Author: Olivia

I had a contract with this company that was already off to a really bumpy start. Orientations kept on getting scheduled at obscene hours. I got assigned a client where I was supposed to get paid $100 per hour. I already did 2 hours for them in February. Client is great, love working with them. Come late Feb on a Saturday the owner announces he's shutting down the company to reorganize. OK sucks, what about the money for the time I spent?️ He told me to send a message to someone only for that person to say he's not working there anymore and to contact the owner again. ‼️ So now I'm told to contact this other guy, which I do. Then via slack he says last night at 10pm that the company is not shutting down and he's reassigned my client to someone else (no warning.) Called him out…

Like the title says, I was just congratulated by my boss for getting a 50 cent raise. 21.50 all the way up to 22.00. I have two masters degrees and am good at what I do, but have since realized I've capped out in my profession. I can't afford rent or food for my kids but am not poor enough for aid. I need to switch industries but have no idea how to go about it. I realize everyone else and their dogs are in the same situation but still I'm asking for help. Where do I start, what other options are available to me?

At the time (last year) I was working as an elementary school teacher in Ontario, Canada. I’m now back at high school, which is where my training and expertise is. I had been experiencing some mild mental health issues; a bad combination of my partner leaving me, being unsatisfied with work (I’m not fond of young kids, and having to work with them for 4 months was devastating), and a dash of good ol’ fashioned depression and anxiety. I hadn’t realized that my psyche was apparent in my expression, I thought that I had been hiding it well. Well enough, at any rate, that 7th graders couldn’t tell that I was miserable. I suppose I carried myself differently when I wasn’t with them. The vice principal, who was known to get involved in the affairs of others (and also for incompetency) called me in for a meeting. Said it was…

At one of my previous jobs we used to do a lot of unsafe shit and it wasnt clear at the time because I was/am young and dumb. We would load and unload trucks with forklifts in ways that weren't safe and many times had several hundred kilograms of metal fencing fall off the fork or if the load was too heavy sometimes the forklift would tip forward. Our “yard manager”, someone with an unofficial title getting paid not much more than us, would say jump on the back to help balance the forklift. As I'm typing it out I'm realising we were probably one step away from being in one of those work safety videos. After I left that job my new workplace sent a bunch of us to get our forklift licenses and this is where I learned that none of that shit was okay. The trainer just…

I have been working on a small appliance store for around 4 years. I report directly to the owner and to be honest is a really easy job. The biggest negative with it is the same with any sales job, the negative people, but is something I can deal with from time to time. I also do the marketing, manage the employees, pretty much everything except payroll, and even that has fallen into me from time to time. I actually loved the place at the beginning, the multiple roles was keeping me sharp. Now, the problem that made me get away from this place is that the owner thing is appropriate for the employees to drink on the job. That has of course caused issues. Mainly because the owner insist on making me work 9 hours a day 6 days a week. Every time I try to explain that is…

“Principles for Dealing with the changing world order” by Ray Dalio discusses how superpowers rise and decline. One of the metrics used was the lifestyle difference between the rich and a commoner. Looking at the gap between the rich and common folks, which phase of the cycle do you think the USA is at?

TL;DR: I feel like life is being wasted working for somebody else's benefit I also posted this in r/rant but thought it might be a better fit here. I feel like I can't talk to anyone IRL about how I feel because most will just say “that's just the way life is” or “you're just lazy” and that may be the case here too but I just need to rant a little. I have been working retail/fast food jobs ever since I was old enough to just to have money (duh.) It was miserable then but it was different because I was fortunate enough to just want the money and not need it. However, once I became an actual adult with financial responsibility I came to a realization that this is how life is going to be until it's basically over. Working 40 hours, 5 days a week, with only…

I am a very hard physical worker, I can do heavy repetitive work in my sleep, I bottle any concerns and I drudge through. The last couple years have been hell, had a solid factory job, never missed days, got sick once the entire time. Never had a problem at those job. Lost this job because of COVID. I have lost all my jobs over the last dozen years through no power of my own. call center after 2 years told us phone techs to make sales or get written up monthly then let go by using those “unable to meet sales targets” write ups. Restaurants literally are always about to close and let me go first, kitchen helper/dishwasher, refused to cook unless they needed me to, as they payed minimum, everywhere lol. Cooks made more than me, but I have the same safe food handling cert they all have.…

I hate my job, and I hate it more now as things at work have changed. I get to work from home and get $16 an hour (should be way fucking more for what Im doing now) I have over a year of bills saved up and would really just like to be unemployed for a month or two instead of jumping straight from one job Into another. I also would like to dedicate more time and focus to job hunting that I am currently able to with all the time I spend at my job. So, is it truly easier to get a job when you have a job or is this horseshit?