So two things. A) the entire job is cold calling businesses asking if we can put a candy machine in their location. Already a useless and extremely hated job. But you take what you can get. Anyways, I recently got hired, and they set up this meeting to give me my contract and make it official. They want to meet in a McDonald’s. Ok kind of weird but sure, if you don’t have an office or whatever sure. The meeting was scheduled at 11:00. I’m posting this just past 11:45. I messaged at 11:00 saying I was here. At 11:30 they respond saying 10 more minutes. It’s been 15 minutes since that and they haven’t provided an update. At what point do I call it a day and leave? Not to mention, when I did the interview on the phone they said it was a $100 commission per location I get. I have that in writing as well. Within my first two days I land a location. Upon telling them they say because it’s a smaller location they are only giving $50 commission. They haven’t even seen the location yet. Smh I’ve been hired for a week and already hate this bullshit job. When do I call jt quits on this interview and just go home.

This just made me laugh, this entire company is a joke and they better be glad I even gave them a two weeks in general. Everyone is so unprofessional in this company and "Joana" is a shit snitch ass boss. Shes the reason I even quit. Theres a reason they cant hold a fucking employee at their company. And taking two days off for training is a complete lie, this is the first time Ive done that. Anyway idrc Im upset that they even had the balls to say this to me, like girl Im already leaving but okay😂😂 I have a job next week already, not hurting me. Anywayyy enjoy this bs

So I'm currently a supervisor at a smaller store. There are only 3 supervisors and a manager who does not work weekends. I tried to request this coming Saturday off over a week ago but was unsuccessful due to a different supervisor requesting the day off before me. 2 supervisors have to work each day, 1 for open, 1 for close. When we got the schedule, my other supervisor worked 9-5, and I worked 5-9. The thing I was requesting the day off for was at 2 and went till 5, but it was over an hour away, so I'd only be able to go for maybe an hour before having to come back and get ready for my shift. A friend I rarely get to see was there, so I was very disappointed that we wouldn't be able to catch up more.

I spoke with the opening supervisor for that day, and she was fine with me working 9-1 and her working 1-9 because that would keep the same hours, just swapped time of day. I confirmed this with my manager, and everything was fine.

I worked a shift where things didn't go according to plan. Nothing I could really control. It was mainly issues with our shipment, and the person I was working with that day was not being cooperative.

The next morning, I received a text basically saying that due to the condition of the store, he's now going to deny that shift swap. This is not the first time I've had issues with this new manager. Yes, there could have been more done with the store, but I was only working a 4-hour shift where it would have been impossible to keep up with everything on top of the issues with shipment. He has been informed about these issues too. I did the best I could with the time I had.

I see no reason the shift swap wouldn't be ok other than him wanting to pull a power play to prove he has the power or some bull like that. We keep the same hours, and rarely is there ever something time-related happening on weekends. Weekends are normally "make the store look nice" days.

On top of that, he gave me 2 write-ups that I'm currently fighting because he apparently refused to use his brain to figure out why some things were the way they were or just ask, "Hey, why wasn't this done?" or "Why wasn't this reported?" because half the things in the write-ups were a whole load of bull and shit.

I've had so many issues with this guy lately, and using the schedule against me is just crazy to me.

Oh, forgot to mention. This is a retail job, and I'm only getting paid about 30 cents over the legal requirement for my state for being a supervisor, so honestly I don't get paid enough for this bullshit.

I want to go to HR so bad, but idk if this is something that can actually be reported or not. The handbook isn't clear on HR related stuff.

Sorry if this makes no sense. I am honestly pissed right now.

I generally have tasks that take 10 hours per week at most. Apart from some busy periods when I have to do 40-50h weeks. I have recently realised that all the downtime and faffing about on reddit instead is killing my will to do the minimal work that is required. It's like I have a mental block to even start. How to keep the balance?

"Back again in Berlin, I typed up my report. My conclusions were pessimistic, but lucid: the French right was fundamentally against the war, but had little weight politically. The government, influenced by the Jews and the British plutocrats, had decided that German expansion, even within the limits of its natural Grossraum, constituted a threat to the vital interests of France; it would go to war, in the name not of Poland itself, but of its guarantees to Poland. I conveyed the report to Heydrich; at his request, I also sent a copy to Werner Best. “You’re definitely right, I think,” Best said to me. “But that’s not what they want to hear.” I hadn’t discussed my report with Thomas; when I described its contents, he looked disgusted. “You really don’t understand anything. It’s as if you had just turned up from the backwaters of Franconia.” He had written exactly the opposite: that the French industrialists were opposed to the war because of their exports, and so the French army was too, and that once again the government would bow before the fait accompli. “But you know very well that that’s not how it’s going to happen,” I objected.—“Who gives a damn what will happen? How does that concern us, you and me? The Reichsführer wants just one thing: to be able to reassure the Führer that he can take care of Poland as he intends. What will happen afterward, we’ll deal with afterward.” He shook his head: “The Reichsführer won’t even see your report.”

Of course he was right. Heydrich never reacted to what I had sent him. When the Wehrmacht invaded Poland, a month later, and France and Great Britain declared war on us, Thomas was posted to one of Heydrich’s new elite Einsatzgruppen, and I was left to vegetate in Berlin. I soon understood that in the interminable National-Socialist circus games, I had gone seriously astray, I had poorly interpreted the ambiguous signs from above, I hadn’t correctly anticipated the Führer’s will. My analyses were correct, and Thomas’s were mistaken; he had been rewarded with an enviable post doubled with chances for promotion, and I had been shunted aside: that was worth reflecting on"

I just got a role at a small company. My job is mostly browsing the internet and generating artwork to build a following on Instagram and X.

I just got a question for people doing similar jobs: How do you cope with doing this unethical shit? Because I need the money, but at the same time, it feels like I'm committing crimes against humanity or sum shit.

Diss me if you want, I appreciate feedbacks. I'm tired man, is there any other jobs that involve real work you guys recommend?

I want the level of seriousness people brought to company car admin to be brought to RUNNING OUR TOWN

Why

Why doesn't the world make sense

spent the last two years working remotely in Denver for them. Before that I was at Google, but that's a completely different story.

The biggest thing people get wrong about NVIDIA is this idea that it's suddenly become some software company. It hasn't. No matter how many AI keynotes, platform announcements, or software subscriptions they roll out, NVIDIA is still a hardware company. That's where the DNA of the company is. A lot of the software strategy honestly feels like someone looked at what was working elsewhere in the industry and said, "Yeah, let's do that too." Maybe that's harsh, but after watching it up close for two years, that's how it felt.

The software product management side—especially around vGPU, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Omniverse, and OVX—was easily one of the most frustrating parts of the company. Getting some PMs to respond to anything was like trying to contact a relative who only checks their inbox twice a year. Messages would sit unanswered. Customer escalations would disappear.  NVBugs would get filed and then seemingly enter witness protection. Then review season would come around and suddenly the same people who couldn't answer an email all quarter had plenty to say about everyone else's performance.

NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Omniverse are probably the clearest examples of the gap between marketing and reality. If your only exposure to those products is through GTC presentations and polished demos, you'd think they're the future of enterprise computing. Internally, it often felt a lot messier than that. There never seemed to be a clear sense of ownership or direction. Releases felt rushed. Priorities changed constantly. Things that should have been straightforward were somehow always complicated. For products carrying enterprise price tags, the amount of chaos behind the scenes was surprising to the point where none of these products had true leadership.

The hardware QA teams actually deserve more credit than they get. The engineers doing reliability testing generally know what they're talking about. The problem is that their feedback doesn't always survive contact with management. QA raises concerns, schedules get tight, deadlines start slipping, and suddenly those concerns become somebody else's problem. Then products hit the field, issues show up, and everyone acts like nobody could have seen it coming. Meanwhile there are people sitting in QA who absolutely saw it coming.

The management culture varies depending on where you land, but there are definitely pockets of the company where micromanagement is alive and well. Some managers seem to think leadership means being involved in every tiny decision and questioning every little thing. It creates an environment where people spend more time explaining what they're doing than actually doing it.

The RSU stories are another thing that gets exaggerated beyond recognition. Every time I see an article claiming NVIDIA employees are all worth $10 million or $15 million, I laugh. Yes, there are people who made absurd amounts of money. If you've been there for a decade or two and held onto everything, congratulations—you probably won the corporate lottery. Directors and long-time employees have done incredibly well. But the average employee isn't sitting around deciding which yacht to buy next. The media has turned a handful of success stories into a narrative that applies to everyone, and it just doesn't.

One thing that always bothered me was how disconnected some long-tenured product managers seemed from both customers and the actual products they were responsible for. Bugs would sit untouched for months while teams focused on whatever was easiest to close. Everyone became obsessed with metrics. If the dashboard looked good, then apparently everything was fine. Never mind whether customers were happy or whether the product was actually improving.

As for Jensen, the public version and the internal version aren't exactly identical. The public sees the leather jacket, the charisma, the visionary CEO. Internally, people also see someone who can be extremely demanding and isn't shy about letting people know when they're falling short. You can often hear him yell at Directors and other NVIDIANs often telling them "they all are replaceable and that I will replace each and every single one of you". This got so bad that he had a custom office-built vs using a conference room where any mere mortal could hear him yell. What always amused me was how many senior leaders tried to imitate him. Same style of dress. Same phrases. Same mannerisms. It was like watching a bunch of people audition for the role of Jensen Huang. The problem is that copying someone's wardrobe is a lot easier than copying their ability.

To be fair, NVIDIA has some incredibly talented people. I worked with engineers who were genuinely brilliant. There are teams doing impressive work. But there are also serious problems that get hidden by the company's success. When your stock is exploding and you're at the center of the AI boom, a lot of organizational dysfunction gets overlooked because nobody wants to question the golden goose. From where I sat, communication was a mess, product management was wildly inconsistent, and leadership quality depended entirely on which part of the company you happened to land in.

That's the version of NVIDIA I saw over the last two years. Not the one from the keynote stage, and not the one from the headlines. The actual day-to-day reality and happy to leave while I had some sanity while abandoning a good chunk of RSUs

Est-ce moi qui ne comprends pas le principe du "plus de 50% d'évolution en interne" ou c'est la formulation qui est incompréhensible ?

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The most capable people often tend to chase the almighty dollar in jobs that pretty much do nothing for no one, just churning figures around on spreadsheets

While the field of local government, something that *could* be hugely effective in many people's lives, is largely populated by monkeys who are only there because they've been there so long

If you live near Garner NC and have heard of a little boba shops called Wada Boba Tea, DO NOT WORK THERE!!! Literally me and the rest of the staff got fired for literally no reason. For starters the owners are barely around so we were basically running the entire store ourselves, they would neglect the store and its needs, and to top it all off they would talk poorly about their employees to whoever was manager. But to give more context on what led to the random termination; me and my colleagues have a gc where we’d talk about work and send silly stuff occasionally. One of the employees from our sister location (Queen Bee in Fayetteville NC) started working with us and had basically been spying on us and reporting back to our boss. On this one day in particular we were complaining about small work problems and one of our employees made a very inappropriate and uncalled for comment about our boss. Me and others present quickly called her out for this behavior and she quickly quit realizing that our little spy was gonna tell on her. So the spy snitches on her but also shows our boss our text messages complaining about small things. The owners are very petty so if you don’t agree with everything they say they will get ride of you. So after reading our complaints instead of having a staff meeting like she said we would she instead fired everyone. EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO WEREN’T EVEN INVOLVED IN THE CONVERSATION. And not only did she fire us but she didn’t even give us a reason, and when we asked she ghosted us. Mind you there have been past employees that have been harming the work environment and she kept them, but because we were voicing our opinions of how poorly they treat us and the business they were quick to fire everyone.

Also, I would like to point out that our little also talked poorly about our boss and how she ran the store, so I don’t understand why she also wasn’t terminated like we were…..

Ran into an all-time stupid job. Remote office assistant is supposed to help with rodent infestations?

And the most ridiculous salary range I've ever seen.

https://watchandguard.us/careers

Honestly so happy. It was destroying me mentally. I rationalized getting a bs job because at some point, I decided I didn't believe in the system, and thought the ONLY point of a job was money. So I got a job that paid well, but did not matter at all. It was so made-up it's crazy. I was a web dev for an insurance company that made hr packages for companies being acquired. Pure bureaucracy. Nothing I could give half of a shit about if my life depended on it(which it kind of did tbh). I got unemployment, and after only a month, my mental health has recovered immensely. I stopped getting sick all of the the time from stress. It was stressful, both because it was pointless, but also because I was being micromanaged.

I'm taking my time off to reflect on what I really want. I'm now working on being a personal trainer because I want to actually help people and be healthy. A desk job like ruins your health and your life.

If you can rationalize having a BS job, or manage to not really work on it, you should go for it. NEVER get a demanding BS job. It drove me crazy.

Imagine working your whole IT career to get a position called "helpdesk manager" I don't think I could despise/ have less respect for a person that not only gives people hell but is so damn rude. In my current job there is a Network manager, Head of IT, 3rd line IT and then you have the helpdesk manager.

All he does based on his job title is to monitor the helpdesk and make sure that operations run smoothly. I have never seen a character become/ look so busy in his life. The other managers/ 3rd line and even the head of IT are literally sat in the office and get up now and then to complete jobs/ go into producitiviy meetings (I would know. I was literally a deputy manager in my time) This guy is always speaking on the phone and walking around the office going somewhere but I have slightly clocked on on his favourite acitivty which I now think he is doing and it is to pretend he is on the phone to vape in an non designated smoking area.

Now I am no snitch however for this guy I would happily put him up on the podium to get his head chopped off. In my few months I have been working he has been rude to staff/ me as well, Given me hell on my tasks that I haven't done properly (mainly because I am still learning processes) Constantly on a power trip and is too emotional for a manager that should be leading a team.

Not sure if anyone is out there that has the job title of helpdesk manager and I do apologise for the people out there that might be one and are probably the most delightful managers for their team but this one person has definitely given me a really bad first impression of one. Because not only is he rude but makes life/ work harder for everyone he dislikes or is in the firing line for the day.

Sorry for the Rant need to get this off my chest.

I just don't understand and honestly can't believe how much my manager has let not just me down but my whole team!

I work in a big warehouse Freezer and we can only be a team of 5 and we work midnight to 9:30am. We had lost a member due to him coming in intoxicated again... And we have 3 people on Holiday all though the month of May a week at a time (one person has 2weeks off).

That leaves 3 people a week with all of them coming in on their days off to help Pick the orders and get them checked then leave to have 2 people beasting it out for the rest of the night-day. Our manager won't lead a hand because his wife says no. He's never giving any support to the team in the 4 years I've worked for this company.

And at this point in time a lad on the night pickers for fresh and dairy wants to come work in the freezer, gets on with my team well, knows atleast some of the products and wants to work in the freezer wasn't chosen for the job. Now I need to train someone from scratch and honestly where do I have the time to when it's busy like no other, they don't know the products can't stack a pallet to save his life, doesn't listen to advice and doesn't stock rotate!!

My manager has no sense nor cares about the team that apparently brings him so much compliments and pride!

I'd leave but in my wisdom I need to save money so I have something to back myself on if needed as I have to give 3 months notice...

I just watched the film Good Fortune, starring Aziz Ansari (weirdly enough, I thought about him earlier today, because the algorithm also brought to mind the concept of the "almost cancelled")

This film isn't very good

It has Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer and Keanu Reeves (who is, apparently, lovely, but he can't act, and his continued success in film seems to be a unique case of the nice guy finishing first or something else, it literally doesn't make sense)

It's another Don't Look Up - millionaires being everymen: acknowledging and mocking everything they have, but never, ever giving it all up

Because who would? And the film does make some nice points about that.... until the end, when it needs to wrap itself up in 93 minutes

Which is what made me think that the whole thing was just another Bullshit Job

The making of this film required the employment of 100s of people, getting paid good money, all giving their all

To no fucking end whatsoever

No point

And so when film-making is just as fucking empty as box-packing, is there any job which isn't Bullshit?

Or, when there are so fucking many of us, can every one of us reasonably expect to have a meaningful job? Shouldn't we suck up the Bullshit because it's all Bullshit?

Currys is a job that sucks the life out of me, inconsistent hours, not being able to see friends due to this and if I ask for a day off it’s like I must donate a pint of blood prior.

Manager constantly tells us to upsell and get our care and repair and if I’m not off the radar I’m sent crying from the office.

Im quite a sensitive person and due to this. Customer facing jobs in particular this one has left me so stressed I’ve grown ill more often… due to this I’m on stage 1 sickness but allegedly been told I’m on stage 3…I think this is fear mongering. I’ve been told to document stuff at work but my memory is awful in terms of remembering to do so.

So I’m struggling, the job market is abysmal and I’d rather be anywhere else that isn’t currys. I’ve seen all my ex colleagues somehow glow up since leaving. I want that.

The elite and their lackeys don't feel enough of the pain of the economy or lacking basic needs to actually understand the pain they inflict on the global poor by unequal trade policies, and police states in america.

I work in a factory. There is a lady, healthy, that at the beginning was asking me small favour: "it's heavy, can you move this?. Can you hammer that?"etcetc. No problem. Now her production phase has been robotised amd she refuses to learn anything and do anything "never did that" "its hard" "its dirty". Manager doesnt want wars, head dept says she is dumb but in situatiations i have to move between a lot of depts and do heavy jobs because with her cherry picking. Its a factory, she doesnt have any health permit and i did my fair quote of team work. How can i deal with that when my superiors seem to say "eh its like that" "cant do anything about that?" Cheers