u/Weekly-Fill5107

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cool idea

I just started my first full-time job. From what I understand, my office/my position had been vacant for a little while before I arrived, so people who don't have their own private office got used to treating my current office like a quiet work room or just a place to sit. There's also another desk in here because apparently this job used to be split between two people, and now it's just me.

I'm trying to be nice and give everyone time to adjust to the fact that this space is now occupied, but honestly, I'm already fed up. I don't want to come across as rude or make people dislike me when I'm still new, but at the same time I need people to stop coming into my office as if it's a shared workspace... There are other places they can go.

Earlier today, around 10:20, I got to my office and found the door already open. There was a guy sitting at the desk next to mine, with about 6 folders spread out, and he had his laptop, charger, and phone. He asked me if anyone was going to use that desk. I told him no, this is an office for one person only (which is why only my name and title are written on the door). Then he asked if he could work here until 1, and said he'd leave after that. I said okay because it was only a few hours.

It's now 2:17 and he's still sitting here. I understand that he probably has things he needs to get done, but there's a common area with computers right outside, and there are empty workstations at the end of the hallway. I've already had 3 calls/meetings and I was expecting him to take the hint that he should leave, especially since I work in healthcare and there's confidential information involved, but no. He hasn't moved.

And what made it worse is that he's been on a personal phone call inside the office for almost 50 minutes. As a Caribbean girl, I understand that family can call you at any time and expect you to answer lol, but he's having the loudest conversation in the world in Creole (which matters because I understand some of it), and the call has been going on for a century.

So yeah... How do I politely tell people that this is my office now and they need to work somewhere else? Because in my head I'm literally saying please get out lol

For the people who sent me this post, thanks a lot. It really inspires me with pretty good tips about how to be calm and not nervous during a conversation.

I don't understand how people stay in the same job for 8... 14... 22+ years! I start feeling bored and uncomfortable after two years. The longest I've stayed in a job was 5 years.

Like, how do people walk into the same building, see the same faces, do the same routine, and hear the same break room microwave beeping, year after year?

My job is pretty good for the most part, and I'm 34, but I don't know if I'm made for this or not... 😭 I need something more than just repeating the same day forever.

I'm an Account Manager and I work with major enterprise accounts. About a month ago, I was told we'd be going to a client's office for a business review. No one explained how the flight or hotel would be handled, and no one asked me about travel plans, so I assumed the company would book it or pay directly. Most people I know who travel for work either have a corporate card or the company handles the booking.

A couple of days ago, my manager sent me the hotel details. When I asked what the booking process was, they told me to contact finance. I emailed them on Wednesday, followed up the next morning, and then today they told me I need to create a Concur account, pay for the flight and hotel on my own credit card, and then submit everything for reimbursement.

I'm still trying to get back on my feet financially after a period of job instability and debt, and honestly, I don't have enough room on my card/the cash flow to cover this without missing other bills. Because of the timing, I don't know what to do without either putting myself in a bad financial position or coming across at work as difficult or unprepared. Has anyone dealt with a situation like this in a professional way?

My manager also didn't follow up with me on anything related to travel logistics until this week, and no one had told me before that I would be responsible for booking everything myself. Maybe this is normal and I'm just new to this setup, but it feels a bit disorganized. If I had known earlier, I could have tried to move money around or planned better, but finding out right before booking is hard:\

TLDR; My company wants me to pay for work travel expenses upfront and then get reimbursed, but I can't cover the amount temporarily. Is this standard, and do I have any options other than falling behind on bills?

update: will talk to the manager tomorrow, but I'm very very stressed and afraid I can't speak confidently in front of him. This post inspired me with some tips to be calm during the meeting, will try to apply all of them. wish me luck.

About 14 months ago, my manager pulled some unnecessary petty power-play moves, and after that I made a few changes: I removed Slack/work email from my phone and stopped doing anything beyond my normal working hours. No more free bonus labor from me. If there's a call for a panel submission and she didn't mention it in the staff meeting, I'm not going to mention it either. And if she has a "wouldn't it be nice if..." kind of idea about something she wants to magically appear, I simply... Leave it as it is.

My manager's manager knows my manager is difficult to deal with, and after I told a colleague I was seriously thinking about leaving, it ended with me getting a pay bump.

Now we're nearing the end of the fiscal year, and I've just finished compiling the quarterly numbers. I used the prior annual report as a reference, and honestly, wow. We're still hitting the actual metrics, but a lot of the random "above and beyond" projects quietly disappeared.

My annual review and goal-setting for next year are coming up, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about this. I'm imagining that nothing good will come from saying, "I stopped doing extra because you made me miserable," but at the same time I feel like it's going to be very noticeable. Has anyone dealt with something like this in a way that didn't backfire on them?

For context, we're a team of four, and we had to replace one of the team members last year. The new person lasted about seven weeks before it became clear they weren't a fit, so I'm wondering whether I can reasonably present part of the drop-off as due to the time spent on training/onboarding. I want to stay in this role for at least another 6 years because of certain benefits, and also because I'm hoping my manager, who is getting close to retirement, will finally leave within the next three years. I'd appreciate any advice.

I asked my manager for a raise, and he told me I'm already getting paid way too much. So I updated my job description and showed him how I'm carrying the work of 4 roles while still being paid based on the one role I was originally hired for.

He told me he doesn't care, that my salary is already very high, and that if I don't like it, I can go somewhere else.

What should I do in this situation? Finding another job at the same salary level probably won't be easy. But I'm doing the work of 4 jobs for one salary, and honestly, it feels completely unfair.

I'm a 41-year-old man, working as a plant maintenance mechanic and making about $112k a year. I've been with my wife for almost 14 years, and we have three kids. We bought our first house about 18 months ago, and both of our cars are relatively new.

I work a lot of hours, usually between 50 and 58 hours a week, and honestly I feel like I'm doing all of this just to stay in the same place. No one really warns you that owning a home turns into endless repairs, random projects, and money disappearing every time you turn around.

I feel like my life has become work, bills, fixing things, and then waking up to do the same thing all over again. On paper, it probably looks like we did everything "right," but I don't feel like I'm living any of it.

All I'm doing is working to keep up with this dream that was sold to us when we were kids. Does anyone else feel like the "American dream" is more exhausting than it's worth?