Author: Olivia

I was owed $50 retro pay by my company. They basically kept blowing me off for months on it, carrot-on-stick status. It really put a strain in our relationship that never went away. $50 is fiddlesticks. It was the principle of the thing, that we had an agreement, that I had done things I wasn’t paid for, that fair was fair. One day, they came to me asking for my help and I told them I needed to be paid first. I guess that finally did it, because I got paid. However, instead of being paid $50, I was paid for 50 hours, amounting to something like $500 extra that I was paid. Incompetent jackoffs. This was about six weeks (three pay periods) ago and nobody has said anything to me and I haven’t said anything to anybody. I haven’t spent it. I guess I’m wondering what the company can…

Why the fuck is this a thing? So they can intimidate us into coming in? Text is objectively better for documentation!

So I have been in this job for almost a year now; the first half was ok because I had a bunch of overtime, enough for me to be able to pay my bills. However, all of the sudden, they took it all away from me, I went from working 45-50 hours a week to a regular 40 hours per week. And I absolutely hate it. Not only I am no loner earning that overtime, I am still expected to be as productive, they will give me even more responsabilities AND I aint got no raise!! I have so much work and I am so stressed out, I dont even take my breaks, there are days where I have terrible headaches because of the pressure, and my workload is such that I am still not even close to finish what I have for the day. So, obviously they did not…

So I work as a PCA and I called my employer today to confirm my application after weeks of waiting to be on the clock. Now this lady I take care of was upset I was not returning her calls knowing damn well that I was not a valid member yet. I didn't want to take her money but I did because she was misleading and inattentive to my statements that I could not do that this way and could lead to trouble. Here's the thing: she was saying that she's the adult, that I have to address her first, that she knows what's she's doing. All of that in a condescending and superior manner. I don't like this but now I will go back and work legally making money and without her shortcuts. A part of me thinks I should really let loose the reasons why she's even saying…

I teach swim lessons at a private pool. The first client they assigned me to was a boy that refused to do anything I asked of him. He left my 3rd lesson in tears. I can go into detail in comments if someone is curious, but in a nutshell, it looked bad. The mom contacted my manager the next day saying there is a disconnect between us and requested another swim teacher. Here is where I'm curious if my manager was being fair or not. She sent an email saying that my client did not like me as an instructor and was requesting a switch. In it, she said that the kid was crying during the whole lesson and that his mother knows he is “normally” not like that, asked what happened during our lessons, why I am taking so long to do swim lessons, asked another instructor if he…

i'm 23 and started my first job little less than 2 years ago. the work is quite process based and doesn't require much creativity but this also increases the scope for human error. i have made mistakes in the past and learnt from them as i was not familiar with the environment or nature of systems, etc. i would say that i have a fairly good understanding of things and i know how to get most matters closed now. for a few months things have been slow at my firm, i have been doing the minimum daily required work and not bothered much despite there being other little issues to focus on here and there. there is a lot of procrastination and a general attitude of “yeah, this can be dealt with later, don't think anyone is bothered about this” the slacking off finally caught up to me when i…

Was visiting a friend today who has two new homes being built across the road and just saw the funniest thing. The original house was flattened and the lot split. Two different small business builders, different crews. One builder is apparently an arsehole, always swearing at his crew and regularly picking on the apprentice chippy (carpenter). The other crew are normally quietly getting on with the job and often joking around. Apparently about an hour before we arrived the arse had been swearing at his apprentice again about not doing something right and the kid had finally fired back about him not showing or explaining how it should be done. This resulted in a more abuse about just doing what he was told. We had been there chatting with our friend when things went right off. The boss had another go at the apprentice calling him useless dumb f..k at…

I hear it all the time that AI will replace us in the workforce but I am one of the few I know of that says “Good”. I think with AI replacing us in the workforce it will result in a positive cultural shift where we ACTUALLY have more free time to pursue hobbies and interests. I know there will be consequences, there are MANY to consider. What do you think will be the pros and cons and how to solve them ? For one, I know a UBI will very likely be necessary as there won't be enough occupations with spaces to fill otherwise the economy will grind to a halt.

Rant CW: hints of passive suicidal ideation 25M, graduated uni three years ago with ambitions in healthcare, maybe physical therapy. Fairly bright, was doing well. Then my own health went into the toilet. No diagnoses, an endless number of doctors can’t figure anything out, little help from meds or healthy lifestyle tips. Just a collection of symptoms in various body systems that make normal life impossible. (Doesn’t seem to be long COVID, and I haven’t knowingly gotten COVID yet.) Living with my parents, scraping by on odd online jobs. But with the consistent severity of daily symptoms, frequent flare-ups of chronic illness, and how often I get sick (10 total weeks of respiratory illness this year despite solid precautions, but thankfully no COVID at least according to PCR tests), work consistency is impossible. I could maybe squeeze 20-25h/wk out of myself with 12 weeks of sick leave per year. But…