Ah! Never worked high-stakes retail like that. I get it now.

Fucking yes! Hang in, get the experience they're paying you to steal, run away. It's crazy that people focus on employers fucking us when we can be fucking them!.

Oh no. Anyway.

She should just do less. Sounds like she's a good worker, they won't fire her. Standards are lower than we tend to think

I wish I had learned to jump ship sooner instead of swallowing so much bullshit. The social contract is dead. Right to work cuts both ways bitches. Quit with no notice when employers haven't done shit to earn your loyalty. The bridges we burn today light the path forward.

She has ADHD like me. She won't stop and she gets taken advantage of.

I went on 4 weeks of medical leave for surgery. I'm on week 3 rn. 3 days after my leave started, I learned it was an absolute shit show without me and work was piling up because there weren't enough people to do the big tasks and the many tiny little things that I do. I get told on the daily by my two work besties that they can't wait for me to come back because of how awful it has been without me. Apparently even the big boss was saying that my presence is missed and that I do so much more than he had realized. I just try to keep myself busy so boredom doesn't kick in.

Sounds like someone is due a raise

I asked for one and was laughed at and essentially told that management doesn't intend for me to get any kind of meaningful raises or advancement. I'm browsing for new jobs.

Good for you on leaving, and good luck with the search!

This is the problem with the idea that we should always be giving 110%. Companies should have enough people to deal with staffing issues. Wtf are they going to do when you die? Just fold the company and fire everyone?

Right? I don't give 110%. I just do my job. I heard that we're looking to hire another person because management finally realized we need it

Thank you!

any company that advertises unlimited PTO just don't bother applying. you'll never get that PTO and there's nothing to pay out when you quit. add to the fact that they're clearly saying "we prefer to hire idiots"

This is the lesson most fail to learn in their career: management will get by in the least amount of manpower required, and scrambling to keep all plates spinning just shows management you have the power to do so, even if you're only doing it half assed because some wide tie says it needs done.

I learned a decade ago that going above and beyond makes 'above and beyond' your normal. I will regularly sandbag at work when necessary to allow tasks to build up (along with keeping my sanity as intact as reasonable) while still getting core tasks completed. Because running myself at my peak all day every day will make me start prepping my Hemingway retirement plan, and who wants that.

Ask again when you get back, now that they know just how necessary you are. And if they still choose to say fuck you, don't work as hard as you keep looking. After all, you're still recovering

Where I live taking all your days is mandatory, by law. The company gets punished if you don’t, so the HR guys actually remind you to do it. There is a small flexibility (you can take part of your days in next year Q1) but you cannot swap your days for money, nor ‘give them’ to another employee.

Did I mention we have 25 workdays of paid vacation, by the way?

Tell them to quit busting their ass for a company that despises them. If the company just keeps throwing work ontop of overworked employees, task prioritization kicks in and I start asking for priority lists to determine what has to be done and what can slip. When I get told that it's all important and nothing slips, I just respond with 'hire someone or tell me what has to complete or can be missed, or I'll use my best judgement and choose what I work on'. You have me for 40hrs, maybe 45 on a bad week. If you give me 60 hours worth of work in a 40 hour week, I'm going to let 1/3 of what you give me burn. It's your choice what gets burned lol.

I loved the day that a shit manager said he'd fire me for that, and he really did not appreciate the combo response of "don't threaten me with a good time" and "lol you don't have the manpower for your work as is and are getting hell from upper management, you can't afford to lose me". Was very satisfying to quit with no notice a month later while he was talking shit about replacing me. Heard it took a few months to find that replacement too.

The only coverage I will go after is oncall cover, daily coverage is absolutely management's responsibility. I inform my boss what I'm sick or will be taking PTO, and he handles coverage or telling other departments to fuck off for as long as someone is out and we have to keep our core availability open.

• General, we need 10000 soldiers to take that place.
• Don't worry. We'll send 1000 and tell them "if you don't do it we have another 100000 soldiers to do your job"