Getting laid off at the end of the year, they're doing the whole "let's outsource everyone for cheap!" thing.

Anyways, the guy they want me to train does not speak english. Not well enough for me to understand on a Teams call anyways.

I'm just being real here, I'm not trying to be rude or anything.

He asks questions that I can barely understand and are also not at all relevant to my job...he doesn't understand WHAT I do, even when I explain it.

...also what I do is NOT really something I can train someone on. It's a design job. You gotta be a good designer. I'm not sure this guy has ever even opened Photoshop before.

So what the heck do I do? They're holding a severance package and unemployment benefits hostage so I do this training but uh...this guy is kind of untrainable.

Any advice?

Should I just kind of fake it best I can? In my entire tenure at this company I've never had a negative performance review, I've never had so much as a warning. They still need me for what I do for this job, etc...but uh...training my own replacement was never in my job description, it's not something I'm good at.

27F I work in a small startup where the ceo is my direct superior. Now to give you some context, one of clients visited on Sunday and we had to work on that day. This boss always expects us to stay beyond our working hours on Saturdays (I work Monday - Saturday). Now that being said today my vehicle broke down and I was forced to get it fix even though its nearly the end of month and I don't have any money left. As i have worked for 10 days straight I thought of calling out sick or take a leave. I decided against it and decided to come to work since i had an important meeting later in the day. When I entered the office, the ceo is already angry and screaming at other people and when he sees me coming in, humiliates me even though i told him the reason for me being late. And then he loudly, in front of everybody asked me to take leave and go. This isn't the first time something of this sort has happened and I am seriously thinking of quitting. This is definitely the straw that broke the camel's back but the best friend advises against it. Idk how i should do.

I’m so sick of it.

When I was 19, my drink was spiked with psilocybin, while at a work event by my 30+ yo manager.

When I was working for the NPS as a park ranger, I’d constantly get comments by affiliates about how “I need an orgasm” or how “I walk like I need to get fucked.”

I slept w a fellow park ranger coworker of mine (who I thought was a friend) and he beat me so bad, I had bruises all over my face and body.

Now, I work as a front desk manager at a massage place, and all of my older male coworkers are creepy. I got drinks with one of them after work, and he told me he was attracted to me, that he had a CNC kink, that he’s SA’d multiple times before, that he stealthed his wife. After telling him, I’ve been on the receiving end of this stuff, he just told me how hard it is to get false allegations (he has two).

I feel like all day, everyday, I’m scared someone is going to say something inappropriate to me and it’s going to embarrass me.

I can’t beleive how common workplace sexual harassment is. Maybe it’s because I’m a young women in public facing jobs?!

Idk, does anyone have any advice? There’s no HR at this current position and no board, so I think I might just quit. It just sucks bc my mom works here and I don’t want to hurt her reputation or tell her what’s going on

I work at a chain barbershop, I've worked for this chain before, but I moved recently and this is my first time at this location. I realized pretty quickly that the girls who work here are cliquey, and the manager is best friends with one of my coworkers and they are both close with the assistant manager. There's only 5 women that work here total, including me. They seemed very lax about everything compared to other locations. I'm about 10 years younger than all of them, so I was a little intimidated but they have all been friendly for the most part. After my first couple weeks, my manager asked me to be 10 minutes early to my shifts. This isn't that odd, and is common for a lot of these chain stores because they want you to clock in and clean before starting to cut hair. Our store is not very busy, and it's really common for me to come in and there be no one waiting for a cut. It's also pretty common for my manager to text me telling me we're not busy, and tell me to come in a couple hours later. I also never have to take down my station, so I'm pretty much always ready to cut. I had been coming in for my shifts 7-8 minutes early, which gave me enough time to get ready to cut before my actual start time. She reminded me again that I needed to be 10 minutes early, and I was coming in too late. I recognized I had trouble with time management, and was adjusting to new city traffic, and I told her I'd make it a priority. I had a shift where I was scheduled for noon, and I walked in the doors at 11:52, and she handed me a paper that was a warning, basically a step before a write up, and told me I needed to be at least 10 to 15 minutes early before my shift. I said okay, and started busting my ass to be in the parking lot 20 mins before my shift started. I didn’t get written up. Yesterday I was scheduled at noon, but my manager asked if I could come in at 2 instead because we were slow. My assistant manager (who came in 2 hours early to her shift yesterday and clocked in) approached me and told me to watch my hours, because it’s important I don’t dip below 32 hours. Today I was scheduled at 2, and I was running errands all morning and had time so I came in at about 1:10. I go to the back, get my smock on and everything, look over my station, and my manager says “I can’t let you clock in until 1:45.” I say “Okay… that’s fine, I guess I didn’t realize I couldn’t clock in early. I was just trying to cover my bases because the AM told me to watch my hours.” She says that makes sense, but I need to communicate with her if I’m coming in early from now on. I’ve never worked a job where it’s an issue coming in early. Can she really not let me clock in or did she just not want me to? I don’t know. I feel my manger is being difficult, but am I the problem ?

Hi
I was very close friends with this guy before finding out that he was a POS and was backbitching about my and my friends, slutshamming and a lot more. He was obsessed and was in love with a friend one sided who did not reciprocate and he talked a lot of shit about her. He came across as a caring and a nice guy but I found out a lot of this and we fought.
We used to live in the same place (3 of us friends) and he moved out after we confronted him and fought. He started dating someone and is now engaged to her. The person he is engaged to is now going to join my team. I know he has bitched about us to her, and I am going to be very uncomfortable now in any team conversations. I’ll always be on the edge and struggle. Tbh I really enjoy my team and conversations and I am scared. She is joining as an intern and I am supposed to onboard her. I am very annoyed at that fact. What should I do

My boss is petty, spiteful, hypocritical, constantly talks to me like shit, has never said thank you or well done for doing good work, but will call me out in front of everyone for any mistake I make, however small..and I've just found out through an ex colleague that he called me and my other colleagues useless because he "has to do everything himself" he only thinks that because he's such a micro manager! We're getting made redundant on the 31st December (and he has put me on the late shift on New Years Eve on my last day of work so I'll be on my own from 3pm!) should I start speaking to him like shit back or be the bigger person and just bide my time until I leave when I never have to speak to him again?

I work in an administrative and accounts position, and I need an unbiased opinion on something that happened at work today.
During a meeting, a salary fund deficit at our office was discussed. I explained that I had already emailed the concerned authority and followed up twice without receiving a response. The deficit wasn’t caused by any mistake on my part. My Head then told me, in front of everyone, that if the issue wasn’t resolved, I should travel to another state alone and sort it out myself.
What upset me even more was that when a similar deficit at another office was discussed, the response was that their Head should contact the concerned authority. In our case, however, I was told to go alone. The authority has also made it clear that communication should come from the senior person in our office, which is my Head.
I’m not refusing to do my job. I can prepare the data, explain the calculations and follow up on the issue. But if the matter requires intervention from a higher authority, shouldn’t my Head be responsible for escalating it?
Am I overreacting, or is it reasonable to expect my Head to take responsibility for this instead of sending me alone to resolve it?

I'm quitting on Monday, and when I quit they are going to ask me to do a ton of stuff to help with the transition, which I am happy to do since the company has generally treated me pretty well.

But now I'm just sitting, waiting, pretending like I'm still going to be here next month while I sit through meetings. I'm obviously not going to start working on any projects that I'm about to hand off. No point in making consequential decisions or meeting with new customers.

I'm just bored but I still have to be in office all day and look like I'm doing something. How do I handle this last week there has to be some productive way to use the time.

I’m a recent graduate in the final rounds of a good traineeship where personal development and self-reflection are a big part of the program. The interview was with an HR person and a current trainee. They said at the start that it was a safe space to be open.

They kept asking “why” and asked me to go “a layer deeper.” I said I make careful choices because I want to do things well. When they asked where that comes from, and whether my family puts pressure on me, because I mentioned them as they are important to me. I got emotional and cried. I shared personal and emotional things about my background that I haven’t even told my friends.

After that I was a bit thrown off for the rest of the interview. They still told me about the next steps, and said I could reach out if I had other offers.

Now I feel embarrassed and exposed, and I’m not sure I can face them again. Is this as bad as it feels? Does it hurt a candidate’s chances in a program like this?

Wasn't sure on the correct flair or what subreddit to post this on, but something has been happening at work that I need advice on. I'm so sorry if I'm rambly and all over the place, but I'm just trying to get any context/backstory that might help everyone see what's going on.

I work in a grocery store meat department. Have been there over ten years total. I was a clerk, cutter, assistant manager, and now as of a few weeks ago, a meat department manager. Three quarters of my time there has been mostly fine.

The past two years was rough. I made assistant a couple years ago, and had a few lazy department managers right in a row. They were all older guys that have been in the company meat departments a long time, and I couldn't get anyone, even the district manager, to take my side on how much work they were leaving me. The most recent one walked out after I called him out on leaving literally all the cutting and truck for me.

During this time, a girl who used to work in that meat department (and was the one who actually first trained me), stepped up to store co-manager about two years ago. And every concern I brought up to her was kinda shrugged off as "well, you know these old guys", and she would go back and buddy up with them but go hard on me for not having things done. She would also tell our clerk/cutter to do completely different things than what I would ask him. He is someone that she's friends with outside of work, too.

I brought these concerns up to the past two store managers, both just told me to not worry about it and I was doing good.

After the most recent meat manager walked out, there was a four month period where they weren't posting the job for some reason, and my cutter and I were both working overtime. Everything between those two calmed down, and the job was tiring and stressful, but somehow easier at the same time.

Our newest store manager just got there about a month ago, I put in for meat manager when he finally posted it, and I got it within a week. My cutter stepped up to be my assistant. Now, only when I'm not there, is the co-manager is back to coming back and ordering things that dont sell and telling my assistant to do completely different things than what I'm asking (I can provide lots of examples, like me asking him to prep sales items, but after I leave she takes him out of the department to work in other departments with her). She's taking pictures of a few things I missed and sending it to my district meat specialist without confronting/asking me to fix it first. And she keeps having my assistant relay critiques to me, even after a day I worked with her all day and heard nothing.

The other day, before my current couple days off in a row (which I really needed to cool down), I asked every other department manager (grocery, bakery, deli, dairy), if their assistants ever come up to them and tell them that the co-manager had them do something other than what they were asked. They all said no.

So this has been basically going on like this for a couple years now. I haven't gone to our newest store manager about it yet because he's been in another district for a week, then was on vacation, but he's back in a couple days. And like I said, everyone before him has told me to just ignore it, but it's mentally wearing me down. I've never worked in any other company before that had someone do this. I've never helped in another meat department where any manager came back to undermine me when I wasnt there.

And I've asked her about it a few times. She brings a witness into the office with me, and tells me she never goes back there and does any of that.

Any advice on the next few steps?

Edit: lots of grammar errors, there's probably a lot more, I wrote this stressed and burned out

Not sure if anyone has any answers to this or has been through the same thing, but maybe a little insight? I dont know. I’m currently looking for another job but with this economy I can’t exactly quit right now and just wait for something to float along.

Long story short, the clinic I work for just lost all its nurses pretty much. We now have 7 doctors and only one nurse, one scheduler, and one insurance verification specialist. We only have an interim manager right now because our former quit 6 months ago and we haven’t hired another one besides one person managing two departments. This manager is about as present as someone’s dad going to get milk and the likelihood that we’ll have a meeting about this is slim. So now with all the nurses gone…what happens now? Has anyone in the healthcare field had this happen before?

A Capital One employee is wondering: are there any sectors or companies spared from the dual impact of laying off employees and simultaneously expecting the remaining employees to not only take on the work of those laid off, but also do more than expected because of the “magic” of AI? If you’re exploring roles, application autofill can save form-filling time. For engineering readers preparing for interviews, Capital One Interview Questions includes a virtual-card case to practice debugging. Is it like this everywhere?

My workplace recently posted for the same position that I am in as we are currently understaffed. When I was hired almost 3 years ago, HR absolutely refused to give me a starting point for salary. I was miserable at my previous (hostile) workplace, and was desperate to leave so I gave a low number, which is my bad but I was desperate. I’d always suspected I had lowballed myself, but could never get confirmation, until now. They are NOW posting jobs with salary ranges, and my salary is below the range. I want to bring this up to my manager but I don’t want to start waves if the results wont be what I’m hoping for. It feels crazy to me that they would put a higher value on someone brand new than an employee that has been here 3 years and proven herself.

Any insight is appreciated.

Hey guys this is my first post, I needed to ask this question because it affects me every day and makes me feel so miserable. I started working in this new job (tech sales) 2 months ago, every day feels so long, time doesnt move at all, there are not many customers too like its very dead in here (2-3 customers per day at best) because its a new shop-in-shop that not many people know. I cant sit, cant go on the phone, just run around for 8 hours doing simply nothing.I feel like my day is wasted and have no energy. I am looking for another job but till then how do I cope?

Hi all, I recently presented info at this workshop and my calculation for a population growth was questioned. Further investigation after the workshop found it was incorrect, despite me asking a colleague who is an expert in that field to check it. He didn’t pick up on the error which led me to think it was fine to present. Anyway, after the workshop my manager just gave off negative energy. I asked how she thought the workshop went and she could barely say anything, and I could tell she was pissed off. I’m not sure if she thinks it’s a reflection of her cause she is overseeing this whole project. She is a perfectionist in all aspects of her work, and it’s starting to make me anxious. I understand it’s not great to make mistakes like that, but I initially I just felt like “it’s done now, just fix the error, let the stakeholders know and move on”. It doesn’t impact any decision making. So I wanted to know, is this need for perfectionism in all aspects of work healthy? Or am i too relaxed about my work?

At my job, i feel that many people build a big part of their social life around work. They spend time together outside working hours, organize events, give big gifts to colleagues for life events and just share openly a lot of personal stuff.

If you don’t want to be that involved, people act like something is wrong with you. It feels badly received, as if you’re rejecting them or not being a team player…

I don’t think wanting distance between work and personal life is unreasonable. How do you set boundaries without being seen as the difficult one?

We started using a shared project board a few months ago. Every task has an owner, a due date, and a little activity log showing edits.

Last Tuesday I had a report due Friday. Thursday afternoon my manager asked if I could prioritize an urgent client issue first. I said sure and specifically asked whether the report could move to Monday. He said yes.

I finished the client issue Friday and submitted the report Monday morning.

During our team meeting today, he pulled up the board and asked why my report was two days overdue. I said we had agreed on Monday. He looked at the task and said, "It clearly says Friday."

After the meeting I checked the activity history because I genuinely thought I had misunderstood something.

The due date had been changed from Monday back to Friday at 8:14 this morning.

I sent him a private message saying I noticed the date had been edited today and asked whether that was intentional. He replied that Friday was the "original expectation" and that the board should reflect original deadlines for reporting purposes.

That would be annoying but understandable if it were just historical tracking. What bothers me is using that same date in a meeting to say I delivered late after he explicitly approved Monday.

I took screenshots of the activity history because I suddenly feel like I need to.

I don't want to turn one weird incident into a war with my manager, but this feels less like a deadline problem and more like rewriting what happened.

My office worked from home for a while. During this time, my main team started up a tradition of monthly meetup meals at restaurants, either lunch or dinner. It was nice to see them in person.

But now we're back in the office. I also took up a second part time evening job to pay for medical stuff and debts. This job never conflicts with my main job but my current second job gets weird about when to request time off.

So back to the meals, my one coworker who whines and does the least work is adamant about us still meeting up every month for meals. But lately he is pushing for a Friday night dinner. I'm always working Friday nights but don't want that getting out. My boss knows but that's it.

My coworker keeps going on and on about how this year has been so stressful and we need to drink. I'm just tired of rearranging my Friday nights for dinners I feel increasingly out of place at. I don't even drink anymore either. I'm much closer with other people at this main job. But I'm being treated as a stick in the mud for not joining for dinners. I don't get why they can't do some dinners without me.

I have a coworker who’s being sexually harassed by other coworkers(multiple men) I’ve reported this to the general manager and all I got was an apology for not “understanding how things between two adults were”. My coworker has gone to HR before for another incident regarding an old man that was stalking her putting trackers in her car and following her home and all they did was change her schedule and tell her that she’s supposed to be used to things like this because she’s beautiful. I’m unable to go to HR because they have done nothing to help her or even address any of the men that are harassing her. What can I do to make this information public? Would I be able to write a message to BBB and report the job in HR?

I share a team with someone who regularly asks for my help with tasks that are fully his responsibility. At first I said yes a few times to be nice. But this started happening every week, and it eats into my own deadlines. I finally told him last week I can’t keep helping with his regular workload. Since then, I’ve heard he’s mentioned to other teammates that I’m uncooperative and hard to work with. I still help when there is a real emergency or our team needs to cover for someone. I just won’t take over his ongoing work for free. It feels unfair. I don’t want conflict, but I also can’t sacrifice my own work to cover him. How would you handle this if you were in my position?

Has anyone heard of worked for a company named Genpact ? Ive done my research to vet and determine whether they were a legit company with real reviews but the onboarding process has me re considering ?? Please if you're in the U.S. and have worked for them, know someone who has or have general info about the company, i would appreciate a response !

I work in retail and my biggest issue while working has gone from being our famously rude customers to my own team. I work in a team of 5 strong, competent women. However, we have a really whiny, complaining dynamic as a team. I find that the longest serving members of the team are really negative, and they find everything one does as an issue. Nothing is ever done right in their eyes, but also no constructive solutions are offered. We have a group chat which is mostly just negative remarks or complaints about others work - so it's really hard to turn off the work-brain despite muting the chat (because it's the same chat where I communicate with my family and friends)

Myself and the manager both are trying to spread positivity by cheering others on, offer solutions to issues instead of complaining, asking before assuming etc.

And I find this negative environment so extremely draining - so how the heck do I navigate this?

Hello, my husband and I are relocating to the PNW. I got my dream job in a small town. There is a larger city about 50 minutes away that would provide us with more opportunities (weekend activities, outdoor access, fun restaurants) and better schools for my kids. I am considering doing the 45-50 minute commute from the larger city to work in the small town. There are great housing options available in the larger city. However, I worry this might get old and feel like it's cutting into my day. I do have two small children. My husband currently does drop off and pick up (very thankful for him). The director over my position seems to be very flexible and it doesn't seem like weather will be much of a hurdle. My hours would be 8 am to 4:30 pm. My current commute is about 20 minutes and I don't get off work until 5-5:15 pm. So, I don't think I would be too off the mark for what time I would be getting home. We did find a house that would require a lot of work that is 38 minutes away from my job, but the schools are not highly ranked and the community doesn't seem to be everything that we want. I am just not sure that I think a 50 minute commute is sustainable. Any thoughts? Would you be willing to do a 50 minute commute for the better fit within the community and better schools?

Edit: The commute would be about 95% highway- with minimal traffic. No stop and go traffic. The city is in south eastern Washington and I would be commuting into a small town in Oregon.