Author: Olivia

Turnover is a word I often find to be defined incorrectly and consequently underutilized. It could help our labor market if employers tried to understand this word better. They just choose not to. Far too many times have I seen and hear about companies putting profits before people. Shift coverage before personal lives. The most frequently used definition, in my opinion, is #1. Because of this, a disconnect between employers and subordinates continues to grow. Turnover-(a)The rate at which employees quit or get fired. (b)The rate at which the subordinates fail the employer. Turnover-(a)The rate at which employees keep their jobs.(b)The rate at which an employer fails each individual subordinate. Leadership is not only important at this stage, it's paramount. I'm well aware turnover can happen for a vast array of reasons. Which definition do we see more of? Evidence of leadership isn't found in the success of the leader.…

i’m one of those people who always feels ridiculously guilty taking time off work but today i just need to focus on leaving my shitty overworked, underpaid job. the only thing is that tomorrow i will have to deal with the depressingly large amount of work which accumulated while i was off 🙁

So I guess in an attempt to boost employee engagement (?) My job is doing a spirit Week. I work in healthcare and I feel like this is something that you'd expect from a middle school. I'm already on “thin ice” as my probation was extended because I'm not enough of a “team player”. My view towards work is I come in , do my job, and clock out. I don't need it to be like a family and fun to me is not being there or getting paid more, not wearing a silly hat. This almost feels demeaning to me and I'm now concerned if I don't participate it's going to put even more of a target on my back.

A direct quote from Neal Stephenson’s Anathem: … the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who’d made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day’s end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made…

Lately our company changed the boss, and this new one start to change everything from shifts to work statuts, and now he's making our work toxic so people can get sick and quit without firing them due to the economy crisis, and now all my co-workers start feeling sick of work, and same for me, we use to work freely without pressure, but now its getting worse day by day, and a lot are quitting, others they are married and have families to feed so they have no choice but to face that toxic boss. Am trying to respect the chart of work and stay away ftom him as much as possible, also i try to enjoy the good part of my work.

So, I worked at this job back during December of 2019-March of 2020 back when COVID was kicking off, and I was 15. A guardian made me resign during this time due to a family member passing away and fear of me getting it. By the way, this is important to mention; this was an independently owned pharmacy. There was also more staff during this time. Cut to November 2021 to the end of February 2022. I returned to work at this pharmacy, now 17. Still COVID found out that three staff members other than myself, and two part time workers, left the pharmacy. Now it was just this guy who we'll call Randy, another Joel, and another Lenny. All very cool dudes. In this job, Randy and Lenny and I were all expected to stop what we were doing at any given moment. We all worked in the back…

I like insurance as long as I get to be a CSR. It’s what I have always done, so I got good at it. I got good at solving people’s insurance problems. I take my position seriously because, as a licensed insurance specialist, my job is helping people protect their assets. I take pride in that. I want to build their trust. After all, they are putting their trust in someone who helps keep their assets safe and in line. What I am not good at is sales. I HATE sales. Always have. That’s why I got out of retail jewelry. I loved building relationships with clients. I did not like trying to push them from a .5 carat diamond to a 1 carat just so the corporation I worked for could put more $$ in their pockets. I cared that the man, who was proposing to his girlfriend he…