Month: October 2022

I was hired in to my job in February as a remote customer service agent. Today during our meeting, they were saying they want people to return to the office. I was never IN the office to begin with. Can they do that? Also, I was given a 2000 dollar retention bonus, if they force me to go “back to the office” do you think that voids my retention bonus agreement to pay it back? I am not going to go “back” into an office when I was initially hired to work from home, full time.

Please remember that the reason people are giving you shit right now is because you are attempting to stand up for yourself at work, which is an environment in which bullying of the worker by the employer is supported. It is bullying. You're standing up for yourself and the bully is getting upset. The bully sucks, and deserves no respect, but will still try to intimidate you, because that's the tool they have. Bullies are intimidated by strength in numbers. 🙂

I work at a large, but not mega church. A lot of folks will shit on this post just for that reason, but I do it because thats where I can make decent money. I’m a sound engineer. I handle audio and lighting. On the free market I’d be lucky to make 30k/yr and at this church I make 62k currently with the promise of yearly raises by this current HR person. Problem is, there is one toxic person right at the top of the food chain at this church. She has been driving away any good administrator that works here. I am just shouting into the void I guess. I finally got an HR person to listen and respond with empathy and actually gave me a huge raise to catch up on all the missed yearly raises from before, then 6 months later gave me my normal yearly raise.…