Author: Olivia

Long story, so apologies in advance. To my fellow ADHD/ADD people and those with no attention spans in general. I wanted to share this story because I’m only just starting to come to terms with what happened in this situation through therapy, it happened in 2020 just a few months before the pandemic kicked into high gear. I lurk frequently and comment occasionally, a common sentiment here is to go where the money is. This was always my mentality until I had this experience. I left a full time job with a company that was pretty amazing to work for but the salary was less than I was used too,to take a contract offer with a government agency. I started January 2021, the offer was for 3 months initially with possibilities of extensions. I accepted it based on the fact that I am capable and had confidence I would get…

I got a new job 2 months ago. It’s for a small consulting firm (37 employees). I’m remote, but they ask everyone who lives in the area to come to the office for a Monday morning in-person meeting. Turns out the owners of the company are extremely religious. I’ve found out about 13 people who work in the office are related, and from what I can tell almost everyone in the office is also very religious. So far only 2 of the meetings out of the 10 I’ve attended so far have been “work” related. The other have been bible lessons or him just preaching about religious stuff. I’m not religious, but grew up in a super religious home. I hate these meetings and want to push back on being required to attend, but I’m afraid I’ll be at a disadvantage somehow if they know I’m not one of them.…

I (19f) was scheduled for a 5 hour 15 minute shift at my low level retail job. After 5 hours, we are required to take a lunch. Manager asked me if I wanted to extend to 8 (full day) so then I could “have a reason to take a break.” I declined because I don’t change my schedule day of and don’t work full days due to chronic pain. I’m now losing 20 minutes of pay so they don’t have to give me a lunch break. I know it’s not a lot and I’m not terribly upset about it, but I thought y’all would enjoy this. Why would they schedule like this?

I hate the idea of working 365. So much so I've been working a difficult job for years, just to have seasonal layoff. Older I get though the more I feel is expected of me…the opposite of what I want, to the point where I intentionally gimp myself and potential raises/promotions because I'm a “lazy” when in reality I'm sick of spending my existence working. Currently avoiding my phone because it's almost time to go back to work.

I started as a Social Worker for a local facility fresh out of college. I was lucky enough for them to give me a shot without any experience. I asked for a certain amount (which was fair) and was told that due to my inexperience that they’d start me at a lower wage, but bump me to my requested salary after 6 months. 6 months later I was just told “times are tough for us right now. I have to clear it with corporate and make sure it’s ok to do this.” Are you kidding me? This was contingent on being hired. You don’t think times are tough for me as well? I lived paycheck to paycheck for six months on a promise that is going to be broken? I did not put myself through school on a fixed income for multiple years to be disrespected like this. If I…

According to my boss (interim, cover for parental leave, no real power), a lawyer can't be polite and nice to the secretaries in the team if the lawyer wants to get a promotion. Ok, Mr Wannabe, the fact that you are a massive a-hole and have no friends doesn't mean everybody around you needs to suffer.

Seriously, I'm wasting time and money going to a place I don't want that doesn't earn enough to live a good life and then I have to drive back in traffic, and when I do get home I have lime 3 hours to “relax” which is basically just house chores and 45 minutes of youtube before bed

I know this is going to sound like an overreaction to many of you and if I were in the right state of mind I would probably agree. But my work just made me cry out of anger so I’m not thinking clearly. My work made it clear that their intention was to bring people back to the office and they made this intention clear many months ago. I wasn’t thrilled because at that point we had been working from home for over a year with minimal issues so it seemed silly that we would have to go back to the office at all though I do think it was very optimistic of me to think that work from home would become permanent. The return to office date was set up and pushed back several times over the months but at the end of last year we were told definitively…