Author: Olivia

I worked for a marketing firm pre pandemic in SoCal. In addition to email, social, web marketing, we also had a staffing arm of the company. This “talent” agency was responsible for staffing most of the people at CES and similar trade shows. Companies would hire a few people to staff the events. In 2019 we had a bunch of different staff fly to Vegas for the event. One of the staff was hired last minute but was told to go to the airport and it would be covered. Gets to the airport and there was an issue with the ticket. The talent called our CEO while standing at the airport to let him know he needed $200 for a change in the flight. Rather than just give our company card, our CEO told him to buy the ticket and we would reimburse him. The employee didn’t have an extra…

Guy is just standing around talking to the boss about how he has such a huge passion for travel. Scuba diving, horse back riding, safari hunting, etc. Im just sitting here working my ass off around him thinking about how I have used 2 of my 3 vacation days from the last 5 years for family emergencies. Working to survive, I certainly can't afford to globetrot. Idk why he is here.

Yesterday I had an incident at work and it unraveled all the frustration and dissatisfaction I’ve been suppressing. For context I work at a cultural center funded by a pretty powerful comercial art gallery. As with most cultural related jobs in this part of the world, we’re underpaid and overworked. It sucks but that’s not why I’m on the verge of quitting. Our office was recently repurposed as an exhibition room, so as of right now the whole team is working from a restaurant table (the cultural center has a restaurant). Yesterday one of my coworkers opened a can of sparkling water and it splashed on my laptop’s keyboard. The same laptop I bought myself to keep up with my responsibilities once they took away the one I was assigned and replaced it with a clunky unusable desktop. When I say unusable I really mean it. The thing took 20…

He is a senior (I'm a junior) and keeps annoying myself by thinking he's the manager, in fact he's the one who assigns the tasks, but he's not the boss. He always comes with destructive feedback, doubting my abilities and putting me to down, and he himself is very disorganized and collects enemies, despite thinking he knows all possible topics and is the most intelligent of all. The worst part is that he is very passive aggressive pretending to be a friend. I can only imagine what kind of shit boss he's going to be in a while. I've already considered resigning but I would lose all the “benefits” and I earn above average, so it doesn't happen, I'm trying to go somewhere else to earn less.

I had like 7 interviews and 40 applications and no one seems to be hiring me? am i just stupid or unemployable or both?

I mean the title says it all. Oh and they weren’t going to pay me for my first week on the job until I pointed out it’s a law in our state. I’ve also missed another paycheck on their end. I need my check. I can’t make it another day without. My boss won’t respond. I don’t know what to do.

I remember an old podcast that I had previously listened titled, 'The Buddha in the World”. An Eastern Indian/American author named Pankaj Mishra had a very profound message that had implications for everyone in our modern world. He opined that on almost every level, capitalism as a social experiment, has been shown to be a complete disaster. He argues that although the free market has made many of our lives easier and given us untold conveniences and technological advances, at what cost as it come? Environmental degradation, crime, violence, addiction, failed relationships, mental illness, socioeconomic disparity, substandard education and overall rates of general dissatisfaction…have never been higher. This model is completely unsustainable and really, only works for the wealthy. He continues that, as India becomes a super power, along with China, their bourgeoisie will eventually demand lives that reflect Americans' and that planet earth cannot long sustain.