r/WorkRant

Hello everyone, this marks my initial post here, so please bear with me if my uploads are not the best. I am a 20{f} working as a babysitter for a family with three children: a 7-month-old baby, a 4-year-old sister, and a 6-year-old brother. My compensation is only $15, and I realize I should have advocated for myself more; however, that is the reason I am here, as I dislike confrontation and struggle to assert myself. I have accompanied them on one trip to care for the children and have also stayed at their home during another trip when the parents left. Upon her return, she mentioned that she could pay me from 11 AM (the time I arrived) until 8 PM on Friday, but the children did not fall asleep until 9:30 PM. Even then, I was unable to sleep soundly because I kept waking up from 6 AM, concerned about the kids. On Saturday, she compensated me with $17 for the weekend, covering the time from when I woke up until I left. Naturally, I accepted this arrangement because I find it difficult to voice my concerns. Today, she inquired if I could stay overnight on Friday, and I informed her that I would get back to her. I am seeking advice on how to communicate to her that I cannot be cut off before the children go to sleep and that I do not sleep comfortably due to my worries about their well-being. She will be returning in a few hours!

I’ve been at this job for a few years (longer than most of my coworkers) and I’ve had my fair share of issues to resolve with coworkers, but usually it’s a quick conversation & we’re all good. I am visibly younger, so I’m used to people overstepping boundaries at first. I was hired because of my experience & expertise (and constantly receive praise from my bosses, help my coworkers, etc., so I have no worries about my performance. However, this new coworker is very different.

Let’s call her Jodie.

Jodie transferred from a to my department as a cost consultant (this actually has very little to do with my job & we almost never have to communicate). She’s been in my meetings while I’m presenting asking questions about things that were already covered minutes prior. She treats me as though I don’t understand my work by criticizing issues that are contractor mistakes (not approved by me), and after I decide to make a specific adjustment, she’ll ask “do you mean [blank] instead?”. All pf this in front of our bosses.

There have also been occasions where she butted into conversations I was having with other coworkers about work or non work topics just to derail those conversations as well. At this point I’ve stopped talking to her.

Until I walked in on her & a coworker who does a similar job as me discussing my work with a contractor. This was very off putting, because neither of these people know processes & they didn’t mention meeting on any of these changes at all.

I don’t know what to do here. I’ve mentioned to my boss that this has been going on, but I guess now I have to worry about secret meetings to change my work?

They hired me as a project manager and told me i would be heading utility projects. Well, after 5 weeks of being here, I have only been able to do 2 projects, but now they’re making me only handle utility locate issues. They even tell me to go pick stuff up for them and drop it off to a crew as if I’m a laborer. There are 5 other PM’s and neither of them do the extra duties that have been given to me. On top of that, they all have trucks and I was told I’d get one upon hire. Well, I got hired and he throws me the keys to a large van. I can’t even get to half of the job sites because of this van and anytime I do get to one, other contractors think I’m a safety guy, because the van has a wrap that says “SAFETY TEAM”. It’s all incredibly frustrating! Every contractor I meet, “you must be the safety guy”… NO IM NOT!! I thought I got this job to manage projects. Not hound a utility locator to get work done. I might as well become a utility locate supervisor at this point. I’m getting paid the highest I ever have, so I might as well stay. But it stresses me out not doing what I came here to do. It feels like I got hired to be given the extra workload that no one else wants to do.

Update: another manager asked me to handle a task for him because he’s too busy. I’m assigned this task with no work order given on the project. Just an email with someone’s phone number. I call her and we chat about the project we’re doing for her and she asks me questions that I have no answer to. She then says, “do they even tell you anything there?” My response was, “it doesn’t seem like they do, huh?”. It’s gotten so bad that people we contract for, as well as my own employees are noticing I’m not in the loop like I should be. It’s embarrassing.

Since January, I have been consistently handling a very high workload and have made every effort to deliver beyond expectations. During the time I requested an increment, I was informed that my performance was not satisfactory, and thereafter I was continuously assigned additional responsibilities and pressured heavily regarding deliveries.

Despite the challenging environment, I remained committed to the project, tolerated the workload and pressure, and gave my full effort to complete all assigned tasks. However, today I was informed that the company has decided to discontinue my employment, citing that the project is no longer continuing and that my deliverables were not aligned with expectations.

I believe this decision is unfair considering the amount of work and dedication I have contributed over the past several months. I was asked to either resign or face termination, which has been extremely difficult and disappointing for me after all the effort I invested in the organization.

I got sent home from work after showing up 10 minutes late because I lost my wallet and went to go retrieve it at a place I was at the night before in fear of losing it instead of showing up to work on time. Obviously a wallet contains, important information like drivers license, debit cards, credit card. I showed up and my boss sends me home without even letting me explain myself. What should I do tomorrow? He never gave me his contact information to let him know that I was running late. He didn’t let me explain myself situation? What should I do?

TL;DR Ive been offered a rare prosthetics/fabrication job opportunity that could become a meaningful long-term career, but I was planning to spend this summer getting sober from certain substances and stabilizing my mental health, sleep, and chaotic home life before returning to work. I’m scared taking the job now will overwhelm me and lead to failure, but I’m equally scared I’ll regret turning it down forever.
I have until 1:00 tomorrow to decide

The long version:

I need help deciding whether to take a job opportunity or step back and focus on getting my life stable first.
For context: I’m a single mom of two boys and things at home have been extremely unstable lately. One of my kids has severe behavioral and emotional issues right now, and my home life has basically been constant stress/crisis mode for months. I’ve also been struggling mentally and emotionally myself and honestly feel pretty burnt out.
I recently got offered a job at a Clinic doing fabrication/prosthetics-related work. It’s actually a really cool opportunity and not something that comes along often. I have a background in welding/fabrication and hands-on work, and part of me feels like this could potentially become a meaningful long-term career path instead of just another random job.
The problem is that I don’t feel ready.
I’ve been on unemployment and had a plan to use this summer to finally quit meth and reset my life while my kids are away for a short period of time. The idea was to use that time with fewer responsibilities to get through withdrawal, stabilize my sleep, mental health, routines, and overall functioning before trying to return to work. Right now my sleep schedule is wrecked, my stress tolerance is awful, and I honestly feel emotionally fried.
Part of me thinks taking this job right now would be self-sabotage because:
it’s a steep learning curve,
it matters medically to people,
I’d need to be mentally sharp and reliable,
and I’m scared I’d fail because I’m not stable yet.
But the other part of me is terrified of losing this opportunity forever.
I’ve already burned bridges employment-wise in the past due to attendance and instability, so I’m scared if I turn this down I’ll regret it for years. I’m also scared that if I stay home to “work on myself,” I’ll just isolate, lose momentum, and end up even worse off.
So basically my choice is:
Take the opportunity now and try to force myself forward even though I feel mentally unprepared.
Turn it down (or delay working) and focus on getting sober, stabilizing my home life, sleep, mental health, and routines first.
What would you choose and why?

This has been on my mind for a hot minute and I’ve been wondering what subreddit to talk about this on, and I felt like this was the best spot since the community here is always so welcoming. This is also less of an advice post and more of a “i just wanna vent” post.

For context, I am 18, nonbinary, got shoulder length curly hair, and I have a very expressive look. I tend to wear fun makeup, and fun crochet bandannas (this is important).

The place that I work at is a giant entertainment venue. Think Dave & Busters but with a bigger arcade, bowling, pool tables, and laser tag. As a customer, it’s great. Food and drinks are great, games and bowling are always fun, all around a great entertainment venue.

I work as a restaurant host for this place, and have been working as one for 10 months. And for the first few months, they were pretty cool. I was worried they’d have things to say about me having fun makeup or hair coverings, but as I got to know the space, I learned that they didn’t really care. So for the first seven I wore my shimmery eyeshadow, and cute crochet bandannas. I particularly like the bandannas because I’m required to have my hair pulled back because I work with food, and the bandannas do that very well. It helps because my curls can be a pain in the ass, and constantly having to pull my hair back isn’t great for them. And unless I drown my hair in gel, it’ll get so puffy and frizzy by the end of my shift. But with my bandannas, I can pull my hair back without having to strain it with a hair tie or drench it with product. And a plus, it was a way for me to be a little expressive with our boring uniforms.

Now, as of about two-ish months ago, they came to me personally and said I can’t wear my bandannas and colorful makeup anymore. This came after a surprise visit from the CEO of the company, and unfortunately he saw many things he didn’t like. One of things just so happened to be my fun aesthetic.

The dress code we have has a few rules on it. Things like: If working in the restaurant, hair must be pulled back; hair color must be a natural color; offensive tattoos must be covered; etc. But no where on the dress code did it say makeup must conservative, and hair must not be covered. They also started enforcing rules about facial piercings, which also was not stated in the dress code.

I don’t want to start some kind of conspiracy theory, but the only employees that this affects are the alternative ones. Many employees that found ways to express themselves are now not able to do so. And we work at an entertainment venue for christ’s sake, and your telling me that the employee aren’t able to look a little fun?

My makeup and bandannas are not keeping me from doing my job correctly. In fact they are giving me the gender euphoria I look for. My hair is something that can easily affect my gender dysphoria, and if my hair is looking all frizzy like it does when not wearing a head covering, it can get in the way of my performance. My job is to be a restaurant host that’s welcoming, extroverted, and positive. And struggle to be those things when I’m feeling dysphoric.

They were chewed out by the CEO so bad that every small thing that he didn’t like was immediately “fixed.” And I guess one of those things that needed fixing was the alternative employees looking alternative. One of the managers even quit because of this. She felt like the space wasn’t letting the employees express themselves, and didn’t want to represent them anymore.

This whole thing is probably not the biggest deal in the world, and they do have the right to enforce company policy. But it felt weird that they started enforcing these new policies after the CEO complained.

Thanks for letting me complain about my job, let me know what you think, and also tell me if i might be blowing this out of proportion.

The general manager is planning on doing one-on-ones with all the employees to check in on the morale, and i will be mentioning this. In fact, a lot of employees will be mentioning it. I’ll update if he makes changes after the one-on-ones.

Not exactly sure how to tag this or anything but I feel like I’m going crazy. Currently I have two jobs, one being retail. Both are part time positions, and I started the retail one in February. I love working for this company as it is a place I love to shop at, and employees are treated pretty well by corporate. I also love my co workers and most customers are great. I got the job through my friend who is a part time manager and all had been well up until about a month ago.

There has been some staffing issues at the store, so about a month ago two managers were fired and a new store manager was hired. I was a bit weary of him at first because one of my co workers used to work at the old location he managed, and didn’t have many great words to say about him. I gave him the benefit of the doubt though, and everything seemed okay at first. He’s a veryyy awkward guy, so when he didn’t talk to me much I didn’t think twice about it. Last week though I told him I needed one day off (which he said was fine and said not to put in formally and that he’d remember) and then he ended up only scheduling me for two shifts, one of them including that day. I was kind of frustrated because not only were my hours cut (normally I’m given at least 3-4 shifts a week) but I had to give up a shift and took a big pay cut in my check. I figured it was a mistake and didn’t say anything and just got the shift covered. Fast forward to this week I was supposed to have it off (which he once again said was okay and not to formally put it in) but then when the schedule came out I was scheduled for two days. (I also forgot to mention he has been scheduling me outside of my availability which is pretty free cus I only have two days I can’t work each week which are the slow days in the store anyways. I then need these covered and lose hours again.) He has been blatantly ignoring my days off and availability and it is frustrating.

What really annoyed me though was that even though he ignored the availability, the scheduling was unfair anyways. Hours and supposed to be distributed evenly among part time employees, however he gave 18 hours to the two people he has a clear favoritism for and gave me only 8. Now the schedule for next week has come out and I only have one shift, while other part timers have 5. When he first got hired he asked my friend who is a part time manager who would care about their hours being cut, and my friend told him that I would care and wouldn’t want my hours cut.

Between what my friend told him and then him purposely scheduling me when he knows I’ll have to get a shift covered, and cutting my hours to give to others I feel like he is trying to make me quit. I’m not sure why either, because my loyalty and surveys from customers as well as my sale rates are very high compared to my co workers, so there’s no logical reason to cut me specifically like this. At this point I feel like it’s favoritism, but I don’t want to assume things like that. I love working at this store a lot and I don’t want to quit, but the pay cuts I’m taking are not worth it.

Would it be worth talking to him about? I tried to tell him that I’ve been having to get shifts covered when he schedules me outside of my availability and he just says “okay”, even though I’m clearly trying to tell him that’s he’s messing up my schedule in a polite way. I just don’t know what to do because he’s so new to the store and I don’t want him to get mad at me for trying to talk to him, then cut me even more if possible. Do I sound absolutely nuts, or does anyone have any advice?

So I've noticed in my office if someone sneezes often no-one will say anything. If my boss does though, everyone says "bless you" in sync like we're in a kitchen shouting "yes chef".

We also don't get proper lunch breaks (have brought this up in another sub and understand I have to fix that) but my boss just got food delivered to her desk. A casual member of staff ordered uber eats to the office and insisted she don't pay him back.

My boss will also have coffee brought to her desk for free every morning.

And if she needs a pick me up in the arvo someone will go buy her a coke.

Like, is it just me or is this a bit excessive? I know she has a tendency to cry which puts us on edge but she's also the highest paid member of staff so...

The team leader who sexually harassed me is back at work and i’m still suspended for consensual sexual contact in the work place?? make it make sense

Context: one night a male member of staff started coming on to me and right in the middle of it another team leader walked in. i wasn’t exactly pushing him off me but because it was in the work place i was saying no and asking him to stop. after about a month we were both suspended pending investigation. during this month i was sexually harassed by a male team leader in the work van on the way back to work, it was around 10pm when this happened we were the only ones in the van and after make several sexual remarks he pulled the van to the side of the road and started asking if i wanted to touch “it” and have sex in the back of the van i shouted no repeatedly and asked to be taken back to work (if he hadn’t complied i would’ve jumped out the van and ran home we were pretty close to my house), i reported him the next day to the same team leader who witnessed the first incident. he was suspended the next day pending an investigation. i was told he hadn’t contested my report and that it was just a waiting game and up to HR what happens. at the time i was happy for him to get a slap on the wrist and continue working. now however i’ve been on suspension for almost 4 months with little to no word on what’s happening and he’s been allowed to go back to work and NO CUNT IN THAT BUILDING THOUGHT TO FUCKING TELL ME!!! i’m so beyond fed up of them protecting this man. it’s not the first time he’s made younger female colleagues uncomfortable but it’s always been brushed off as him being him (i wish i could use his name but i do really need this job) i found out this morning and everyone i know is at work and i don’t want to bother them. i am beyond embarrassed about the first incident mentioned in 3 years i didnt once falter on my boundaries and i do believe im in the wrong but i can’t shake the feeling im going to get sacked while he’s able to go on living his life and continue going to work like nothings happened and i know he’s there now telling anyone that’ll listen about what happened now that the investigation is technically over.

very very sorry for the horrible layout i just needed to get this off my chest so i can continue with my day and not let it eat away at me

My current situation with work right now is convoluted af. I just started three weeks ago, and walked into the job with the expectation that I’ll be working in a set location (it’s a commissioned sales job with a couple dozen stores over an entire district)

I’ve noticed since I initially agreed to go over to another location (besides my home location) to start out, they’re getting more and more pushy with me and “demanding/forcing” me to work at other locations, which would make it three times now for me this week.

I have no license or vehicle right now, they know that yet push me to work at other locations due to the fact that “my ride works in that location.” I and my ride are getting tired of it, because I signed up with the expectation that I’m mainly working in my home store (I make the most there), and my ride keeps racking up miles on their car. They claim “they understand, that’s why we’re reimbursing you for mileage purposes”, yet that still doesn’t do shit for the mileage on said vehicle.

And the worst part is, it’s an untenable and impossible situation. I can’t even make announcements in the store to expose people to what I’m selling, because “bridges were burned” in the past (I work for a third party contracted by said retail chain.)

Business is horribly slow on top of that, the environment is off, and the coworkers there suck.

Hi, I worked at this terrible pharmacy in Palm Harbor, FL for about a month. They're called E-Rx Hub. Here's the copy/pasted review I left on Indeed. Complaints are in no specific order.

When I was hired the owner told me I was going to be full time. Toward the end I was lucky to get 20-30 hours per week. I am an adult who has bills to pay, not some college kid doing this as a side gig.
They advertise themselves as a compounding pharmacy but their clean rooms aren't even set up yet and they outsource everything.
I was told that mistakes are completely unacceptable during my first week after being trained for 10 minutes by someone who had been there a week. I was also told in front of everyone that I cannot be making mistakes at all and when I was clearly embarrassed and about to have a panic attack the owner said she was just doing it for accountability. But the girl who has been there for many months sends out the wrong medication to a patient and nobody says anything. I also explained multiple times that them playing loud music was distracting me which was leading to the mistakes. They pretended to turn the music down for a day then it went right back up.
I caught a discrepancy with one of the clinics that were sending prescriptions over incorrectly and was told I was wrong multiple times and it only got fixed when the pharmacist refused to fill the prescriptions.
The owner tried to argue with the same pharmacist that we should be sending out NAD vials that were close to expiring.
There was a terrible bug infestation that took days to fix and then the dead bugs were just left everywhere.
There's a bathroom with no locks on it so anyone can just walk in on you.
They used an air freshener that messed with my asthma and did nothing when I told them it was bothering me.
The owner does nothing to verify credentials. There was a girl whose license was expired that worked there for multiple days. The only reason she was fired is because she admitted her license lapsed. They didn't make me print my license for a month and just took my word for it that I was licensed.
I didn't get paid for my first 2 days where I worked 4 hours each day.
The FedEx account was never paid so the shipping department had days they just couldn't do their job.
The manager who opens the building is up to 30 minutes late most days.
There's pill dust all over the counters that gets on their syringe packaging supplies because there's no set area for filling.
You can have food and drink in the direct filling area. They told me small snacks only but I'd come in and there would be mcdonalds containers in the garbage in the main room.
One time the trash in the break room was overflowing for multiple days before someone finally took it out.
The owner expected me to go to advertising events and call clinics to do marketing when that's not in my job title.
There were days where all I did for 8 hours was put syringes in bags. When I asked if I could help fill I was told that syringe kits were just as important. Meanwhile the manager who is not a licensed tech was helping fill.
There was no sharps container (at least not one openly displayed) until I brought up the fact that we needed one when I found a broken syringe/needle. When I found said syringe I made a joke about worker's comp and was told by an employee "we don't have that here."
They are constantly running out of medications causing the filler to sit there twiddling her thumbs all day waiting for them to be delivered.
I was told they were "working on" getting insurance and PTO benefits set up. That did not happen.

My manager quit on Thursday and the store I work for was already in shambles before she left.

To start off this rant I need to give some back story. Somehow the manager that quit was able to get a Store Manager position with no prior experience. I came in after her as ASM and I’ve been in retail (fashion industry) for 15 years. Our dynamic wasn’t the best as I felt I was constantly having to teach her how to do the simplest things. She didn’t know how to manage the team, develop us or even remember that she had previously approved PTO’s.

We budded heads so much because I wanted structure and so did the team but all she cared about was vacationing, calling off and sitting in the back for 4hrs , working on schedules. Her managing skills lacked and her Gen Z “work life balance” made it hard for her to even care about her team. I’m super old school when it comes to managing (millennial here haha) I like structure, respect and integrity when it comes to work. But I have found myself finding it hard to adjust to these GenZs way of thinking. It’s like pulling teeth to get these kids to do the bare minimum of their job description without them feeling like they are doing the most.

For the cherry on top, I was working a 2 part coverage today;myself and a new girl. The Head of retail/Operations manager was at the store to “support” and all I got was “CEO wouldn’t be too happy if they found out you are neglecting the fitting rooms to have the other girl do stock.” Instead of helping because we were so busy with clients I got criticized for trying and having the cashwrap free of go backs and push stock to the back.

I am hitting a wall! and what I once thought would be my forever career has made me second guess if I want to stay in this industry anymore. I have also found myself loosing hope that I will ever get past ASM role. I’ve applied to so many jobs and done so many SM interviews and it ends up not working out

Should I quit?!?!?!

I have to rant…
I’m a part time college student that has been trying to land a job. Finally, I had a choice to choose between a Dietary Aide job or a barista job. I went with dietary aide because I already knew being a barista was stressful. Everything SEEMED like it was going smoothly. I had the interview (felt fine about it) a week later I get a text from that same manager and she tells me to go in for orientation in a few days. I show up, spend 4 hours there and head home. (Feeling good about it)

I get a text a few days later from the manager and she schedules me for a PM shift instead of the set AM shift we discussed at the interview (not a deal breaker honestly) but it gets worse… the shift is on a Monday and starts during my class time. I panic.. I realized she never asked me the specific days and times that I go to school. She only knew I had one class twice a week.

I write out a polite text apologizing for not telling her the specifics about my schedule and offer to head straight to work right after class as a compromise. I thought it was a simple misunderstanding. She texts back and accuses me of never mentioning that I have a school schedule. This is a straight up lie. Every interview I’ve been lucky to get, I prioritize mentioning that I have a school schedule. Of course, it’s my fault for not being specific with her during our interview but I definitely mentioned it to her and she’s saying that I answered “no” when asked if I’m in school.

She’s being rude, cold, accusatory. Honestly, I got defensive and told her that she may have me mixed up with another applicant. I said this because I absolutely refuse to apologize for her bad memory. She’s also acting as if my 2 day a week class makes me completely unavailable to work. She’s clearly pissed with me and now I’m uncomfortable. Anyways, I wanna quit already considering how condescending she has been through text. I’ve never been through this so idk if I can be let go for this. One day has passed and I already scheduled 2 interviews for next week just in case this goes to shit 🫩

I just got fired. I need to stay a few weeks to train so last day is in roughly 3 weeks. I will get roughly 2 months salary and 2 months cobra. Any advice? Should I or can I even negotiate?! What else can I do

Before I start, I just like doing a good job, I'm fine with some annoyances but when they breach into excessive, that's where I actually start getting annoyed.

So started at this place known to have a high turnover rate, which is good cause I got the job instantly.

I worked hard and stayed until I became one of the longest lasting employees. And my reward is...

Work every Saturday and get an unpaid day off during the week so they don't need pay me overtime WHILST other departments get overtime.

Get paid the same as my under 18 coworker (under 18's are encouraged to work there by being paid same minimum wage as adults) whilst usually doing more work or just larger pieces of work, we are also understaffed yet no attempt of hiring new workers have been made since the last new guy left within 3 days.

Overtime has to be approved so working an extra hour usually doesn't get you any money at all, so when I have 2 minutes to clock out yet have to clean and fix up the place, I leave and get in trouble for not cleaning for free basically, keep in mind there's another employee who could've done that yet I'm the one in trouble.

Looking for a new job.

(Also no hate to the child worker, they do their best and are pretty funny)

The Boss called on Saturday night around 9 pm while I was out with a group of friends. She had issues with some files and needed help, I told her I wasn't home, have no access to a computer to review the files and I was also too drunk to help her with it and she hung up. Just saw an email she sent soon after she hung up. Basically, she told me I was highly unprofessional and we will have a meeting about this on Monday. This is not a job that requires me to be on-call, or was a request ever sent to me that I may need to do work on the weekend. Seriously, WTF?