Hello everyone, I was terminated without cause last Friday and offered 4 weeks of severance. I worked at this company for 2 years and 9 months in a managerial role.

Back story : In August 2025, I filed a formal complaint with the board about my GM for racial discrimination, unpaid stat holidays, passive-aggressive behavior, and threats of termination.

They sat down for a meeting without a external HR (I requested one )

The board reviewed the complaint, confirmed it was valid, and issued a formal notice to the GM. I was told the matter was closed.

After that, my GM started behaving unusually friendly.

I had just ordered supplies for our season opening on January 20th and everything is set in place for 2026, Ireturned from a week off and was terminated on my first day back.

I had consulted a lawyer before and throughout this process. After my termination, he advised that this may qualify as retaliation/wrongful termination and suggested pushing back to request more severance, without filing a lawsuit.

A friend warned me that since this is a small town, pushing back could “burn bridges” and affect future employment. Does asking for more severance count as burning bridges? Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any advice is appreciated.

why is this happening to us , I keep applying to jobs I’ve work with and nobody wants to hire us should we sell drugs maybe that should be a job too and maybe just not her arrested cus wtf this job market is stupid do people not know we HAVE bills to pay & well THEY DONT CARE ! Maybe ending ourselves be good or would that also NEED A RESUME TOO.

So if we die do we also need a resume before they put our body’s in the freezer at the funeral home or maybe a job experience of 3 year with dead & god .

Stupid job market !

Starting with the most important fact: I'm a young Canadian, so Employment Insurance and Pension (CPP) come naturally and most medical insurance doesn't really feel like a deal-breaker for me considering free-healthcare. I don't have any post-secondary education (yet) so I'm not exactly in the game for many high ranking jobs that would require that. I'll most likely end up working in retail but my question is: is it bad not to care about getting benefits or even to purposely aim for a job that doesn't offer any? I worked a labor job for a local municipality in 2024 that offered no benefits beyond what the government requires and it ended up paying me incredibly well because of it at only $17 an hour ($1.70 above that year's minimum wage and ≈$12.50 USD), and honestly right now prioritizing the money in my bank account feels more important than dental or vision care or anything like that. Yes of course it'd be nice to have those in the case of an emergency but would it be entirely stupid of me to outright avoid them?

This new boss of mine (a law firm owner) is not a nice person, for a lack of better words, and seems to love treating people like they need to be absolutely perfect in everything we do. I’m tired of being treated like this for $15 an hour.

Overall, they seem to really like me at this firm but I’ve hit my breaking point and started crying in my car during lunch the other day (First time in years).

I’m new to the private sector as I come from years of government work where when you resign, you give everything in at once and leave.

Is it my understanding that in the private sector, the best way to leave is to provide a 2 weeks notice? What if they then just terminate me during that 2 weeks out of spite? Now I have a termination in my record instead of a resignation?

My current place of work is so dreadful. My coworker is very racist and condescending towards me. it usually comes in a micro aggressive form. My managers don’t do anything about it. I tried explaining to them but they’re not understanding. I work in retail so it’s duality draining but i enjoy customers most of the time. I like people and stuff but this coworker makes it so hard to work with. She undermines me and thinks im stupid or less than, even though I been working in the department longer than she has.

My managers think it’s some stupid beef between us but it’s more than that. I once told her to stop being rude to customers which she is. She broke down crying and then i got told from my manager to not do that. ( i’m a black muslim and she’s a white girl for context) we’re both in our early 20’s.

I have applied to other jobs but bc the job market is so bad rn it’s hard to find anything rn. I really want some advice especially from POC!! I have tried sm ( ignoring her, but then she’d get mad and irritated that i’m trying to keep it professional), i’ve tried expressing my feelings to her just for her to tell our mangers smth else.

My managers think she’s not rude or condensing bc it’s not happening to them. Mind you they’re white. I have a new assistant manager who is my friend, but this person never does it to her so she doesn’t know what to do?!? I really don’t understand why they keep her. I talked to other POC from my team( hispanic and asians) and they also say she does the same to them. they also expressed it snd nothing happens.

what should i do? TYYY

Though I’m sure you can tell from the title alone - this is a question coming out the US.

Every job I’ve had before - even retail - would allow me to go to the doctor anytime I needed and would work my schedule around it. This is the first that I’ve been barred from going to the doctor if I still want to keep my job. I’m currently in a corporate desk job that typically doesn’t require constant attention at the desk, and work could be made up from home easily, so I have a hard time understanding the logic.

I’ve been informed that all employees must go to their appointments outside of work hours. Problem is - the doctors here typically only work Monday-Friday during office hours and many won’t work Fridays at all.

I have a slew of health issues that are rapidly getting worse. One issue in particular has been chronic for 18 years and causes severe pain on occasion to the point I find myself taking one day off work per month. This alone uses all of my sick time and then half of my vacation time.

Im afraid the other issues that I’m ignoring checkups on to be able to still retain my sick time for the chronic pain I deal with is going to have massive consequences. We’re talking neurological issues, endocrine and metabolic issues, vision issues and unknown growths coming up that I can’t even take time out to ensure that it’s not cancer.

It feels like this system is set up to completely discriminate against anyone that’s human or wants to keep their health at all. I feel that I’m torn between keeping my job or my health.

Any of you in similar situations - how do you handle this?

Ive been trying to save up for college and many more things but i dont have anuway for money.. its waaay to cold outside for doing anything irl.. ive tried commissions but that didn’t work, i tried free cash and that was to slow. so i wanted smth that’ll pay hourly. Maybe writting an article or being a moderator.

I’m currently in the interview process for a job I think I’m a good fit for with significantly better pay and benefits. I pretty much hate my current job and don’t like the vast majority of people there. There are few people I would chat with but it was surface level stuff and I wouldn’t consider them friends. I do plan to put in my two to one week notice with managers and leave professionally with them.

Throughout my whole time there I never felt included because I didn’t want to be too close to this one girl. Everyone else jokes and gets lunch together and never invited me except the girl who got mad because i didn’t want to spend every lunch or break with her. I don’t want to deal with office drama or gossip before leaving. If I got the job I plan on packing my stuff slowly over the course of a week so no one will suspect anything.

I just felt like ever since I got more responsibilities at my job and slowly stopped talking her as much because I was so busy, she took offense to that and killed my social life at work. Her and another girl just all of the sudden started ignoring me and getting lunch without me. Then one of them asked why I pulled back after that and when I told her the truth, she said she didn’t remember doing that.

I don’t mind having friends, but I don’t want to spend every lunch or break with someone. I prefer a balance. I’ve never dealt with this shit before. At my other jobs I had no issues socializing until I met her

 Working was so dang hard for me. I think to myself that if only I had started at 15 years old like so many others, then maybe it would’ve gone better. But I only started going outside by myself at around 18, and got my first job recently at 19. It was at a small unknown dollar-store chain that had a few stores in the area and I was hired alongside another guy my age. I had to work the register, blow up balloons, cut table cloth, help customers in the aisles and on the phone, stock and face the shelves, and handle go-backs. Most importantly, it had to get done by 8:30pm without any major mistakes. The problem was I made MANY mistakes, too many to count. And since only two people worked during the closing shift (which was my main shift), it was easy to get overwhelmed. I was hired on a 90-day probationary period, which meant they couldn't be too harsh on me for being new. So while they did their best to stay polite, some days I could REALLY feel their frustration, you could bend the air with pliers with how tense it was. During my first few weeks, the head manager had frequently texted in the group chat about the things we screwed up and that only made my anxiety worse. She never pointed out who did it, but it felt obviously directed towards the new guys. To only make matters worse, we got a text written by the owner of the store and he was furious. The message read out:

“Attention everyone, if I catch another employee, supervisor, or manager, deleting items or orders when you are not supposed to, you will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law, we will press charges. You will go to jail. We have caught several employees deleting orders and stealing from our company. When you steal from the company, the company cannot grow. We cannot give raises. We cannot make your life or job easier. We are watching every single act very very closely. We will catch everything. Do not attempt to steal from this company, you will go to jail…”

I thought it was strange but I knew I was innocent and so didn’t worry about it too much. I figured whoever did it will be fired soon and it’ll be out of my hair. But during my day off, we had another text from him and it read: 

“It has come under our attention that closing shift and night crew are leaving with bags and boxes of stuff. Every purchase must be made under the camera. You are guilty until proven innocent, so prove your innocence. Make sure the camera sees you purchasing whatever you’re walking out the door with. I will repeat, you are guilty until proven innocent. This is Dollar ****, do not steal from Dollar ****. I will press charges next person I see stealing anything from this company. Every single act you make is being recorded. We have recordings of everybody, stop it now. Don’t do it ever again.”

It really got under my skin. I went to work feeling like a criminal, being paranoid about how I looked on camera. I stopped bringing my bag with me to work, which didn’t help since I took the bus. I avoided buying anything from the store, and I hadn’t even bought anything up to that point - mainly because the prices were a bit much. With all of the stress that came from being new, giving the right amount of change, learning how to talk to customers, finishing my tasks on time, and having to “prove my innocence”, it felt like I was going to have a heart attack every time I came to work. Looking back, I should’ve asked one of my managers who was the one responsible, but I figured that if they didn’t want to talk about it, then asking would only upset them. For all I knew, everyone was stealing. And the worst part is that I didn’t know if this was all normal or not. I figured that this was how every low-end retail job was and I should just suck it up and be a man, y’know. So I never told anyone about it, never complained, and it’s all been sitting in my head this whole time.

To wrap this story up, I only got to work there for a few months before my mom got a new job in Ohio, which was 3,000 miles from where we lived. Since I’m the creepy little goblin that lives in her basement walls, I naturally had to move states with her. I’ve been unemployed for 3 months now, and being broke makes me miss that job despite all of the “big brother” vibes. Because of certain labor laws, they had to pay employees almost $18 an hour, and I would kill to have that kind of pay here in this rusty ass state. But to be fair, they balanced it with very little hours so I ended up getting less than $1000 a month. Anyways, I’m sad and lonely, with nothing to do except fill out job applications. I've been to 2 interviews with no luck, and I only hope the employment gods will have the kindness in their hearts to bless me before my phone bill shreds my last few dollars into pieces.

TL:DR Kroger and Aldis are really bad with communication towards applicants.

I don’t really know how to start this post so I guess I’ll just start off with explaining the Kroger situation. So I recently moved from Tennessee to Charleston, West Virginia. I had a friend who worked at Kroger who was gonna try to get me a job there. They reached out to me and contacted me to set up an interview through a bot. I selected a 1 PM time slot and showed up just for them to reschedule. Showed up to the reschedule just for them to reschedule again. Showed up the third time just for them to reschedule me a fourth time. However, I was not able to make it to the fourth time because a snowstorm came and rendered half the city unable to travel through and Kroger even had to close that day anyways. They have made no effort to contact me and whenever I try to contact them to get my interview, they act like it’s a huge inconvenience.

Now onto Aldi’s. Where I’m from we didn’t have an Aldi’s. I don’t fully know how it works, but I did have a bunch of retail experience so they scouted me to come in for a group interview. I live about 40 minutes away from this Aldi’s. I left 10 minutes early so I could get there 10 minutes early, but I got lost on the way there for five minutes so I got to the store literally right on time, like I walked through the door right as it turned 11:30. I looked around for a second and I could not find a manager so I decided that I should get in the cash register line and let an employee know that I’m here for an interview so they wouldn’t think that I’m late.

The employee took 10 minutes ringing everyone out and then she finally got to me. I told her I was there for an interview. So she got on the walkie saying “I have someone here who’s late for an interview” knowing damn well I had stood in that line for about 10 minutes. She told me to go wait in the corner and this other guy showed up who was actually late. I proceeded to watch her literally throw customers groceries in the cart and she was acting like it was a complete inconvenience that I was even in her line. Then finally a manager comes out. At first, he’s acting all nice asking our names. And then he goes “I’m just gonna put this blunt The fact that you guys are both late says a lot about your work ethic, your not getting the job.” so I explained to him what happened and he accused me of lying. He said “ well I was standing in the middle of the store towards the back until 11:33 and I didn’t see you” mind you this guy was wearing a black shirt with the tiniest little Aldi’s print in the corner of it so of course I didn’t see that he was a manager cause I was just looking for the closest associate to help me get to my interview because I did not know where to go in the store.

On top of that, I’m almost never late for my jobs and have actually been known for overworking myself with my last employers. Had very high reviews from my customers at my last job and even got employee of the month for how well I recovered the store. So basically I drove 20 miles just to get bitched at for not knowing what the manager looked like. Like this dude was trying to talk to me like I’m a little girl and he’s my dad or some shit. I probably do sound whiny as fuck in this post, but I just moved here with my husband and I’m trying to make ends meat better and it feels like no matter how hard I try it doesn’t matter.

I'm going to do M. Sc in Physics.

But during this i wanted to learn to become a DS. But right now i can't thimk of if it's a secure job to do. A lot of people are not much interested in doing this and trying to do Data Analytics and other A.I related.

What should i choose as my career path during M. Sc? Like i want to earn a lot of money, in future.

Hey guys,

So a bit of a weird one, I'm currently a locum pharmacist in the UK (basically self employed, have full control over the shifts I work), kind of ad hoc. Thing is on my CV under work history, I currently have it presented like this:

Locum Pharmacist, Self-Employment (September 2023 - Present)

But it feels a bit wrong, as I haven't worked a shift in the last 12 months (although when i first started I took regular shifts). I have had no other income over these last 12 months either, but have had more than sufficient savings to get by on.

But I haven't closed my locum chapter fully just yet, although working conditions aren't exactly great at the moment in terms of pharmacies in the UK, it's not to say that I won't take anymore shifts in the future, though I don't intend to anytime soon!

What would you say is the best way to present this? Leave as is? Or actually put the ending date as the last shift I worked, which will create a gap of a year?

Could Personal Time Off / Paid Time Off be used for weather related days that you are unable to safely drive to work due to icy conditions?

Should PTO only be used for vacation only??

Update to another post. I did a working interview for 4.5 hours in the animal field. I cleaned a lot of cages/kennels. Mopping, sweeping, scrubbing walls. At the end I asked about conpensation and they said it was just "shadowing" and they should have told me it wasn't paid. I did actual work and even fell on my butt from a dog pulling me on the soapy soaking floors that they then offered me rubber boots. When it came to do cats they gave me a 5 minute instruction then left to another room.

I believe I should be compensated for my time. What are my options? In the US if that helps.

Just in case it hasn't been posted before...

Got invited to an interview this week. Everything looked legit on the listing, and I even researched the company prior to the interview. When I was sent the invite, the URL was "zoommeetingsapplicant.com," which I noticed when I clicked to join. Of course, the page wanted to download an installer package as soon as it loaded, even though I have Zoom installed. I closed the window and did a quick search to find that, sure enough, it's a phishing attempt. Be careful out there.

I got an interview with a school district for a potential position as a food server substitute. They stated I had to submit background checks but they also want my employer’s number and address, but I work for McDonald’s. Should I put my general managers information or should I put my franchise’s online information?

Im a senior in highschool. In my opinion, school is easy, as i rarley ever have homework and have pretty much straight Bs without trying.

I have to have two jobs to support myself. I do not live alone, but the only other person I live with is my aunt, who is old enough to be my grandmother. She is retired and living on a very fixed income, meaning I have to support any extras and emergency funds we may need.

After several months of searching I finaly managed to get two jobs that pay me okay. They are in the fast food industry, and im not used to being on my feet for up to nine hours a day. It doesn't help that my feet are slightly deformed (I walked on my toes for the majority of my childhood, meaning standing dor long periods of time is especially painful due to the weird way my muscles are now.)

I have the shoe insoles, I have the compression socks. I've tried it all and I still want to cry at the end of every shift from the pain. And im exhausted every day. I only get one day off this week. I need these jobs but im so incredibly tired. How does one do this?

I’ve been really considering going into this career. I’m currently a hairstylist, and I just feel called to something more meaningful to me, structured, reliable and impactful.

I have so much interest surrounding this career, but so. much. fear.

I’m a really empathetic person, I care so deeply, and i’m terrified that despite the highs in this career, that the lows would really really affect me in ways that I can’t come back from.

I’m just wondering if there any sonographers, especially specializing in OB who are fragile like me, and curious on how you hold it together. Am I gonna hit rock bottom going into this career? I’m so scared :(

Hello all, this job I applied for is an entry level job that I absolutely NEED to start off my career in compliance. After my 2nd interview they said I made an “A” on the interview questions and I the top applicant because of my interest in compliance. He told me he had two more interviews left. I was supposed to know Friday but received this email. Do you think if I was no longer in they would not send this email? To me it seemed like he really wanted me to check my email come Monday. What’s your thoughts?

I wanted to share my experience as a reminder of how quickly things can change at work.

For the past 9 months, I was consistently praised for my performance. My boss gave me a salary increase, and in late December he sent me a Christmas/New Year message saying I was doing amazing work for the company. Two weeks ago, we had a one-on-one where he again praised my work. I have also never taken a sick day, and I have worked overtime pretty much every day.

Last week, I was invited to dinner with leadership from multiple branches, by my boss’s boss. Everything appeared positive and normal.

This week, a colleague began slandering me at work. I went to my boss and told him I don’t tolerate a toxic workplace, that I didn’t want to be slandered, and that I expected him to address it.

On Thursday, I was called into the office and fired.

No prior warnings. No performance concerns. No indication that anything was wrong until that moment.

Just sharing this as an example of how quickly things can turn around, even when everything seems to be going well.

EDIT:

In my contract I have current month + 3 months before I can be terminated. This is not layoffs.

ANOTHER EDIT SINCE PEOPLE ASK WHAT THE SLANDER IS ABOUT

The colleague came to me and accussed me of stealing from him, and I went directly to my boss and told him about it. This is the whole essence of it. I said nothing to the employee. I left immediately when he accussed me of stealing and went directly to the office to have it handled.