Author: Olivia

I was under the impression McDonalds is still paying its Russian store employees during the current war, but did McDonald's not have restaurants in Ukraine with employees that can no longer work? Is McDonald's still paying them?

My 14 year old son has taken it upon himself to want to go out and look for work so he can start saving up for some extras he wants. But mainly so he can start saving for a car. No where is hiring anyone younger than 16 in the town we live in. But it's the conclusion he came to that makes me both sad and frustrated with the world that we live in “So if no one is willing to hire me…how am I supposed to do what everyone has told me I should be doing and save up for a car when I'm 16?” Just one of the VERY many YOU DON'T situations we are faced with in today's world.

At my job at the beginning of the year we are given 5 sick days, 1 “wellness day” and we also have the ability to earn 80 hours of pto. I basically work in the middle of nowhere in illinois and live 40 min away in another city. 3 times this year we had massive snow storms to the point where they closed the highway that my place of work sits off of, and my place of work issued a statement that people who live out of town should use time off and not come in for safty reasons. That part is great! Here is where i get annoyed… at that time i had not built up much pto and what i had built up i had already used, so i used 3 of my 5 sick days due to weather (road closures, literally could not get to work). Then…

And now I've been fired for the first time in my life. They started me on a PIP a few months ago. I kept making a couple of small, fixable mistakes a couple times per week. They wanted to know what I would do to improve, asked what they could do to help. I honestly didn't know. They weren't the same mistakes every time. I tried reorganizing things to try to fix it, but our sales have been way up since things picked back up after the pandemic. I tried to slow down, but there was just so much to do and the office wasn't allowed to have overtime. I felt like I was looking around, drowning, with the lifeguards just looking at me like, “You could swim before… hurry up and just swim like normal. It's not that hard.” But then I was off the PIP. They said things…

I’ve been at my job for 6 years, started during my college years and worked through all of them, even left school multiple times to prioritize work because I thought it was more important to be able to eat and pay rent than to chase a piece of paper and waste $5k-$7k in out-of-pocket tuition every semester for an art degree that I knew was useless but had to complete after my family demanded that I finish college by any means necessary… and I am fucking exhausted. I have been. For almost 3 years now. I worked through the entire pandemic, I worked and did school full time, I’ve worked multiple jobs at once on top of both, and I’m fucking burned out. I started taking mental health breaks this last semester (Fall 2021) where I’d just have a random single day off a week and ask for it to…

TLDR: the person interviewing me made an abrasive comment about how I didn’t have a job lined up when I quit my other. I left my previous job about two weeks ago. It was toxic, and draining to my mental health. I had initially put in a four week notice, but I could not handle longer than a two week. I quit without having another job lined up and I was okay with that. I’ve been interviewing nonstop for the last two weeks and today I had one that just didn’t sit well with me. The interviewer actually said “wow it was pretty brave of you to quit a job without another lined up.” First of all, **** you. Second of all, you don’t even know me. I gracefully responded “well I’m a single mother so I’m really good at managing money.” Looking back it didn’t even warrant a response,…

From a big, “reputable” company. He didn't respond to my follow-up emails either. Cool.

Position requirements that suit me well: ● As CEO, you are the main delegator of everything, and hard-working people want you to tell them what to do. Excellent. ● Small company CEOs must sell, so you are required to drink and have fun with people at lunches, dinners, and outings. Excellent. ● The CEO can be fired, but is almost always paid to go away, and sometimes the severance amount is even discussed when the CEO is being hired. Sounds like guaranteed, pre-paid vacation to me. Excellent. ● As small company CEO, you decide what your pay should be, because you are also the chief financial officer. This helps maximize your income. Excellent. Sounds like the right job for me!