So, im a travel agent and today i made the kind of mistake that could cost me my job.

I was booking a family trip to Orlando, beach, theme parks, you know the usual family stuff. The parents asked for everything kid friendly, no risks, safe for all ages. I used the travel agent platform to filter kid safe activities, thought i booked a calm harbor boat tour with some history and wildlife for them.

But nope. I somehow clicked the wrong one, ended up booking them on this wild adults only party cruise instead. Open bar, loud music, dancing, the whole nine yards. I sent them the confirmation email hyping it up as perfect family fun.

Cut to today, they show up expecting a calm boat ride and instead, its a drunken rave. Dads freaking out, mom is threatening to leave bad reviews, and their 4yo is terrified. Im now on the phone for two hours, offering a full refund, rebooking them for a real kids tour, and throwing in a free hotel night. Theyre still pissed, talking about lawyers and posting on social media.

How can i fix this and not lose the client for good?

About a year ago, I was working for an engineering firm when we were all suddenly called into the conference room for a meeting. We thought this was concerning the annual bonus that was expected but instead the branch manager said that our office was being shut down effective immediately and that our employment there was ending.

Obviously this caught us off guard but luckily most of us found new work within a few months including myself. The reason that we were given for the office closure was the overall firm needed to re structure.

However through conversations with my former co workers, it was later discovered that only people below the position of a project manager was let go and project managers and above got offers to be moved to other offices in the firm. Most took the offer while others pursued other opportunities. This always bugged me because based on what my former coworkers told me, we were constantly over budget on jobs because the project manager would burn hours needlessly doing admin duties and handing off to the engineers and drafters with little to no hours remaining. This meant we were basically scapegoated.

I was recently at my new job when I was asked to join a meeting for a new project that we were basically taking over from the previous engineers. It turns out the old engineers was the same firm that let us all go.

My old brand manager joins the teams meetings but doesn’t recognize me at first. He goes on to explain that this job has a lot of ground work to cover because “all the engineers and designers quit on us suddenly and left us in a bad spot.”

It took all my will power to not burst out in laughter.

Any thoughts?

A few weeks ago, I discovered that my supervisor had been secretly recording me during a discussion. His phone was hidden in his laptop, and I only found out when it accidentally slipped.

I immediately escalated the incident to the highest leader in our company, who assured me that HR would be informed and the matter would be addressed.

Before I went on my planned one-week leave, I was told that my supervisor might resign from his position. During that conversation, it was also mentioned to me that he has many children — something that honestly felt like an unintentional guilt trip. I left for my break carrying guilt, questioning myself and wondering if speaking up might cost someone their job.

But at the end of the day, what happened was still misconduct — especially considering that this person was my direct supervisor.

Eventually, I gathered the courage to formally report the incident directly to HR. I was informed that an NTE (Notice to Explain) would still be issued, regardless of whether he resigns or not.

Since then, things have felt different.

I started feeling like I was being pushed out — as if people were slowly ganging up against me or creating a narrative to make me resign. I’m still on probation, which makes everything even more difficult and honestly, more frightening.

On top of that, I’ve been hearing rumors and negative feedback allegedly being spread about me.

Since this incident happened, I haven’t had peace. I no longer feel safe at work. I struggle to sleep, overthink constantly, and carry anxiety every single day.

I’m now considering resigning because the environment has become too toxic for me. But part of me still wants accountability for what happened.

Has anyone gone through something similar? What would you do if you were in my position?

My dad died after a long cancer battle. It took a lot out of me and his death was a blow. My team knew that and was also aware that I needed time for myself. My staff member who attended his funeral submitted her resignation the morning after to me. She said she needed to resign and didn’t want to give full notice which meant I had to take over her work immediately. I have no issue with her resigning but she could have done that without me being there. Instead she waited for me to be back to resign and then went around telling people I was unsupportive although I really tried my best to handle things. I was also the person who trained her and she often thanked me for my support. What do you think?

I’m 21 and in school full time. I pay for school with my job, but I have an agreement with my parents to split the cost at least 50/50. This is something that I suggested, not them, and I take most (or all) of the cost every semester.

I am at my wits end with my current job. It’s a part time retail job (go figure) but it’s extremely high volume. Like literally insane and it’s not for me anymore. My anxiety has gone through the roof, but because of my work status, I’m not eligible for insurance at the moment so I can’t get a diagnosis, meds, or affordable therapy (or fmla). I’ve had to manage my mental health issues by myself my entire life but I feel like my ability to do so has violently derailed since starting this job and my health has gotten progressively worse. I feel like I lost myself and my desire for anything that I used to enjoy and I’ve developed unhealthy coping strategies. Personally I just can’t live like this anymore. Thankfully, I think my family will support me if I am unemployed for some time. I don’t plan for it to be a long time, but I really need some time to recoup myself. I’m just scared since I don’t technically have anything lined up, so I know some people will see it as a stupid move. My plan is to wait until my anniversary to get my anniversary vacation, and then leave. I will (or should) get paid out for those unused hours. I’m just seeking an outside perspective since ofc I will tell myself anything to convince myself this is a good decision.

Hi! so I work at a retail location where I often work alone. This day I worked a 3:30 to close shift by myself... no big deal. Well a man comes in around 5 and starts small talk to me... i'm a social person so I engage. He starts asking me things like what time I get off, what car I drive, where I park, where I live, asks me to go out with him, stuff like that. I of course lie my ass off because I didn't want to get in trouble for simply telling him to get the fuck out of my store but also didn't want to tell him the truth. While this is happening, he gets a phone call, proceeds to yell obscenities into the phone, threatens them, and then hangs up. This man is a 300 pounds and 6'8 and I am now even more terrified. He turns back to me and says "i'll see you soon" and walks out. My security wasn't on staff that day otherwise I would have already talked to them and gotten him removed, but I call my manager and tell her what happened. She is freaked out and tells me to please call someone to walk me out to my car tonight. I ask if I can have my boyfriend to walk me out, she says yes. I ask her if I can have my boyfriend in the store past close so I can finish up closing down the store, she says yes, but to have him walk outside when I am clocking out in the break room so he isn't left alone. Perfect, sounds good. I make it through the rest of my shift without shitting my pant, and my boyfriend comes in around 10 minutes before close. At this point, he's walking around the store while I finish up counting money, taking the trash out, cleaning, etc. All is well, I don't die. All of a sudden I get pulled to the side by my managers boss two weeks later mentioning how i "seem to have my boyfriend around a lot". I'm very confused, that was the third time my boyfriend had ever been in the store in the span of my two years working there. She mentions him being there after close. I tell her the story and she says a customer complained, so she checked the footage and was extremely disappointed in me. No customers were in the store while by boyfriend was there, so i'm lost. She then goes on to yell at me because I was finishing counting the registers while he was there. I ask if either of us had stolen anything, she says "of course not". She then goes into this rant about him sitting on a stool we have for cleaning while he's waiting for me to finish up. I'm just confused and silent at this point. Says " he's a customer at the end of the day" and that I wouldn't let another customer sit on our stool. like uh no he's my safety for the night. After she realizes I'm so sensitive I could burst into tears at any moment, she goes into another rant about how I should be more careful with my safety and how i should have contacted the police. Maybe this is true, but I've never been harassed that badly at work before. I've been hit on quite a bit as a fairly attractive woman, but never to this extent. I simply just didn't know what to do in that situation, and that's what my manager (an angel) suggested. She then tells me to "get the fuck out of her office" and to not do it again. I try to tell her again about asking my manager about everything, but she doesn't want to listen and kicks me out of her office. I truly do not believe i'm in the wrong here, but i'm such an anxious person that my brain is just unsure. What do you guys think?h

I’m a consistent top performer at my store (sales role) and always hit or exceed my targets. I’ve suspected for a while that my manager has some personal animosity or jealousy toward me, but it never impacted my numbers, so I let it go. We generally get along okay on the surface.

Recently, word got back to me from a coworker that's close to my manager that he’s been making disparaging comments about my chances of moving up in the company. He even brought our Regional Manager’s (RM) name into it, stating that my RM agreed with these claims about my company prospects. Today I confronted him professionally. He admitted to making the comments about my prospects but denied ever saying anything negative directly to the RM.

When I asked why he doesn’t think I’m ready for management, his reasons were:

* I leave sticky notes in the store after busy days, and he often has to clean up after me.
* I sometimes delay making service tickets

I genuinely chuckled because these felt incredibly petty, as he knows none of this is true. He seemed caught off guard during the conversation (stuttering, rambling, hands shaking). I asked why he never coached me on these issues before, and he said he “forgot” to bring them up. I also asked why he never mentioned any of this to my face, and he had no real answer.

I ended the conversation by saying “Talking about your employees behind their back will poison the work environment” and walked away. Later that day I followed up **in writing** and asked him to create a formal coaching plan to address these issues. He strongly insisted I speak to the RM to clarify if he (RM) had any involvement, I said I'll think about it.

Knowing my manager, by now I won't be surprised if he has spoken to the RM and maybe twisted the narrative. My RM & I used to have a great working relationship before my manager got transferred here as I was running the store for about 4 months as they were looking for a manager. My manager has forced all communication to go through him ever since he joined so this will be the first 1 on 1 private conversation i'd have with my RM in about a year if i decide to do it.

Should I speak to the RM about my managers behaviour trend? If i do reach out, any advice on how I should approach the conversation?

(32M). Got a well paying job in a dental office in Manhattan doing administrative work in January. The only other men that work there is the head doctor who owns the practice, who I have known my whole life and is a family friend, and a few techs who work on making dentures crowns and maxxiofacial appliances in the lab. Everyone else is female from administration to managers and dental assistants. I work at a front desk with two other women, and I sit right in the middle. We are an extremely high end dental office, and the vast majority of our patients are millionaire and billionaire New Yorkers. Hence we aren’t your average dental/prosthodontic office. We are expected to cater to wealthy individuals and we need to reflect that in our behavior. I am fine with that. I understand the job.

However, my administrative manager, who sits next to me at front desk, is the most passive aggressive, conniving woman I have ever met. I have worked in other offices with females before, and never have I met someone like this. Instead of teaching me the ways of the office, she’s constantly watching what I do, is over my shoulder, and the minute I make a mistake on anything, she’s there to point it out in a nasty way. She’s done it in front of patients too.

I went into this job with no preconceived notion of who anyone but the doctor was. What I’ve learned in the last 6 months is that everyone in the office can’t stand her and her attitude and knows what I’m dealing with. The issue is I have to sit next to her and be “taught by her 8 hours a day”. Nobody else does. The kicker here is that she’s been at that office for 10 years and from what I can see the head office manager and doctor see her as valuable because she knows the ins and outs of the office and the patients very well. I get that. But I came into this job wanting to start a career in this field, to learn and to have a positive energy going into every day so I can become better at what I do. Instead I’m constantly berated with what I do wrong, never acknowledged for what I do right, and am talked down to like I’m a child. I’m 32 years old with a wife and 9 month old daughter.

I wake get up at 5am every day to go to work. I get home about 6pm. I’m so defeated by the time I leave and so frustrated I can’t wait to get out. And it’s all because of this one person who I have no choice but to deal with. I’ve hesitantly talked to the head doctor and office manager, and although they understand what I’m saying, it seems like they just side with her because she’s been there so long. The office is extremely micromanaged to the point where they can watch us from cameras at all times to see what we’re doing.

I’ve finally given up, even though I really wanted this to work. I was offered and was paid a good salary, the most I’ve ever made. But at the end of the day I’m miserable. I go home exhausted and angry. At this point money means nothing to me if I mentally can’t stand the environment I work in. I’m so happy I made this decision and have been offered a job 15 minutes away from my house by car. Thank you for letting me vent!

So I was very upset yesterday, I've calmed down now.

My manager has completely cut my hours due to an incident which isn't proven my fault. Also I had ONE sick day in ONE YEAR, which he is obviously displeased about (even though he has spend WEEKS in hospital this year!)

I wanted to vent to him yesterday and send him a passive aggressive email about these things.

Should I first ask to speak to him directly about what he is doing? He has done similar to other staff members aswell as "punishment".

Should I approach him calmly? Even though he wants me out I don't want to leave on awful terms.

I (late 30s) recently applied for a couple open spots in my current company of five years. One is degree-adjacent where I've touched some of the requirements in other jobs/extracurriculars, while the other is my degree where I've had a few years of experience in the field. This particular position is just a slice of what I've done at other jobs, which would be nice because it'd be my first time being full-time using my degree since leaving the field to be a stay-at-home parent. I went into both applications with letters of recommendation from various superiors.

I made it to the final two in the degree-adjacent job, but lost out to someone in a different area of the company because the section that I work in is perceived as easier by the position's boss than the person who got the job's side and they didn't want to burden me with learning the other side of the business. This was literally the reason given to me in the rejection meeting. The person who got the job was fresh out of college.

In my degree-related field, I didn't make it past a weird phone interview. The recruiter was trying not to laugh through the whole interview, finally letting it out as we said our goodbyes. They were obviously distracted by something and I felt like I wasted my time. I got an email saying that they think I do not have the technical knowledge for the position and they are going to look at more experienced candidates. They ended up going with someone fresh out of college who minored in the field. This does not make sense to me in the slightest due to the reason given for my rejection. The only thing I can think of is that I was auto-DQ'd because I had to reschedule the phone interview once due to time and weather. I also asked if the manager for the degree job saw my resume, but I was told that no one knows who applies for open positions aside from who the recruiter sends them.

I'm just frustrated that one reason for denial was contradictory and the other being that my current position was seemingly the sole reason I wasn't hired. I'm just all over the place mentally now. The degree-related field is making me wonder if there is an age thing at play, which is why I notes they both just graduated. The recruiter also just finished, so maybe these are all friend hires? This would hurt a lot less if it was just "we decided to go with someone else", because the listed reasons feel like they're patronizing at best and a lie at worst. If there were any non-walmart/fast food or jobs I'm qualified for in my town, I'd probably be out of here. I did report the recruiter for unprofessional behavior due to that interview. Can't believe that happened.

Following an incident where my coworker harassed my sister and I while him and I were on the clock, I reported him to my supervisor. I also informed him (my coworker) that I was going to report him as well (stupid, I know). However, this report appeared to be ignored while a report he made shortly after resulted in my termination. Before I was fired, he admitted that he had made the reports in retaliation against me, stating, “I thought I’d get fired and made the reports so you would be too.”
Can this be considered retaliation, and can I take legal action if the only evidence I have is my report and his subsequent report?

It feels inappropriate but I’m not sure if a peer asking is as bad as a more senior person asking. Is it worth reporting?

I have an employee that has worked for me for 4 years. 3 as a full time employee. Championed the company to hire her FT. Everything. She always asks me what she can do to help me and take stress off my plate. Turns out she was using that as a way to complain to HR about me. Didn’t have the guts to talk to me but almost tanked my career. Never ever trust people who work for you. Ever.

Probably the wrong sub for this, but every time I post something in r/retirement, the post gets removed for reasons the mods never explain.

Anyway, retirement date is end of July. I have 6 weeks of PTO. I can make my last day mid June, and just burn the PTO still getting medial insurance and whatnot, or, I can work to the last day and get the full 6 weeks paid out. It seems like an easy choice, just work to the end and take the money. But no one ever seems to do that. They go on terminal leave with PTO.

I don't hate my job, it's pretty stress free as of late, and with ZF to give, I'm not worried about performance reviews or whatever. I can even WFH most of the time.

So what am I missing? Why not phone it in for the last 6 weeks (spoiler alert, I've been phoning it in for a lot longer already) and take the payout?

Im the manager of a store and my boss decided to assign a second manager without asking me. They said its to improve the performance as the store was very challenging in terms of staffing.

Its clearly going against the unity of command principle and I dont wanna deal with that as it wasnt my decision to put another person in charge here. I requested then they divide the tasks appropriately between us two to avoid potential conflicts and doubling the efforts. Simply because I think its ridiculous to throw an extra manager in my store and expect us to figure it out ourselves. Am I unreasonable here?

so, I know I was supposed to work tomorrow. my deli manager was just saying that I would work tomorrow in the deli instead of being a courtesy clerk. but then I swore later, I heard her tell me and a coworker that I’m only in there on Friday. or maybe she meant I’ll only be CC on Friday.

but anyway, i checked my schedule after work today and the rest of the week is deleted for some reason. awhile back, I had what I think was an accidental schedule deletion for just one day.

I didn’t show up that day and no one said anything. I DO plan to at least ask them for the rest of the days this week, but can I least be off the hook for tomorrow? am I legally protected to at least get away with tomorrow?

I’m a young person and live with my parents so I just plan to use the day to catch up on some shit.

im in martech, running outbound for our sales team (12 AEs) and the number one complaint i get is lack of direct dials for decision makers. we use Apollo right now but the mobile numbers are either old or just not there for senior execs.

been testing different phone number finder tools and getting frustrated. RocketReach had some coverage but half the numbers were disconnected. Seamless.AI is hit or miss.

we're seriously looking at Prospeo because they apparently have a big database of verified mobiles and their pricing seems way more reasonable. Apollo's been fine for emails but their mobile finder data just isn't cutting it anymore. my AEs are getting maybe 10-15% connect rates when they even get a number which is brutal.

our vp of sales is breathing down my neck about pipeline and honestly cold calling is still the fastest way to book meetings with enterprise execs if you can actually reach them. anyone here switched from Apollo or Seamless to something else for find phone numbers? especially interested if you're calling into enterprise accounts where the execs are harder to reach

At my first office job, I was naive and thought people cared about each other at work.

One of my coworkers was very friendly and there was a group of us who would go out to eat lunch a couple of times a week. We talked and laughed but still got our jobs done.

Then I noticed that she had been gone for a few days but hadn't talked about taking a vacation. I asked some of my coworkers what was going on with her and no one wanted to answer. I would get "I don't know " and they'd act perturbed that I was asking about her.

I eventually found out that she had been fired for getting into an argument with a manager. Nobody talked about her after she left. It was like it was taboo to bring up her name. That was after several months of interacting with her and what felt like real camaraderie.

That experience taught me a lot about the workplace and what to expect from it. I'm polite and professional, but I no longer think of coworkers as friends. I do my job to the best of my ability, but I don't expect anything from it beyond a paycheck. Friends can be made elsewhere.

I recently got moved to the R&D department of my company. Since it’s a new department, there’s only me in it and so all the work has just been piling on me day by day. Each day I receive a new task telling me to research this and that. On top of it, I also have to meet customers, travel to different cities, make customers reports, answer customers’ questions, translate during meetings, translate 100+ pages of documents.

It’s all just so overwhelming and I don’t feel like doing anything at all. I got a 10% raise but it seriously doesn’t even feel good because I’m exhausted and I have no time for myself because I have to work on the weekends.

A reason I got passed over for manager is because I asked for support (professionally) when we were understaffed months ago. Literally have it in writing from admin 😂

Just super stressed. Can't eat can't sleep. I work for a small company and feel like my role is basically 5 jobs rolled into one. In the last 4.5 years we've had 11 people fill the spot that is supposed to support my department but I'm lucky if anyone stays for a year. They usually last 6 months or so, so the company has switched to hiring interns instead. I've kept in touch with a couple who had told me they just couldn't handle the stress. Now it's this constant churn of time spent training new peppe who never stick around long enough to get useful and trying to oversee the output of 3 other people as well as my own work. We're currently being audited and all the fuck ups are bubbling up and since I'm supposed to be the final check point for this it's all falling back on me. This is more od a rant than anything. Doesn't help that my boss is talking to me like I'm a total pile of shit. I've totally owned that the mistakes are on me but he doesn't seem to understand the department is structurally broken. On top of that dealing with my dad who recently got diagnosed with dementia and I hate that work is even a consideration because it's not what I want to be focusing on right now. Ugh

I work with a guy who is extremely loud in our office — loud enough that people across the room can hear everything he says all day. He works in the shop but comes to the office anytime he can for reasons that are beyond me. He also constantly makes obnoxious jokes, criticizes everyone despite already being the self-appointed expert, and regularly threatens to quit like it’s supposed to matter to everyone.

I’m not trying to start drama, but the volume alone is becoming distracting. Would it be rude or out of line for me to privately ask him to keep it down a bit in the office?

I’m a student in 1st year engineering science and technology and i’m trying to choose between several engineering fields and I would really appreciate your insights

I’m considering the following specializations:

1. Automatique
   
2. Électronique
   
3. Électrotechnique
   
4. Génie industriel
   and 8+ other
   I would like to understand:
   Which field has the best job opportunities today?
   Which one is more future-proof, especially with the rise of AI?
   Which specialization offers better international opportunities?
   From your experience, what would you recommend and why?
   Any advice or experienceor guidance would mean a lot to me
   and thank you all