FUCK MCDONALD I AM TAKING SICK DAYS
Fuck mcdonalds, i have worked in plenty of places and none of them were as ass as mcdonald.
I have been working since i were 18 to go to uni and to oneday, open a shop (probably a record shop or a pub), i have been in bad situations, worked in some extremely toxic enviroments and with crazy bosses who did illegal shit all the time.
But MC FUCKING DONALD, omfg, some of the worst work-ethic individual i have ever met, been working there for 2 months and i cant believe it, so;
1)nobody is willing to talk to me, for some reason, since im not work-centered nobody wants to have a normal conversation, all they do is talk to eachother about other coworkers and...work! So I basically go in there and interact 3 time with other peoples and then im just there making potatoes for hours.
2) everybody hates everybody, they talk shit Behind everybodies back, everyone is not fast enough, good enough, didnt respond too fast to a command that wad IMPOSED to them, everybody is "not doing enough"...heard people calling R words and saying x coworker is mentally slow, for no fucking reason.
While we all bust our ass off coworkers complain to people being slow, its just produce produce produce, feed the costumer feed th3 costumer, if you are a little slowing down you are insulted and shouted on.
3) managers are some of the most egodriven slaveowners crazy people i have ever met, idgaf, i am not gping to say too much. But be aware, these managers are litterally INSANE.
I am quitting this job cause im probably going to put hands on some fucking manager if he treat me again like shit for.no.reason.
I am a very kind person, i volunteer, i donate some of my miserable salary but if I stay there one more week and i get insulted again im going to jail, some managers gotta pay, you need to be brave AND prepared to treat people like shit.
4)the work is immense, and the roles are so unfair, specific roles are extremely and intensely hard and unfair, potatoes and fried stuff are hellish, one people doing all the work that 3 people should do, and if you stop, the whole kitchen stop, and people yell at you...otherwise the same 4/5 people (from managers to high status crew) can decide where to be, and hierarcally choose where to be in role that day or week, basically choosing the same roles that are easier and less stressfull.
Beverage is easy ass hell, people slack off at beverages all the times even in full rush, cashiers doing fucking shit, some people in the kitchen are doing nothing half of the time, and some mfkers in the front dont dk shit and just talk to each others.
I have been doing french fries for 2 months, and omfg this is hellish, every rush im getting railed by every costumer, cant stop ONCE otherwise the whole mcdonalds fucking dies, no stop, alone, stop once to fucking drink and its done, you are now 19 large potatoes behind, and you cant do that ,otherwise you are getting yelled at.
5) too many 9/8.30 hours turns, you do 2 rush and are so tired, the job is too intensive for that kinds of turns.
In my country i can take sickdays (practically) as much as i want and im getting paid, idgaf, im faking some ass injure and I aint coming to work till they fire me, and then they gotta pay me again cause they fired me, fuck this place, im searching some other job, I aint working there no more.
PS: COWORKERS are workaholics as much as managers, and sometimes ever worse ,since this toxic enviroment is onnipresent, even if you are not working coworkers still treat you like shit
Jobadvisor
Two months of that would wear anyone down, and the rush-after-rush pace with no real break sounds brutal. It makes sense that you're fed up.
But please don't put hands on a manager. Even if he's out of line, that's the one move that could turn a bad job into jail, a record, and no leverage at all. If someone is screaming at you, step away, go to the walk-in or the car, and take a few breaths. You can leave the building if you need to.
The faked injury is risky too. In Romania, sick leave needs a medical certificate, so a fake one is document fraud, and if it gets checked you could lose more than the job. If you're genuinely run down, a doctor can see you and document it honestly.
Quitting cleanly protects you better. Put your resignation in writing and keep a copy. If you're being insulted, threatened, or pushed past reasonable limits, write down dates, times, and what was said, and keep any schedules or messages. You can file a complaint with the Inspectoratul Teritorial de Muncă (ITM) in Vaslui, the labor inspectorate, about harassment or unpaid hours. Before you leave, make sure your final pay and any owed hours are settled.
Is there something specific you're dealing with right now, like a shift this week, a manager who's escalating, or money you're still owed? I can help you plan the next step. I can also help you start looking for the record shop or pub idea, or for something less brutal in the meantime.
Are You Good With Your Employee CIVIL Rights Varying by Zipcode?....If NOT Read This
News Flash:
No one’s federal CIVIL RIGHTS are supposed to be completely different from one state to the other which is why The Policy Bridge Principle has to be applied nationally to prevent circuit splits such as the one demonstrated in the 5th Circuit’s disposition of Sanders v FedEx.
Federal rights HAVE to be uniform, predictable, and fair. Closing this statutory loophole insures that happens regarding this issue for good....
DETAILS:
Most employees believe that if they follow their employer’s official HR handbook and report workplace misconduct in good faith, they are automatically protected from retaliation under federal law.
Yet, unless you live in specific legal jurisdictions, employers can argue that because your internal complaint used company provided EEO compliance language instead of formal statutory legalese, your report didn't count as "protected opposition" under Title VII or § 1981.
Federal Circuit courts are split on this issue and THAT directly impacts every worker in America:
The Pro-Worker Precedents
In major federal appellate rulings, courts have recognized that everyday employees shouldn't be required to draft complaints like law professors just to be safe at work:
• The 4th Circuit (Okoli): Ruled that workers need not to explicitly recite statutory "magic words" in complaints. Complaining of "harassment" under company channels puts the employer on notice, constituting protected activity.
• The 8th Circuit (Ogden): Held that telling a harasser or supervisor to stop offensive conduct—in plain, direct terms—is "the most basic form of protected activity."
• The 9th Circuit (GoDaddy): Confirmed that internal complaints made in good faith regarding workplace mistreatment satisfy protected opposition standards.
2. The Procedural Trap (Demonstrated by the 5th Circuit)
Conversely, in jurisdictions like the 5th Circuit (Sanders v. FedEx [26-10182]), corporate defense teams successfully argued that reporting harassment using standard HR handbook terms lacks the "objectively reasonable legal belief" required for statutory protection. If an employee reports misconduct following mandatory company policy, but doesn't phrase it in formal Title VII terms, the employer can escape retaliation liability at summary judgment and on appeal.
3. The Solution: The Policy Bridge Principle
When an employee relies on a mandatory corporate EEO compliance reporting policy and uses company-provided terms in good faith, that compliance MUST satisfy the "objectively reasonable belief" standard for protected opposition as a matter of law.
Why This Is So Essential:
When federal circuit courts split on basic statutory interpretation—a fracture often deepened by unpublished dispositions that evade routine Supreme Court scrutiny—it creates federal civil rights chaos across the country.
Jobadvisor
The core concern is real. Courts do disagree about how much formality an internal complaint needs to count as protected opposition, and that matters for workers. But I can't verify several specifics in this piece, so I wouldn't publish it as written.
- Sanders v. FedEx (5th Cir., No. 26-10182): I can't confirm this case or its holding. Check the docket on PACER or the 5th Circuit's opinions page before citing it.
- The quotes and holdings attributed to Okoli, Ogden, and GoDaddy: Okoli v. City of Baltimore (4th Cir. 2013) is a real case, and its general holding that a complaint of harassment can be protected without legal "magic words" fits what it's known for. I can't confirm the other attributions or the quoted language, so verify them against the opinions.
- "The Policy Bridge Principle": This is a proposal, not established law. Calling it a "Principle" that "must" apply as a matter of law could make readers think it already does.
The stronger version of your argument is already in existing doctrine. Under Clark County School District v. Breeden (2001), the employee's belief must be objectively reasonable, and under Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville (2009), answering questions in an internal investigation can count as opposition. Several courts have held that an internal complaint doesn't need statutory vocabulary. You could argue that employer policies telling employees to report through HR should strengthen that protection, and cite the circuit cases that support it. Also, unpublished dispositions are generally non-precedential in most circuits, so their reach is limited.
Are you writing this for publication or advocacy, or is it about something that happened to you? Your earlier messages were about a job in Romania, and Title VII and § 1981 are U.S. federal laws that wouldn't apply there. If you're dealing with retaliation at work, the relevant bodies in Romania are the ITM in your county for labor violations and the CNCD (National Council for Combating Discrimination) for discrimination. If you're writing about U.S. law, I can help you tighten the argument and check the citations.
The ultimate job search hack in 2026 is literally just protecting your sanity from corporate gaslighting.
Yo, let’s be entirely real for a second because the advice on here is starting to sound like pure scifi.Optimize your resume for the ATS. Network on LinkedIn until your fingers fall off.Send a personalized video message to the hiring manager. Look, I’ve done the whole song and dance. I’ve tailored 50 different resumes, treated LinkedIn like a full time job, and for what? To get hit with an automated rejection letter 4 minutes after applying, or worse, getting ghosted after a 3 hour panel interview.The market right now isn’t just broken; it's straight-up psychological warfare. Companies are posting ghost jobs just to look stable, and HR departments are letting AI filters reject perfectly qualified humans because they didn't use the exact magic keyword of the month.The best hack nobody talks about? Stop taking the rejection personally. Treat these applications like a casino game. Pull the lever, close the tab, and move on. Do not spend 4 hours drafting a love letter cover letter to a company that will replace you in a heartbeat. Protect your energy, because matching their cold, robotic energy is the only way you don't lose your mind before landing something real. How are y'all actually dealing with the mental drain of the infinite loop application cycle right now? Because the "traditional tricks" are built for a reality that doesn't exist anymore.
Jobadvisor
The casino framing helps with one thing: it stops each rejection from feeling like a verdict on you. It can backfire, though, if "don't take it personally" slides into "don't try." The applications that get interviews usually still need some real effort, so the aim is to spend that effort where it pays off.
A few things people find help:
- Cap the volume. Apply to a fixed number per week, like five well-matched roles, instead of mass-applying. Fewer applications means less of the infinite-loop feeling, and it's easier to spot which ones are real openings.
- Use referrals when you can. A referral often gets a human to read your resume before any filter does. Even a short message to a former coworker or a second-degree connection can do more than a dozen cold applications.
- Track everything in one spreadsheet. Company, date, status, and next step. Seeing the whole pipeline makes it feel finite, and you stop re-checking the same portals.
- Screen for ghost jobs. Posts that have been up for months, have no named team, or get reposted constantly are often not active. Put your time into the ones with recent dates and a specific hiring manager.
- Ask for feedback after interviews. Many people never do, and a short, polite request sometimes gets a useful answer. Even if it doesn't, asking helps you feel you did something with the rejection.
- Protect some non-job time. Set a stopping point each day and keep at least one thing unrelated to work on the calendar.
What kind of role are you searching for? If you share a posting or your resume, I can help you target a few applications rather than fifty.
How do you choose a career when AI is supposedly going to replace everything
Hey guys have you noticed that whenever someone asks about a career field people say AI is going to replace it and that job opportunities are disappearing I keep seeing this with accounting software engineering data analytics and pretty much every other field Honestly as a 24 year old trying to figure out my future this is really confusing and discouraging I genuinely want to learn a skill build a career and make something of myself but it feels like no matter what I choose there is always someone saying it will be replaced by AI What would you do if you were in my position and how would you decide which field to pursue without constantly worrying about making the wrong choice I would really appreciate any advice or guidance because I feel like I am struggling to figure out where to start
Jobadvisor
Almost every field gets the "AI will replace it" warning, and that makes it hard to tell which warnings to take seriously. A useful distinction is that AI is mostly changing the tasks within jobs faster than it's eliminating whole jobs. Accounting still needs people who understand tax law, clients, and judgment, but the routine bookkeeping and first-draft work is shrinking. Software engineering is shifting toward reviewing, designing, and integrating code, not gone. Predictions of total replacement have been wrong often, and nobody reliably knows how any field will look in ten years. So you can't pick the future-proof job, because no one can see it. You can pick a path that stays useful as it changes.
If I were in your position, I'd weigh three things more than the AI headlines:
- What you're actually curious about. You'll spend years on this, and interest is what keeps you learning when it gets hard.
- What you can get good at with reasonable effort. Look at whether people in the field have the kind of work you'd enjoy and whether the entry route is realistic for you.
- Skills that combine domain knowledge with judgment and people. The fields that hold up best tend to involve a real problem, accountability, and trust, like healthcare, skilled trades, sales, law, operations, and anything where a client needs someone to take responsibility. Pure information work with no human relationship is the most exposed.
Then test before you commit. Take a cheap course, do a small project, or talk to two or three people who do the job now and ask what their days look like and what they'd tell their younger self. Within a few weeks you'll learn more than from a dozen forum threads. And assume you'll change direction at least once. Most people's careers don't follow the plan they made at 24, and the skills that carry over most are learning quickly and working well with people.
What are you drawn to, or what have you already tried? If you tell me your background and what you've enjoyed, I can help you narrow it down to two or three realistic options and a way to test each one.
Indeed Has Become So Useless
In my experience with Indeed in the 2010's, Indeed used to he so handy and reliable. A great way to get in immediate touch with recruiters / hiring managers. I used get so many interviews within two weeks of applying.
Back then, I've gotten job offers within two to three weeks of applying. Indeed was a great user experience.
Indeed used to be so seamless and now it's become a wasteland of job listings that are not updated by companies, AI mismanaging / overlooking candidates that actually align with the job opportunity, a means for businesses to collect data with zero intention of hiring, the scam devilcorp pyramid scheme jobs preying on the desperate. It is such a mess now.
I have had more luck getting interviews and talking to actual people on Craigslist these days.
Jobadvisor
Your frustration makes sense. The shift you're describing is real, and a few things have driven it. Indeed became a paid marketplace where employers pay per click or for sponsored placement, so listings stay up whether or not anyone is hiring. Some postings are "ghost jobs" kept open to build a talent pool or look busy to investors. Mass applications mean recruiters get hundreds of resumes per opening, so they lean on automated screening, which often filters out good candidates. And scam listings have grown alongside all of this because the platform has less human review than it used to.
Craigslist working better for you fits that pattern. A local posting usually comes from a person who needs to fill a job, and a message gets you a real reply.
If you're still job hunting on Indeed, a few things can help. Sort by "Date posted" and skip anything older than a couple of weeks. Check whether the company's own careers page lists the same role, since that's often the more current source. Apply directly on the company site when you can, and if you find a name for a recruiter or hiring manager on LinkedIn, a short message there often gets a faster response than the application queue. And be wary of any "recruiter" who asks you to pay for training, equipment, or a background check up front.
Are you job hunting right now, or were you mostly venting about the platform?