TL;DR: My coworker, who’s been unhelpful and always unavailable, deleted over 15 hours of work today. I’ve been asking her for help for two months, but today, when she finally showed up, she managed to wipe out everything.

I’ve been dealing with the most useless coworker for months now, and I’m finally at my wit's end. She’s always late, never available, and has no idea how to do the job or use the necessary software. For two months, I’ve been trying to get her to come in and help me and my other coworker with the work, but she’s just not reliable.

Today, I was sick and couldn’t help her when she finally showed up. She managed to delete a whole project that took over 15 hours to complete by me and my other coworker. We’re on a huge deadline, and I didn’t want to leave things to the last minute, but now I’m stuck having to redo everything.

I repeatedly asked her to call me on the computer and share her screen so I could help her, but after 15 minutes of waiting, I ended up calling her on her phone. And still, nothing got resolved. She just said she doesn't know how to use the software, so she won't be able to redo the work she lost. I’m so frustrated right now, and I don’t know what to do.

And yes I did have a backup but I'll still have multiple hours of work to redo as I'm super busy and stressed about the deadline.

Okay so I have two issues, posted about it prior and people just focused on one issue.
I'm a graduate who's been put in charge of a large project because the senior guy left. So it's just me, my regional manager and another guy on this job. I'm overworked, underpaid and stressed.
They have hired a new senior guy but he won't be starting until May/June, that should alleviate the associated problems.

My other big problem, and the one I want to focus on is my coworker.
He's a guy in his 50s who came from the trades into a highly specialised - data analyst type role because Senior Management want guys with trade experience training up into our profession.
I'm all for it, I'm just saying this guy is a terrible fit.
He's a foreign guy here on temporary status and a few people around us have said he took the job for a better chance at getting a Visa, which I'm inclined to believe.
Here's a list of the issues.

• He has trouble remembering to open his email
• he has trouble remembering to open his Teams
• He cannot work excel beyond typing text into cells
• He cannot be trusted to run our weekly report due to grammatical errors and poor attention to detail
• He complains constantly about having too much work to do - he doesn't, he's just very slow on a computer
• He has trouble following instructions, everything needs to be explained twice, and he needs to be walked through it more than once
• Nothing is a straight answer, he has to tell you how he came to that answer - which is usually wrong even though he's been shown how to do it numerous times
• He does not like the fact that I am younger than him yet telling him what to do, he does not take my feedback onboard, he is dismissive until such a time as he needs IT support
• He confuses our internal drive with our web based sharing platform
• He distracts me constantly with trivial things he can't seem to get right
• He avoids going to our Regional Manager - because he's so busy, but more so because he doesn't want to highlight his inadequacies.
• There's less so a language barrier but definitely an 'accent barrier', where he just struggles to understand most of us on site. He also has what are probably normal to him, but tactless and rude ways about saying things. Instead of 'ah no okay you misunderstood me', he say's 'no no I am telling you', 'ah no see if you listened' etc.

I've informed my boss numerous times, explained out issues I'm having and whilst he does listen, it's usually met with 'yeah I have a lot of work to do with that fella', 'God you'd think he'd have it by now' - but never any corrective action or suggestions.

We're struggling to get staff and he was hired by our department Director to fit his narrative (site team to our team).

I told my Boss I want to have a talk with him tomorrow morning.

I don't want to seem like I'm just being contrary, nor do I want to do the whole 'either he goes or I do'.

I just really need to lay it out for him - that yes he's aware that I am insanely busy and taking on an immense amount of work for someone at my level, but working with this guy is adding an abnormal amount of stress to my working week, I feel like I am still carrying him. There are so many things I should be able to hand over to him, but my boss won't allow it because we both know he's incompetent.
We have a new grad who joined and 85% of his work could be done by her and quicker, plus she'd have a better attitude.
Others at work have noticed too, outside of our department - guys from the site team, is there nothing that guy can help you with, what does he even do? how's that fair on you etc. etc.

Frankly I want him gone but that's not my place whatsoever.
I want to just highlight to my boss the issues I'm facing and more so the added strain he's causing - but how do I go about saying it?

I need some advice.

I work in a marketing department for a medium-sized multi-national company, and we have a marketing content director who has always been *very slow*. As in this person has written maybe 20 social media posts and published half as many blog posts in the last 365 days, most of which were written by freelancers.

Additional context: This person is also a mom of two very small children, and her unemployed husband is some trad-wife weirdo who refuses to get childcare for his kids, and refuses to take care of his kids, leaving the sheer heft of this carework in the lap of my co-worker.

Right now, we are hosting what is essentially the 'Catalina Wine Mixer' of our company, an annual, massively budgeted event that requires all hands on deck.

I've asked this person to help by creating blog content and social media to help promote this event, and they spend all day giving us reasons as to why this is a terrible idea as opposed to just doing it. She refuses to even take zoom calls during work hours so that we can talk about our requests.

So for this year's big annual event, I rolled up my sleeves and started doing content duties myself, on top of my own job. I'm essentially working myself to death above and below the clock to get it done, in part because I felt bad for this co-worker's personal situation.

But two days ago I found out something that has left me beyond frustrated: During the time when my co-worker should be developing content for our team, she's working an entirely different job for a MAJOR software company (albeit in a non-competing industry). Essentially, she is getting paid for two jobs that she doesn't do, while I am doing at least one and a half jobs right now, and just getting paid for one.

What are my options here? I am not a snitch.

At the same time, I am killing myself to just make sure this event is successful so that we can keep our jobs. Corporate has made it clear they think we are massively under-performing, and is wondering what in the hell is our problem.

My supervisor seems like they are aware of this situation and does not seem to care. Do I go to HR?

TLDR - I do a huge chunk of my co-workers job for her, only to discover she is actually working two jobs at the same time. What should I do?

I am debating quiting my job once I secure employment elsewhere but I also worry that my job is probably easier and less tasking then what I'll end up doing.

Title, essentially. I am a person who will rarely 'fight for air time'. I hate being interrupted and I think it's incredibly rude so I rarely do it myself. In zoom calls I use the raise hand feature. Yesterday I got talked over so hard I turned off my video/audio momentarily in order to have a tantrum. Aside from joining the fray and talking over my peers, any suggestions on how to help manage this part of our work culture?

They've drained the life out of me and it sucks that I have to see them every day and I'm forced to interact with them after they've hurt me in ways I never thought a human could. What do I do at work to stop my brain from considering being friendly with them (I've tried the "think of how much they hurt you" solution and it hasn't worked because im too forgiving and open to the idea that people can change). How do I detach them from my life when my brain still has hope that they'll change and be nice again? I just want to be able to go to work and not feel anything and just do my job and move on. I don't want to quit- I'm doing so well at my job and I keep progressing. I'm very stuck.

What are some signs (both early and advanced) of burnout.

Context: I’m a 32F, corporate slave since 9 years and currently in a role since over 1 year which I feel is leading me to a burnout but I need to know what exactly are the signs - so I know where to stop.

Ok so long story short. Im In management and I got a new position. The main reason I even looked for a new job was my employees were absolutely trash. They were needy, had no critical thinking skills and in general just awful ever since we went fully remote. I made the announcement of my leaving and my employees want to take me out for a goodbye dinner/drinks. I have zero interest in ever seeing or talking to them. I keep making up excuses about not going on a few occasions. How do I gently tell them I just want to move on. Also the worst of the worst keep saying “take me with you” and I wouldn’t hire these people to pick up dog poop off my lawn. I just keep ignoring these comments or saying “oh I don’t know if my new boss would be want me to bring a guest my first day lol”

Any other advice?

Hello!

This person at my work in my department worked three days with bronchitis. He could not make it to work today. My boss is threatening to fire him. I just fine it funny that people can hide. My boss has to play hide and seek with thirty year olds. And when they don’t do work it’s just one me to fill the whole hospital up with supplies…. I am just done with this place.

And other people I made friends with throughout the hospital have been checking up on me because they know I’m leaving soon. They want to make sure my boss doesn’t harass me. They said he has been known to harass people more once he knows they are leaving…

This is me ranting

context: im starting in a company, they are well known and doing quite well, when i told my friends about getting the job they were all so excited for me

i am severely insecure so this was a bit of an ego boost, i rmb saying “finally, at least ik im good in a way”. i was thankful i only had one round of interviews before i got offered the job, in hindsight yes i was suspicious of this, i was job hunting and went thru at least 4-6 rounds of interviews so getting the offer (after telling them i was signing w someone else) was surprising.

but NOW: I found out my boss is new (~2 months) and all my coworkers have been in the company for years. they’ve all had professional experiences in the field while im an undergrad (abt to grad) with none of the professional background that my other teammates have (i have 4 yrs experience but they arent with big companies like them)

i have noticed that i think some of them have been stalking my linkedin (my work is there too) and i cant help but think..

my boss made a mistake choosing me. if i fail, its a reflection on him too. i sound like a whining b word but maybe he shouldve hired someone WAY better than me 🥲 (there were 40+ applicants)

my insecurities are getting to me, and i just know someone on the team is like: why her ? 🫠 and i have a completely diff personality, even people have said straight to my face that they always hire people who are mean, direct and have rbfs, while im jolly and a bit more smiley than most. so now my brain is chalking myself up to a personality hire…

before someone gets mean, i know i should do my best to prove myself, of course, i want this job. but in this line of work, having experience is a make or break and ik no matter what i do, i still lack in that department. im trying my best to keep up, but in my head… i think i was still a mistake

I was in america. Making 7 dollars 25 an hour installing hitches on family SUVs and what not.

I also had a few other jobs. Movie theater. Best buy. Costco sampler dude.

All these jobs wanted me to work fri-sun and they gave me less hours because I had other jobs. I was working 3-4 jobs at any given time.

I remember working hard the whole time at all of them. And it always felt like you could get fired at a moments notice for leaning against a wall or something where your productivity goes down.

I moved to australia 8 years ago now. I got a 2 week certificate and started making 30 an hour pretty much instantly.

The money here is really nice for low level people like me. I now have heaps extra to go out and do things or travel the world. Recently bought a house. Life is great now.

But I also want to talk about work life. The feeling is still so foreign for me. The way youre treated here as an employee is like you have all the power.

Every job I've had here has started the same way. You come into work at shift start time. Then you go outside and have a smoke and chat with coworkers for 15 minutes. Even the boss will be there chatting sometimes. And everyones being paid to chat.

Then theres the way people work. I still cant wrap my mind around it. My coworkers atm are on 110k a year. And if asked to call rostering to look at shiftimes or something basic like that they will say "Supply me a workphone if you want me to make calls. I'm not using MY data unless youre paying for it."
And the boss just goes "Ok my bad."

And if someone doesn't like working around someone they just refuse to work until they move that person. So coworkers with issues just get to pick and choose who they work with.

Taking off sick middle of the day or 5 minutes before start time as long as you get a sick note they literally cant do anything about it. And you can get a sick note here for 15 dollars at these no questions asked pharmacies.

Quite often I start work and my coworker wants a coffee. So he will just straight leave work and go get a coffee and a croissant. And take his time to. 30 minutes. 45 minutes. And he does this all the time.

Then I've got some messed up coworkers who viciously insult management. I mean fat jokes. Mental health jokes. Really really over the top. And they do it to the manager when the manager is there. And they do nothing about it. Its just accepted that workers get to wield their power over management. And when these guys do the same jokes about coworkers only then do they get fired. And it will be after like 3 or 4 warnings.

Being fired here is so hard to do. I caught a guy sleeping once. Literally made a bed out of the top of his desk. I'm talking shoes off. Blanket out. All the way. Management found out. And 2 weeks later I found the same guy doing the same thing on the desk. Getting paid for this! Lol.

Then theres crazy benefits. Penalty rates apply after 12 noon. 15 percent bonus wage. Then after 3 pm its 25 percent bonus wage. Sat is 50. Sunday is 100 percent bonus. Everyone gets 5 weeks off per year. After 10 years working for same employer you get 4 months paid leave as a gift for being there for 10 years.

On top of all that everyone gets 12.5 percent retirement fund on top of their wage. So if they make 100 dollars they actually make 112.50. And 12.50 goes to a retirement fund.

I dont know how to fully explain it to people. It is crazy how night and day worklife is in America vs Australia. Whenever I meet other americans here I feel like we are the only ones that really understand how crazy easy it is over here vs USA.

Hello everyone! I was looking for advice on this matter. I work with a small group of people (7-9 people). I love everyone here and everyone gets along. I am the newest one here, working here for a year. However, politics do come up a lot and I dont mind when it comes up. I do mind, however, when they talk talking crap on the people who voted for said candidate, speaking about their intelligence, how they live, etc. I noticed only my boss and another co worker of mine talk openly about this when certain people are not in the room. I think they just assumed I was the same party as them. Im not truly offended, im not taking any of it to heart. But im just uncomfortable with it in the workplace. To me, you should not be having those discussions here. If you are friends outside of work, do it at home. I love hearing both sides opinions about the country and I am very open minded to possible new ideas. However, I am trying to work and get home. What do you do about this, considering a big participant in this is my boss, who is also a big big boss of a lot of different things in our work.

Dealing with a coworker who is trying to outshine and push herself to the front

I have been at my company for 5 years as editor. 2 years ago a new editor joined. She is always trying to implement herself as a leader and take on any and every work before someone else has a chance to jump in. I just get the vibe she is willing to throw anyone under the bus to get ahead.

Today I was asked to submit my article to her in the absence of my senior editor being there which felt like an insult. I feel like they are trying to push me out.

I am not pushy like her not do I try and put myself at the center of every conversation. I am big about praising my colleagues and uplifting them. I believe that if you’re secure in yourself you don’t need to bark the loudest.

Naturally I also feel insecure that she is outshining me but I have also been at this company three years longer and frankly am super burned out.

At a work event recently I tried to ask her how her panels went (we both were moderating live panels) as she was walking past me with someone and she just said “I am going with X to the content studio” completely ignoring my question. Which I get if she is busy but the tone with which she said it was very “look at me and what I am doing.”

She just gives me the ick as this snake who is 100 percent self serving.

Also I was never ever told she was coming on as editor. And our senior editor I was told that she was coming on to simply help with sponsored content and write some articles. So that also brings a sense of insecurity that I feel like I am being pushed out. My job is also not willing to raise my salary to cover my costs since relocating from nyc to London where they are based.

I don’t have a job lined up but honestly am contemplating leaving because I am not valued at this company. I am made to feel not good enough every day because there is rarely praise and they are always just adding more work on top (which she eagerly jumps in without giving anyone else the chance). I can’t stand working with this woman but part of me doesn’t want to give her the satisfaction of getting to me.

Is it always considered mansplaining when a man tries to explain something to a women?

A new girl has started at my work place. I was given the task to train her/explain how things work. But eveytime I do she's get's angry saying I'm mansplaining and she doesn't need a man telling her how do something. So I stop, but than she can't do what she's supposed to do and I end up getting trouble with management for not teaching correctly. But I've always thought previous men and women the same way and they've never said anything about mansplaining and we all still get on great at work. What can I do?

Update: Went to the boss and asked someone else to train her. The new person who was put in place to teach her complained after only about an hour of training. She said, she won't listen, looks at her phone every 5 minutes and even so when your teaching her. Made comments about the women who is teaching hers age, and disappeared for 2 hours durring work etc... if I hear anymore I'll do another update.

This is probably a pretty common scenario but I got a slightly worse performance rating and pay rise last month compared to a year ago, despite carrying the team and implementing numerous major improvements to our work output over the past year. A more junior colleague, who I help constantly with coaching and knowledge sharing, was promoted. To me it just feels like my pay rise had to be sacrificed in order to give budget to this promotion. This leaves me totally demotivated and now no longer happy to help others, if it both means I lose out financially and my manager dresses this up as if I have some improvement areas.

Hi everyone, recently the company I work for has started some sort of experiment: abolish all middle and lower management. Teams don't have team leaders anymore, departments don't have department heads anymore. Among other things, this has of course also impacted the way the performance review is done.

Instead of a traditional performance review with the team leader, now we have an annual meeting with someone from way up in the chain of command. That on its own would be bad enough, since there is a fair bit of distance between "the common worker" and some top level manager - there just isn't going to anywhere near the level of regular interaction with a top dog compared to the daily interaction between a team and its team leader.

To make matters worse, we are being assessed in a few key categories. The person doing the assessment is the randomly assigned higher-up that's perhaps seen you once or twice last year when you ran into each other at the water cooler and said "hi" to each other and then ran out of things to say. And the categories themselves lean heavily on "networking inside the company" - if you do something that affects multiple teams, good for you! Collaboration for the sake of collaboration is rewarded, while getting things done on time (or at all) doesn't appear anywhere as a category or sub-category.

Imagine two people working the same assembly line, one of them suddenly buggers off to organize a bunch of hippie-feel-good courses with external consultants and drags half the company into it (and offloading their actual job onto the remaining assembly line worker), while the other worker gets better at assembling stuff. At the end of the year the one that wasted a bunch of money and a lot of time by organizing as many trainings and courses as possible will be rewarded "because they collaborated among multiple teams" while the one that got better at their actual job gets nothing.

My job description openly states "get things done on your own", so you can imagine how "well" I am rated in these fancy categories. And what is alarming: a bunch of us have disconnected from the job completely (it used to be something we would put a lot of effort into and get rewarded in return, but now it's just a 9-to-5 with little to no recognition, because the person supposed to be doing the recognition doesn't see us all year), while others are attempting to game the new system by maximizing their company-spanning collaboration efforts. Neither can be any good for the long-term health of the company.

And I keep wondering "why do this experiment?".

I work part time for a company and they are forcing me to another department to get the 30 hours I want. How do I professionally say while making the point “I won’t work in that department because they are rude, have cliques and are quick to file hr complaints. I would be setting myself up for failure”. I’m ready to lose the hours and move on, I found out they’ve known for months they would be cutting my hours but gave me a week to decide. Thank you!

(I've flaired this as PD just to pick one, but really it covers all of them)

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About 2 years ago I started working for a family wedding business. I was pretty much hired as an assistant to the owner during the week and as a bartender for the weddings.

It started off great and I felt close to the owner (we are both women) but then it slowly got weird… while she was training me, she’s make a mistake like buy the wrong inventory. Then the next day her or her husband would talk down to me about paying more attention to buying the “correct” inventory. first, I would stick up for myself but then over time, I brushed it off because it didn’t feel worth my energy. Then it turned into everything was my fault. If the wholesale store didn’t have fresh lettuce for the wedding, it was my fault, etc. I would offer to go to a regular grocery store and buy it and they would say no, just for an hour later to show up with the exact product I was going to buy. It REALLY started to affect my confidence. Other note, I handled all of the linens. They have specific folding techniques and placements. She NEVER taught me to fold them or where to put them and would tell me to just hang them up and then be upset over this. I even tried watching videos on YouTube to learn because I wanted to be good at the job.

In addition, part of my job was to clean the venue and offices during the week. Yet when I’d clean her office, her husband would sit there and watch me like I couldn’t be trusted while I’m legit scrubbing her toilet.

Second: the bartending. I was hired to be a bartender and they constantly put me on the serving staff with teenagers. They never properly trained me on bar either. Every time I was, they would only address my co - bartender and constantly take me off bar to assist the serving staff. To this day, they hardly put me on bar. (Mind you I used to work as a bartender for years at a country club.) In addition, bouncing back and forth between positions is flustering. Their wedding coordinator would get in my face about being faster, micromanage me on my food placement, etc after I just ran there from serving 200 guest drinks with break for 2 hours.

Fast forward to me trying my absolute hardest to please these people, she tells me a week before Christmas that the position was seasonal and she’d let me know when to come back during the week. During my last shift, I was cooking for a 4 weekend wedding and her husband is badgering me about finishing and sighing saying “great thanks for your work this season” in a sarcastic way… i I went 2 months unemployed waiting to return to this “full time job” just for her to tell me that she hired another assistant but still wants me to work the weddings.

I continued to stay at this place because the job economy has been awful. And during that time, her assistant was not seasonal and stayed through the season. The main reason I’m writing this post is because during my most recent shift, we had a 200 person wedding and it was a plated meal. They assigned me pulled pork. As I’m starting they said “have you ever done pulled pork before?” “Make sure you cover part of the chicken. But not too close to the chicken. Not too much pork. No, not too little. We’re only at table 4. Faster faster faster” to then, the women owner saying, “please spare your hurt feelings and switch with me” after it was 20 minutes of 5 different people yelling at me over PULLED PORK ON A PLATE. and we only had 10 plates left. Once it stopped she said “we got in a good groove there. I think we fixed the problem!”

Aka… me the problem? My mouth DROPPED. I couldn’t even function after this hardly. I have had debilitating anxiety on returning to work this Sunday. My confidence feels completely shot over a banquet serving position. I genuinely don’t know what to do because I need money but mentally don’t know if I can do this…

I am an estimator/project manager for a heavy highway construction company.

I go to work early in the morning, usually 5am, when it’s my day for the daycare drops I’m in the office by 7:15. I get home late, usually 6:30 on short days and 8 or 9 on long days. I stress about every aspect. When I’m at home it’s all I think about and I lose sleep over it most nights. Even on the weekends I’m thinking about it; theorizing, planning, searching.

Needless to say it drives my wife crazy and i completely understand. I think part of her understanding is seeing what goes on throughout my day and she hears the phone calls that come in when I’m home and honestly probably the money. The money has been good and allowed us to do things and have things we would otherwise not get.

However, the biggest issue with all this is ownership doesn’t expect it from me. They are the owners people dream of; huge bonuses, really good healthcare for me and my family for free, nice company truck, I haven’t paid for my own gas in years, unlimited pto they actually expect you to use. Last year they made me take off a month paid just because they thought I was working too much.

It makes me hate myself. But I love every aspect of my job. I love the drive in, in the morning. I love my office. I love my company truck. I love doing takeoffs. I love bidding. I love problems solving during the project. I love close outs and driving through project I have been a part of. I love when the office is filled with people and I love when I’m the only one there. It makes me sick to my stomach just writing this.

Idk how to stop, or if I can. How do people stop?

I teach physicians documentation and coding over WebEx. A MD came at me arguing saying that they were right regarding a certain guideline and I told them that no the guideline was THIS, not THAT. The next day I attended a team meeting and shared my story about the pushback about the guideline. Queue my embarrassment, the guideline was THAT, not THIS, and so I was completely wrong and I found out about it in front of my colleagues. I had completely missed the guideline update at the beginning of the year. I tried to cover it up but still the damage was done, most embarrassing moment of my life. I had been upset about it all week. But hey, all humans make mistakes right? Then I had my one-on-one with my boss and she could not get over it. She said that she worries that I have lost all credibility with my colleagues, that she sent me these emails on the update at the beginning of the year and how she "felt so bad for me, so, so bad for me," during the team meeting because I was completely in the wrong and so obviously embarrassing myself. My boss wasn't incorrect about her comments but ever since, I seriously don't even want to ever face my colleagues again and every time I sign into my computer I feel a sense of complete dread. This is very unfortunate because I actually love this role, I have not been in this role for a year yet and it is been my favorite so far. But now I feel like I cannot face my colleagues, I feel as if I am not in good employee. Does anyone have any stories such as this who can relate? Edit: I did admit my mistake during the meeting, there is no way I could not have, and I had already talked to the physician about my mistake and apologized. But I tried to speed past my mistake (or cover it up) during the meeting by attempting to change the subject quickly.

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Employment gripe opinions please

I work for a nationwide building merchant retailer.

When I joined many years ago, I gained my ForkLift license, at that time we were paid a premium on top of our hourly rate for driving it.

However after a while and once the minimum wage went up in around 2016 the company decided they would “simply the wage structure” was how they put it to us.

They were very clever in how they came across, basically not telling us we were no longer obliged to drive the FLT if we no longer wanted to but informed us that we could go into a consultation period if we wanted, I did but got nowhere and was made to feel like my job and shift pattern could be at risk if I refused to drive it (this was by my in store manager at consultation not the company, I believe he lied in order to keep as many flt drivers as he could)

Not everyone in the business has a flt license and those of us who do, do so basically for nothing. If the company had no truck drivers it could not function. And new employees are under no obligation to obtain a FLT license.

So last year I asked HR about the possibility of me refusing to drive the flt. I was informed I could do so and was not under any obligation to drive it if I didn’t want to.

Driving the flt makes life easier at work, however we are taking on more stress and responsibility by driving it, many accidents happen in stores with them and if you make an error this can and does obviously lead to disciplinary action if you are found to be guilty of any wrong doing using the truck.

The company have never made any official statements about why they do not recognise this role as a responsibility and why they do not pay us accordingly.

Obviously this decision has been made at board level.

I do enjoy driving the flt but it is stressful at peak times and obviously the risk of making a mistake or causing harm to colleagues and or stock etc is definitely on my mind that I could potentially lose my job if I make a mistake. So why should I do it.

I would like everyone’s opinion on what you would do in my shoes?

I simply would like an answer from the company as to why they do not recognise us FLT drivers and why they do not reflect this in our pay.

Also apart from HR who I have contacted, and had no straight answer from, who would you advise I contact within the business to gain an answer from.

Thanks.

In my previous job, the boss (also the owner of the company) and I had a decent relationship. Didn't always see eye to eye on everything, and could butt heads at times, but it was a decent work relationship. When I left the company to take another job, I left on good terms, but I still go back to my old job to do some seasonal work for a small side gig. My old boss and I talked about a situation that occurred a few years ago involving me, two other employees, and a decision he had made. The two other employees went behind my back to get me removed from a position that I had worked hard for and thought I had proven that I deserved to have that position. Everyone in the company knew those two employees were bad news and steered clear of them. Myself included. However, my old boss is a little on the naive and gullible side, and whatever lies they told him, he believed them, eventually removing me from that position back into an old role. I was furious. So, during the conversation we were having about that incident a few years ago, he admitted he was in the wrong and apologized. Now, a few months after that particular conversation, we had another conversation about the same incident. He then sits back in his chair mid-conversation, saying that he was glad he put me through that (along with a lot of other heartache that would take multiple posts to talk about) that he claims would help me overcome adversity in life and make me stronger. I get that sentiment, but there was a lot of that stuff that could've been avoided, but I digress. All this to say, is it normal for a leader to swell up with pride that they put you through stuff, claiming to make you stronger, even though the hell you were put through hurt more mentally than it helped?

I'm currently in a job I hate with people who I also hate, who hate it too and who may hate me too, probably, and it's ruining all aspects of my life because when I'm not at work I feel so much anxiety and anger about things that happened or that may happen at work.

It's fucked up, and it won't improve. Finding something else would mean changing cities (and even countries inside the EU because there aren't many opportunities here) so I'd like to work on my safety net for a couple of months before start applying, but how to survive meanwhile?