With a lot of stories and unfortunate workplace situations being posted on the internet I figured I'd share a thought that did not dawn on me until now.

I work for a paper company.... yes..... I never realized that I literally live in an episode of the office M-F 8-5, I work in the warehouse and and go through emails and pull/pack orders for customers. Now we aren't as busy as Amazon as it's just me and my boss in the supply department and I normally push about 100 packages a day. Every single day the office folks come back to the warehouse and act like it some new part of the world they have never seen in person.

And just like the TV show I cannot stand when they come back here lol, it's like I'm security and I NEED to watch them or else I'll find someone sitting on a forklift.

Corporate is always calling us asking us to do outrageous stuff and they have not learned that unlike them we don't have 49 people at our disposal with every one split up doing each task and that me and my supervisor have to do it all lol.

I actually enjoy working there, big pay, the benefits are amazing and coming from retail it's nice having literally every single holiday as paid time off, if I ever call out for being sick they wish me some rest and will see me when I'm better.

Just thought I'd share a realization that I'm inside a TV show everyday..... just without the big celebrity paycheck LOL

So I just started at a new job and a week or so before Thanksgiving, my manager told me the company is providing a Holiday meal for everyone and we just need to make a choice from this one fastfood place and it will be delivered on a certain day.

I prefer to bring my lunch/dinner to work every day, and I am happy to do so , it affords me the knowledge that I know exactly what I will be eating and the quality/ quantity of the food. It is not that I am a snob, I just may be mildly traumatised on never knowing if I was going to get a lunch at school or not because no one ever gave me a packed lunch or money to buy it. Sometimes my mother filled out the lunch program supplement for the year, and sometimes she did not. I am also very private and feel I shouldn't need to explain my choices to anyone.

Cue the conversation about this holiday meal:

Supervisor: Hey we need to give Mr. Blah Blah our order for next weeks Thanksgiving meal, it's going to be from " Insert Fast Food Place".

Me: Oh thats nice, but I would like to opt out, but thank you for asking.

Supervisor: Waddya mean? You don't want "IFFP"? It's the best! Why not? I'm sure you can choose something else!

Me: Really, I would like to opt out, it's my choice. But again thank you.

Supervisor walks away.

Cue conversation for the Christmas lunch.

Supervisor; Hey the company is having a buffet brought in from "Great Restaurant", It's going to be on such and such day, I just need a head count, no need to put in an order.

Me: Thank you, but I prefer to opt out, but it's great the company is doing that for the Holiday.

Supervisor: Are you sure? What are you a VEGAN!?

Me: I just smile and say thank you, but I prefer to bring in my own food to eat.

Why is it so difficult to be at a job and not have to explain my personal preferences to anyone? I just want to work, get paid and go home.

Not sure if any of you work at Cognizant - a damn big temp agency company. I'm sorry if you do.

But how are they still operating and not been shut down by lawsuits? A lot of the people I know who've quit I know don't sue or even small claims because it's such an intensive process and they didn't make that much. But surely one person has been forced to?

I've searched many places online to see if others have the same issue regarding pay, but it can't just be my contracted project that's affected by the sever pay issues considering the pay/timeclock system is country-based. From start, it's a gamble each week if you're paid the correct amount. And if there's an issue with your onboarding? Good chance you won't get that first pay check (maybe even more) at all despite working 40 hour weeks. I find that those not-as-rare-as-it-should-be people quit soon after getting their money (which may also be an incorrect amount as they'll "round for taxes/insurance" despite the onboarding issues meaning you're not enrolled in those).

I've had a similar paid wrong issues here and there, and it's another gamble if it'll be corrected by the next pay check. Probably dubiously legal.

If you're always perfect at using their shittily designed website to log your time, it's down half the time too and has to manually be adjusted. Which creates it's own issues when you literally can't put in your day's times and have to rely on their unreliable timeclock people. That said there are times when your time shows correctly, BUT you just didn't get paid for your 40 hours oddly enough as it and all the adjustments didn't get approved in time.

If you get promoted? No paperwork. No written record of the pay raise or promises like bonuses even when you insist. And raises? It'll take months after the promotion, and if you're lucky it'll be exactly what was promised. Non-promotion raises are done in a weird shady manner too where you won't be alerted and it'll never be discussed for you. With all the system issues, it makes you hesitate to ask in fear it's a mistake and will be taken from you.

I don't understand how a giant HR of a company can get to this point? Is there somewhere I can report for the company to be investigated when I'm not the one affected to the point of my peers?

Not only that, but somehow they have the opposite issues of other companies and can't fire people?! All the pay issues have (of course) caused people to just... not do their work, but HR just lets them stay, paid fully, as long as they show up- don't even have to stay. No matter if proper processes and documentation have been done. That's if HR responds at all to your requests or complaints. (Have a complaint and documented evidence about harassment or work avoidance? Sorry, no response.) Which results in the actual good workers to quit from the strain.

Probably why the entire company (not just individual projects) reported a crazy high turnover rate.

I do honestly love the company mine is contracted with (though they're idiots for contracting with my company). I feel so guilty though staying with how my coworkers are treated.

If you're applying to jobs or get an offer from Cognizant (at least in the US). Don't accept unless you're willing to fight for your money and have little choices. Don't work there.

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So I came here to vent a bit.
I work as an operational manager at an middle sized company, I've been here for a year and every week I recieve some kind of comendation because of my performance (not to brag but its contextual).
Today I was working minding my own business when the recepcionist came to my desk and told me there was a lawyer looking for my boss. I called my boss and told him, he asked me to go and see who she was.

When i got there the lawyer asked me if I worked at our business of course I said I do and she served me. Basically someone is suing the enterprise and they needed to serve someone in the office.
I called my boss to tell him about it and he just went nuts on me. He started shouting at me and calling me names for going attend the lawyer (when he asked me to go), he said i was out of line and that i was self proclaiming me a legal member of the office. this went on for a while.

After he calmed down I told him I had no way to know we where being served and that he was being unfair. Once again he got aggresive and I simply told him I was going to HR to present my resignation, which I did.

I just got like a 7 minutes vn from him where he tells me he is sorry for his manners but that I was still out of place taking the serving.
He offered me a raise and a new benefit package in exchange for me staying in my role.

I honestly dont know what to do, but I think im not coming back... I find it really iffy to be in a place where they are not only shaddingly avoiding lawyers and apparently it is such a big deal that the big boss would react like it did.

I hope this isnt the wrond subreddit to post this!

My work history began in the late 70s as babysitter extraordinaire, for $0.75 an hour, no age exclusions or duties :) Graduated to dishwasher in 1982 lol and got myself to an office environment within a few years where I thrive.

It is there that I see all the whacked machinations that cause inexplicable and infuriating delays in blatantly simple jobs and/or business endeavor.

Consider this. I worked for a publishing company in the accounts receivable and distribution departments, with one other co-worker. Who chose to misinform me on procedures like, creating adequate computer backups each night, and when I had to explain to the owner how I did it, I agreed with him it was rather stupid to write over the same backup tapes day after day..... Then it became a ONE PERSON DEPARTMENT when she quit without notice. And.....it was discovered the incorrect methods she trained me on for many other duties within the department. SHE did them correctly, she knew she was teaching me incorrectly to rather ensure her job security .........[quiet meltdown].

I had 7 days a week, unlimited hours option for overtime, for many months.

I've worked in the big corporate environments where you have to do blatantly stupid processes and behaviors BECAUSE CORPORATE REQUIRES IT. I need to work, I need this job, I will be your Bozo for the benefits, too. But it's not my DESIRE to hamstring my customers and interrogate them on their financial lives. It is the job, and it sucks, but look I got to do it.

My last entry here - I moved to a Deep South state from a bleeding heart liberal state to work for a company that had acquired the one I was employed at. We lived and died by our business mail. If it was a little bit, we had a little bit of work to make the day go by, more or less. And then when it was crazy busy it was insane. So for like four days, the young man comes back from the post office EMPTYHANDED AGAIN. FOUR DAYS IN A ROW, NO MAIL??? This went on for not a few incidents of mail desert. Finally someone walked down the street, literally, most likely and found out that when the woman who sorts the business class mail is not in the office ........... it doesn't get sorted until she returns.

Have mercy guys. You just don't know what an insane coworker has inflicted upon the staff there is at your service, and you don't know what lunacy the freaking corporate idiots who never worked for less than $75,000 a year are flogging the peons with now so they can have their pockets further fattened.

I have worked in a warehouse with a skeleton crew and several delivery drivers for several months. Yesterday, my coworker of 2 weeks started screaming at me and one of our drivers for taking an order that another driver said he didn't want and insists the driver is being shown unfair favoritism. This is at least the second time in as many weeks with as many drivers and drivers don't want to come in or work with coworker anymore. I made the complaint today to two higher ups. One is the team lead, the other is the gm from a different store who has been working here for 2 weeks too fill in the gaps.

I told the gm first because he was here when I walked in and I know will handle the situation. Then told the team lead.

Team lead yelled at me for not telling him first, and then lectured me about giving the driver special treatment and privileges. The special treatment he was referring to was asking the driver to reach things that I cannot reach and assigning deliveries to who's turn it is next when I'm falling behind so I can keep packing. After chewing me out for causing drama, they gave the coworker a "talking to about the attitude". I'm just trying to stay out of the whole ridiculous situation and instead am getting yelled at. Coworker works tonight with me so I'm going to bear the brunt of her aggression today.

Posting for catharsis because 50 hours of this in 4 days is exhausting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wayyZ9LtJY

This story is about 15 years old. I was reminded of it in another thread and thought you folks might find it amusing.

I had two employees get married; they had known each other prior to their employment in my company. As the boss, I had to do something at their reception, give a speech or something that I didn't really want to do. Knowing the happy couple as I did, I fully expected the reception to be a bit crazy. And crazy it was. The reception was in their backyard. It was wild ass, alcohol lubricated, and I had changed my speech into an R rated version of "The Newlywed Game".

I picked 3 other employees and their spouses to serve as the other contestants and had prizes (bottled prizes) for all the participants. All participants knew what they were getting into, even if they didn't know the exact embarrassing questions that would be coming.

It was all a set up, because there was a final bonus question that I knew the happy couple would get right and none of the other couples had any chance at, so no matter how bad the newlyweds did, they would still win and then the company would give them a bunch of silly prank prizes, like a pen with the company logo and a file folder with the company logo. Winning turned out to be an underwhelming experience and just when the audience got to the point of booing the prizes, then the couple got a $100 Home Depot gift card that they needed for their house. That made the audience a little happier and then slowly, one at a time, I pulled 9 more $100 Home Depot gift cards out of the prize bag and the crowd went wild. The couple was very appreciative.

But before we got to the end of the game, one of the questions was, "Prior to getting married, what was the most unusual place you ever made whoopy?" The newlywed couple both answered honestly because they were too deep into alcohol induced happiness, and they both said, the men's room at our office. The crowd, which was a lot of people from the office but lots of people I didn't know as well, went wild with that admission.

So the next day, Sunday, I went to the office and printed a banner that said, "Welcome to the John and Jane Memorial Bathroom and Lounge." I hung it up in the men's room and as we had our normal Monday morning kick off meeting, the guys would come back from the men's room laughing but no one told "John" why they were laughing. When John would ask what was so funny, that just made everyone else laugh all that much more. I can't say we had a very productive meeting that day.

When John finally got the urge to go, he came back with an embarrassed look and a big wadded up ball of paper that he promised would go through the shredder.

I don't know if those two still make whoopy in men's rooms, but they are still married.

I work in an IT office, and sometimes I get spam calls from solicitors. I'm not sure if they're they're trying to sell me something or just collect data, but I like to mess with them so they have less time to bother other people. I got a call from a woman, claiming to be "Stacy from Spectrum." I think we use AT&T, so it's plausible someone is trying to solicit Spectrum as a competitor to random IT people in our directory. So here's how the conversation started:

Stacy: "So you're an IT technician, correct?"

Me: "Yes."

Stacy: "Can you tell me which of the following is the biggest challenge your company faces with internet: speed, bandwidth, etc?" (I don't remember the other options she listed)

Me: "Oh I'm not in the networking department. I don't really know."

Stacy: "Yes but you're an IT technician, correct?"

Me: "Yes, but I'm not on the networking team."

Stacy: "Well surely you use internet at your job. Which of the following is your biggest challenge with the internet there?" (She then lists them off again)

Me: "I don't have problems using the internet here."

Stacy: "I'm not talking about you specifically, just in general what problems do you team face?"

Me: "We don't have any problems with our internet here."

Stacy: "Ok well can you just pick one of the options?" (She then lists them a third time)

Me: "I really don't know."

That's when she hung up on me, and got me a good laugh.

If you're participating in a super important webinar, don't answer your phone. Just don't answer it, or you could set it to do not disturb - just do anything besides answering and being a total bitch when someone calls you and didn't know you were in the World's Most Important Webinar.

He is quite old, has a wife and kiddos.. Well, I don't care much about him.. Until he started to follow my social media, finally he got my number this year.. And has been texting me everyday like "why haven't u sleep?", "where are you now?", etc (we are not even close nor talking in reality) after office hour.. In the beginning I used to reply with short messages, but recently I only read it but never reply... But that never stop him from texting me, he is still texting me every fcuking day....

I'm very uncomfortable beyond help, knowing he has wife and kids make me wanna snitch on HR people and his fam..

Am i being overactive? Or I am just annoyed?

My boss wants me to start telesales (not what I was hired for) for a recently established company and her goal is to have people agree to join meeting with her to introduce the product. She expects me to call 25 companies (not bad IMO) but to set up at least 3 people to agree to proceed to have a meeting every day. I'm the only one working on this database and I really hate this task.

Honestly, even if I call 50 companies per day, I don't think I can manage to convince 2 people to join our meeting. I only work part-time so it even makes this harder. So far I haven't managed to get any positive answers and every call makes me feel so bad. I really can't sell and especially it makes me feel bad when I think about how I'm bothering busy people. The results are bad, neither I nor my boss is happy. I'm thinking of telling her that I don't want to do this anymore, even if that means I will be let go.

Is there anyone working as telesales here? Can you give some advice or experience, do you think that expectation of number is absurd, or does it actually makes sense?!

TL;DR: My boss wants me to do telesales for a start-up and expect to have 3 meetings set up per day and I think I can't do it.

If this story sounds fantastical, please remember that is was a good 25+ years ago in a 2nd world country, how times have changed?

Before the days of user data privacy, locked payroll offices and network access security, I was just out of school and my dad refused to pay for my beer money so I was forced to get a part time job.

I worked for a large newsagent in a shopping centre, they had most probably 600 stores nationally so big by our country standards, we kept the store open from 5pm-9pm every night seven days a week.

I had been working there for several months when my supervisor tapped me on the shoulder.

Typical for this company, they were cheap. When people in head office went on leave, instead of hiring actual temps, they pulled late sales staff from the stores (who were often varsity students themselves) , paid them the same dirt cheap rate and sent them to head office to fill in.

So I was asked to go to head office and jumped at the chance to make some more money.

I arrived, early as my dad has pressed punctuality into me and this nice lady sits me down in the payroll office and explained I will be entering late sales hours into the mainframe. So she showed me how to log into the pc with my access and how to open the mainframe and you pressed tab a lot of times and then entered some numbers. Seemed easy enough and I have always been a fast learner so within 30 minutes I was entering data accurately enough that the lady wandered off for coffee or something.

She comes back in a panic and quickly explains to me that I cannot do that job. She then explains further because it hadn't dawned on me that I could potentially access and change my own time sheet! She asked if I had done my stores numbers which I honestly replied no and she told her manager she would double check the numbers to make sure. They then decided I would do a different job and moved me to a new office.

The new job was super boring, I had to phone the top 20 stores every morning to get their sales for the previous day and enter it into a spreadsheet. I don't know what came over me but as I was sitting there staring at my nemesis the phone, the implications of what the admin lady had said started to sink in.

Wouldn't it be cool to know what the late sales supervisors were paid?

So I came to work the next day early and the building wasn't locked or anything, (There was security outside so it was like a compound), nobody was around so I walked into the payroll office which was unlocked and then chickened out. The third day I gathered my courage, came in to the building early, logged on the pc with my access, opened the mainframe, found my stores late sales payroll and had a read.

To say the least, it was very interesting reading.

I don't obviously remember the accurate numbers but it was something like this

Alison : 20/hr

Vanessa : 16/hr

Other supervisors

Tania : 10/hr

Michelle : 8/hr

Now I had no idea who this Alison bird was, but I knew the rest and I understood enough to realise Michelle was getting screwed!

Vanessa was the most beautiful woman I knew at the time, tall, long brown hair, stunning smile, great figure reputation for a bit of a bitch.

Michelle was less of a beautiful woman but if you wanted Vanessa in bed then you wanted Michelle when the zombie apocalypse begins. Level headed, dependable, hard worker, been working since she was 14, tough but fair. I got on really well with her and she was my favourite supervisor.

So a couple of days later I walk into late sales work back at my store and Michelle is on shift.

The conversation went something like this

"Hey Michelle! Do you know you are getting screwed in pay?" - yup I just blurted it out.

"What! What do you mean?"

"Well I was temporarily working the late sales payroll and I saw you rate, you get paid 8/hr right?"

"Right..."

"Well Tania gets paid 10 and Vanessa gets paid 16! Hey do you somebody called Alison? I don't know a supervisor by that name but she's getting 20!"

Michelle's face clouded with anger and I was thankful it wasn't directed at me.

"No I don't, please excuse me." she growled and stormed off towards the back office.

I walked away oblivious to the shit storm I had created.

Later that night my late sales manager calls me into his office.

What ensued was one of the weirdest conversations I have ever had. He was rambling on about could he trust me? and how I really shouldn't talk about other people's salaries and how I can go places if I played my cards right. Naïve me just nodded not understanding what the hell was going on.

A couple of months later, our late sales manager was fired, I found out his girlfriend's name was Alison and he had been ghosting her onto the payroll for months before I inadvertently revealed it to Michelle who reported it to the day sales manager.

Michelle walked around with the biggest smile from that day, her pay was raised to put it in line with the other supervisors.

This happened between the months of May to September 2020, when I went back to my hometown in Malaysia (it's nicknamed Cat City, go figure) as my then boyfriend was there and I figured we should be together during the worldwide lockdown. So much happened during those 5 months that I don't even know where to start; but here it goes:

Part 1: My Story

My then boyfriend, AL had two "partners", D & F, who promised him the world. They wanted to start a restaurant business with him as the head chef/consultant and they would be the shareholders; eventually the plans fell apart due to COVID19 and AL was stuck working for D & F as their worker. As he was being paid a salary despite being their "partner", D & F guilt-tripped him to stay in the office together with him so he was always at their disposal. Basically, AL was like a odd job worker for both D & F despite him being their "partner".

When I went back in May 2020, they some how managed to rope me in to work for their COVID19-related project. It was initially just managing & creating social media postings but I some how ended up setting up and managing a mini COVID-19 call center for the entire state.

I was working in hospitality so this was WAY out of my comfort zone. The thing about D & F was that if they knew you had a certain skillset/you can deliver, they would pile more responsibility on you... until you reach the breaking point. Then they would turn around and blame you for not voicing out. It was never their fault and they would never be in the wrong.

As I was staying in the office with AL (and D & F), I was constantly stressed out and my relationship with AL was strained. We only had a minimum of 4 hours of sleep every day throughout our stay there as I was also helping AL start up the barbecue restaurant. At the end of it all, I was exhausted - physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Part 2: AL's Story

Since the restaurant business went down the drain, D & F decided that AL could convert their failing* cafe into a barbecue house (mind you, the place was an event space with no proper kitchen. The cafe's kitchen was used to heat up ready made meals for customers). So since there was no proper kitchen, a lot of work had to be done. (*Failing because the accounts clerk who left told us that the cafe was not making any money and she made me promise that I would take him out of that retched place)

AL has had prior experience in opening restaurants, so he started food R&D as well as restaurant planning. Midway through in July/August, D &F decided that his progress was too slow and they wanted the restaurant to open within the month. Although D & F bought kitchen equipment, there was no proper kitchen space and no proper space for the chefs to work. AL sounded this out to them various times but it fell on deaf ears.

Throughout the months of July 2020 (even way before that), D & F constantly berated AL and degraded him as a chef, putting him down as a person and basically abusing him in their own way. AL was told that if he wanted to become a business owner, he had to forgo weekends and "me" time. AL was not allowed to take a break and if they knew he was taking a break, D & F would chastise him for being "lazy".

AL is a soft spoken man with a kind heart. He would always choose to see the best in people and D & F used that to manipulate him, to work him to the bone... until one day, he broke. It all started when he was really stressed out about drafting an outcome plan for both D & F for an event and he suddenly started getting uncontrollable tics.

AL's tics continued on for 2 more days before I decided to bring him to see a neurologist. AL had to go through various tests and he could not work. After seeing his break down, not only were D & F not apologetic, they blamed it on us, saying that we did not know how to take care of ourselves and that we were not kids anymore.

I was furious.

I packed up all our things from the office and moved AL back home that week; but the nightmare was far from over. I had to take AL to the hospital for consultation and tests; even the doctors advised him to stop talking to D & F (and anyone related to them) as they thought that D & F were toxic.

After several days of no response, D & F went to AL's dad's office to talk to him and tried to convince him that it was all AL's own doing/undoing. I was disgusted at the way they acted and the fact that they still did not own up to their own mistakes.

The End:

Throughout my 5 month stay in Cat City, I saw at least 7 people leave that company, due to depression and abuse. D & F would befriend you and be nice to you initially. They would also treat you really nicely in front of other people or if they needed something from you; but deep down inside, they are truly evil, selfish beings who would constantly try to turn everyone against you. I am pretty sure they said a whole bunch of bad things behind my back. I think the worst part is that they would always put you down and make you feel like trash, which worked, for awhile, and then I realise that they were clouding my head with lies.

It's been more than 6 months and it still gets to me. There were so many more things that happened but I just can't be bothered to type anymore. AL still gets tics every time he is stressed and is currently undergoing regular therapy in hopes that his condition will improve. Everyone who left is scarred for life, including me. It's something akin to PTSD. Just the very thought of them sends shivers down my spine. I am just hoping that writing it out and posting it here will help me to let go.

Never allow anyone to abuse you, no matter how good the money is. It's really not worth it.

TL; DR: Went back home to be with boyfriend, boyfriend had as*wipe bosses who abused and manipulated all their workers and boyfriend eventually fell into depression and now suffers from tics every time he is stressed. Never allow anyone to abuse you, no matter how good the money.

I share a small office with a very annoying woman. She's annoying in a great many ways, but this post is just a rant about her cigarettes.

She will go outside and smoke a little bit of a cigarette and bring the half-smoked butt back and just set it on her desk. It's like turning our office into an ashtray and it's disgusting. I'm a smoker and I can't even stand it, it's wretched. I've asked her several times to wrap them up or something and she always does but like, can you just stop doing it altogether? Wrap them up from the get-go? I'm never going to not be able to smell it, you inconsiderate jerk.

Today when I had to ask her about it yet again she made some comment about how she smells it but she just smells it then goes on about her business. So apparently I'm the asshole for not wanting to work in an ashtray. This is the same woman who carried a pork chop to my desk once to look at something on my computer and proceeded to eat it with her mouth open inches from my face while we were talking, so I don't know what I expected from her.

So I work in a corporate office down a hallway w/ the executives & then there is a bigger area around the corner w/ cubes. I got in at 5am yesterday so left @ 1:30pm. I come in today & find fresh NAIL CLIPPINGS on my desk like WTF?! I even have caution tape on magnets so ppl cannot get behind my cube. It got so bad w/ ppl in the pandemic coming back in my personal space that I had to!

No one is supposed to sit at anyone who has an assigned desk. We have empty cubes for people who need to work. Needless to say I sprayed & scrubbed my desk down. Like WTF?! I asked the manager I sit by if anyone was at my desk after I left & he said he was here until 4pm & no one was there so it must have been later. Dbag!

No prior sales position. I am working in a 5-employee small business to support the owner with BD work (services company). I've been working with her for a few months writing client proposals. She has been doing all of the sales work and wants me to start becoming self-sufficient in leading calls and closing deals without her.

The owner is like a library of information about the industry, the company services, the problem the organization solves and can rattle off stats, sources, and prior work off the top of her head. It's impressive and very effective on these sales calls.

I finally sat down to write my personal cheat sheet of this information, googling sources, and find out she's referencing industry statistics from the early 2000s. She's mentioning projects we've written proposals for but haven't actually executed as if they're part of the body of work and partnerships. And suddenly the "pitch" seems disingenuous.

Part of me imagines that everyone probably does this - right? This is a young company and still trying to get traction. I imagine talking big and slight exaggerations come with the territory of sales. I want to learn this skillset but there's also something about it that goes against my generally very analytical nature. Having been an operator in my past positions - I don't exaggerate. If anything, I underpromise and overdeliver.

Can someone help me understand whether I'm fundamentally incompatible with Sales? I honestly would like to learn this skill. Is there a way to be successful in this function given my personality?

I somehow managed to take 1st and 3rd in ranking last quarter at a sales organization.

But then I was delayed a lateral move (pushed back a couple of months) bc before taking the top spots i was on some sort of performance plan for not hitting quota.

However the quota is hit when you close deals from leads they give you. I repeatedly told my manager that i was getting leads that have already been marked ineligible for sale.

But they kept giving me those leads.

I know other people got viable leads bc they often left the company and their leads fell to me. This is where i was able to make sales and also by doing my own sleuthing for leads.

I also found out that 90% of the team was on some sort of written plan. It made me wonder if our metrics are kept too high on purpose so that the company makes the amount of money they need to make while not having to pay us out. I wish there was a way to confirm this suspicion.

And I also wish there were some recourse I could take.

"Sure," I said.

But I've been waiting for 40 minutes. It's lunchtime and I'm hungry. And your Slack status just changed to Away.

I'm fully convinced she's an escaped demon from hell She has the attitude of Miranda Priestly with the brains of a bag of rocks. I was supposed to be off for four days but noooo that's too much for madam, calling me for work that's not urgent because the entire office is on break You can't make a breakdown analysis you bleached blonde dumb bunny how is that my problem. You're supposed to be the department head

Goddamn you hassle me and the team so much I hope karma bites you hard.

I need a managers input... I am absolutely drowning. I’m an account manager at a marketing firm so you can imagine that this is a busy time of year for us with black Friday at all. Two weeks before the busiest time of the year I was handed two of our top five largest accounts and told in six weeks I would become a first-time manager of two account associates.

My line manager, the team director, and our VP of communications tell me I’m doing an amazing job. Sure, I’m meeting my targets, I show up to every Team meeting on time, contribute constructively, and I never miss a team slack message. I’m a pleasure to work with and I offer help the juniors whenever anyone needs it. What’s going on behind the scenes is a little sloppier than they realize.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get back to my clients. My to do list pile up, and the stress of being found out as an absolute wreck is starting to affect my life outside of work. I’m a fabulous bullshitter, hence sales background, but half the time I have no idea what I’m talking about when I take client calls, I just am confident and a smooth talker so whatever I say floats. Sometimes it doesn’t, of course.

I can barely manage to get back to people outside of my team. Everyone assumes I’m really busy but I spent most of the day staring at my phone and walking around my apartment aimlessly. In short, I am blowing it.

It’s not that I don’t know what I’m doing and I scammed to get where I am. Before working from home I worked extremely hard and very well. Now I am just barely scraping by to maintain the illusion of being the worker I used to be. I am extremely depressed and anxious and I’m starting to feel like I’m better off just working in a warehouse or waitressing because I can’t handle the pressure anymore. I want to leave my job but I’m just scared I’ll fuck up the next one.

Everyone is swamped. My Director works 10 hours a day and on the weekends. On top of that all of my teammates have children and spouses and are dealing with a lot more than I am right now. I have no responsibilities outside of myself. to make mention of how overwhelmed I feel seems almost tone deaf. I don’t feel like I have a right to be as fucked up at work as I am and I blame myself.

If you had an employee like me, would you want to know? What would you want to hear?

EDIT: I have both operations and food service experience I am not calling those jobs easy or lacking in pressure, no elitism here I promise

She's crazy. She just yelled at me for not responding to a mail she didn't forward to me.. Then she's like oh you should have reminded me to forward you.. I didn't even know of the existence of said mail

She keeps complaining about how busy she is , I know for a fact she uses the conference room to do some non-work related online courses.

My friend C works with me and is pregnant. Several weeks ago D (also a good friend and works with us) and I asked her if she would want to do a little baby shower here at the office. She said she didn't want to do any baby showers, she has said this multiple times and posted it on her social media pages. So D and I instead when shopping and got her some baby stuff but intentionally did not throw a baby shower. About a week after that V one of our co-workers sent an email out to the people working weekends that are in the office asking if we wanted to do a baby shower for C. D and I both declined since we knew she didn't want one and we had already gotten her a present. Never heard anything about it since then. Today I got a text from M (she is also a co-worker and is under the delusion that she and I are good friends. I am polite but don't like her much since she is a gossip and I know she has spread some nasty rumors) asking if I would bring a bottle opener for, get this, the apple cider for C's baby shower I was shocked since I knew nothing about this happening. I texted D and she didn't know anything about it either. Once we got in the office D talked to some of the others and found out that the original idea was V and M's but that M in her usual manner took over. They had no idea that D and I had not been told that the baby shower was happening. Once I got in the office I found out that they got the apple cider open and didn't text me again to let me know so now I have a bottle opener in my purse. So now I feel a bit shitty as I would have gotten her a card if I had known. Also just an FYI the entire weekend crew are women. I think I have covered it all but let me know if you have any questions.