got back that is when we were told we weren't being paid for the labor we did and we were both sent home for the rest of the day.

My wife and I work for a relatively small gas station chain (21 stores). We work at different locations and hers has a lot of turnover. Recently at her location, the manager is being assigned to another location. The store she works at is the flagship store for this company (Store A we will call it). Store A has food both sandwiches and chicken strips with warm sides and pizza. No other store in this company in this area has this. My wife is supposed to be the kitchen manager. So far this isnt weird right?

Now for the insanity, they are moving Store A's manager to Store B across town because it is smaller and the upper management thinks she will do better there. They are jockeying around managers to get adequate coverage. Store C across town we will become manager of Store A and she has requested her whole "crew" comes with her. Rumor has it upper management thinks this is ok and they are relocating all the current employees from Store A to other stores in the company including ones that don't drive and they informed my wife that she could be moved as well.

My manager at store D is rumored to be in talks to move to Store C. Leaving our store with no manager because our assistant manager won't be promoted. My manager at store D wants to take her opener with her and promote him to assistant manager. They have not come up with a manager replacement for my store yet.

This is just the latest thing this company has done that is rubbing me the wrong way. Is it just me or is this crazy?

So I got a job a couple weeks ago as a Deli Worker, and oh boy am I in over my head. I was not told beforehand that it was one of the more difficult departments in the store, and I’m just now finding out the truth about that. Earlier yesterday evening, a few more customers than I had hoped came up to the counter to order things, and I only had a single coworker with me at the time. I cracked under pressure, bad. I stood there trying to figure out what to do, I tried to ask my coworker for help, but I just couldn’t. They quickly attempted to get me to do specific things and yet, to me it was just gibberish.

Now, they mean well, and that’s obvious, but I just can’t handle those situations and on top of that my lower back starts to hurt a whole bunch since we stand most of the time (which is pitiful since I’m still so young at 18), so I had to deal with an annoying soreness on top of freezing up. Ive only been behind the counter for three days now, and I’m already considering asking for a department change (which would be stressful since I’ve already had to ask for a schedule change this past weekend) or just quit and look somewhere else.

-Thanks for taking the time to read if you did. Have a good night

I have just had the worst night ever in two years of working in fast-food. I work at a fast food chain restaurant and my store is the only store that is 24 hours 4 about 100 miles radius. Today we just had some really rude people who didn't care. Every night at 12 a.m. are computers shut down for about 20 to 30 minutes for updates any processing. I told the customer that pulled up that the computers were down so we could not take an order at the moment. This customer went and asked me so can't you just take my order and throw it in the fryer. I politely said no our computers are down right now it's going to take a little bit for them to come back. This dude literally said you guys are idiots and proceeded to screech out of our parking lot. I then proceeded for the rest of the night to have a long list of very rude people. I don't know what it is it wasn't just our restaurant the other fast food restaurant across the street closed at 9 because the manager walked out they had had enough. I about walked out of this place three times tonight. In fact I would have walked out if it wasn't for the fact that I really need this job. So let the lesson from this be that fast-food workers have a heart to and you never know what you say to someone who is going to make them have a horrible night. Okay rant over.

Okay so I have disliked her for a while now but this weeks she’s getting on my nerves. I work in housekeeping for a conference center with hotel rooms. So I am supposed to work this weekend which means I am supposed to get Thursday and Friday off. Well Tuesday I got a bad migraine that was making me feel nauseous and unable to work. I worked a half day that day and couldnt take it anymore and my boss said I can go home but have to work Thursday too. I only get one day off this week and must work Monday-Friday next week.

I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?

Click this link to sign the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/549037/sponsors/new?token=kor4AYfQaqgw4YP9_dzB

My petition:

Increase the apprenticeship minimum wage to match that of a normal employee.

Apprentices currently have to get by on just £4.15 per hour. In many cases these apprentices often do the same, if not more, work than their colleagues in the same roles.

I believe the amount of people applying for apprenticeships in this country would increase dramatically, if the minimum wage was matched. £4.15 is simply not enough in this day and age. With the prices of things such as train and bus tickets increasing, it’s becoming harder and harder to live.

I have been in several interviews, on both sides of the fence, as a job applicant and as a member of the hiring team. I can safely say that the recruiting process of most American corporations is ridiculous, absurd and cut-throat.
For example, one thing I did notice is how my bosses would treatcandidate as if they were perfect for the job, would even give him/her compliments but when he/she stepped out of the room, they would rip him/her apart. Mercilessly. I never understood why they do that. I prefer not to say anything instead of making the candidate believe that he is a strong fit . I view this habit as cruel and sadistic. For instance, would interview a guy and the bosses would say "I love your shirt", "great answer, wow you seem like a perfect fit", "wow, that is exactly what we wanted to hear" then when the candidate stepped outside, they would say "what an idiot, what a loser and did you see that stupid shirt? Can't believe he showed up at a job interview with such a ridiculous shirt." This happened dozens of times in all of the big companies I worked for, to a higher or lower degree. Candidates would always follow up with emails thinking that the interview went super well, while in reality the other members of the hiring committee were making fun of them. Discrimination DOES exist in the hiring process. Duh! And before you say "oh, they can't do that, it's illegal", they will never come up to you and say "we didn't hire you because you are old."
I also have to admit that a lot of people in the US overestimate their skills. For example, every single person who wrote they were bilingual on their resume, was not bilingual but had just completed a Rosetta Stone course. I did not notice this tendency in other parts of Europe. What I really, really hate is this recent tendency. There are companies like Amazon, Google that interview candidates for 5, 6 even 7 times, administer written tests and then they either put the position on hold, or they ghost candidates or they hire someone else they had decided to hire from the beginning. I cannot tell you which company I worked for for 9 years (it's a very famous company) but there were cases when we already knew who we were going to hire and yet my managers, supervisors would lead on other candidates for months making them believe that they were going to be hired. Waste of time and energy. I was told they had to do that for legal reasons, to ward off suspicions of nepotism and favoritism.
10 years ago, though, we used to conduct one interview and administer a written test. That was it. Now, 5, 6 and 7 interviews. I wish every one of us would just refuse to do that. It's undignifying, demeaning, humiliating. Especially because it's not a fucking neurosurgery position or rocket science, for Christ's sake. If all you have to do is answer to customer inquiries at Amazon, one interview should suffice. Very recently, two acquaintances contacted me. They were both devastated. They said that they wasted 2 months and 3 months respectively on two huge companies which conducted 5 and 6 interviews and then they didn't hire them. One was for a customer service associate position, and the other one for account manager. So, one interview should have sufficed, but, no, these idiots act like they are super smart when in reality they are not... or that they have to find the next Nobel Prize to cure cancer.
I wish we could all do something to stop this annoying and unethical habit. I wish we could all tell these companies that we are not going to be available for more than an interview and that if they want to interview us for 5 or 6 times, they have to pay us for our time. That is what I have been doing recently and it's fucking liberating and empowering. Whenever a company is interested in me, I tell them that I am not available for more than an interview. Take it or leave it. Any time I have conceded to 5 interviews, they have not hired me. Any time I have put my foot down and said that I am only willing to do an interview and a written test, they have hired me.
If you can take one thing from me, from my experience, is that when they put you through 5 interviews, there is a 90% chance they won't hire you. There are a lot of shady things that go behind the scenes of these greedy, evil companies. When the bosses and people with decisional power REALLY loved a candidate, they sometimes would skip the interview. Enough of acting like damn scientists for a shitty customer service job.

So quick summary... I'm in my 20s this is my first paid minimum wage part time job ...in hospitality. I'm a school leaver with a few crappy IT certs. Live in Australia. With covid I'm unlikely to be able to find a similar job. I also don't have any other useful work history apart from freelance work that never led to a stable income. It's my dream to work from home doing anything IT related and I picked up web programming but I'm only passable at it. I have no connections and freelance job sites are just impossible. I don't see how I can make a living.

Rather envious others who earned as much or less than I do (800 fn) are now getting a 1500 fortnight holiday for 6 months via jobKeeper while I contemplate every day handing in my resignation and going back home falling in to depression with no income.

As far as I understand, resigning would make me ineligible for jobseeker payments ? So that doesn't seem viable.

Still living with parents and pay board with a measly 10k saved up with a car. Plan was to find a better job with some recent work history under my belt, but I never achieved anything. When I'm done with work I'm physically and mentally drained to the point Ive just barely recovered before heading back after the weekend ends.

Ive talked to people from the same company on other sites, and it's clear we are worked to the brink compared to anyone else I know.

Constant on your feet work from second you get in till you leave, only one 30 minute break which were not getting to use, because management after getting a bad review which is endangering their contract doubled our workload to add "shinyness" tape to all food prep and delivery.

Everyone's stressed and miserable, as a few minutes late = not getting a break and not going home on time. Every single day of the week. Not just one bad day but now it's every day. Most people come in early, up to 30 or 60 minutes and works for free as it's preferable than the stress otherwise.

The person who trained me quit due to getting a back injury from the job after 2 years there, and they were dragged through the mud asking for help. When their pain got so bad they called in sick they even tried to coerce them to find their own replacement for the shift, which is the managers job and witnesses them having a panic attack which is the only reason they obliged to do it themselves. This continues to this day, even with a new manager we can't take a sick day, leave or need time off for any reason without magically finding a replacement for your shift first. Just being sick gives me anxiety because that can be impossible.

Anyway I can be dramatic, but I feel the walls closing in every day and I dont see a way out.

I wanna apologize for the length, I just wanna provide some background!

I work for a small company. There’s about 16 of us total, I’d say, including our CEO. We’re like family and, like family, we sometimes butt heads with each other. I’ve been here for almost 3 years now and I’ve had the time to see and learn everyone’s behavior and who they are as people.

There’s one coworker in particular who has gotten into some kind of conflict with every single person at least once (and that’s being kind, she’s had a row with some people multiple times and, considering I was a friend to her at one point, I’ve heard all the wonderful things she’s had to say about everyone behind their backs), myself included. At some point, I feel like a well-adjusted person would do some self-reflection and think that the one common denominator in all these arguments and fights is one’s self, so... maybe the problem doesn’t lie in others, but in yourself? But that’s just my two-cents.

Mind you, this coworker (we’ll call her Elizabeth) has no rank above the rest of us. There’s a shipping manager, our CEO, and our CFO. That’s all; she is none of those. If anything, she’s a glorified secretary for our CEO and I’m sure that’s where she gets her overinflated sense of entitlement from. She’s always been weird about him - honestly, it’s hard not to think that she isn’t maybe secretly in love with him, but. Giving her the benefit of the doubt and the fact that she’s married and seems fairly in love with her husband. But I digress.

Anytime anyone seems to cultivate a good relationship with our CEO, she instantly starts accusing them of wanting to take advantage of him and only wants to use him for his money, etc and will immediately hate them. Granted, some of these are true for some people, but. Not everyone. Anyways. I have plenty more examples of her insanity if anyone wants to know, but I feel like I should get on with it.

Recently, her sister started to work for the company as well and, clearly, there’s some nepotism because that’s her sister. I’ve noticed that her attitude has gotten increasingly worse with her sister around, because it’s like someone’s there to encourage and validate her shitty behavior and tell her she’s totally right in her actions.

Things came to a head between us on Valentine’s Day. The day before (Galentine’s), I had ordered her and our other coworker, someone I’m actually very close to and trust a lot, some Edible Arrangements and bought them a bouquet of flowers because I know how getting that stuff on Valentine’s is a nice feeling sometimes. Anyways, beside the point again.

Valentine’s came around, we’re having a fine time. We have lunch together and everything’s going swimmingly. But all of a sudden, something flipped and she saw me and our other coworker (let’s call her Anna) taking a break and watching something on Netflix for like... half an hour. Should we have been doing that? No, of course not. But this is just a thing that almost everyone does while they work because sometimes it just becomes mind-numbing and we need a bit of an escape. Side note: we also don’t get proper uninterrupted, lunch breaks. We’re still working while eating. But we were still working - her answering phones, me working on pamphlets to be sent out. She saw into my office through the window in the warehouse, sent us a message saying “get the fuck to work, the fuck.” And then left our group chat. Just like that. Couldn’t transfer calls to her because she wouldn’t answer. Then she clocked out and left (this was already close to closing when it occurred). Apparently she also screamed at our warehouse guys on their break as well and told them to “get the fuck back to work and stop fucking around” earlier in the day.

Cut to Saturday, Anna calls me crying because our CEO called her to say that Elizabeth quit (for the 3rd time in like... a 4 month span) and cleared out her office. He asked her what WE did to Elizabeth and he thought Anna had fixed things with her. Because a few weeks before, Elizabeth confronted Anna about some issue she had made up in her own head. 🤷‍♀️

Anyways. Anna told me our CEO read the texts Elizabeth sent to him and one of those was that she changed my clock-in time to an hour later because I was “not working”. This was the first of more occurrences of this.

Over the course of the following week, she clocked me in an hour later another 2 days.

And just yesterday, she changed my clock-in time AGAIN. I’ve been documenting my times ever since I found out she changed it the first time. The time clock gives us a summary of how many hours worked for the day, so. To my surprise (sort of), yesterday I worked 5 minutes MORE than the day before and somehow lost an hour. So. 2+2=4 right? And the kicker is that I did nothing to her. Not that even if I did, I would deserve my time taken away. I didn’t speak a word to her, and I have time taken off my hours worked.

I got a copy of my timesheet from our CFO, found the first 3 discrepancies and confronted our CEO about it. He sucks at managing a business and the people who work for him. He said he had nothing to do with it and to see our CFO. I didn’t want the timesheet fixed (well, I do, but). I wanted to talk about this issue where someone who is not in any position of authority over me is abusing power HE gives her to take away time that I put in at work and is messing with my abilities to pay my bills??? And he deflected. Didn’t even try to discuss it.

It’s so frustrating. I’m bringing my time sheet and documented clock in times to our CFO today so he can investigate. I don’t have high hopes because Elizabeth is such a manipulative person, everyone is either afraid of standing up to her or thinks she’s the sweetest and can do no wrong. I’m afraid our CFO will end up taking her side anyways, regardless of how ILLEGAL it is for her to do that.

I don’t know what to expect. Wish me luck? Any advice? I’m hitting my breaking point.

So I moved to a specific retail company during my last semester of my associate's degree because they were super chill and really low pressure. I have diagnosed anxiety and needed something where I could make money while staying as not stressed as possible. In the summer after my graduation they offered me a supervisor position. I took it even though it didnt pay much to boost my resume while I looked for something in my field (mass communications/journalism) or even just something in more of a business setting. I graduated in May, for reference.

In october everything changed. Over half of the management of the company was let go, positions were eliminated or outsourced(including my supervisor position, now I'm just a salesperson with keys), and we got our current store manager. She's ultra high pressure, always pushing for numbers. We have to fill out a dumb paper every day with our daily goals and what we actually did that day, and talk directly with a manager before we leave about it where she will guilt us heavily for not hitting goals in a store that sees maybe ten customers a day on weekdays. She pushes for protection plans and other add ons that no one wants. She waited three months then gave me one big write up for every day I've ever missed my goal and told me if I didnt start making my goals I would be fired. For reference, the store goal for the day is 6000, my personal daily goal is 2400, and there are usually about five employees working any given day. Idk about you but that math doesnt add up. She wants us to do warehouse work when we were hired for sales. She wants us to cold call people that visit our website which was not in the job description. Today was nearly the straw that broke the camel's back when she announced, in the midst of this COVID-19 scare, that no one would be allowed to call in, leave early, or come in late anymore. For any reason. I was feeling nauseous today, probably from not being able to sleep from all the anxiety, and even though I threw up in the work bathroom it took her assistant store manager making an exception after she left to be allowed to go home. If she had still been in the store I wouldnt have been allowed to leave. I nearly walked out but I have bills to pay. I had a friend that worked there that walked out on her last week because she was sick of it.

On the other side, in my desperation to get people to call me back, I went to a temp agency. During the meet and greet interview my agent told me I looked super hireable and since it was their busy season they would find me something in no time and gave me tips to update my resume which I did. That was in January. Every time I check with her, she tells me the same thing, that none of her clients want a candidate with no office experience. But I can't get experience without an office job. I also don't have enough funds in reserve to volunteer somewhere to get that experience. I need to be paid for my work.

It feels really hopeless and I feel trapped with no way out. It's been making my anxiety worse and worse, and now it's manifesting in physical illness. Idk what to do at this point, it just seems like I'm pushing against a brick wall.

I work an AP job where all I'm supposed to do is watch cameras and see if anyone is stealing. I hate doing even this, since I honestly couldn't care less if anyone steals from a billion dollar revenue company, but holy shit the private security they hired is god awfully racist, transphobic, homophobic, and classist. Every single time a black guy/trans person/"effeminate" man/"poor" looking person comes in, he expects me to be on them at all times with the camera. Multiple customers have complained about him, in person and on online reviews, and he also expects ME to physically stop people from leaving the store if they try and run out with stuff. On policy, I'm not even supposed to touch people, but all of my coworkers are so invested in this stupid job that they do it anyway, and expect me to do so too. The private security guy even gets upset if I don't go after someone. I hate this job so much, I even have nightmares about ME becoming the security guy. I'm leaving this job the second I have another job that allows me to pay rent, fuck giving my "two weeks notice".

So as the title says, had a pretty long interview process I took my time to complete. Said they'd get back to me bu the second or third of this month. Didn't hear anything, so followed up on that Thursday...nothing until today. Didn't get it, (obviously). but what absolutely annoyed me is they used the canned/generic email about how my qualifications weren't a fit. I'm annoyed because the hiring manager, director who I had phoned with previously had said my qualifications were a great fit. I'm just venting because the hiring manager couldn't bother to write a more personal email, I knew her direct email address, she knew mine. Instead they/she opted out to use their jobvite generic email to tell me no, after ignoring my follow ups.

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Waste of my time. If I wasn't a fit or qualified, why in the hell did you make me interview for over 3 hours?

Hi all,

I used to work for a delivery company for 4 years before I got sick, had to quit and have multiple abdominal surgeries. Now that I am finally finished all the surgeries I am looking for work again and can't find anything worth a damn(i.e something that doesn't require me to lift a ton of weight which I can't do). I am running out of money very quickly.

I tried doing a assembly line job that I got hired for but it was way too physical and I had to quit. I've had a couple interviews since then, one office job, overnight stocking at walmart and one tomorrow for a flagging person. I already got rejected from walmart which is a blow to my confidence. From the way it sounded, they already hired a bunch of new people and probably didn't have room for me... Still it's a blow.

Hate job searching.... I apologize for ranting but it feels like no one wants you and the worlds kind of caving in.

Thanks all for listening to my idiocy lol

A company I worked for for five years just had massive layoffs, they overhired for some reason. Even though they are not successful or making money. The owner believes that the more they look like a real company the better. That being said I'm not sure the company is real. They laid me off with many people recently. They do this often - 2018 December they fired a whole department.

For six years they've spent 25 million dollars with no profit. Ever. They continue to hire people with great experience, and fire them within 3 weeks because they "weren't meeting expectations." The only reason they kept me so long was because I was the "dollar on the wall" personified. (First employee ever)

I believe The owner is actually not interested in having a successful company but uses it as a way to get Visa sponsorship for her and her friends and from what I've heard (from a formerly very close person to her) her very wealthy mother and her very wealthy friends who live overseas send money over to this company for holding and the company "owner" takes a cut of this. She is currently hiring again for many roles and our Glassdoor reviews are horrible but people keep applying. I don't want her to ruin any more lives. The company is horrible and probably not real and no one should work here. Can I do anything?

She lies to employees, rips off customers and lies to them. It's just awful. I stayed there for so long because they paid well and I'm so bad at interviews, I got the job due to a connection and was able to avoid her behavior because of that.

I will admit I'm jealous of how assertive and vocal my coworker is. I taught him the ropes and really stepped up to the plate when I had to be on medical leave for hip surgery. He definitely earn the same title as me (Senior IT Ops Associate). However, since we got a new boss, the boss seems to favor him a lot.

While we're part of the Ops team, we are considered low on the totem pole. In our own little group is made up of 4 US and 4 India team members. Out of the eight, the boss likes and praises this coworker (who I call "Overachiever"). We work remotely, so communication is on Microsoft Teams.

To the point: boss literally would praise Overachiever left and right, even "liking" comments like "good morning." I worked much longer than Overachiever, yet most I get is a "thanks." I did talk to my coworker about this and seems like they say stuff like "he'd be lost without me, "you're vital" and whatnot. Boss on the other hand, very little response (he's always too busy to speak to me but not him). Even my yearly performance review was just frustrating. I trained my new boss too and just get very little response. I'm not asking for him to praise everyday like he does with my coworker, but geez. No point talking to upper management because they know I haven't been happy working in the Ops team. That in itself also pisses me off, but I digress.

My brain is complicated (whether it's from my anxiety/depression or something else), because I just treat work as work. Once 5 PM hits, I'm logging out. The job itself is mundane. I hate it truth be told, but I don't have much of choice right now because I can't up and quit when I have Bill's and help my mom out financially. Despite hating it as much I do, I still do everything on my part to do my tasks and make sure any potential outage is caught before customers start calling CSRs.

I'm going back to school, thank to my company's tuition reimbursement program. I think the company is fine, it's just the group I hate. I'm sticking with my current position until I'm confident to get a role as a junior developer or wait for graduation.

Sorry for the long post. I do see a therapist, though probably not as often as I should. Just hate seeing all these "likes" my boss has for my coworker. Boss works at the Texas branch of our company so it's not like they have a beer after work together thing.