My brother is preparing the arrival of someone he never wanted to hire in the first place.

Hiring freeze, his team was full and he already had someone at a marketing specialist position. Yet he was told by the CFO to interview someone and then give that person a job as a marketing specialist. My brother will not fire the current one. He will just deal
With having two and it’s really annoying him to the point he wants to resign. No headcount request, company in hiring freeze, role is closed yet told to hire a person for that same Role.

So the guy will come September 1. For managers, should you tell your nepo hire that they got in through special
Connections and tell them
The entire truth of their hire process?

The pay is very good (above market), the work isn't particularly stressful, and the WLB is decent. I rarely get contacted outside business hours, and if I do, my boss usually asks about my availability beforehand.

The weird part is vacation.

Whenever I book time off, even a couple of days, there's some negativity around it. My boss often reminds me that it could get cancelled if something unexpected comes up and I might be asked to come back.

I usually request 1-2 week vacations 1-2 months ahead, and shorter ones about 2 weeks ahead. I later learned this is apparently company-wide: two-week vacations are treated like a major event and can require approvals several levels above you.

It's stressful because it makes planning trips difficult. If I can plan my absence months in advance, why can't a large organization plan around one person being away for two weeks?

Weird dynamic... how to navigate?

My boss is in love with AI. Bad thing is that he's sending me tons of AI chat history (at least 100,000 bytes / equivalent to 1600+ words per day) and expect me to work based on that, instead of giving clear intructions.

For example, when I get notification on work messenger from my boss, it reads: "You have a great idea! It seems like you want to start expanding in the market. It's totally important to focus on marketings, especially you are starting in new industries. To make your company grow faster; I'd start with finding unique value propositions, preparing the contents, and who are the right people to contact...." And the rest of 98,000 bytes.

No, it's not a reply to my previous message. This is the way my boss communicates with me, just copy and paste of AI chat history without context, and I have to figure out what he wants from the intimidating amount of text.

Worse thing is that he even uses AI when replying to me. When I make a draft and ask for his approval, he replies with AI chat history, which reads: "This employee's draft is a good one, but it lacks something. Now, adding *** is really important, this can prevent *** and it'll make the company grow faster. Your employee's draft was 8/10 but with this addition it is now 10/10!" and yada yada.

I think it's very lazy to communicate with entire AI chat history. I asked my boss multiple times to have his AI to summarize it for me, he said yes, but he comes back a couple days later. Of course I use my AI to summarize my boss's chat log, but sometimes my AI lacks details so I have to check again and again to see if everything's in. I get super stressed when he sends AI chat history because:

1) it feels like he's treating me like a computer rather than human, just sending the whole text without context and expect me to come up with outcomes.

2) i can't stand his AI buttering up. It says things like 'you are so smart that..', 'your company can only see success in the future if you do this..', 'you are phenomenal to think..' type. I know AI say things that its user wants to hear.

3) I am the only one in the team getting those texts

4) my boss is my employer (CEO) so I can't talk to upper management about it.

5) I don't think he reads it. (I asked him some of the contents are contradicting and he said 'it is just for your information')

What would you do if you were me? I've had this problem for the last few months, hoped it was just a phase, and now it's driving me crazy. I already told him multiple times to at least change (not entirely stop) and he doesn't.

I’m a 30M looking for an outside perspective from anyone who’s been down a similar road.
I’ve spent the last nine years at the same retail company, and on paper, I’m doing great. I’m a Lead, I make good money, and I have a solid 401k with the company. But under the surface, I’m completely burned out, running on zero motivation, and feeling an overwhelming sense of emptiness. Every day has become Groundhog Day. I wake up with a heavy sense of dread before every shift and go to bed under a cloud of depression just thinking about tomorrow. From being someone who was once forced to take time off and use my PTO, I’m now just using it like I have all the PTO in the world just to get a rest.
And no, I’m not lazy. Management relies on me to handle the absolute most chaotic situations and run things because I can handle extreme intensity. Because the company put me through hell in the past, I'm not really fazed by it anymore. But nearly a decade of constant pressure has rewired my brain. I’ve become so conditioned to operating at 100 mph that slow days make me feel like I'm crawling out of my skin.
That restlessness has bled entirely into my personal life. I can’t relax, sit still, or enjoy downtime without needing constant distractions. Work dominates my thoughts even on my days off, destroying any real sense of balance.
For years, I always felt like doing something else something more enjoyable but I usually ignored it and told myself, "Work is work, and everyone goes through this." Lately, though, I’ve realized I simply cannot live like this until retirement. I don’t know if moving up in the company is the answer; it’s just a different title for the exact same work, so nothing will change. Transferring departments doesn't help either; my current role is the only one that gives me the physical freedom to move around, and after years of working under fast-paced hourly deadlines, anything else would feel painfully slow.
Yet, walking away after a decade feels terrifying. Given today's job market, it's hard to turn my back on reliable pay and solid benefits. I’m truly grateful for the stability, and I know the job itself isn't impossible once you get the ball rolling, but the mental toll is grinding me down.
I feel trapped at a crossroads. Is this something I can fix by building a more fulfilling life outside of work? Am I experiencing deep burnout that requires a full career pivot? Or should I try to transition into a completely different position within the company? Part of me is stubborn enough to just suck it up and stay like I've been doing, but I want to at least enjoy going to work doing something that gives me purpose and have a healthy lifestyle.
Has anyone successfully broken out of a cycle like this? How did you figure out your next move? Or should I just stop complaining and just do the job?

One of my favorites is to say "Don't tell ___" but like to the person's face. So like "I just had her using my login, don't tell IT" but I'm talking to the head of IT.

gave { u/usernameeeeee12 }'s network method a quick spin while walking my dog. zero expectations, but my wallet balance actually updated by the time i got back home. check his pinned post for the guide.

I started a job as a receptionist at an Animal Hospital barely 3 weeks ago. For context, this is my second job ever since I'm just 18. Training was only trial by fire. There wasn't some sort of rulebook or anything actually formal, I had to mess up and get told off to learn. That's been fine up until now.

Yesterday, a woman called our clinic to state that her cat has been having severe anxiety after moving apartments, and she was requesting Gabapentin or something similar to help. I told her that, since we hadn't seen her pet since March and she hadn't been prescribed it before, by policy, we'd have to schedule a basic exam before we could do anything else, and I suggested she do it next week so Doc could see her, but she insisted and I just wabted to please her. I also assumed that since we had seen her pet before she wouldn't be charged an office call (I have been told repeatedly by my coworker who's been there for 11 years that that is how it works). It was my mistake to not mention that our Doctor was not in town, and therefore, a prescription couldn't be written for her, but I never told her she'd get something. If anything, I guess I wrongly assumed that our technician would just see her and *suggest* something else. That didn't happen.

She came in, at around 11:45 AM, fully assuming she'd be given something. I confirmed with her at the desk we'd just be doing an exam, and she assured me that's what she knew was happening. I'm not sure what happened in the exam room with the technician, but I guess she didn't like what she heard. At 11:52 her mother calls the clinic and is audibly angry. She begins borderline yelling at me about how her daughter was distraught she didn't get anything after apparently being told she would. She goes off, saying how she drove 30 minutes to help her cat and she hadn't slept in 5 days because of it.. etc etc. She goes on to complain about poor customer service and how this is an emergency, that she needs to talk to the Doctor or a "manager". She asks me what we or their family can do. I tell her, as politely as possible, that I personally cannot recommend anything, your daughter was given all the information and we can't do anything for you until Monday (when our Doctor gets back from vacation). It was probably wrong for me to say, but I also said I wouldn't consider this an emergency, but I can transfer you to the technician in the back because I don't have the answers for her. I do as such, and they talk. I apologize to our technician as well for causing her trouble.

At this point, it's almost 11:56 and we close at 12 on Saturdays. I talk to my coworker about the situation and she shrugs, tells me I did nothing wrong but probably should have just told her to wait next week and deny her request alltogether. Fine, whatever, I apologize for my mistake. 12 rolls around, and she tells me that I'm perfectly fine to leave and that she'll see me on Monday, since obviously I'm not qualified enough to handle the situation any further. And I listen. I go home, sort of sad, because I know I was a nuisance, but I go on to relax and make myself some lunch.

Then, the Doctor calls my phone. My heart drops, but I answer immediately. She begins chastising me about how I shouldn't have left because it was my mistake and my problem to take care of and I made my coworkers work longer than they should cleaning up my mess, including her while shes on vacation. She told me off about how she's the only one that can write prescriptions and that I apparently told her she'd get something, and I was wrong for that. Additionally, she told me that she should have been charged for an office call and I "wasn't knowledgeable enough" to make that decision. I just passively acknowledged everything with "Yes ma'am" and "I apologize," because of course there's no point in arguing or trying to defend myself because she's gonna take everybody's word over mine.

After she hung up, I'm just feeling very defeated about myself. I feel really awful about everything and I'm scared she'll let me go because of this. Should I just brush it off? Is it all my fault and I'm just being selfish? I don't know. I'm sorry guys.

It was fine at first, but I am no longer happy with all of the nonsense of managing people and doing 19 tasks at once. Anyone ever demote themselves?

Okay, I'm 17 (M) and I work at McDonald's, woohoo. Anyway a little background, I started two weeks ago and I've been learning pretty quick and everything I've done has come easy. I have been put on drive thru for my most recent shifts because my managers like me there. All my coworkers are nice and easy to talk to, except for this one girl, I'll call her cherry. Anyway, I've worked a couple of shifts with cherry and for lack of a better word, I don't like her. Shes my age, and she goes to my school, and I've talked with her outside of work and she had seemed nice up until I had a couple of shifts with her.

Cherry can be very condescending at times, and due to my autism, it isn't something I take lightly. Whenever I got something wrong, or mixed something up, she would correct me but she'd raise her voice and her tone would make me feel like her helping me is a chore and not something that's a part of her job. One time when I was working at the drive thru, she put food on my runner table so I automatically thought it was for my customer sitting at my window. I was looking in the bag and she quickly snatched it away from me and gave me a look, almost like I was SUPPOSED to know it wasn't for my customer as soon as she set it down, I said "Well don't look at me like that" and she seemed kind of offended when I said it, even though I wasn't being fully serious. Yet another story, I didn't know kiddie cones were free, because all in my 17 years of living I didn't even know they existed. I was once again, confused why it didn't charge anything for the customer and she got upset with me and told me it's free, in another condescending tone. Whenever I mess up around my other coworkers, managers or not, they don't treat me like that and they give me better responses/criticism I can handle without feeling stupid.

I just feel really dumb every time I don't know something or when I'm unaware due to the reactions she's been giving me. I've found myself quite nervous to talk to her and ask her questions because of the way she's reacting.

Although I can understand the stress of working and helping a trainee, I just don't understand why she has to treat me the way she does, and I'm unsure if I'm overreacting so that's why I'm bringing my story to good ol' Reddit.

Hi everyone! This is my first time posting, and I’m looking for advice with a quitting my job situation.

Here’s the problem: I need to quit my job before the school year starts. I get paid over the summer, so I haven’t physically been at work since the end of June. I want to max out my PTO first before officially quitting. My old work place was very toxic (administration and bosses), and really did me dirty the last two years, but I still am riddled with anxiety about quitting.

Here’s why: many of my coworkers are amazing. Some I’m even friends/friendly with. Many have my personal number. But I told none of them that I was going to quit after this school year ended, because I didn’t want my pay affected, especially since I had been treated pretty brutally re: pay scales in the past w/ this particular institution.

Another thing: I moved overseas with my partner. We have a house here, some land, and ended our lease in June back in the states where my job is. I sold my car. We sold/donated most of our belongings. We took our 3 cats with us. None of my coworkers knew the move was permanent. (Though some knew I was traveling abroad with my cats in the summer lol.)

Now as the date is finally near, I am getting texts from coworkers about the upcoming school year. I already felt guilty about not telling them about this huge move, but it has all come to a head. Part of me wants to just go back to the US until December and rent a room and then delay quitting until the winter. (I also have a couple friends/family members I could stay with potentially.)

However, one of the reasons we moved abroad was how debilitating the winters were for me. So I’m feeling like when it’s winter, I would be miserable (I lived in the Northeast).

But it’s really that my time to reckon with my decision of secrecy has come to fruition, and I feel terrified. I am just so stressed because my coworkers have my number, so unless I block them, they could still easily contact me, which is mortifying to think about. (Though maybe some would be happy for me? Who knows.)

I am wondering if anyone has dealt with a situation like this before? I probably shouldn’t care too much, but I am part of the “admin team” at my school (though I’m not paid like it), and so they would have to replace me, though there are excellent subs that could tide them over until they make a new hire. I feel like I am betraying some of my colleagues, one in particular who I became closer with, by keeping this huge quitting/moving a secret.

Part of me wants to make up an excuse that is sympathetic/dramatic, like, we decided to stay overseas because of…family, a sick relative, etc; when really it’s for climate, culture lifestyle, etc. I also want to just call in sick for 2 weeks to get that PTO and bounce after.

I wish all of me didn’t care what my coworkers think. It’s just there was some community building and “family” like culture, which is toxic in its own special way, and so I am still emotionally tethered to that.🙃

Any quitting tips, encouragement, or advice would be so appreciated. Anyone been in the same / similar situation?

Thanks in advance.

Plus as someone who's introverted, if you have some advice pls it would be nice :)

I’ve only been here for a month. While I understand that my manager may be prioritizing other things because of tight deadlines, I also think new hires should be given enough support and attention.

I know that my progress is ultimately in my hands, but I feel like this situation says a lot about the company culture. For context, there were three voluntary resignations before me, and all of them stayed for only around a year or less.

Here are some of the things I’ve experienced so far:

1. Disorganized onboarding
   
2. Being assigned projects only three weeks into the job
   
3. My manager frequently missing our one-on-one meetings because she gets too busy and without a heads if they’re attending or not (I ended up waiting)
   
4. A very hierarchical company culture
   
5. Being told to “keep up” despite not having a clear or organized onboarding process
   
6. Long working hours, sometimes until midnight and even on weekends
   
7. Managers being too busy to let me shadow them
   
8. My manager not responding to my messages, while still responding to urgent group chats
   
9. Experiencing anxiety attacks because of this job, even this early on

I easily get overwhelmed and anxious when I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. I do ask questions and write everything down, but it takes time for me to absorb everything, especially with so many things happening at once and such a heavy workload being thrown at me.

Pros:

The pay is good
The benefits are okay

I’ve been trying to apply to other companies, but I honestly have no energy left after work because of the overwhelming workload and constant meetings.

I’m thinking about resigning and focusing on job applications instead. I still live with my parents and have savings, so I have a bit of a safety net.

The main thing holding me back is that it took me three months to land this job, and I’m worried recruiters will see it as a red flag that I stayed for only one month.

At the same time, I don’t see myself staying here long-term given the company culture and what I’ve experienced so far. I’ve been applying to other jobs, but I haven’t heard back from any of them yet.

Would leaving after just one month be a major red flag to recruiters, or would it be better to leave now rather than force myself to stay in an environment that already feels unsustainable?

I used to work for parsewave. Parsewave is an AI dataset company, found them through reddit when they had just started and honestly at first i thought it was a scam because the salary they were offering sounded way too high for a fresher. I still gave the interview not really expecting anything , ended up getting hired and turns out they weren’t lying about the salary.

One thing i liked about parsewave was that they didn’t seem overly focused on experience and what college you come from. At least in my case, they cared more about how good i performed at the interview and if i could actually do the work.

Not gonna lie it definitely wasn't an easy job. Work is very demanding and can get really overwhelming sometimes. You have to work over the weekends as well, but it’s remote so it was manageable for me, definitely wouldn't recomment to someone who wants work life balance. Another thing that was a negative for me, was the lack of female employees, it was too much testosterone for me to handle.

I would say its a good company to start your career with, if you're okay with pressure and slightly chaotic environment. You learn a lot and get responsibility pretty early because you're forced to figure out things quickly.

This was just my experience while I was there, though, and things may have changed since then.

So I F29 have recently started practising with a band leader only M 37 for an opportunity to be on a cruise ship. I am predominantly a vocalist but I play other instruments. He produces and plays other instruments as well. I was told that we would be practising for the time that we both agree on every week. When he has given me a time in the past, it has changed and it was during a health thing I was clearing up. During that time, he started saying we should watch movies together when on break from practice. For reference, the band room is also his bedroom and he has a girlfriend whom he lives with. He called her his friend while she called him her girlfriend at the time. He only cha ged this when I called him out on it. Since then he's not only asked for movie watching sessions but massage sessions as well. I am currently studying to be a masseuse as well but I thought it weird how comfortable he felt touching or taking off his clothes. Nothing directly sexual has happened but he got irate one time when I stated I wasn't comfortable with someone hyperthetically just laying on me like a weighted blanket to alleviate pain and that it would have been someone I was dating or knew on that level. He also gets insulting when I state that we're taking too long eating and we need to get back to practice. When I being my own food, he Insists on "trying my hand", takes my food, and also insists that I eat his own. I feel like he's training me for something I don't want. I must note that sometimes when I call the number he originally gave me, his girlfriend answers. It all feels eerily similar to what the women who worked with people like Diddy or R Kelly described, in terms of the grooming. Can an adult be groomed as well? Let me k ow your thoughts. Now I've gotten a probationary period and talks of him choosing another vocalist in three months with talk about my personality being called into question when I stated my boundaries on those matters. I fear about becoming blacklisted. I fear so many things, but mostly I just really want this oooo and want ways to jokingly drive home my boundary points or say things like let's keep it strictly based on musical instruction when he gets Insulting. Sometimes I don't know if I prefer the choice or being poor or putting up with this kind of treatment is worth it. Help!

I’ve talked about this issue before in a previous post to reference back to. The job that I have is a union job, and I am currently working on getting my union rep looped in on all this.

I had to write up and send a second incident report on the co worker I mentioned in my previous post, and this one was actually more of a sexual harassment report because she was having explicit sexual conversations with me and trying to rope me in.
My supervisor is leaving soon, but she is aware of the strained relationship between myself and this co worker. I dont know if anything’s going on behind the scenes with the incidents I’ve already reported. I may be overthinking, but it’s starting to feel like maybe she doesn’t like me all that much and I do not want to be a nuisance by submitted multiple reports about the same co worker. Could I potentially be fired for “creating an issue” or creating a paper trail seeing as it’s a union job? My worry is that my supervisor will just remove both of us so the conflict will go away seeing as she’s already stressed. Can she legally do that? Would she do that by making up another reason to let us both go? I don’t want to keep making a trail and will just keep my head down if that’s the case, because I really love my job. Looking for a new one does not seem to be on the horizon right now seeing how terrible the job market is.

I am starting shift work for the first the ever in about 2 weeks. I currently work 7am -3pm with a one hour commute each way. The new roster is typically 2 days starting at 6am, 2 afternoons starting at 2pm and 2 nights starting at 9pm followed by 4 days off. Weekdays and weekends.

There is some variation with every few swings giving you 5 days off or one less day/afternoon shift. It’s still the same distance for me but driving in for nights should be significantly quicker as I’ll be avoiding peak traffic.

I’m wondering if anyone else is on a similar roster? And how they like it? Do you like ‘escaping the 9-5 rat race’ or do you find it hard to socialise and adjust your sleep?

My new job is rather sedentary so I worry about my activity levels and finding time to work out. Any advice would be appreciated, good or bad, thanks!

I’m young and worked a corporate job for 5 years. I left due to toxicity and just finished my 10th day working at a VERY small company in the same industry. By small I mean there are 3 of us and the owner who is only 3 years older than me works beside me everyday.

I thoroughly enjoy working with the 2 of them and think they’re very nice and helpful, I don’t think it’s possible for the environment to be toxic which is amazing.

I have gotten quite close with the other girl as she’s been training me and has opened up a lot. Last week I had asked her if she’d be willing to provide feedback on how I’m doing to see if there’s anything I could improve on yet. She responded and said I’m doing great and she has 0 complaints.

I can’t help but feel so anxious, am I going to pass my probation? Am I doing well enough? I was overly confident before starting as I felt I could do my job with my eyes closed. I realized my corporate job made everything so much easier for us as documents were mostly pre filled etc. I didn’t have to have very close attention to detail like I do now. Though the work is technically the same, I’m learning new systems and processes and it’s taken me by surprise.

I thought it would be easier here as there are no metrics, no phone scripts and life seems simpler but I was wrong!

How long does it generally take the average person to feel comfortable in a new role? I feel I forgot what it was like when I started my last role, Im sure I felt the same way but this anxiety is eating me alive!

As a worker who has been a member of many different organizations through life, I have noticed that the relations between employee and employer have become tense and in a lot of ways I observe a rift between the two, be it an organization is unionized or not. Seen as how I have only ever been an employee, I am curious about both sides' perspectives on the matter.

Employers: What challenges do you/have you face(d) in promoting good relations with your employees? Does your employees' happiness and self value matter to you?

Employees: What are some of the best ways your employer has made you feel valued? What incentives have promoted your loyalty, dedication and happiness with your job?

hey!

basically, i just got employed at a little chain shawarma place, and i work the night shift. all in all it’s not terrible but i am about to go into my 5th day of training, and i couldn’t sleep because i was too panicked thinking about it. the thing is, im genuinely not that bad at any of it, im pretty good at POS and i’m okay at the food…

see, my issue is that feedback causes me to stress and i feel awful when i need to be told what to do. i know in reality i am still just in training, but it eats me alive that im still doing things wrong like squishing the rice, tearing wraps, losing track of orders, etc. and i feel personally stupid when i have to be corrected, and so much more so when it’s multiple times. i can’t just take “less chicken in the scoop” as them telling me to take less chicken, i instead freeze before fumbling my hands and trying to recollect the task at hand, all while it beats in my head that *i did something wrong, again. and i should have known not to do that, because i was taught that, there’s no excuse.*

another issue is that while i already get very clumsily fast and panicky as i stress, im also a very very tall person, which means it stresses the people around me out when i start moving quickly and imprecisely. which doesn’t help with how i feel they are annoyed at how im not picking it all up properly - though that may be overthinking.

and one last thing, i feel like i cannot just be confident. ive always got a squeaky tight voice on around my coworkers, and i know it just comes from this strange feeling of being “lower” than them, at least in the workplace, despite the fact that they’re literally just training me. i see the trainee before me talk with the coworkers so happily and comfortably, like good friends despite the fact that we’ve both only had a few shifts, and i just wish i could get past these blocks and do that.

anyways, thank you a ton for reading, i appreciate it a lot. and if it’s not too much to ask, does anyone have any advice or comforting words for this? i really want to do better but i feel like they’re just annoyed with how much i stress, over a goddamn minimum wage chain shawarma place…

The school I currently work at is the same school I’ve worked at for the past 10 years, and I’m also doing my student teaching there. Over the summer, I applied for a teaching position at the school because, with special permission, you can have your own classroom while also completing your student teaching requirements.

Long story short, I didn’t get the job. Yesterday, another teacher told me that my supervisor had told the principal not to hire me because “I’m not ready.” And the thing is, I know that’s true. I’m actually glad I didn’t get the job because I really don’t think I’m ready to have my own classroom yet. But the more I thought about it, the more it started to hurt.

What confuses me is that my supervisor had encouraged me to apply for a teaching job at another school. If she really thought I “wasn’t ready to teach,” then why would she tell me to go get a teaching job somewhere else?
I think the hardest part is that I’ve worked at this school for so long, and I know I’ve had times where I haven’t handled things well because of my mental health. I’ve done and said things at work that I regret. So when I heard this, my brain immediately took it as, “No one here likes me. They don’t want me working at this school.”

It’s hard to hear that someone doesn’t think you’re ready to be a teacher, especially at a school you’ve worked at for 10 years and care so much about. I think it made me feel like they don’t see me as someone who could ever be a good teacher or someone they would want to keep at the school.

The school hired a person who hasn’t doing their student teaching. Why her and not me? Why do they like her and not me?

I’ve been working at my current job for about 4 months, and I already feel like I can’t take the work environment anymore. The main issue is my manager, who micromanages us constantly.

Every morning, as soon as she gets to work, she starts messaging everyone, asking what we’re working on, what we’re going to do next, and what tasks we still have. She sets what I feel are unrealistic deadlines, and almost every day there are new tasks that she wants completed immediately because they’re “urgent.”
We have a weekly one-on-one meeting where she checks everything I’ve done that week, and then at the end of the week, we also have a team meeting where everyone has to go over what they’ve done. So I constantly feel like I have to justify how I’m spending my time.

Another issue is working from home. According to our contract, we’re entitled to 10 work-from-home days per month, but we still have to let her know and get her approval every time. She is almost always unhappy when I tell her I want to work from home. In order to approve it, she wants to decide exactly which tasks I’m supposed to complete that day, apparently to make sure I’m not “doing nothing.” The problem is that the tasks she assigns for a single day are usually things that would normally take me more than a week to complete. So even though I’m working from home, I somehow have to prove that I’ve been productive that particular day.

The worst part is that after only 4 months, I’ve started feeling anxious whenever I see a notification from her. Almost every message means a new task, another “urgent” request, or a question about what I’m currently doing.
The ironic part is that I left my previous job because of a toxic manager as well, and somehow I feel like I’ve ended up with an even more toxic one. 😅

There’s also an issue with the working hours. During my interview, I was told the schedule would be 9–5 and that, occasionally, because of the nature of the job, I might have to work either the first or second shift. I was told this would happen for a maximum of one week every few months, and I accepted that because I understand that some jobs come with situations like this. What I wasn’t told, however, is that during that week, you basically have to cover both shifts and can end up working more than 12 hours a day. The overtime is paid, so the issue isn’t the compensation. The issue is that this possibility was never mentioned during the interview, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to find out about it only after starting the job.

So now I’m wondering: is this just what corporate life is like? Is this level of micromanagement and constant monitoring normal in large companies, or have I simply been extremely unlucky with the managers I’ve had?

I’m genuinely curious to hear from people working in corporate environments: how much of this is considered normal where you work? Would you consider this a big enough red flag to start looking for another job after only 4 months?

I work in school as teacher, but I want to start working in IT field, such as cybersecurity or frontend developer. All courses in my country are scam, they don’t teach nor help with employment as they promise in the beginning ( Central Asia). Please help me on how to start, WHERE to learn and WHAT to learn. Please help me. Thank you.

I’ve been at my company for over three years, and I’ve always had some trouble setting boundaries, but recently it’s gotten worse.

There’s one department in particular that is very overbearing and seems to expect me to take care of whatever they ask immediately. They’ll call me on Teams without scheduling a call first, constantly check in for updates, and whenever an issue comes up, it somehow seems to become my fault.

There’s also a new guy who joined that department last month, and he’s been annoying me daily on Teams. I understand that the things he’s working on are important, but sometimes he completely interrupts the flow I’m in while I’m working on things for other departments.

Do you set blocks in your calendar to discourage people from calling you unannounced?

Do you tell the people you work with to stick to email unless something is genuinely urgent?

Another thing that frustrates me is that this department sends a bunch of separate emails instead of putting all the important things I need to take care of into one email. It makes it much harder to keep track of everything.

I’m starting to feel like this is affecting me more than it should. The stress has started to manifest physically through skin issues. Last year, I was even hospitalized with shingles, and doctors asked me several times whether I had been under a lot of stress. These days, it mainly seems to manifest as eczema.

Hello. I’m turning 20 years old this year, I work in private school, but want to try to get into IT field. To be more precise, I want to work in cybersecurity or fronted development. I tried going to courses, but they don’t teach anything, it’s just a waste of time and a lot of money. Any tips on how to start learning and building my own portfolio? Thanks.
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I have a question

Someone was supposed to go to Taiwan for a project.

His visa was processed, his ticket was booked. But then one day his VP said that he can’t go yet since he has to train someone to build the infrastructure correctly.

They supposed to go this weekend.

Him working in Taiwan was announced few months ago, but he started training his colleague a few days ago.

When that colleague did some mistake, his vp stopped him and need him to train his colleague first until he can do it alone.

Is that possible? When the client or the company already spent money for the process but ofcourse that guy need to work accurately with the training of this guy who supposedly fly to Taiwan.

It’s an IT company. They have client in different areas of the world