Author: Olivia

I don’t know why I’ve never been able to take advantage of a poorly managed situation by holding my ground and asking for more money. To be fair, I spent 15 years In entertainment mostly on independent contracts and the last 5 have been in the golf industry running day to day operations. Neither profession seems to value their employees particularly highly, as naivety and enthusiasm offer more value than talent and experience. I understand why performers are viewed as expendably as professional athletes, but what I don’t get is why competent and hard working people working stand out as problematic in hospitality. It’s like you can’t work your way up the ladder because the lazy people at the top don’t want you making them look bad. Every single time I’ve had the power in a business situation, I’ve run into some fuckin good ole boy who takes issue with…

Intent to Terminate I just received an intent to terminate notice from my employer. In this letter they state that on a certain date they became concerned with my behavior and work performance. The problem is I was deployed 2 months before to include 2 months after the date listed. I wasn’t even there. I’m in the reserves and we get called up. They also provide other dates that are also inconsistent with me being deployed and accusations about my behavior and work performance. I have all my official orders as proof. How can HR and the city I work for create these lies and go through with this? I definitely need suggestions/help!

I am 55 and its taken me this long to unlearn the way women are taught to value our labor. Men get socialized too, but in a slightly different way. Women are taught from an early age (as soon as we're old enough to talk) that our work should be given away out of love. Its a constant drumbeat. Take care of your siblings. Help your brother/sister with their homework. Take care of the home. Help with dinner. Hold the baby. Care for your husband. Girls are great multi-taskers. Girls are natural caregivers. Girls are great helpers in the classroom. Now, I'm not saying we should be paid for caring about people but all those messages are constant throughout our lives so that by the time we enter the workforce, we feel bad asking for compensation for our time and effort. A lot of women have a really hard time…

There’s not much else for me to say. I don’t think a lot of jobs are fair because of this. It’s ridiculous that I’m putting my digestive system and urinary system at risk because I’m worried they’ll reprimand me for taking more than like 2 breaks a day. I take probably 5 from 5:30 to 2pm but when I’m home, I take even more. Do you feel me? Edit to add: for me, I tend to have to use the bathroom more than others. Maybe I could find a doctor to help make a letter for accommodation.

Hey folks, I need to vent and maybe get some advice or perspective from anyone who’s been in a similar spot. I’ve been working tech support in IT for a few years, and it’s been a constant struggle with the workload. Endless tickets, late nights, and not a dime more in my paycheck to show for it. I tried talking to my boss about it a few times, but last week he dropped a bomb on me. In the middle of our conversation, he said that if I couldn't handle the work, he could replace me within a day. I was feeling desperate and cornered, so I told him to go ahead and try, thinking there was no way he could find someone with my skills that quickly. Well, I was dead wrong. By the end of the day, I was out of a job, and someone else was already…

I've been working as a barista for about 3 months now, and I am absolutely loving it, save for one thing. My boss is this older women who's been working there since the 90s, and she is an absolute pain to work with. She's very cranky, very rude, she doesn't communicate about anything and it makes anything involving her harder. I have no idea what's happening with my schedule because she's changed her mind on what days she can give me twice now. I dread every shift that I have with her because she's just so frustrating to work with, so rude and grumpy the whole time. She seems sweet sometimes, but I just don't understand where her head is at most of the time.

I was scheduled 9-3pm for 3 weeks after I told BOTH the scheduling lady and the manager I have an event I have to be at by 5:30pm so they put me 9-3 which worked out great. Then yesterday I see I was changed to 12-8 I CANNOT DO THAT. I even still have BOTH txt messages of me saying to the manager and the scheduling lady that I have an event an hour away I have to be at, at 5:30pm. I told her on this Saturday I need to leave at 4:30(which sucks bc I'm losing 2 hrs of work since I cannot do 9-3 anymore. Idk why she did this when I've told her 3 weeks ago and reminded last week I need to stick to 9-3) in order to make it on time at my event at 5:30. This is a pool job btw only 1…