Author: Olivia

On mobile so excuse any errors made, and if this seems incoherent. I’m not the best at writing out frustrations. I work at a place that does windows and doors. We build them, ship them, and that’s about it. We know we don’t exactly have a hard job, it’s actually quite easy and heavy lifting doesn’t happen often. My immediate boss is a good man for the most part, so all of my gripes are with the owners. So the gripes are mainly with pay. We’re underpaid for the industry. I get 11.50 an hour, our highest paid position is 13 an hour. We have zero benefits. For reasons unknown to me most people there have just put up with it and haven’t tried to get raises. I have been at this company for roughly a year and have seen one raise. I have learned more than one department and…

You know for better prices or what not… Possibly via app or website?

I work in a place where we are short on equipment , some of our equipment barely works. And there was a bunch of broken equipment sitting in the corner. It was pretty slow today. So I gathered all the broken ones. And I salvaged enough good parts to make three functional pieces of equipment. One coworker was very happy about it, and another thanked me from the bottom of his heart. It was nice to be shown sincere appreciation and gratitude. I merely acted out of frustration. Our supervisor is lazy and cheap. What kills me is that, it's not like he's paying for it. I saw another department get new gear. Gear that we needed also. But didn't get because of our supervisor..urgh.

I started a job recently. When I started training I realized it was for a call center, which neither the job listing nor interview mentioned. I stuck with it because I needed a job, but wasn’t enjoying it upon getting out of training. I asked my hiring manager if I could switch to a different position, otherwise I’d probably leave. I got a call from a supervisor, we’ll call her Grace, and she asked what I didn’t like about the role. I explained I thought I was being hired for a different position and didn’t like this one. Grace got me in contact with HR, who decided to promote me to another position because they like retaining recent college grads and saw potential in me. Fast forward a little bit, I’m starting this new position and enjoying it more. However, I was chatting with the other new hires and one…

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Maybe this is the plight of other white collar workers – maybe blue collar workers too – but does anyone else feel like they have too many different responsibilities? It's not that I want an assembly line job, but because I do so many different tasks, I am adequate at everything instead of being excellent at one thing. For example, in my role I have to do sales/fundraising, event planning, marketing, writing, grant applications and reporting, direct mail, lead meetings, manage staff, and design and implement new strategies. Granted, I work for a nonprofit, but I wish I could just do just one (maybe) two of the above. I feel like I wouldn't be so overwhelmed and overworked and could excel, instead of just being ok.

I work at Taco Mac in Ga, and it’s of course gonna be busy on a Friday night. I’m on the Mex side trying to make about 20 queso setup’s at a time, and drop roughly 100 wings per order, so I of course don’t have time to notice that we are running out of the queso. I get called out from one of the managers to clock out and go the fuck home. All because they need some sort of scapegoat to blame for the queso not getting prepped while we are way over capacity outside. I now have to talk to my GM tomorrow when I come into work because of my “poor performance”. Sorry, this all happened less than 10 minutes ago. I’m already pissed off as it is. Is there anything I can do to explain why it’s not just on me to do everything? There…