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I’m a M25, and I’ve been in a job for three years where I work 11-hour days with only one or two days off a week.

At first, things went well and the job was fine, but lately, I don't know what's happening to me; I struggle to concentrate or get things done. Sometimes I just zone out thinking about random stuff or work-related matters without actually doing anything or I get angry over trivial things.

Lately, I arrive at work feeling drained and unmotivated; sometimes that feeling passes during the day, and sometimes it doesn't. My coworkers have noticed this, and it’s affecting our interactions not in a hostile way, but some of them are keeping their distance. My bosses have noticed it too and let me leave early, but once I’m out or at home, I can’t shake the feeling of needing to keep tabs on what’s happening at work, or I feel guilty for not being there.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of dissatisfaction or something similar?

AITAH for not working extra hours because my boss rarely helps out? I (53f) work in a culinary department as a cook in a Senior Independent Living Facility and our Culinary Department Manager (35m) doesn’t help staff out very often. Sure he makes menus, sets schedules, orders, etc, but when the serving staff is short handed, he expects me and the Sous Chef and the other cook to jump out of the kitchen and help despite the fact that we are needing to prepare the next meal (we serve 3 meals per day, 7 days a week) or prep for the next several days meals. Because we’re always being pulled out of the kitchen, we don’t have time to prepare what needs to be done. We also have to watch our time closely so as to not get any overtime.
The dilemma is that our CDM will occasionally understaff us “accidentally” and expect kitchen to fill in the holes. Today was one of those days. I spent most of my prep time out on the serving floor instead of in the kitchen. So when the CDM called me near the end of my shift (I open so I work from 5 am to 1pm) to ask me to pull a double shift and help out at dinner service, I said I couldn’t. He asked me why and I told him I had something personal. He actually gave me an attitude over it, which I responded with “I have a family outside of work that needs my attention as well.” You see, he has yet to jump in and help his own staff. I’m over it. I’m not the only one who thinks he needs to help us out more often.
So, AITAH for not volunteering to work extra hours?

Basically work a nursing job so 12 hour shifts and was doing nights for over 2 years and they needed someone for days and so I switched over and loved it since nights weren't working well for me poor sleep etc but now that I went to days for a month they want me to switch back to nights to help the shift out since they are so short and they said only for like a month or so until they hire staff I think it's ridiculous

I had a manager and he seemed good on paper, experienced and confident

Turns out he was slipping his personal number to clients during calls. Like right in the middle of conversations. Then He left to work for a competitor and took a huge chunk of my client base with him

I didn't catch it until a month later. A client mentioned it casually. Oh, your old manager called me from your new company

If I had been recording calls, I would have caught this on day two and not a month later. I could have stopped him before he did damage

Now I'm looking for a system with cloud call storage. I need recordings that no one can delete, not even admins, because you know how it can happen

I saw CloudTalk has a plan with unlimited storage. But I don't believe "unlimited" is truly unlimited and there's always a catch

Has anyone been storing calls for over a year?

I am soon going to be temporarily not working for some time, and have to onboard someone for my duties. I am one of the few people in 3 departments I am supporting, who can do data extracting and knows tools to do so.
The person I am onboarding has been working in the company for a long time, and is doing reports in Microsoft Access, let’s call them Bun. Recently we had a new boss join, and I will be transferred to their department.
As Another person will also be absent as soon as i come back, they started looking for a temporary hire, but because that would have cut my onboarding options to just 1 month + the person doesn’t know the company specifics, it was decided that I will be onboarding Bun.
Probably Bun hasn’t explained their technical affinity to the new boss well enough, as The Boss was telling me they are good at analysis and can do ETL and stuff.
… Bun is not even half baked. I had to show Bun how to use the scrolling with two fingers. I had to tell Bun about joins, our internal databases and what’s available, and whom to contact. All because Bun has inherited the Microsoft Access reporting crumbs, but never ate them. Bun couldn’t even tell me what language is used is MA. I am horrified (but am absolutely not showing it or judging Bun) and now have to hastily bake the Bun’s knowledge at least to the level of “I know whom to ask if I have a question, and then I can maybe do it myself. Longer, but still”.

And this is me talking about just ETL. Then there is specific position knowledge Bun has none of, and… I am not sure if I will not be fired after I come back, because how useless (sorry, Bun) Bun would probably be, sailing on the sails of conformity for the longest time in their life.

This is… awful, really. Considering my access will be fully blocked, this is just… But alas, I am just ranting 🫠

Why do managers feel like monsters on Monday

It's my first year working with Spirit Halloween and I already got an offer to become an assistant manager. We were in the process of officially promoting. Which meant I had to move around some shifts and availability for my main job. Thought some really exciting stuff was coming my way so I mentioned it to friends and family. However, the day of my training the district manager was at our store and straight up fires our store manager. While our store's in shambles, I bring up the fact that I was being promoted to the assistant manager and she tells me they're no longer looking to fill the position. I felt embarrassed having told family and friends and them congratulating me to now having to say "ohhh aha about that!" I was and still am extremely pissed at the situation and disappointed asf as I always wanted to work for spirit. Now there's rumors of them wanting to phase out the employees the old manager previously hired. I guess time will tell. Haven't recieved the new schedule for this upcoming week because they're still "working on it" let's see if that's even true. I honestly should have walked out that day. Unfortunately I could use the extra money

School principal: You must teach the same thing you did before, but in half the time with twice as many kids in the room.

Me: Wow, that's really setting us all up for failure. Can we make xyz schedule changes to make it at least a little bit more feasible?

School principal: Absolutely not under any circumstances.

Also school principal: This is not a cut. It is a reorganization.

Me: It's a cut.

School principal: IT IS NOT A CUT.

Also School Principal: "I'm sure we'll find some middle ground"

Me (in my head): I do not think that word means what you think it means.

I gotta find a new job, but I doubt the grass will be greener. It seems to be pretty dead everywhere.

Also, "I'm sure we'll find some middle ground" is my new favorite passive aggressive "fuck off". I'm considering adding it to my email signature.

Just a vent: Also I'm not simply sick - my back is fucked.

Anyway.

I never take days off unless it's holiday or I'm genuinely vomiting/at death's door, so to speak.

I am a kitchen porter, and I absolutely adore my job. I love the rush of it and the exercise, as well as the social aspect and freedom to do it at my own pace, and take breaks as many times as I want. I'm grateful.

I digress.

I've had this back problem for the past few weeks. My back was busted two weeks ago and I had to take the week off. There was no issue there. I went abroad the week after and came back a few days ago. Last night I done my back in again.

I woke up this morning in agony, and I can't visit a doctor for medication until tomorrow.

So I've texted my boss and he's trying to slither around it, telling me to "just try", "take your time", "don't rush around as much". But I'm trying to get it through to him that I am not fit to perform my duties that they, and I, expect out of me.

I've left a final message saying I cannot come in tonight, and it's been left on read.

Now I'm sitting here waitin on confirmation. And now I feel like I'm gonna get reprimanded.

But as of right now, I am on the couch, like a pathetic vegetable, incapable of going upstairs for a piss without wailing in pain from the slightest motion, and I think that's made my boss annoyed at me.

This is my anxiety likely kicking in (I'm terrible with it, and it makes me think irrational thoughts), but I can't shake this feeling of immense guilt.

The reason I feel this way is because I am the most reliable KP they have right now, and I feel pressure from it. But it's Sunday, and we are supposedly really quiet today (dead, even) - so I don't understand the poking and prodding to get me to come in like this.

Am I overreacting? Full disclosure, they're nice people - but my current head chef is fairly new, and does not know me that well yet. So his first impression of me is likely "this dude is always off work" when it's only been the last two or three weeks.

Like I don't get why people keep turning the AC off like just bring a blanket or wear layers or a sweaters, I can't exactly go butt naked to feel normal and not get headaches. And my colleagues are way too crazy it'll be like 39 degrees and they'll be turning off the AC like it's so hot omg....

This coworker had a big ass mouth. They never shut up they are completely disrespectful to others. They always make it about them too. Self centered know it all. When they are dumber than a box of rocks. And also trash.

What are the pros and cons of firing an employee at the end of their shift? Is this a common practice for employers? Is it ethical?

This happens more often than not at my workplace. Sometimes it happens in the morning, but not as often. It seems unethical to work an employee for the day and then dump them right before quitting time.

my boss says every part timer has to work on stat holidays but we dont even get paid 1.5 our wage for those hours?? (In B.C. Canada for reference) i asked about it before and he said its only for full timers but the gov website says all workers should be paid 1.5 so long as theyve worked 30 days- so what im assuming is that they just make all the part timers work on stat holidays so they dont have to pay full time ppl 1.5 their hourly pay since part timers are all working instead. So dumb and greedy. Not to mention i submitted my unavailability on that day and yet i am still scheduled for it. So fuckin dumb genuinely hate that job

Ok so let me explain this right ...
Whilst experiencing my time at MPD motor factors.
let's call her Sharon, she runs from her desk in the middle of the day shouting 'I've gotta go and hide the drugs" she proceeds to jump in her car and leave for the day, it turns out her "boyfriend" has been stopped in the town and arrested for smoking a "spliff" whilst driving a recovery truck for which he has no licence no mot and no insurance for . Sharon also take off a week with a "bad knee' because she can't sit at her desk, but then returns the following week, and on her return she proceeds to show us photos of her jolly outing at the canal fishing. She can sit at the canal but not her desk. Okay....
Then Mo (not his real name), leaves abruptly to run home because his son is caught with cannabis and a knife in school and has been arrested, he proceeds to take a few days off to deal with this matter and openly admits on his return he smokes "weed" he is the deputy manager and Sharon is office staff. Mary takes time off because her son has hurt his gf and is arrested whilst he's off his head on cocaine and she's got drug dealers demanding money off her for his drugs. She's also always sick , so much so she's nicknamed sick note Mary. Louise is a raging alcoholic that comes into work on the daily smelling of booze .

And I'm the one that's sacked because for 6 solid months I turned up on time apart from 6 minutes late one day of which I was present in the car park anyway, and I was a little slow learning how to read the invoices because they are backwards and I was using a hand held computer at euro car parts. Aaaand I took one day off and asked Mick my manager to deal with a problem I was having with being targeted by the other staff being called thick by Mick himself 3 times, idiot twice by Sharon and a cunt by Sharon also. And I got the sack for not communicating or following instructions . Just wanted to give you a little context. How the fuck did I lose my job here? ...was I missing something? Was I not rough enough to fit into this work place? It was Wolverhampton after all. I really am bewildered 😳