Author: Olivia

For context, this started probably 2 weeks ago, when I came in at 7:05, our company policy says that you aren't late until 6 minutes after your scheduled clock in time. As I'm clocking in my boss calls me out in front of everyone, stating “everyone remember the daily huddle starts at 7 sharp, don't be late” to which I sighed and clocked in, then lo and behold, less than a week later she shows up late at 7:05, to which i jokingly say “You know the huddle starts at 7” where she immediately gets hyper offended, saying “okay just call me out in front of everyone then!” Later that same day she corners me in the break room, going on a long rant about how she wasn't late, something came up, she's a hard worker, she comes in at 530 every morning, yadda yadda yadda. So two days ago…

HR is so misleading because you'd think “Human Resources” would help the employees, but no all they are is the company's watch dog and also the snitch and they have a lot of power to terminate out of nowhere. But why are they always so passive-aggressive? I hate that shit.

Boss asks – more like reprimanded – me to come 15-30 minutes early for work. From the very beginning (I'm talking about for more than 5 years), my clock starts at 9:30 am. He outta nowhere raised his voice at me today, asking me to come earlier. He claims that I always come at 9:30 am sharp when that is no way in hell true, tf. My average arrival time at work is 9:20-9:24, and I'm not even exaggerating on this. Our office is not a place where people have workloads the moment they get in. Our office is, in fact, a place where you only do real tasks 1-2hrs a day. Most of the time, I am idle. While it is true that he is always early, that's because he lives literally in the same bldg! I travel by train for 20 minutes – not that I am trying…

I was an operations manager at a busy hotel. I was Ops for almost 2 years. I got promoted after 8 months of front desk only and loved my job. It was demanding and I had to cover shifts constantly. I sacrificed all my free time to make sure I was available. My front desk supervisor, who has issues, called out over 50 times in the almost 2 years. I covered every single shift. I would routinely work night audit (11p-7a) and then run breakfast 6:30a-9:30a. I would run housekeeping during our 4 separate times of not having a head housekeeper. All while making sure we had enough laundry. We failed our first brand inspection last year and I worked tirelessly to make the hotel perfect for this years. Which was 2 weeks ago. I worked 10 hours to count all the linens in the hotel then came back to…

So I work at a discount retail store. In our break room they have dumb ass corporate propaganda playing on the TV. The CEO giving out the “earnings report” said in 2022 the company as a whole made $5 billion in profit. I recently had a performance review with my manager and was given a grade of “meets expectations” in other words I do my job and nothing less or nothing more. By doing just my job alone garnered me an 18 cent raise. Not even a full quarter! I am getting the paid equivalent of what $8 dollars an hour was eight years ago. Rant over. Edit: I’ve been asked this a lot. But, yes. I have been looking at other jobs. In the IT world. Been searching for four months actually. I’ve applied at hundreds or so jobs and after all that I’ve maybe only heard back from…

There’s no loyalty in corporate America. The CEOs act like they care about you, but if profits aren’t improving or if the stock price drops, they wouldn’t hesitate to lay you off. Especially now with cheaper labor overseas and AI taking human jobs. So don’t feel like you have to be loyal to the company you work at. Your job is to take care of your family and yourself, and you have to do what’s best for you. In order to maximize your earnings or getting a significant raise in salary, one of the best methods is to change jobs every 2-3 years. Most companies pay more for new hires than give raises to the current employees. Don’t be afraid to look for other jobs, especially remote work. Obviously this isn’t true 100% of the time, but more likely than not you’ll get a significant boost in salary.

I'm a receptionist at a high-end service job where we have about 8 people on staff, all needing a certain kind of table to do their jobs. Last Friday, I had a 100 degree fever and called out, and my boss immediately came down on me, saying that next time I need to give her more notice, and that she would have cancelled her trip if she'd known I'd be out. I had no idea she was even going out of town, as she rules from a distance, via text, and is notorious for not telling people the whole story or information that's actually needed. I shot back that I can't control when I get sick and she started to pretend to care, saying, “Of course, everyone is entitled to get sick.” That word choice set me off for sure but I had to stay in bed all day and…

I graduated over a 1yr+1/2 ago with an environmental-related bachelor's and certificate that I was explicitly told would make me very employable. Since graduation, I have sent out job applications (1-4 depending on offerings) every day. I have only ever received one reply to an interview that, by the end of it, was very clear they wanted to hire internally. Other than that, I have been nothing but dono-walled. At this point, all job postings might as well be some schizophrenic delusion since they're about as real. I should mention that many of my friends graduated at a similar time with more or less equal levels of schooling. Of those friends, zero have been able to get jobs.

“Promoted to Incompetence” By this I mean they may have been great at their original job but they were given a number of promotions until they were in a position they lack the competence to complete. I think only my current job had a manager that could actually do the job of the people he's managing. Typically they're an arrogant know it all, who couldn't figure their way out of a wet paper bag and everyone knows it.