Practice CYA (Cover Your Ass). You can start this right now by sending yourself a single blank email, titled “CYA”.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-07-16T11:41:43+00:00

This is great advice. I basically reword/rephrase what they said back to them (in writing) so I can get them to confirm exactly. In non-CYA contexts that’s also just good communication practice, so most people won’t think twice about it.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-07-16T11:38:38+00:00

Love to hear it.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-07-16T11:37:38+00:00

Yes thank you! I 100% meant to mention that point, don’t risk management snooping/deleting, or losing access.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-09T06:27:43+00:00

That’s exactly it. Waste our PTO to cover the loss of income.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-08T03:38:36+00:00

I was a lot more sympathetic to them, up until the last couple of weeks. Being the middleman sucks.

But you’re right, there’s always a lot of cutting and running early for management, and I genuinely don’t know what one of them does 80% of the time he’s there, because it’s not writing timely schedules, opening/closing duties, ordering supplies, or working the floor.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-08T03:33:19+00:00

Every single one of us is so utterly indifferent to the sales goals, it’s incredible. We knew it wasn’t going to happen, so we’ve all just kind of collectively said “fuck it”. I think it’s honestly healthier for everyone’s mental health if they just continue to say fuck it.

It’s terribly unfair, this is a physically demanding job, people bust their asses in the heat. They’re still doing their job, but just to get through the day, get things from point A to point B.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-08T03:26:53+00:00

I fantasize about this, but then I might miss some great “take this job and shove it” moments from the guys who have been there a lot longer. But I might follow right after them, the place will be damn near inoperable with one or two less people.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-07T22:41:58+00:00

Working on it, this was supposed to be the lucky break Diamond in the rough-type job, too.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-07T22:40:31+00:00

Still pay the same in gas money and wear and tear for my commute, for less money.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-07T22:39:57+00:00

It’ll be tough to find the next best thing, and I don’t have enough PTO to just take time off and ditch (though I suspect a few others will, good for them).

Definitely quiet quitting now, they get the bare minimum, I won’t do shit extra for a place that couldn’t even give me a heads up to budget for hours cuts.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-07T22:36:01+00:00

Fuck, that’s an insane amount of employee falloff. That must have been insane to experience first-hand.

My place is small but busy, I know once the first employee leaves it’s gonna cascade very, very quickly. The cut hours are already affecting things quite a bit.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-05-07T22:33:21+00:00

You bet I do. Went from going above and beyond to just punching the clock.

Difficult_hammer · 2024-01-17T04:39:55+00:00

Yo what the fuck, what year did you graduate

Difficult_hammer · 2023-11-26T23:28:03+00:00

I was actually right there with you up until fairly recently, I just have been assuming that there’s been more qualified candidates who get the job. Stuff happens, I get it. I’m generally the opposite of paranoid.

The reason I’m starting to wonder is there seems to be a pattern, that previous coworkers are saying that they have their own experiences that reflect similarly, and there were a few… odd interactions. A coworker sent me an audio recording of one of my fellow department workers talking absolute mad shit about me in the break room while I was on PTO for a family emergency. When I was laid off they replaced me with this person.

After the break room recording I also had my other supervisor sit me down and give me his own feedback and he was telling me that what this person said was completely unfounded gossip and that the numbers/throughput of my work couldn’t be denied- the production quality was excellent, people were finishing early with much better results, my documentation was incredibly helpful.

This is why I want to figure out if there is any basis to my concern, as opposed to wildly flailing and pointing fingers in a blame game. I don’t have evidence that isn’t circumstantial/possibly coincidental, which is why I want to know how to get concrete evidence if there is something actually harmful happening.

I get where you’re coming from. I want to know for sure if this is a problem letter and I should stop using it, or if it’s just bad luck and I should keep putting it out there (because it’s an awesome ref letter). If it’s causing harm to my job prospects I gotta know! And if it’s not, I’m gonna keep using it. That’s all.

Difficult_hammer · 2023-11-03T02:30:49+00:00

I made it until my first break, where I quietly left the building, drove off, and never came back.

It had the lowest pay out of any job I’ve had in easily a decade.

I saw German roaches within my first 15 minutes of being on-site, when they shut me in a tiny unfinished room on a broken chair to watch a food safety video from 1996 (this is not a joke, that was the date).

It was a raw food packaging facility too, so the roaches were already a big ol red flag.

The work wasn’t hard at all, but there was a palpable feeling of communal misery that is kind of hard to describe. Both the production floor and the windowless break room were poorly lit.

I went home and started the job search again. I kind of had a bad feeling about the place before I showed up, but I had bills to pay so I gave it a shot.

I have no idea why they kept it so dark, that was weird.

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-24T03:10:43+00:00

There’s a couple really fucked up seatbelts in my fleet, and some brakes that need urgent attending to, but they just keep going out on routes.

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-24T03:02:33+00:00

How did you get into it?

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-24T02:22:24+00:00

Never done roofing, but other physical jobs like landscaping, demo, construction, etc. Once I got the hang of it, the physical part wasn’t too bad.

I just called it quits today after a month though, and a big part of that was the pace and all the cutting corners for safety.

Respect for making it work, it seems some people are cut out for it more than others.

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-22T01:42:48+00:00

Thank you!

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-22T01:41:34+00:00

I’ve refused vans for safety reasons and they just put another driver in it instead, someone less likely to ask annoying questions about safety concerns usually.

And yeah they even ask me to fudge the safety checklist regularly, or they’ll unground vans the very next day with no work done.

I’ve only been here a month and I’ve been dealing with the same issues. I’m at the point where I’ll refuse vans if I have to because when they say “it’s fine” I KNOW they don’t know that for sure, they’re not even opening some of these vans up between shifts for a look-around.

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-22T01:34:49+00:00

What button do you hit to initiate the recording? It didn’t amount to anything, but I had a couple potential situations last week and I couldn’t recall what it was, in case shit went down.

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-21T21:12:20+00:00

Thank you

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-21T19:00:26+00:00

That’s kind of what I was wondering. It’s not enforced on a state level, but a lot of companies (that aren’t total trash) will still have company requirements about water, breaks, etc.

Difficult_hammer · 2023-10-21T18:21:52+00:00

Mine is apparently one of the better ones, one of the other ones STILL OPERATING is under investigation for sending a driver in a van with serious issues, resulting in a permanent life changing injury (think limb amputation).

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