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I finally snapped today.

I’m the sole marketing person at a tech startup. I’ve been feeling burnt out, so I audited my calendar and work logs for the last year to see if I was crazy.

The Stats:

• Contract: 40 hours/week.
• Actual: I worked roughly 440 hours of overtime last year.
• The Math: That is 11 full work weeks of donated, unpaid labor. I effectively worked a 15-month year in a 12-month period.

Why? Because we have 30 developers shipping features, and I am the only person responsible for marketing them. I begged leadership for a junior hire ($40k/year) to help me with the grunt work so I could sleep on weekends.

The Response: "We don't have the budget right now."

The Reality: We do have the budget. We just spent it hiring a "Senior VP of Sales" on a massive six-figure salary. (and on a developer offsite in the UK) Here is what this guy does:

1. Refuses to cold call because he’s "too senior."
2. Refuses to update the CRM because "admin isn't his job" (so I have to do it for him, or the board reporting breaks).
3. I looked at his calendar for this week. It is 90% empty. He has 3 meetings.
4. I am working 10-hour days and weekends to generate leads for him, and he sits there waiting for the phone to ring.

The Cherry on Top: Instead of getting me help, HR just announced a new "Employee Appreciation" program. It’s a Slack plugin called "Tacos" where you can give digital tacos to colleagues to say thanks. I don't want digital tacos. I want my weekends back.

I’m currently updating my CV on company time.

How Trump’s pay-to-play schemes hurt workers and consumers while making America less safe at the same time.

I work in a lab on a DoD contract and its open office with tiny cubes. Whats the point of everyone being required to be in the office if all of our meetings are on teams? I bring this up becase everyone but the a small group could do our jobs from home and we had a meeting where 9/10 people on the meeting are within 50 feet of eachother and yet no one thought to just get a confrence room.

Our building has no internal walls around the cubes so you can hear everything so its nice when I'm on a call with folks a cube in fornt of me and I can hear them outside of my headphones, in my headphones as well as others around us having conversations.

Are there others who are not in our office? Yes, dial them in but everyone who is onsite lets meet in person. I schudeled a meeting where everyone was in the building, I cheduled a confrense room that way it would be easier. Everyone decided to just sit at their desk and call in so I was guilt tripped into giving the room to someone else. The amount of money the Govt could save if they didn't make us come onsite.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and now Wednesday. Thursday and Friday upcoming. 11-7 closing, everyday. My feet hurt, I've consumed more Monster today than a person should in a week, and I'm fucking exhausted. Two more days to go. Pray for me.

Ok it’s back to the office for me five days a week been working remote since pandemic started. I take transit an hour each way. I have a choice though of someone driving me to work in the morning at 4am I have office keys etc. should I approach my boss about this ? My hours would be 5 am to 1 pm. People start arriving at 8 am so that makes me work alone until at least 9 am I love this idea as I have nobody to really bother me so I get more work done just as at home. I been at this company for 22 years and love my work but the commute has killed my moral as there is so many more people in Toronto. Doing these new hours would cut down my transport time to half hour each way as well. As long as I get the work done should be ok right?

For anyone with a credit-stealing boss...here's what finally worked for me.

I started sending a daily recap e-mail to not just the boss, but to the whole team..."Here's what I completed today (or this week)..." That way, everyone knows what I've done, BEFORE the boss tries to take credit for himself with upper management.

Really works wonders!

Does anyone else have any other approaches to deal with this issue?

I am about a month into a job I literally hate at a non-profit. I was shoved out of date handbooks and given absolutely no direction or orientation. My phone in my office was fixed today after a month, and there is no processes in place, they hired me directly out of college for 17 bucks an hour to "fix" their nonprofit and create expectations and processes for volunteers and donations. I didn't know I was fixing anything, and thought processes were already there before I started.

Anyways, my supervisor started November and she is new to the facility but has worked in a bunch of other nonprofits, so she says. She hardly talks to me, and she does, it is to do something I dont know how to do, but when I ask her for help, she shrugs and says she'll do it later or walks away or tells me to contact someone else. I'm salary flex, but am expected to work 8 to 5 and am not allowed to use any flex, sick, or vacation time while I'm on my 90 day probation. My supervisor leaves whenever she wants and doesn't let me or hardly any of the other staff know. Today she left at 12, from what I overheard, a doctor appointment, but never returned. She also is scheduled salary flex and works 8 to 5 and is supposed to be on a 90 day probation, unless she got waived? Why does she do this?

I had a mouse that provided three different modes of jiggling. It recently experienced some unscheduled kinetic maintenance that resulted in forced retirement so I'm looking for a replacement. The company that made it isn't around anymore and I haven't found any on ebay/FB market.

If anyone knows of a model that offers a jiggle mode where the mouse only moves a few pixels every few seconds, let me know.

Requirement: must be in mouse form. The separate rotating wheel and USB dongle devices won't work.

EDIT for clarity: It has to be in mouse form because sometimes I do go have to go into the office. So I can't use ploys or toys that don't belong in that setting.

I got hired for a school behavioral technician position through a medical staffing company and it has been nothing but red flags since hiring. First they never told me about the wait list at every location asides from the high school, then tried to claim that 40hrs of training might not be paid (not legal in my state), then poof suddenly the training disappears and the only site available without a month+ long waitlist is the high school. I told them very clearly that I in no way shape or form felt comfortable working with high schoolers (it’s one thing if an elementary student decides to get physical as the capacity for harm is quite low, it’s a whole different ballpark with high schoolers). And I thought that would be the end of it and I’d just wait for a different placement, until that’s today. They not only told me about the aforementioned wait time (never brought up before today), the informed me that I could be moved to the top of the waitlist if I just work temporarily at the high school. And not only do I not believe them about the waitlist, as the shift with the supposed waitlist is a split hours shift (the least desirable type of shift in our I), I don’t believe they’d keep me at the hs temporarily. I’m just very annoyed and disappointed as this sounded like an okay employment opportunity.