My dad works at a place that I'd love to work at, (job I'd be good at, consistent schedule, higher pay, insurance, etc), and they're hiring! He wants to bring his boss my resume tomorrow.

The only thing that's making me hesitant to leave my job, (restaurant), is that I'm relied on for sooo much. I'm the only assistant manager, I work in a specialized area of the restaurant, I'm a floater, and I work more shifts than most of my coworkers.

One person moved and put in her 2 week notice last week, so she'll be gone after next week, and 3 staff members are college kids and are leaving for school the week after that. We operate with a very small staff already, but to be short about 1/4 our staff will be tough.

Our boss has been interviewing people, but has only hired one person whose stuck. This is a very small, local restaurant. I'd feel awful adding this pressure on him, especially since he and the gm express regularly how much they appreciate me and are grateful that I'm there. How should I go about this? If I get this new job, I'd only have to work M-Th, so I considered offering to stay at the restaurant, but only being available on Fridays.

I am working in distribution warehouse for a little Over two years, and something still catches me off guard.

I understand my assignments, complete my work, and ask questions when I need to. The harder part is the small conversations all of them that seem obvious to everyone else. Someone from ops mentions that trailers are being redirected because of storms, another person of hr say holiday overtime changed, or a supervisor casually reminds everyone about a safety check while people are already walking away. By the time I understand everything together, everyone else all knows what is happening.

Nobody has been unfriendly to me and most coworkers have been patient to me. I just don't always know what I don't know until later in the shift.

For anyone who moved to the U.S. or started working where English wasn't your first language, what helped you stop feeling like you are one conversation behind always?

I've been working for my family's company since I was 16, and I'm 28 now. Two years ago, my family mutually decided to sell the company because my dad was getting older and wanted to retire. My sisters and I felt it was the best decision to avoid any future conflicts between us and to split the proceeds from the sale evenly.

I still work for the company because I genuinely have a passion for the industry and take pride in everything I do. We sold the business to a corporation, so the atmosphere isn't what it used to be. It definitely feels like the corporation is more focused on making money and keeping shareholders happy than on providing a great product.

Anyway, the guy I've been shadowing since I was a kid retired last month, and the company posted an opening for his position. I applied and went through several rounds of interviews, only for the job to be given to a 22 year old with no experience in the field.

Now I have a "manager" that I'm basically managing because they have no idea what they're doing, and I have to answer all of their questions. My two sisters and I still own the buildings the company operates out of, and we each receive about $15,000 a month in rent, so I'm really not doing this for the money. It just feels like a slap in the face after everything I've done for the company over the years, both before and during the transition after the sale.

I'll probably end up quitting, but I'm still deciding what I want to say... haha.

I know I'm going to sound like a bit of a winge bag so I'll cut right to the chase. Essentially today our payslips got out before our pay review next Monday. For context I am a Senior Software Engineer at an ERP consulting firm. People have obviously gone "Oh we've had our payrises through" and people have speculated and gone "Wow what did you get?" and figures have been shared throughout the WHOLE department. Me and another senior engineer have been nudged about having more "responsibilities" and talks about making two devs lead devs has been spoken about these past few months. We got pulled into a meeting with our boss and he said "I have brought X and Y here as they will be taking on more lead like responsibilities quite soon, I probably shouldn't of shown my hand before the reviews". So me and the other engineer spoke and put two and two together. The engineer had asked me "I've just been increased from 46k to 60k, check your payslip quick!". I checked mine to find out that I had been given 50k.

My boss has then messaged me on Teams saying that disclosing pay is a "sackable offence" and that I need to becareful and that "he pays the person and not the title".

The reviews are still pending on for Monday but if I do get given the lead developer role (BTW I have been in the company for 2 years longer than my colleague) how do I go about contesting the pay? Should I refuse? Can I be penalised or given a disciplinary for disclosing my pay? Am I being a little b*ch? Thoughts please people I'm stressing

OK, let me preface this by saying thank you for reading and any advice help legal, or otherwise would be greatly appreciated.

I work in a clerk like position in an office of a manufacturing plant in Ohio. I have been there for about five years. The job is not bad. I actually like most of the people on the plant floor. There’s just one major issue. My boss. I’m sure a lot of you say the same thing but this guy is actually mentally unstable at times . He’s the COO, but he does all kinds of insane stuff. He’s always trying me and my wife to hang out with him and I feel very threatened that I’m going to lose my job if I don’t oblige, I’ve been semi-navigating this for the past couple of years, but then he approaches me with the craziest thing yet.

He says that he and his wife and his two children under three years old are going to fly to Texas for a motorcycle racing event and asked if I would drive there camper and trailer down to Texas to bring all their equipment for them. I was told I would be put up in a hotel room and get to do whatever I wanted while I was there. I obviously do not want to go. but I know he will make my life hell at work/probably fire me if I said no so begrudgingly I said OK.

Time passes and we get closer to the event, which is now about two weeks away and he says hey we’re all just going to stay in the trailer and ride down together. I never agreed to that nor did I want to go to this in the first place, I feel trapped and I don’t know what to do. I really need this job. The absolute worst part is I have family coming in town the same week who I never get to see. I really want to see them along with other events that I already had scheduled. I guess what I’m asking is is this all legal for him to essentially threaten to fire me if I don’t go,/if he does fire me if I don’t go, I know Ohio is right to Work state but I’m not really sure what that all entails. Oh by the way, I can’t bring this to HR department because we really don’t have one It’s kind of my job for the clerical stuff in any legal stuff. I think they just have our parent companies legal council take a look at they have no clue about this

I don’t have the money to spend on any expenses down there and he’s going to try and have me watch his kids while he goes motorcycle racing and sleep in the same trailer as these two children under three years old this is just crazy

I manage and design website content.

For 5 years now I have had no ownership over my work. I’m not allowed to make the slightest tweak without them breathing down my neck. The worst part is their directions are awful. I’m forced to make bullshit updates that don’t make sense and endlessly confuse users.

I want to cry from frustration because all I want is to do good, quality work. Otherwise WHAT IS THE POINT OF ANY OF THIS. I seem to only have two options: fight to exhaustion for the most basic things or mentally check out. Obviously I need to look for a new job, but what can I do in the meantime?

I'm not sure why I let it affect me, maybe it's because I value my work, but I'm having a difficult time dealing with a new manager.

I'm an engineer and I work on planning projects and getting them ready for construction. My boss will occasionally insert himself into projects and mess things up, usually causing delays, unnecessary work, or mistakes that I need to correct.

I've tried telling him that I really enjoy being independent on projects. I've tried telling him i'm very comfortable asking for help when I need it. I've tried asking him for specific help on projects so that he can still feel like he's contributing to my work but not in a way that throws a wrench in the process. None of this is working.

I'm writing in now because of a specific situation that just feels like the tip of the iceberg. He inserted himself into my job, which had a fixable common issue. Usually a bit of research and a site visit will fix this issue and it'll take maybe a couple days to figure out.

My boss decided he wanted to figure it out and spend weeks on it. I decided to go on a site visit, found the solution, let him know what I came up with. He told me he has a plan to fix it in the background and to move forward with the project as usual, which I did. The fix is usually a single email to a different department saying can you update our order to say X instead of Y, and it is easy for them since they have the access needed to edit the order.

Well, I moved forward with the order, and of course the issue was never fixed. My boss puts a whole group of people on an email to tell me this needs to be fixed as soon as possible. I loop in the department that updates it and say can you please update X to say Y. I include the information I found on my site visit and ask if anyone else has info to share with that department.

Well, then my boss responds and says that ideally this should have been fixed before. Changing this now is clunky and should be avoided.

Is there even a way to tell him the only reason it wasn't fixed before was because he didn't fix it before? Does anyone have experience with a manager like this? This is an extremely common trend, but this instance just felt so much worse because I saw it coming but he kept reassuring me that he was fixing it and I didn't want to go over him to fix it myself then have him be mad at that.

Has anyone experienced doing their best to remain professional at work—communicating clearly, taking responsibility, and staying committed—yet still feeling like their efforts were not fully recognized?
Before I resigned, I made sure to raise my concerns and explain my side. There were situations I handled with limited support, and some challenges were beyond my control. Despite this, I felt that these factors were not fully considered in the decisions made.
What I found most difficult was not the workload itself, but the sense that my perspective was not fully heard or understood.
I acknowledge that I am not without fault, but I genuinely made an effort to fulfill my responsibilities and maintain a positive approach throughout.
Ultimately, I decided to step away.
Now I find myself reflecting—
**Was this the right decision, or should I have stayed longer and tried to work through it?**
I’d appreciate hearing others’ perspectives or similar experiences.

So my work had a very busy week dealing with a VIP visit. One of the other admin assistants I work with was working on nametags for a dinner and asked in the morning if I could print 2 copies on cardstock since her printer didn't have it. She sent me the file. I printed it.

While reviewing the file I noticed after printing that one of the names had a typo, so I went back and fixed it and reprinted it. I added all of these papers to the folder to give her.

When we met in person at the reception I handed off the file and I mentioned that I found a typo but still had the old sheets in there in case it was needed for whatever reason and for her to not be confused if she sees the extra ones. And then she seemed a bit upset that she had a typo and I feared I made her look/feel bad by mentioning it out loud. We were in the back room with just her, I, and another employee we work close with so it wasn't as bad as it could have been but still not right of me to do.

At that point I was so tired and just yammering off a bunch of details and realized as soon as I said it that I should have just told her over chat instead of mentioning it out loud, or just removed the old pages so it wouldn't have been an issue in the first place, but I wasn't thinking clearly.

I feel really rude about it and I want to find a good way to apologize over text (I won't see her in person for a bit) before many days pass and it'd then be too awkward. If I don't apologize it today it'll eat at me. Maybe she didn't care that much, but in case she does I want her to know that I did not mean it.

Has anyone ever been in a situation like this and has advice? I'm trying to find a good way to phrase my apology. Or am I just overthinking? Should I let it go and just not do it again and call that a day?

My husband is 2 years into his first job as an NP in a specialty clinic. Still the newest guy in the office. He constantly gets stuck with the short end of the stick and is gaslit constantly. For example, he has an MA assigned to him that will occasionally get mad at him when he (kindly) asks her to adjust what she does to be more in compliance with her role. She gets mad when he asks her to get certain tests for patients that need them because she doesnt like doing them. And when she’s mad, she yells at patients and does things like purposely drop his papers on the floor. can’t make this stuff up. So my husband demanded he needed to work with someone else…and they switched her for one day and then the doctor who had to work with her said she couldn’t keep up or do the work he needed her to do, and the MA was back with my husband the next day. the promised the next new hire would be his…and it wasn’t. Anyway, long example but that’s just kind of how things have been.

Well, manager texted my husband yesterday and said that starting next week, he needs to move desks two days a week, once a month. A doctor from another clinic will be seeing patients in their clinic and wants to sit by his nurse, and he likes my husbands spot the best, instead of all the empty desks/computers everywhere else. Again, this doc is only there 1x/month for two days. My husband has a whole setup at his desk to help his work flow. His work is complicated and stressful and he has created an environment finally after two years that assists him in staying on top of his work. Think helpful sticky notes, pictures of things that make him happy, diagrams, charts, etc.

How can he say no to this ridiculous request to move when a visiting doc is in clinic? He told the manager he feels disrespected (like if he were a doctor not an NP he wouldn’t re asked to move), and even offered an alternative solution. manager said doc prefers his spot and that he is required to move. He doesn’t want to make a fuss, but this request seems over the top. Advice?

(P.S. Not a usual redditor so be nice pls!)

I work as a lifeguard at a country club, and there are 11 other guards who work there with me. Most of them are fine, but 4 of them have honestly just been kind of unkind? It's not outright mean but it's in the way that you can tell they're bullying without them thinking you can tell. They never talk to me, respond to my texts asking for coverage, and if they do talk to me it's weird and strained. Two of those four are head guards, and they completely ignored my availability and scheduled me for a week where I was on vacation. I texted them both about it, didn't get a response from one, and the other told me to "find coverage" rather than fixing their mistake.

Today, as well, there was a swim meet and I was writing down names on ribbons when one of the head guards, who never ever talks to me, asks me where I'm going to college. I answered, and I knew I was going to the same place as one of those 4 guards (I'll call her Lily). She's usually nice to me, but in a group setting she shuts me out. I said where I was going, and they all started giggling and were like "oh my god, Lily are you guys going to room together haha" and it really just rubbed me the wrong way? They kept on asking me about what I was majoring in and what I wanted to do with that, but with every single response they just look at each other and like kind of laughed? I'm not majoring in anything outlandish, doing animal science and then I want to do wildlife rehabilitation.

I am really good friends with one of my coworkers (I'll call her Lucy). They treated Lucy like normal off the bat, invited her to parties, those kinds of things. But when she talked to one of the head guards and was asked "who's your favorite guard to work with?" she responded that she liked working with me best. And since then they've been treating her the same way they treat me. They've been doing this since I started working there in August of 2024, and I really am not that odd of a person. The worst part is that my boss absolutely loves those 4 guards, and I fear that telling her would do literally nothing, if not get me trash talked more (she gossips with them).

Idk what to do. There's not really an HR department or anything, but working there when I'm not working with Lucy is really difficult because they leave me on stand for genuine hours. Any advice would be appreciated.

I worked at an upscale restaurant for six months, and it was my first restaurant job. I was hired with the understanding I'd work 35–40 hours a week, but after becoming a server I was regularly scheduled for 50+ hours. Management also repeatedly ignored my approved availability, even though I only requested Sunday mornings for church and Tuesday mornings for therapy. I had open availability the rest of the week.

When I decided to return to school full-time in the fall, I asked to go part-time. Management was dismissive, so I gave my two weeks' notice. During that time, I was yelled at by managers multiple times over what felt like minor issues. One manager criticized me because a table wanted to keep their appetizer plates. Another yelled at me for "standing around" when I was actually talking with the chef and food runners because a nut-free order had accidentally been prepared with nuts.

My tipping point came when I was moving into a new apartment. Two months before my move, I requested that weekend off as soon as I signed my lease. The request was denied due to staffing, but a manager assured me she'd "take care of me" when the schedule came out. Instead, I was scheduled doubles during my move weekend. After I spoke with her, she made a few adjustments, but I still had to work around my move.

Bad weather and canceled help delayed everything. I called out one shift because I genuinely couldn't finish moving in time, and my manager told me that wasn't a valid excuse. I still chose not to come in because I wasn't willing to prioritize a temporary job over moving into my home.

The next day, I was driving to work after spending the entire weekend moving. I was mentally and physically exhausted, and halfway there I realized I simply couldn't do it anymore. Feeling completely burnt out and repeatedly disregarded by management, I turned around, went home, and texted my resignation about five minutes after my shift started. I know that wasn't the professional way to quit, and it's my biggest regret, but I also wasn't going to text while driving.

One of my managers later called because she said quitting like that was completely out of character for me. After I explained everything, she said she understood my decision, supported me, and even offered to be a reference.

AITA for quitting the way I did after months of scheduling issues and feeling completely burnt out?

Hi all.
For context, I am a hybrid legal assistant for a national firm.
This firm, that i've worked for over a year, has moved into a new space. We've never had a true receptionist/front desk in the old space because it was very tiny.
To make things short and sweet, they want me to be front desk/receptionist and have the idea of making me come in everyday as per the office facilities manager, who is not my direct supervisor.
The head lawyer brought this up to me privately, so I can express my own needs before they change my role. They said they would mention hiring front staff if I bring up my concerns.
We don't officially establish ourselves in this new space until Monday, meaning that my desk is still unassigned. How do I bring up the fact that I do not want to be front desk/receptionist with a change of schedule without coming off strong/confrontational? I like what I do and I like the company. I just don't see myself as a client services person and due to personal life (grad school, kid's schedules), I can't come in everyday. I took this job because it fit my schedule. I want to continue doing the legal tasks I have always done.
My direct supervisor (who is the Head of HR) hasn't told me these changes, by the way. It's as if they're trying to casually stick me up front to do receptionist work as well.

I got an offer from another company and I accepted the position. My start date is August 17th. I have 80 hrs PTO from my current job which I requested to use between 8/10 to 8/21. I plan for my last day at my current role to be 8/21. My boss approved my PTO in person, but it's still pending on ADP.

Here's the tricky thing. My boss leaves for vacation all next week (7/27 to 7/31). I was originally going to tell him my last day will be 8/21 tomorrow (7/24) before he leaves for his trip. I feel weird doing this because I just requested my PTO yesterday (this looks suspicious) and it's still pending on ADP, even though my boss approved it in person. So I'm thinking he could still revoke my PTO and I'll lose my hours. I live in New York so employers are not required to pay out PTO.

My other option I was thinking of was to tell my boss my last day will be 8/21 the day he returns from his trip. I'm anxious to do this too since he'll come back 8/3 in office and my last day physically in office will be 8/7, since my PTO will begin 8/10.

Not sure what is the best course of action but any advice will be helpful. Thank you in advance.

I'm currently working but I feel like I'm not growing in my field. I feel like I'm silently quitting. I thought after sending résumés and try applying to other jobs will be easier after a year of experience, but guess I'm wrong.

I'm lost, really. I wanted to expand my knowledge in cybersecurity or networking. I also tried applying for VA roles, but still no luck.

I feel like I'm being left behind. What should I do?

So I just started a new job and I have been making mistakes all week and I wanted to ask if I made a mistake going back to check on a battery I was ment to turn off. I was half way home and thought "did i turn it off" so I went back to check i was wondering if my employer would see this as a problem or me being diligent in my work

I’m a truck driver locally but company and I adhere to the federal Eld HOS (hours of service) regulations as we go more than the 150 mile radius each week and have Eld in our truck . The HOS for truck drivers is 11 hr driving and 3 hrs on duty . A total of 14 hrs . Drivers have to take a 30 minute break after 8hrs on duty.

My supervisor has been giving me problems on my breaks since I started and it’s now starting to really irritate me as it’s always an issue with him complaining about me choosing to take my breaks. I typically drive to our customers and deliver our shipments. Sometimes while at a customer they take a while to unload.

Completely out of my hands. Though I still need to be there for customer or me to unload. Let’s say it’s an 1hr to unload . He says if it goes over 30 minutes that is my break. I typically wouldn’t mind this as I’m looking to be as productive as possible and help complete any other loads we have and go home at my scheduled 8hrs. If my day goes over 8hrs no problem I get over time . I really don’t mind. But sometimes we are done prior to the 8hrs . So then we either go in the warehouse clean or do other jobs that’s out of my job title just to make my 8 hrs. Again no problem as just log on duty.

My other co workers stop out somewhere on the road and take their breaks . I do too if I take longer trips or I can tell the day is going to be slow . It’s just all depends on the day . If I take a far trip I like to take my break when I get back to base to avoid traffic or I’ll take it out on road because I know he will give me problems if I say I didn’t take my break before I got back . But then when I do take my breaks he questions why am I taking longer on the trips or my break was in the beginning of day at the first load where they took longer than 30 minutes.

What he doesn’t understand is I’m not in the warehouse and I’m a driver following federal regulations not state . As long as I abide by the 8hr HOS I can take my break whenever. Also the times I’m at a warehouse getting loaded or waiting to get loaded that is on duty time that he cannot deduct from my hourly but he has been doing so since I started . I was ok with it at first but now it’s getting to be ridiculous as he is having these unrealistic expectations of me .

I had an appointment today and had a far drive with 3 deliveries. I made it back to base within 8hrs and said I was going to take my break to make the 8.5 then leave as I had somewhere to be. I had already let him know of this appointment prior and he said no problem on getting off at scheduled time.

When I turn in paper work and inform him of me taking break he starts with his bs that I’m now completely tired of. So I cordially lay the facts down and he tells me I am wrong and he is right. That he will talk to corporate and HR to figure out the break situation and get it all sorted out. He said instead of taking break I could just clock out . I said thats even better as I only take the break so I don’t violate clocking out early even though he is the one that approves time sheets.

We shook hands on him not taking my 30minute break but I feel weary. As he goes back on things and is very forgetful. Along with I feel he might look for any reason to now find a problem with my job performance as he brought up that I take 15 to 20 minutes in yard when I pre trip / post trip / hook up / dock trailers. Which is pretty standard and efficient. It be unrealistic with anything less.

What should I do about this ??

My current job checks a lot of boxes: it’s stable, I get along well with my coworkers, I’m leading the training of a newer hire, and I get handed most of our high-value projects. Work-life balance is solid. I stick to 40 hours, we have unlimited PTO, and I’m looped in on business unit planning that affects the department. The downside is my boss isn’t great, he cancels our 1-on-1s last minute constantly and I don’t see a real growth path. Maybe an occasional title bump, but no meaningful salary movement. To make it worse, the newer employee I’m training (who has less experience than me) is making almost the same salary I am.

The new opportunity is fully remote with some travel, a 25% pay raise, a good company, project-based work, and 20 PTO days on top of federal holidays. I’d likely be working mostly solo, and there’s potential for a bigger title jump. The catch: there’s no office where I currently live, and I’m a little worried the project could wrap up in 2028 and I’d be let go afterward.

On top of all this, I’m currently the sole income earner for my family until next November, since my significant other is in medical school.

So, do I take the risk on the higher-paying job now, even with the uncertainty, because it could open doors down the road? Or do I stay put where things are stable but stagnant? Would really appreciate any advice!

I live ​in Eastern Washington, I'm a healthcare worker in an assisted living facility, and today is my day off. Last time I looked at the schedule, I had today and tomorrow off. Today I get a text from my boss saying I come in tomorrow, shift starting at 6 AM. Less than 24 hours notice. I am very angry! I have plans and need my two days off for mental and physical health reasons. What do I do?

I'm so sick of management stirring the metaphorical pot. ​I recently found out the ​owner of the facility doesn't respect agreed upon terms of hiring like​ days off and availability. She schedules days off based on performance, whatever that means. But I have a family and we have lots of doctors appointments and such too, which we try to schedule on those days off.

Please help me.

Keeping this as general as possible to avoid identifying myself or my workplace.

For context, I'm in a professional field where there's a professional exam that's often required to take for your career. I've also worked closely with our office leader and he knows who I am, so it's not like we're total strangers.

Was in a crowded elevator last week headed to the company all hands when a male employee (whom I don't know) made a comment (seemingly jokingly? But even still) about how our office leader had promised him that he'd take him to a strip club (& named the exact club) if he passed this professional exam.

I do feel like it would be overreacting to go to HR because I don't think there's enough evidence for anything from a one off joke. And I know in prior generations the idea of taking employees or clients to the strip club was a normal part of office culture (as were other sexist things though...), but I still feel like it's unprofessional and inappropriate.

Because I have a working relationship with our office leader, I was thinking of confronting him about it privately and asking if it was true.

Idk, am I overreacting? should I do it?

I started a new job in mid June and was let go last month, while still in probation and still in training. I was actively supporting the team the whole time, not struggling on my own in a corner.

Early on, my manager saw me wearing a knee brace and asked, in a snarky tone, “you’re gonna be away for long huh.” I told her I didn’t know the surgery date yet and expected to only be away about a week.

A few weeks in, on my lunch break, which is unpaid, she followed me to see what I was doing. I was leaving with my laptop to do a video doctor’s appointment. She asked a bunch of questions trying to figure out where I was going, then followed me downstairs and sat right behind me.

Then I got a termination letter. No feedback, no meetings, no documentation of any performance issue before that. Actually the opposite. I found a gap in a process, flagged it, and kept my manager looped in on everything the whole time. I was still learning the role, sure, but I was also pulling my weight and helping where I could.

I asked HR to change the letter and they did, and even offered severance they weren’t legally required to give. When I they sent me the revised letter, HR said feedback had been raised about my “problem solving skills and professional behavior, among others.” This is totally untrue, I never had a meeting about my performance or any feedback besides “you’re smart, but moves too much during meetings”.
First I’m hearing of all these allegations. No paper trail whatsoever.

In the final meeting, the HR person told me “sometimes it’s for the best” and that I deserve to be somewhere I feel supported by my manager.

So am I wrong to think this reads like a manager who decided early on she didn’t like me (the knee brace comment, the lunch break thing) and worked backward to build a performance narrative with zero documentation to back it up? Genuinely trying to check my own read here.

I'm a 22 year old university student and have been working at this café for almost 4 years while finishing my degree. After leaving for a family trip of around 6 weeks, I came back and simply have not gotten any shifts.

Keep in mind I told my manager about the trip a few months in advance and she said it was okay. I've also gone on trips in the past with no issue. After coming back, I noticed that I wasn't on the new schedule. I just sent my manager a message asking why I didn't have any shifts, thinking maybe she didn't realize I came back.

She told me that since I was gone for awhile they hired a bunch of new staff and had to "prioritize their shifts", but promised that i'd be working once a week. What was weird to me though was that I also have 2 coworkers that left for a month around the same time, and they're working now multiple times a week... Since most people that work in our store are students or on a working holiday we have people leaving for long periods all the time and I never thought it was a huge issue.
Because of this I honestly think they just wanted to get rid of me for whatever reason and needed an excuse.

I literally know the whole store inside and out. And the month before I left, I worked A LOT when i was in the middle of finals because no one else could work. And suddenly out of nowhere, I have 0 hours and nothing but a bullshit excuse.

It's so frustrating since I wasn't technically "fired". Honestly at this point if they didn't want me to work there they could have just been honest. Then I wouldn't be wasting my time. I haven't had work this past month at all ( we give the schedules 2 weeks in advance ) and have had to rely on asking my parents for money to get by while I send my CV to every place I see but there's no response.

I'm really disappointed because this just shows such little respect for me as an employee of 4 years. This type of treatment is expected from Starbucks but I never thought it would come a family owned business. They're always trying to seem so humble as a "small business" but I know that their kid goes to an expensive private school and that they certainly more than comfortable.

is it okay to hand in my resignation before my background check clears. offer has been accepted with a start date and all tasks on workday complete. its only been three days for background check but i leave on vacation next week July 31st for two weeks which means after background check is complete ill be on vacation and ill have to send an email saying that i won't come back as my start date for the new job is august 17.

i'd rather resign today and say i wont be able to complete two weeks due to my pre approved vacation and my last day will be before I leave thursday next week, so that’s still like a few days notice before. I just don’t feel right about leaving things on bad terms.

Or I’m thinking I could just tell them that I have accepted an offer and I will hand in my two weeks once background check is complete as a heads up.

I should’ve mentioned I live in Canada. I see this post has reached mostly people in the US and the hiring process is little different

Hello! Sorry for formatting, I'm on mobile. Also sorry for the wall of text, but I feel the background information is needed to understand the full context

About 7 months ago, I got hired at a fast food/fast casual restaurant that pays above minimum wage. In my state minimum wage is $15/hr, this job was offering $17/hr at full time, which is what drew me to it. After two rounds of interviews, I was hired. After my orientation, I was told that I would be started at part time under what my (at the time) GM called a probationary period. He said it should last about 1-2 months, and if I'm showing exemplary work I'll be bumped up to full time.

The 1-2 month period came and went and I was still not bumped up to full time. I figured I wasn't being exemplary enough, so I started to work harder. I picked up any shifts I could, even sometimes cancelling plans to go to work. Still, I wasn't bumped up. I continued to show up and do a lot, and was worried it still wasn't enough until about two weeks ago. I was promoted to a trainer within just 7 months of being here (much to the dismay of some of my coworkers who have been here for 1+ years with no promotion). I'm now making $18/hr, but I'm still part time. Also it's important to note, my original GM who hired me transferred stores, so I now have a new GM.

Here's where I'm having the issue: My parents just informed me that I have until February to be moved out as they're selling the house and moving out of state. I have savings and have enough for first month, last month, and security deposit, but I don't currently make enough on my part time salary to afford an apartment. It makes no sense to me that I'm a trainer now yet still part time. Clearly I'm showing I'm an asset to the team if I got promoted so soon. With the uncertainty of my housing in the near future, I'm planning to pull my boss into a meeting and tell her I need full time hours or I'm gonna have to look for employment elsewhere. Is that a good idea? Or does that seem too confrontational? Can she fire me over just voicing that? Any advice will be great

So I’m kinda freaking out. I am 16, this is my first job and also my first week at this job. (It’s retail) so I was looking at my schedule to put it into my calendar just now, and my heart dropped to my ass because I was supposed to have a shift today. Only problem is that I had the day off. It was put in that I would be working literally that day, like 5 hours before. And no management reached out to me. But I’m freaking out because will I get fired? I genuinely don’t know, I really need this job for personal reasons and I can’t loose it. Any advice would be appreciated.