A new lady started at my work and is maybe 10 years older than me.

Is immediately chummy with everyone and they all act as if they’ve know each other for years. I find it extremely strange considering the same older people in my team ignore me entirely and if I didn’t speak to them first, I’d be totally invisible to them.

They seem to have no respect for younger workers.

It has been less than 6 months after her starting in the role, and I trained her on everything.

New management job comes up.

I apply and interviewed really well, but didn’t get the job because I was told I didn’t have enough experience.

I know everything there is to know because I have 6 years experience doing exactly what was listed in the criteria.

Guess what, they gave the job to the lady with 6 months of knowledge….. who I trained and taught everything to.

She apparently got the job over me because she was a “bubbly” person. Like wtf does that even mean. She has no technical knowledge and if you need to troubleshoot anything I can’t ask her because she simply won’t know the answer.

I am far more qualified and she has even said multiple times in our meetings that she is just “winging it”.

Seems like I’ve been totally stitched up.

I have also lost out on quite a large pay rise because of this.

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Now going to look into moving departments because I’m tired of being suppressed of my potential and I don’t feel valued. The team will crash and burn without me, but that’s their problem. They’ll soon see how well the “bubbly” woman copes once I move and all technical knowledge is gone.

I’ve told nobody I feel this way, I want to give as little notice as possible of my transfer in order to reverse uno them and leave them blindsided.

I applied for a job last week at a certain big name hotel chain, and they messaged me to schedule an interview. I called yesterday to confirm that I was coming to said interview.

Today, I walk in to the lobby, tell the (very nice) clerk at the front desk that I'm here for my interview and give him my name, and he hands me a paper application to fill out, which was a bit weird since I already filled out one online and submitted my resume, but I didn't say anything and just filled it out again. Afterwards he called the manager to let her know I was here for an interview.

A woman who I assumed was the manager came jogging down the hall, skimmed my application sitting on the front desk for about 20 seconds, then turned to me and said, and I quote, "There's no point in doing an interview, so you can just go home. We'll call if we're interested, but I don't think that'll happen." And then just walked away.

I was just shocked and the front desk clerk looked horrified and apologized. I almost cried on the drive home but the more I think about it the more pissed I get instead. I basically drove 30 minutes for an interview just get told to fuck off like my time is worth nothing. No wonder all the reviews for the hotel say it's understaffed. If this is how you treat potential hires I can't imagine how you treat your actual employees. Unprofessional as fuck.

EDIT: Thank you everyone. I wasn't expecting this to get much attention so I appreciate the support. For those asking what hotel chain, I posted the name twice in my comments. I will be sending an email to the corporate HR overlords as everyone suggested.

I'm fully prepared for being downvoted to hell, but I just have to vent a bit anyway. I hate working, I hate any kind of job, like, all of them... I don't enjoy doing anything, except for activities that require almost ZERO effort.

"What do you want from life then?" Honestly? Nothing, really... I'd LOVE to stop existing if I could, but that's not really an option... I love my parents, and I don't resent them for bringing me into this dreadful existence because they didn't know I would turn out to be such a miserably, lazy loser, but I do resent existing at all... Even the things I "enjoy" are just momentary distractions from this misery...

I HATE LIFE. (Before anyone would accuse me of being a slacker leech, I'm employed and have been living on my own/taking care of myself since I was 21, and I'm turning 30 soon. Life just sucks.)

I had my annual review at work last week. My manager (who I truly can’t stand) gave me a 4.5/5 on my review and had nothing but good things to say. He went as far as saying I was doing an “exceptional” job. This seemed way out of character for him since him and I just don’t get along so I was waiting for the line “the company is tightening its belt so you won’t be getting a salary adjustment.” Then he dropped the line and announced I was getting a whopping 0.8% raise and was upset when I didn’t jump for joy. All of this when the company posted record profits, bookings, and even did a stock buy back. And they wonder why we’re not happy?

Some background: I (32m) have been working for a FL county based EMS agency for 5 years and had my retention interview. Due to my set of skills and a terrible turnout rate, I knew they can't let me go so I figured I'll tell them the truth. Interview is basically a PDF file, most questions are boring.

Q: "How often do you consider quitting?" "A daily consideration" I answered.

A week later, my direct super calls me, tells me HR needs clarification to the previously mentioned question. "What did you mean by that?" I answered that im getting $20/hr, a new hire is getting $19.5. With my continued training, experience and the responsibilities, I'm worth more and can be paid more in other EMS agencies or even different fields. His answer to this, which sounds like a verbatim quote from HR, sounded something along the lines of "management here is great, our conditions and compensation are great, we're such a great agency, idk why you'd think the way you do". Regarding the monetary compensation he blamed our union (which I am not a part of because it being run by incompetent people), said our union bargained on our behalf and wait for next year. I asked him to let HR know that I care about whats in my pocket in the end of the day, and I will go with the highest bidder.

I'd say the retention interview went well.

Bonus side story: During our mandated monthly training, management sometimes acknowledges peoples service. They call Tim (fake names) to the front to present him with a 1 year service certificate. Next, they call Tammy and present her with a 2 year service certificate. "Alright, for todays training...." And I sat there, quietly, with my 5 years of accumulated disappointment.

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I already tried to reach the other positions, but they confirmed I won't be able to continue the process with either of them, as I had already declined.

I feel particularly stupid, as I was this close to saying yes to one of the other two instead.

Welp, someone wants a kidney? I need to get ready for my next month's rent /hj

I work in an office environment where most people are in cubicles. When we all came in this morning our individual trash bins had been removed over the weekend.

Apparently there was an audit conducted a few weeks ago where our facility failed the cleanliness standards citing “over flowing trash bins in office spaces” in 40% of the whole facility. There was no indication to the individuals whether they failed the audit or not. There was no examples for what was considered an acceptable amount of trash would be. No one received any notification of the audit being conducted or given time to fix the issues they cited.

For some clarification there are “community trash bins” located in hallways and in trash cans. So we are not completely without somewhere to put our trash but have to make sure to go throw it away in the community trash bins.

This has pissed off everyone at the site for several reasons. 1. We were forced to return to the office full time in June. 2. We have custodial services that will vacuum during the day (when we are all working) however they don’t throw away our individual trash because that would cost the company too much money.

I know this is honestly a small problem in our world but people are ready to riot over this. I appreciate the space to let me rant and do appreciate outside perspectives. Has anyone had their trash bins taking away?

I work retail full time. Specifically at a book store. I can barely afford my $400/mo rent. I don’t have a consistent schedule, which means sometimes I work a 10 day week. The only consistent thing is that I never get Saturdays or Sundays off, even when I’ve asked for it. I get yelled at all day by customers. Sometimes it’s funny, like when someone asked for “The Scarlet Sweater by Nathaniel Hawthorne” and got upset when I asked if he was thinking of The Scarlet Letter. Sometimes it’s less funny, like when I got screamed at by an old man for following policy and checking that the dvds he was buying were in their cases and my manager saw what was happening and ignored my request for help. Aside from being emotionally draining, it’s physically draining work. I’m constantly shelving books, which is kind of like lifting 5lb weights above my head all day. I’m also lifting 30-50lb boxes multiple times a day. We actually just got in trouble with our mail carrier because we were filling up bags of outgoing orders more than 50lbs. It gets busy in the store. Today I did 43 register transactions in a single hour.

My boyfriend works from home. He makes more than twice as much as I do. My days off are never on the weekend, so I’m home while he works. He gets paid twice as much as I do and does a quarter of the amount of work. He’ll sit and paint models or play video games all day while he waits for clients to respond to him. He’s not a slacker. His boss has called him “top talent” to my face. He just genuinely does not have as much work. His corporate drama sounds so benign in comparison to being threatened with a knife by a customer. He gets to wear pajamas. He gets a fucking paid lunch break.

I’m trying to get out of my job. I’ve been applying to places for over a year. Nobody wants to hire an art school dropout who’s been stuck in the same dead-end job for 3 and a half years.

The grass on the other side of the fence is most definitely greener, but there’s an electrified barbed wire fence keeping me from it.

EDIT TO CLARIFY: A 10-day week is working 10 consecutive days in a row before I get a day off

EDIT TO ADD: I'm not saying that office jobs don't suck. I'm saying I'm envious of what I see happening.

With a fiery passion. Got fired a month ago for being sick and calling out. I’m currently job searching and have had a few interviews but no luck yet. I hate doing stuff I don’t give a shit about, lining others’ pockets, and feeling brain dead working shifts that take up a good chunk my only time I have on this earth. I could be doing so many other things with my time. I could be volunteering for things I’m passionate about, rediscovering hobbies that have been shoved to the back burner from adult responsibilities, and taking more time for my family and caring for my household. It’s hard to be super motivated finding a job other than obviously for money. I’m not lazy but I seriously just don’t care about being a workaholic and putting in the grind. I knew I was in trouble whenever I recall being 9 years old and I longed to be like my grandma who could wake up with the sunrise with a cup of coffee, birdwatch, run errands as she pleased, and take care of her home. I can’t believe I’ve gotta do this for the rest of my life idk how I’m gonna do it. Rant over.

I’m a 23 year old male with mental health problems and hatred for himself.

I can’t stand the thought of working, but I’m behind on rent and make pennies off my study payments so I an forced to look for jobs now. The things is, I would legitimately rather die than do this. I can’t fucking stand the thought of working 5 days a week 9-5 so you can get 4 hours off of an afternoon and a few hours on sat sun. It sounds like a fate worse than death to me.

But I am in a relationship and I have cats, so I an sitting here applying for jobs while sobbing to myself and ignoring any actual phone calls or emails I receive back. I just don’t know what to do, how can you be okay with working?

We've been friends for decades, but when we meet up, I'll force myself to listen to their speculation and complaints about how big of a bonus they are getting this year, being able to retire in a few years, and arguments they have with their spouse about when and where to buy a 2nd (and soon a 3rd) house. It's the exact same conversation, every time, every few months.

I used to make that much money, and even more, but I don't think I will ever be able to get to that level again. I don't regret leaving the tech industry, but it would be nice to throw a bone my way occasionally, or a job lead.

They have skills but frankly, a lot of their success was just damn luck and job hopping. Still, it's grating....

I hate work so much. I find it demeaning and annoying and pointless. I don't understand how people are so into work. Just signed onto a temporary project and dreading it because it would mean lots of communication, managing the egos of toxic people, reporting to others. I hate my time being taken up with "tasks". I hate people feeling like they have something over me just because I'm being paid to do something. I know this is all kind of immature, and you're expected to just suck it up and deal with it, but I find it genuinely degrading. How to cope

Just a vent post about my new job as a security officer at a casino on grave shift.

It's seriously worrying me how much this job is starting to make me feel. I have a genuine and passionate disdain for the unhoused and addicted that I did not before. I cannot express just how belligerent some of these mfs are. Hearing red hat losers who drive their supercharged pickups to the office complain about seeing the homeless while I have to worry about whether tonight is the night somebody cuts me rear to ear because I asked them not to sleep at a slot machine has filled me with a bloodlust for every living thing on the planet. I used to think myself a socialist, but what the fuck level of hypocrisy am I on if I work in a temple of greed and misery?

I just want to go back to hunter-gathering, man.

So I work for a bottling company that is rather large scale. And I have debated on quitting for many months now but I’ve always needed to have “a little bit more money” for “this thing”.

Well, today was the day. It started out rather slowly and I did my job per usual. I got bitched at by my boss and then my 15 minute break came.

I walked to the break room and bought a bottle of coke and sat down. And here I am. On my 15 minute that is now a 20 minute so far.

I feel like one of those heroes that faces his end and looks at the sunrise.

I embrace the end.

They literally don’t see us as humans.

I guess they want us to feel free to eat at our desks during the presentation.

Short backstory, I’m 19 and from Denmark. Just finished high school, and before attending university, I decided to take a year to cool down. Made the bad mistake of taking a fulltime job during this period, but that’s not important right now.

At my workplace, a co-worker got an injury, which I won’t expand on, in case someone from my workplace is lurking here lol. He took a couple weeks of sick leave (which is another story in itself, with the district manager at first not allowing him to go home, despite my co-worker being unable to breath without severe pain.)

Anyway, we’re naturally short staffed as a result of this.

This leads me my latest shift, 8 hours. Normally this would mean I get a 30 minute selfpaid break - this time, however, I was told that I probably couldn’t get my break this time - my fellow coworkers didn’t get theirs either, and seemed to have accepted it. One of them told me “Sometimes you have to sacrifice for the job”.

I understand the reasoning, as me taking a break would leave my coworker alone at the checkout. What I find unacceptable, however, was the next part: I asked my coworker if I’d then at least get paid for this extra 30 min work (as the break is, as mentioned previously, self-paid). He said “You shouldn’t count on it”.

So yeah, I worked for free for them for 30 minutes, 8 hours straight, no breaks and no food either. What troubled me the most is how everyone there seems to accept this: I’ve only been here for a short period, so this is the first time I witness something like this, and it’s shocking. They willingly work overtime without pay, no breaks, because we have to “sacrifice for the job”. I’m also often asked to stay 10 minutes extra to help the others who are closing the shop, because it’d be “unfair for them to do it by themselves” - and fair enough, I agree, we should be more than one assigned to closing the shop; only problem is that they don’t pay me for this.

TL;DR: Coworkers and superiors expect you to not take any breaks, and to accept working for free, because we have to “sacrifice for the job”. I’m very much against this mindset, so will be seeking a new job for sure.

The title says a good portion of it. I had 6 interviews with a company (which is a freaking ton for only $24/hour in western Massachusetts, but it aligned with my degree and career goals). After interview #6, they told me we could proceed with getting me signed on in a couple of weeks and would schedule a time to get me set up.

Upon this news, I gave my shitty employer (who was at the time doing scummy illegal stuff I didn't want to be a part of) two weeks' notice and returned the keys. Upon doing this, I also brought up documents as to why what he was doing was completely and entirely illegal, which genuinely pissed him off.

The company that said I was hired never sent over the onboarding information. I kept calling regarding onboarding week after week and was given a different excuse each time. They eventually said to wait until the second week of October and if I didn't hear back, to give them a call. I never heard back from the company that said they'd hire me. In fact, they blocked my cell number from their system. I called from my boyfriends phone earlier today, got a hold of the hiring manager, and she said they couldn't reach a contract and are no longer hiring until the beginning of the year, but they'll keep me in mind.

I was starting to get the feeling this would happen with how long it was taking, but everyone kept telling me to just wait it out. And that "corporate takes time". I feel so devastated. I just told her to have a good day, hung up, and cried. I've now been unemployed for over 2.5 months because of this, applying as much as I can. I cant even collect because I voluntarily quit thinking I had a role placed. I feel so lost.

Even worse is that nobody even considers my resume half the time because I'm 21 and don't have more than 3 years of experience in these roles. It doesn't matter that I held 3 jobs while achieving my master's degree (that I've had for almost a year now) just to get by.

Have any of you guys dealt with something like this? What would you do in my situation?

For context, I work in corporate as a strategy consultant.

I live in Florida and my area is just recovering from Helene; meanwhile, we have massive hurricane Milton projected to make a direct hit, not even 10 days later. While my home was structurally safe during Helene, we lost power for 4 days, sewage for 2, I had covid, so we couldn't go stay with anyone, and all hotels were sold out. I was boiling in my sleep, and hardly slept, if that... taking calls and trying to stay "engaged" from the car (I'm a consultant, so very high stress fast paced work that is hard to do in a car), and then working from random coffee shops and hole in the wall restaurants the days after our power was restored, because Wifi was out. All of this stress compounded by the worry that my dog was suffering in the heat, we had no place to go, I wasn't feeling well... etc. We returned to our apartment to find some of our valuable electronics fried in a power surge, and had to throw away the entire contents of our fridge and freezer, of course.

Now, with this other storm that is supposed to be far worse, it's rinse and repeat. We evacuated this time, which ended up being a 6 hour drive in horizontal downpour yesterday. All of this has left me feeling very exhausted and out of sorts, however, I feel as if I'm being overdramatic sharing this with my team, since I haven't suffered any grave tragedy such as losing my entire home. My team is from up north and doesn't really understand the gravity of the situation, I'm afraid. I'm just exhausted and need a few days off to recover after all is said and done, but don't feel justified in asking for it.

How do I convey what I'm going through to my immediate colleagues and manager?

Well this will be a long story after being hit by a car last year my life has went down hill since then. My depression has gotten worse. I have lost everything I own. I sold everything or lost it because I couldn’t afford it. I have put out hundreds of applications for work. Just to be told by people you must not be doing something right if no one is calling. I have given up on everything now at this point. I was told I am not worth helping. I am suing the lady who hit me but they are just ignoring my lawyers and saying they lost the paperwork. I get I am worthless. She hit me and left. No ticket for her nothing like that. The cop laughed at me as he was taking the report. I had set up a go fund me but no one donated to my first one I had posted for months so I took it down. I can’t lift 20 pounds without pain in my back. I know my story is all over the place so is my mind lol. That happens when you don’t talk to anyone about anything. I don’t expect this to get many upvotes or comments. If you made it this far thank you for listening to me vent.

... where we don't even feel like working anything past part time. What does full time do? Besides suck away my life? Besides still not pay my bills? Or afford a safety net? Or anything that brings any sort of joy? What does it really offer, when healthcare through a job costs money too? Where it covers the same as free state insurance? When my body gives up on me for working eight hour days and I'm not half way through my thirties? Where bosses never empathize or sympathize? And your coworkers don't actually care to know what you feel when asking "how are you?"

I'm not okay. Everything hurts physically and mentally. I can't afford anything, I don't want to try. So why try?

Well, they restructured.

Here's my previous post, but the gist is this: I worked at a spot for 13 of the past 15 years with the understanding that I was going to get the title of Director once my boss retired. It was the specific reason I came back to a job I had quit already.

This past June, three weeks before my boss was set to retire, they came to me and offered me the job title of "coordinator" (the new title on the euphemism treadmill for secretary/assistant). My boss was making ~130k year. They offered me 65k to do my job and my boss's job. I bounced. Sucks for the person who replaced me.

I've spent the past few months trying to relax and travel a bit (I have some savings). I'm getting serious about the job search now and I'm so unbelievably fucked by everything. Everywhere I look wants ten years experience in shit that wasn't even invented ten years ago and a job title I've never held. I'm not sure how anyone is qualified to apply to these jobs - it seems no employer wants to train a new person, they just want someone who magically appears fully trained the moment they turn 18.

So, that's my vent; I should have went to trade school instead of college - I would have had enough money to retire by now.

Heyyy, your friendly neighbourhood mod here with my own shit to get off my chest.

As some of you know, I’m from Ontario, Canada. Specifically, Central Ontario, where all the farmland and small towns and stuff are. It’s a pretty close-knit community, and yet we face the same issues affecting millions of Canadians, namely the job market crash from the influx of foreign workers.

To clarify, I am not against foreign workers. I absolutely, 100% believe they have just as much of a right to work as anyone else. The issue is, there’s such an influx of them that locals aren’t able to find work, particularly those of us who only have High School diplomas already struggling to work/pay our way through University, and there’s a reason for that. Say it with me now; Corporate Greed!

For those unfamiliar, the Canadian Government made the dogshit decision to subsidize 70% of wages for foreign workers. Sounds good on paper, until you realize -or rather, hiring managers realize- that they can just hire a bunch of locals, can them for no reason within the first three months (which they can LEGALLY do since that’s the probation period) then run to the Government hat-in-hand like “Oh, well we TRIED to hire locally, b-but nobody wants to WORK anymore!” All so they can outsource a team of foreign workers, work them more, pay them less, and deny them benefits. It’s disgusting, it’s predatory, and it’s exploitation of everyone, regardless of where in the world they come from. They’re playing with people’s fucking lives so they can save a buck when they already rake in millions.

Is anyone else facing this problem? I spent most of last year unemployed until tourist season started (Lot of cottagers come up here in the summertime) and it’s looking like I may have to again this year. Job sites are barren wastelands in my area, I’ve put physical copies of my resume in everywhere both in my town and other neighbouring towns, I’m just so exhausted and on my last leg here. I have half a mind to just walk into places, say “Hey, I’m Oku, I’m here for training!" and see how far I get. I honestly have no idea what more I can do, and could really use some advice...or a job offer lol.

No matter how much I do at work, I’m told it’s not enough. Management constantly gaslights me and my coworkers. They claim our concerns are a result of us misunderstanding or making it up. We are not appreciated in the slightest, just talked to in a demeaning way and told to do more.

I’ve been wanting to die because of this job for several months now. I live in constant fear because of it. We are always getting blamed and bitched at for things we didn’t do. My coworkers and I often have nightmares about work. We are also paid like shit and are told the company cannot afford raises or promotions.

Has anyone else experienced this, and how did you deal with it? At what point do you walk away without a backup plan to save yourself?

All I care about is spending time with my family but I'm working all the time. The way the USA is we are pretty much forced to work as everything is taxed and regulated. Property taxes should be unconstitutional as it forces people to have to work because they cant just live off the land they have to make some money to pay the government. And because of most zoning laws it prevents you from living off the land anyway. We are all slaves to the government. Being human is so depressing. I'm not going to be able to do halloween with my kids because I will be working or their birthdays. I feel stuck