Welcome to our Friday ritual! I want to hear about all the bullshit you had to put up with last week! This week, it was April vacation. It’s like a vacation for me, but I still have to show up to work!
At some point I’m going to have to display it in my bosses’ faces how none of them have really formulated what the expectations and standards are, and that I can train people better than they can.
If I have to print out a store index, as well as an overview of the department’s functionality and a list of best practices, that will be something no one at this sizable company has ever done.
Something something art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
I’ve told my boss he’s a bumbling idiot for years and so far it’s just kept getting me raises and promotions lol
Make em believe it, make em reliant, make yourself irreplaceable, build a self destruct plan
Also make sure if they start hiring juniors that you get to them first. You don’t want anyone thinking it’s a good idea to go around rocking the boat.
After about a year at this job I hve been in the department the longest. I am not in the 2nd half of my life expectancy, but I’m the 2nd oldest on the team. They’re doing the whole employee churn strategy, and the bosses are always “too busy” to figure out a way to do anything better.
I’m bored but I don’t hate it, there’s a little more to learn and a lot more flexing to do, before I put out applications again, because this is not a company I want a lasting association with.
Sounds like you work at my company lol. I started when they were new. Employee number 4, now we have about 30 and have had about 50 people.
I made sure as soon as I started to build comraderie with everyone and it legitimately changed the dynamic early on. It’s still a small businesses tyrant situation, but the emperor wears no clothes and is afraid of us lol. I’ve trained up basically everyone and the entire management team is in my pocket.
It’s still a stressful job due to the nature of the work and the fact that we still try to do the best we can, but if it ever crosses that line it’s all brakes.
The company I work at is a chain that is not new and not small.
Most places I’ve worked have been small businesses with just 1 location, but they had less turnover than the location I’m working for.
My partner just told me yesterday that they’ve been talking to their coworkers about unionizing and plan on calling in a union rep from a local union to talk to everyone whose interested.
I’m very proud of them. This is the first time they’ve done something like this, and I don’t have any experience with labor organizing. Does anyone have any resources I can share with them?
Well, had to sit through a government press release stream for Friday where the ghouls listed all the ways they will make social security worse and my work worse in the process.
Otherwise had a chill week.
I took two days off at the beginning of the week and came back to 60 tickets I am still digging through (18 left). I dont even usually get 10 tickets a day. Why did I come back to 60? The floor is about to fall out of this place and it just wont give.
The place where I got my drug test like 6 weeks ago called yesterday to say that my THC levels were off the charts and they needed to call me first before telling my employer. I mean . . . I started a month ago. It seems really weird for a tox screen to take so long and also for my employer to start me without having the results. Could the lab really still share the results and could it still derail things? Anyone in a legal state know of situations where they’re OK with positive tests but only up to a limit? I tested positive the last time I started working for this company but I have reason to believe I got the high score this time.
Its such bullshit they drug test for THC unless you hurt someone or you do a crime. Like just let people be and deal with mental health things like addiction with impairment as it arises.
The cafe I work at is in a death spiral. Overheads and ingredient costs are going up, so the only solution to break even is to raise the already high prices, or cut corners elsewhere. Essential maintenance is going undone. Our dishwasher has been leaking for months. The deep fryer will just randomly turn itself off and takes ages to come back to temp. The high pressure spray faucet failed and got replaced with a cheap standard faucet. Everything is taking longer, coming out worse, and morale is in the toilet. I can put up with a lot of bullshit if the team is solid; good comrades make a lot of things bearable. It isn’t though. They’re unreliable, inconsistent, and inconsiderate. I frequently start a shift to a sink absolutely overloaded with dishes that they haven’t even made the slightest effort to wash, or even stack.
Even the owner tell me he’s done. Place is shutting down for renovation soon and he’s likely going to sell up after that. I don’t want to waste my time looking for another fucking kitchen job, but I may have to just to pay the bills. I desperately need to get out of this industry. I didn’t get the position I interviewed for last week. I keep getting shortlisted then edged out by someone with more specifically relevant experience, or at least that’s what I keep getting told.
All I want to do is use my education and experience to help people. Gonna spend some time looking for volunteer positions in food relief this week. It’s just hard to stay positive and put myself out there when everything is such a fucking grind.
Depends where you are but check out if going to sea is an option. Or if you can get a UK workvisa antarctica has bases and i know mcmurphy was looking for chefs among other things . Had a job lined up there but ended up not getting a visa :( worth 6 months of your life for the kind of money you get. I would love to do it just to see the place. https://www.bas.ac.uk/ generally multiskilled people with an education can find quite interesting work offshore.
While I’m learning my new position, the job duties from my old position haven’t been removed from my workload yet, so I’m putting in 50% effort for both positions
Had this conversation last week. Again praises as usual and a raise that actually was a few decimals over inflation. For some reason I’m good at my job appearantly. But too good to get a promotion , better to keep me here …
While seeing braindead bruhs kissing asses and raising up., just saving up to get out in time. Great job otherwise but enough time there for now. But if anyone else want to work for evil corp ping me and I can get your foot in the door.
Layoff rumors again at work. Seems like I’ll know by May 7th if I survive this round
This week was very bullshit free for me. Kids and Staff are on vacation. IT Staff… not so much. This week actually cost me a couple of hundred bucks because of childcare needs… But the kid is having a blast so it’s all worth it. I found a silly NatGeo book that was getting tossed from the library full of anti-communist red scare nonsense. I’ve been tinkering with using Charm Crush + Deepseek + a Knowledge Graph MCP server to eat through a bunch of revisionist history books on the Soviet Union in an attempt to build a large knowledge web from the books. Then use that web to re-write the historical parts of the NatGeo book from a more bottom up perspective.
AI is dumb, but I can’t help but be curious about what it can, and cannot do.
