r/WorkRant

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This is something I genuinely struggle to understand.

We are hard-working people. We turn up, work our shifts, deal with customers, deliveries, pressure, targets, constant changes and often far more than anyone sees.

And yet I keep seeing colleagues becoming stressed, crying, feeling completely broken and even reaching the point where work starts affecting their mental health.

People complain to each other. People say, “This isn’t right.” People are exhausted and unhappy.

But when management walks in, everyone goes quiet.

Why?

Are we so afraid of losing our jobs, losing hours, being labelled “difficult” or being treated differently that we feel we have no choice but to accept everything?

And why do we so often face these situations alone, instead of standing together?

I’m not talking about causing trouble or refusing to work. I’m talking about workers respectfully saying:

“This is not reasonable. This is affecting people. Something needs to change.”

A company cannot function without the people doing the actual work.

So why are so many of those people scared to use their voice?

Have you ever spoken up at Asda about something you genuinely felt was wrong? What happened?

And if you’re someone who stayed silent because you were afraid of what might happen to you — why?

I’d really like to hear honest experiences from colleagues across the UK.

So, I work at a fast food restaurant that gets pretty busy. Our restaurant does have DoorDash and today, I was given the simple task to bag one, which is very easy and something I do on the daily. The order had a lot of food and drinks with it, so it was going to require two bags. We were getting busy and I did have some orders I needed to take, but first, I bagged the DoorDash quickly, then placed the bags on our shelf that are made for DoorDashes and Curbsides. I put the bags right next to each other so it was hard to miss that there were 2 bags. Well, when the DoorDasher arrived, one of my co-workers (who I and other people had problems with in the past), only gave them one bag. When he realized there was another bag and it was too late to give it, he came to me and started yelling that “it wasn’t obvious enough.” Keep in mind, I was in the middle of taking orders when I started yelling and I don’t think I could’ve made the bags closer to each other. After that, he went to a manager. I heard them say my name, then a few moments later, they were talking about a write up. I’m not sure if the topics were linked and I haven’t worked since, but if something happens, I’ll update it here.

So at my job they recently started doing some charity partnership and we have to sell these things for the charity that cost a dollar to up to $5 but the thing is we have to ask a customer if they want to donate money and then we scan the said item and then we hang it up on the wall with their name on it. So it's completely out of our control whether the customer buys it or not.

And then the other one is we have this app where you can scan it and get points. But the thing is they don't care about people that are already signed up with the app they want new people and every time I ask people if they want to sign up for the app or donate for the charity they say no. Because times are tough right now. And recently this past week we were only able to get two Charity donations for a total of like $3 and only had one app sign up. And now my boss is saying that if we don't get more donations and more sign ups that people start getting write-ups which means people will get fired. I'm just wondering like what am I supposed to do about this? Because it's something that I can't control as an employee. I can only ask the question and that's it. Once I ask the question it's completely out of my hands and now in the hands of the customer. And most customers that come into our store are only in here for a couple minutes because it's convenience store they're not going to be in here for hours shopping. I'm just wondering if there's anything I can do about this?

Also just kind of feels ironic that we are supposed to be helping a charity raise money but we're threatened if we don't get donations that will get fired over it. Just seems a bit ironic to me considering charity is meant to help people not consequence them for not raising enough money.

Also the job is a convenience store with 6 employees.

So I worked overnight at a big retail place (this was about 10 years back BTW), the Co-Manager pulled the whole backroom team (which I was on) in to a meeting in the manager's office, right at the start of shift. The manager tells us that we are ALL failures in life and no matter what, we will all fail anywhere we go in life. Obviously; that makes the team "oh so happy and motivated" 🤦‍♂️ we all call the highest HR in the company on every break, other people in the store heard about it, they all call the same number. Long story short he was shortly there after, demoted to an ASM and transferred to another store. He was (less than a year later) demoted again to a Dept. Head, then later on fired and had to go work for HIS DADDY as a Used Car Salesman. At this point, most the people on that team have all gone into leadership/supervisor/management roles; myself included. Just found out from some old contacts even daddy fired him eventually and let's just say he's not making the money he used to as a co-manager... lol.

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**Do you think my manager wanted me out?**

I quit my Sam’s Club job today. My hours kept getting cut — first to **1 day a week, then to nothing for weeks with only a couple random days**, and eventually I was completely off the schedule.

I went in today to tell my manager I was quitting. They were in a meeting, so I waited almost 30 minutes. A team lead was sitting in the office. When my manager came out, I heard the team lead say, **“There he is.”**

My manager came over and said she needed to talk to an associate. I said, **“Wait, this isn’t going to take long,”** and then I explained that because of the lack of hours and everything, I decided to move on to different opportunities.

She said, **“I understand,”** and then **“I’m so sorry.”**

Do you think she was genuinely sorry about my hours being cut, or does this interaction make it seem like she wanted me out anyway? What do you think?

I am genuinely looking for perspective because I come from another country, and I am starting to wonder whether my expectations about workplace accountability and how you address a supervisor are different from what is normal in the US.

I have been a director at a small nonprofit for almost two years. My primary area is finance, although like many people in a small nonprofit, I do a lot outside of my official area.
We currently do not have an onsite manager, so I also end up overseeing operational controls. I verify orders, cash handling, inventory related information and other things happening onsite. Because of that structure, I am technically one of the people supervising the employee involved in this situation, even though I am not physically onsite every day.

He is a part time, nonmanagement employee who has been with the organization for years and works primarily onsite. We generally see each other once a week during our weekly team meeting.

I barely manage him on a day to day basis. Most of what I ask him for is very basic and connected to my responsibilities. For example, I might ask him to count the cash registers so I can do the books or verify something onsite.

There has been an ongoing issue with our POS system since January. I asked him to take care of it, gave him the resources to do so, and told him that if he needed help, we could look at it and figure it out together. I wasn’t expecting him to be an IT specialist. I expected him either to use the resources available to resolve it or come back to me so we could solve it together. He constantly avoided to respond to my emails about it or meet while we were both onsite to discussed it.

Months later, it still had not been done.
During our regular weekly team meeting, where we address organization events issues and what can be done to fix it, the issue came up again. He said that I had told him not to do it, when I had actually been asking him for months to take care of it.
That frustrated me, and in front of the team I firmly said something along the lines of, “This is unacceptable. I have been asking you to do this since January and it still hasn’t been done.”

I did not yell or insult him, but I was firm.
Afterward, I asked him to meet with me privately later so we could address what had happened.
His response was: “I don’t know if I want to meet with you.” In a very sharp tone.

That honestly shocked me.
We were both already at work. He is hourly, and any time spent in the meeting would be paid.
I responded: “As your superior, I am requesting a meeting. It is mandatory.”

This is where I made a wording mistake that I completely own and I apologized right away. English is not my first language. I meant “As your supervisor,” not “as your superior.”

He responded very sharply and in what I perceived as a mocking and confrontational way, essentially saying: “You are my supervisor. You are not superior to me. Don’t think you are superior to me.”

I agree with the literal point. My position obviously does not make me superior to him as a human being. That was never what I meant. I used the wrong English word while trying to explain that this was a required workplace conversation rather than an optional conversation between coworkers.

What bothered me is that his “I don’t know if I want to meet with you” came before I made the language mistake.

He then told me that I am “never here” and essentially said that if I wanted to meet with him, I needed to come in according to his schedule.
Again, we already have a regular day when we are both onsite. I wasn’t asking him to come in unpaid or on a day off. I was asking for a paid work meeting while we were both already there.
We eventually had a formal meeting with the Executive Director.

This is actually the part I am most conflicted about.

The employee said that I had hurt his feelings by saying in front of the team that he had not completed the task. The Executive Director told me that I should never address an employee’s performance that way in front of the team and asked me to apologize.

I did apologize. I can understand the principle that individual corrective feedback should be handled privately, even though the issue itself had come up during the team meeting.

The employee also apologized for being rude to me.

However, during the same conversation, the Executive Director compared the conflict between this employee and me to the disagreements that the Executive Director and I have with each other. He said that he and I “fight all the time.”
The disagreements between the Executive Director and me are generally financial or structural disagreements about how the organization should operate. We are both directors and members of the leadership team, so I have always viewed those disagreements as two senior people challenging each other on organizational decisions.

That is why the comparison bothered me.
This employee is not a director or a manager. Yet during this conversation I felt as though the situation was being framed almost like a disagreement between two peers rather than a conflict involving an employee and someone responsible for supervising his work.
At the same time, the Executive Director did tell the employee that he needs to step up, take greater responsibility and actually get things done. He specifically explained that the employee cannot move into a management position if he does not demonstrate that level of accountability.
So I left the meeting with mixed feelings.

On one hand, the Executive Director clearly acknowledged the underlying performance problem and told the employee that his lack of follow through is preventing him from becoming a manager.

On the other hand, I felt that the employee was somewhat protected from the seriousness of the situation. I was required to apologize for hurting his feelings, the conflict was compared to disagreements between two directors, and the conversation felt more like smoothing things over than establishing a clear distinction between a management disagreement and an employee resisting supervision.

Maybe the Executive Director was simply trying to deescalate the situation and preserve the working relationship. I can understand that possibility too.
But I am genuinely unsure whether this is normal.
I have never spoken to one of my own bosses the way this employee spoke to me. If my manager requested a paid work meeting while we were both already working, it would never have occurred to me to respond, “I don’t know if I want to meet with you.”

Maybe some of my reaction is cultural, which is why I am asking.
Is this normal in American workplaces, particularly small nonprofits?

Was I wrong to expect a nonmanagement employee to attend a required, paid work meeting while we were both already at work?

Was I wrong to firmly correct the record during the team meeting when he said I had told him not to complete something that I had actually been requesting for months?

I understand the argument that I should have waited and addressed his performance privately, and I apologized for that.

But was the way he addressed me and resisted the meeting within normal professional boundaries?

And for managers or HR people, does the Executive Director’s handling of the situation sound appropriate? Was asking me to apologize and comparing our interaction to disagreements between two directors a reasonable way to deescalate the situation, or does it blur the reporting structure too much?

I am genuinely trying to determine whether I need to adjust my expectations as a manager in an American nonprofit/even normal private sector company or whether my workplace has an unusually conflict avoidant approach to accountability.

My husband has worked for Home Depot for 12 years. During those 12 years, he has received Employee of the Month at least once every year. I have a whole stack of Homer Awards he has received over the years, which shows just how dedicated he has been to his job and his store.

About two months ago, another associate was given the position of supervisor in his department. What makes this situation even more frustrating is that there was another employee who was more qualified and was well-liked by the other associates.

This new supervisor had barely even started the position when they began telling the Pro Loader associates what they could and couldn’t do. They were making changes and telling people things like, “You’re not going to be doing this anymore,” or “There will be no more Donut Fridays.” Their attitude toward the other employees was extremely disrespectful and created a lot of tension in the department.

My husband eventually went to the ASM who had given this person the position and told him that he believed they had put the wrong person in the department. He also explained that this supervisor was extremely nosy and seemed to constantly be watching the other associates and reporting them for anything they could find.

After my husband spoke up, he feels that he was retaliated against. And today, after 12 years of dedicated service, he was fired.

And do you know what they fired him for?

My husband is a Pro Loader. He was helping a customer when the Garden Department called him and told him he needed to come water some plants. He explained that he was currently helping a customer and that as soon as his assistant came in, the plants would be taken care of.

And they were.

He doesn’t even work in the Garden Department. He is a Pro Loader. The only reason they needed him to water plants was because they failed to schedule anyone to work in the Garden Department that day.

So after 12 years of working hard, receiving Employee of the Month recognition year after year, earning numerous Homer Awards, and doing his job, he is suddenly terminated because he was helping a customer instead of leaving that customer to go water plants in a department that isn’t even his?

The timing of all of this is extremely concerning. He spoke up about a supervisor he believed was not qualified for the position, and shortly afterward he began experiencing what he believes was retaliation. Now he has lost his job over something that seems completely unrelated to his actual position and responsibilities.

To make matters worse, just last week an ASM had the nerve to accuse him of time clock fraud. He told my husband that several people were looking for him and that he “knew” my husband had left early. My husband immediately told him to check his clock in and clock out records. The ASM did check them and realized he was wrong. He then attempted to apologize in front of the HR associate, meaning there is a witness to the entire incident.

After 12 years of loyalty and dedication, this is how Home Depot chose to treat him.

I’m looking for any tips anyone is willing to give.

I started a new job two months ago and my boss is a pain. I love my coworkers and the pay is great. The job is nice overall except for my boss who doesn’t know how to do her own job and needs help from people who work under her. She always has something negative to say and criticises us on things we have no control over. She also loves to complain about us to our coworkers. She is very paranoid about getting fired because obviously she is incompetent at her job. She makes us do things such as vacuuming the outside curb because it cannot be dusty. It’s outside, it’s going to have a bit of dust.

I can’t leave this job because it’s the only well paying job i could find, so any tips?

hey yall, im currently a steri tech who will eventually be trained to become an assistant but ive had some difficulties with my manager and its making me want to quit alltogether. shes very nit picky and micromanages whoever she chooses to be her target that day and im really exhausted and fed up with it.
sometimes ill go on my phone during a shift, which i know is frowned upon, but i only do it if i have literally NOTHING else to do.
she constantly says that theres stuff to do and i can always help people, but ive been doing that and its going unnoticed for some reason, its a very depressing cycle.
today she warned me again for the phone and said next time it happens, ill be written up. I would understand this if i had things to do but i legit dont.
Ive even tried to find alternatives to being on my phone but she doesnt want me to do those either (doodling, journaling, etc)
today her mini-me was micromanaging me too (i put packs face down in autoclave, she wants them face up)

Im just tired of being expected to stand there like a robot or statue and not do anything? why doesnt anyone try and help me out in that department? they KNOW ill always do what they ask of me….
i feel like i am really good at my job and havent had any issues with what i have to do everyday but being constantly picked at and rarely appreciated is taking a toll on my mental state

im 17 years old and and my resturants been getting hit everyday in the last 2 weeks its like everyday is valentines day, and i wasnt sheculed to work a saturaday and he messages me at 7pm the day beore telling me "to be there" and im actually busy i have someting at 3pm on saturday so i told him i cant do till close that day and he said i dont have enough "commitment and drive if im really serious about it" even though ive worked more hours this week then he has idk if hes just tweaking because one of our co workers already quit, what should i do

UPDATE

i got upset because he started talking about how im never going to be a good chef, and what im doing right now isnt ever going to work he said to fuck off, then he deleted the messege then said this word for word

You're a child. Your slow. Every employee has complained about you. You get in the way and when you have down time you just step away and look at your phone. You are slow. You say your dream is to be a chef but from judging from your work ethic and attitude that's something you will never be.
You always talk back to coaching and training yet you can't even properly use a broom. I've been fighting to keep you because all my managers have heard negative comments about you from other employees. You need to quit bullshitting and focus if you're ever going to be a chef.
Stop thinking you know it all. Be productive, clean and effiecent.

what do you guys think i should do i mentally already quit and told him off and i guess who evers above him told me to talk to him about it tommorow what should i do just quit or talk about it?

I work for CareStar as a Recovery Manager (basically a Caseworker) that works with clients diagnosed with severe persistent mental illness, chronic health conditions (e.g. cancer, etc), or end stage renal disease. I work M-F between 8am-5pm which are CareStar's business hours. We assess if their condition qualifies for our specialized Recovery services program through Medicaid allowing them to keep their benefits due to not qualifying for standard Medicaid either due to income caps, etc. The max number of clients we can get assigned is around 140 (I'm resting at 72 now). I've been here about 3 months as of today.

One of my responsibilities in this Case Manager type of position is calling my clients 1x a month to check-in on them to identify new needs, progress on current goals, following the programs rules, med compliance, and connecting them with tools that they don’t have and will need (e.g. at-home dialysis equipment, mobility aids, etc). Other duties include meeting clients 1x a year for annual redetermination to see if they still qualify for our program, visiting clients after 180 days from when they were approved for the program, updating their treatment/service plan, etc.

During a team training on the final Thursday of last month, my region's Clinical Manager advised everyone that upper management is implementing requiring Recovery Managers and Assessors (does initial assessments for the program) to work on a designated Saturday if your caseload is not deemed compliant: 180-day visits not done, service plans not updated, all monthly calls not done (done 1x each month within the 1st 2 weeks), or their assessments are overdue, etc. They're enforcing it regardless if you inherited clients from a previous Recovery Manager thar failed to keep their clients chart meeting ODM's standards.

I inherited all of my clients from previous staff who no longer work for the company within 2 months of starting at CareStar. All of my clients were either missing required paperwork, service plans missing required components (e.g. goals, billable services), and other things basically making them be non-compliant. We had until last Friday the 14th to have all calls, visits, and other items in our client's chart be in good standing and notify upper management once we do that to be excluded from working this Saturday 8/22. Being new to this position and inheriting clients who needed complete overhaul of their charts due to the previous worker failing to do their job right, I couldn't meet that deadline and am being forced to drive 3hrs and 30min to Cincinnati to their main office on 8/22 to work a full day (I'm salary and don't get OT). They're offering to book us a hotel on Friday. They're giving me 0.65/cents a mile which between driving down there and back will be about $297.70 which is nice, lol. A tank of gas for my car is like 40-42 with the current prices. XD

Not looking forward to it, but just gonna make the best of it with the wife and I having fun while we're down in Cincinnati, lol.

I recently began working at Hollister Co again, part-time as I returned to college. I did not return to HCO to move-up the leadership ladder, I simply did it to help financially on the side.

I was hired again, happy to be back - no, not the best job but situational-wise it was a move I made. My boyfriend also applied, and was turned-down by the assistant manager. I understand this, it could be a conflict of interest. It wasn’t a big deal.

I worked one shift last week (first one). I provided my best customer service. I had families laughing, thanking me, and our mall felt to have a heartbeat again. It was am amazingly fun shift - I had horrible ADHD, and retail helps me like a duck in water, using my ADHD to direct towards providing great customer service (not to sound arrogant).

During the shift, a young girl was dancing in a fitting room (next to her parents). I smiled, seeing anyone happy enough to dance in a world where nobody wants to be themselves warms my heart. I told the young girl, “I’m sorry if I’ve embarrassed you, don’t ever stop doing what you love because someone’s watching.” During the shift, I asked my assistant manager about her college pursuit - as I am in college too. I asked her how long her she the store manager have worked together etc. After my shift I said, “thank you for giving me this opportunity, I’m extremely grateful to be back at Hollister, and it warms my heart”.

Today, my second shift, the air felt cold and tense. My manager was telling me to do things in a passive aggressive manner. I shrugged it off, often times this is normal in a new work environment. Towards the end of my shift, I helped a mother and daughter find what they wanted. They were ready to checkout, however i am not register trained yet, so I got my assistant manager. The mother continued conversation with me during the transaction. After the customer left, my AM looked at the SM and said, “He didn’t even let me get a word in”.

At the end of my shift - the store manager asked to speak with me. I knew it wasn’t going to be positive, she was passive aggressive with me throughout my whole shift.

My manager BOMBARDED me with so many things.

-I made the Assistant manager uncomfortable, she thought I said SHE made my heart warm, but I said returning to HCO made my heart warm. She felt I made her uncomfortable.
-the assistant manager reported it “inappropriate”, that I laughed at the dancing child and apologized for embarrassing her.
-The assistant manager felt I asked too many questions
-The assistant manager felt I inquired about her college pursuit because I wanted her job
-I was told I need to stop saying im grateful to be employed at HCO again
-I was told my boyfriend isn’t allowed to come into the store and wait in the food court
-I was told to tone-down my customer service
-I was told to not talk to a customer if I’m not at the register because I can cause a line to build up
-I was told that I am too old and my peers are young and what was appropriate in 2017 isnt any more
-I was told to stop asking coworkers questions regarding college or anything personal
-I was written up for telling a young girl to never stop dancing because she feels embarrassed - even though her parents did not report this, and they seemed happy and welcomed by my positive interaction - however management misinterpreted it and stretched it, even saying I made her uncomfortable.
-The store manager said she felt I wanted her job too (I DO NOT- I AM IN COLLEGE TO BECOME A TEACHER)

My heart aches over this. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know if the AM just bombarded the SM about me so much that she did this. But it felt like I was being bullied into resigning - less paperwork. I feel that their mind is made up, but to me it is completely inhumane to hit an employee with so much, even to tell them to stop saying that they are grateful. I asked her how I could be written up if the customers seemed happy and made no report. I reminded her that I am gay and I did not say my AM made my heart warm, my return to Hollister did.

I could use any and all advice. I feel contacting HR is a waste - an employee making 11$ an hour is better to dispose of than a manager (no i do not want to be a manager nor was that my intent). But I felt bullied, and I felt it was a cancel-culture tactic that made me look horrible. I am not looking for advice on revenge, I just felt mistreated, and bullied, and my heart hurts. “Justice”, is probably the improper term - but I want to do something because I am wise enough to know that they will fire me or continue to scold me until I resign.

Do I contact HR? Are there laws about this? And is this a new tactic managers use to push employees out? Instead of the paperwork to fire someone, back them into a corner, amplify everything and break them into quitting? If-so, that is absolutely despicable and I’ve never seen it before. Most I’ve seen is a manager cutting hours to an employee they don’t much like - not psychologically breaking them down like what happened today. I felt accused of making a child uncomfortable, sexually harassing my manager, so many things were misinterpreted and it’s heart-wrenching. There may be homophobia involved, my age was mentioned a lot, she may just simply not like me, I don’t know - which is why I’m here today. Sorry for the paragraphs, I am looking for advice. The workforce seems so different now and cancel-culture is a big problem. Thank you in advance, everyone!

So a customer comes in recently and my ASM is helping ring them up for $3K worth of stuff and an install for the product; the customer says they are doing "$300 in cash and the rest on card." Were their exact wording. So, my ASM types in $300 and pushes cash, and he says "ok, go ahead and tap or insert your card." Which the customer does.

The customer then says "OK, ready to use my next card." As the receipt prints. My ASM looks at them, looks at my other coworker, and the coworker says "you said 300 cash, the rest on card, we ran the card, where's the cash? We're done."

Long story short. Takes a few minutes to realise that when the customer said "cash" they meant "Debit".... It took the customer 4 different people to explain to them, before they understood, that CASH means PAPER MONEY and DEBIT means DEBIT CARD because people DO IN FACT STILL USE PAPER MONEY!!!!!! 🤦‍♂️

Long story short, I graduated with two bachelors degrees in 2020. I got a job as a marketing manager for a large tech company but was fired shortly after my brother passed away.

I've been trying to rebuild my career and have worked retail and Healthcare (front desk and claims processing). I recently got a job as an administrative coordinator for a tech company which i was really excited about since it lets me get back into tech even though its through an agency. Most of the job is stocking shelves.

My manager keeps getting upset with me. There seems to be a lot of miscommunication. The other day, I tried to be nice by putting away the breakfast she left out on her floor and putting the tray in the sink. She thanked me the next morning but asked that next time I wash the dish too. I thought she meant the next time I want to help out since she explicitly said that she takes care of the 6th floor and I take care of 5th and 7th.

Anyways, I explained to her my thinking and clarified that I'm supposed to take care of whatever is leftover on the 6th floor too.

Today, she asked me to pick out menu items (we do daily lunch catering for employees). I thought she meant that I should pick out my lunch items in advance since I'll be gone on vacation the rest of this week.

Then later on in the day she asks me why I didn't send her a copy of the menu for next week. I told her I interpreted her instructions to mean that I needed to pick out my menu items.

Anyways, she got upset and asked why she would have me pick out my lunch in advance. She got really upset and reiterated that I need to ask clarifying questions like she asked me to.

I've been asking a lot of questions trying to get an understanding for the role. I'm 2 weeks into the job and in a few weeks, she will be going on vacation for 2 whole weeks and will be leaving me to do my job and hers (she's an office manager).

She says she's nervous and needs me to ask more questions which ive been doing all day. But one simple misunderstanding and I feel like I'm back at square one.

I genuinely want to quit because this job is not at all what I expected. My title is administrative coordinator but I spend 6 to 7 hours a day stocking the fridges, pantries, bathrooms, cleaning the kitchens, conference room, and common areas, etc. It's a lot of physical work to the point where my legs ache. I'm barely ever on the computer at the desk, and when I am, she hints that I should be looking around to see what needs to be taken care of like deep cleaning the microwave.

On one hand, I'm frustrated about this being my career after working so hard in college but on the other hand, I want to stick things out to prove that I can do this.

For reference, the job says $25 an hour in seattle with no benefits (ongoing contract with no possibility of conversion according to the company).

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and sorry for the rant.

I just love the way cis men STILL only talk to male colleagues about sport.

I'm non-binary but was assigned female at birth. I have a picture of Sam Kerr up at my desk and I collect AFL cards that I have traded before in the office.

Also, we're a TV news station and because I was the only one to wear World Cup merch to work my male colleague borrowed it to wear in a piece-to-camera.

What more can I do to help them see me as equal and get my name abbreviated to end in "os"?

I just want to come in, do my job, get paid, and go home.

I have absolutely no interest in making some multimillionaire business owner richer at the expense of leaving my mind and soul at work. I want to make enough money to provide for myself and my family and have a reasonably comfortable life. Call me mediocre, I’m ok with that. I’m not interested in being “at the top of the game” making people above me look good while giving up my own dreams and personal life.

Working now with a few A workers who constantly boss everyone around, question every tiny detail, blowing up the group chat nonstop, and correcting someone’s email because if one word is wrong 🙄

Jesus, people. Get a hobby. Train for a marathon. Put all that energy somewhere else and let the rest of us work in peace, please.

So, I had a work bestie who I used to talk to and share pretty much everything with. There were many times in 2021, 2022, and even 2023 when I wanted to leave my job.
In 2023, I came back from vacation, got up one day, got out of my seat, and said, “You know what? I’m going to quit this job.” I told her to follow me to HR, and honestly, she didn’t even try to talk me out of it or anything.

I ended up leaving that job and stayed home working on my business until I eventually got a new job in 2025.
Fast-forward to 2026, she ended up getting laid off along with a few of the coworkers we both knew from that time. Now she’s out here applying for jobs for herself and helping some of those former coworkers look for opportunities too.
What makes me think about it is that she was never really the type to talk you out of leaving a job. But I just figured that, as my work bestie and someone I was so close to, she would have at least given me some encouragement or made me stop and think about it. Not that it necessarily would have changed my decision, but I thought she would have at least tried. Even after I left she said she missed me etc.

There were plenty of times when she wanted to leave that job, and I was the one talking her through it. I would remind her that she didn’t have the financial stability yet, that she didn’t have another job lined up, and that she needed to think things through before making a decision.
So, I guess I just expected that when it was my turn, I would get that same kind of support from her. Maybe that’s why it still stands out to me. It wasn’t necessarily that I wanted her to stop me from quitting, I think I just wanted to feel like she cared enough to say, “Are you sure? Let’s think about this first.”

We still talk all the time and hang out occasionally, but I still got a lil resentment. How should I feel?

My workplace recently cut 13 hours from my schedule to compensate for overtime I had in previous weeks. The overtime happened because I was consistently covering shifts when people called in sick, working multiple closing shifts in a row, and sometimes even working at two locations in one day.

I rarely call in sick or come late, so it’s frustrating to feel like my reliability is being penalized. Other employees have also had overtime, so I’m confused about why my hours were cut so significantly.

They’ve also changed my shifts without informing me properly before. Would you bring this up with the higher manager? I want to address it respectfully without sounding entitled.

I work at a movie theater. I really loved the job at first, it was so much fun! Sometimes I still have fun, but recently I haven’t been liking it.

I just had my 3 months evaluation, and apparently I have been doing a good job. The only thing that I have done bad was that I'm too quiet and have a soft voice, they told me I should try to speak up more when I'm working concession. I was always confused why I didn't get asked to work concession stands before because I loved it so much, (i still haven’t been scheduled concession it’s been 8 weeks btw)

After my evaluation I was told that I could work at the box office. But i still haven't been scheduled to work at the box office. But some people started working after me have already been scheduled to work in box.

Also, lately I have heard that my coworkers have been doing stuffs outside of work, for example, they went to see Minions and then yhey went bowling, then they did something for the end of Oak street movie.

but I had no idea what they did outside of because they didn’t tell me anything about it. (i’m like pretty sure they have a GC with out me)

I don't know if I'm just being dramatic but lately I have just been feeling a little left out and discouraged about work.

Pa rant lang po please. I need to get this out of my chest and wala akong mapag sabiha. I started working for this company as a VA 1 month ago and honestly, ok naman sya at first. I thought mababait yung co-workers ko, lalo na yung direct supervisor ko, which is also the one who trains me. But after a month palagi na akong na papagalitan/ napag sasabihan because of my work performance.

the work was fast-paced as an assistant due to the nature of the busines, palagibg urgent, which is gets ko naman, the problem is bago sakin ang lahat, kailangan ko syang aralin from scratch and after working from just a month, they expect my work to be “almost” flawless. naka highligh t yung almost kasi sabi nila hindi naman daw sila na eexpect na ma master ko agad, but they always point out kung anong mali ko.. nagaglit na sila kasi pa balik balik daw yung questions ko, kung may ma miss ako lalo na at sabay2 yung urgent na work na kailangan tapusin etc.

Honestl, alam ko naman na hindi basta2 yung trabaho na pinasok ko and binasa ko naman yung job discription, and I though kaya ko.

Ngayon parang gusto ko nang mag quit pero hindi pwede, malaki yung sweldo and nag sisimula na akong bumawi sa parents ko. Ayaw ko din ma disappoint yung friend ko na nag recommend sakin dito. Pagod na ako, pero di ko kayang umiyak, kasi nangako ako sa sarili ko na hindi ako pwedeng umiyak sa mga ma babaw na dahilan. I can’t let myself feel weak.