Author: Olivia

Morning manager meeting. Due to inflation, 45 hourly employees asked for a raise. Non-Union if anyone wants to know. They're getting it. $5.40 an hour. Good news, I thought for once. Then I went about my work day. I work in R&D as lead material scientist. HR and Finance aren't my purview. Cue 20 minutes ago. Call from the HR head. He'd like it if I met with welders and press operators at 5pm when they go off shift. My day ends at 3pm. Because people. He's a man, and I'm a woman. As a man, he doesn't want to be seen as a “boss that gives raises.” He's worried It'd ruin his image. Since I'm a woman, I can do the “soft work” of giving people good news. I'm stumped, like what the hell?

Some of the Big Tech companies are making money like they're printing it for free. For the five companies below, if every employee got an annual raise of $100k, the company would still be easily very profitable All info from Wikipedia: Company 2021 Number of employees 2021 Net Income (Profit) Net Profit after $100k raise to all employees Apple 154,000 $94.68 billion $79.28 billion Google (Alphabet) 156,000 $76 billion $60.4 billion Facebook (Meta) 72,000 $39.37 billion $32.17 billion Microsoft 183,000 $60.6 billion $42.3 billion Netflix 12,135 $5.1 billion $3.89 billion

After 7 years in the logistics industry, working 60-80 hour work weeks every week for the last 6 years, I'm leaving the industry. I make a decent wage, but flipping my sleep schedule every week, 12-16 hour work days and incredible supply chain/logistics industry stress over the last two years, and looking at annual growth of 20-30% last year and this year it's no longer sustainable for my mental health. My girlfriend felt she had to hide the gun. It's not worth it anymore. No job or pay range is ever worth your mental health and your quality of life.

My first post here so I hope it fits . I had a GM when I was a shift lead. She was sweet as can be to anyone new but anyone experienced she expected perfection from and nothing else. She would scream at us, belittle us, and even kicked a dude once. Upper management did nothing. On a completely different story I ended up with the franchise owners phone number and text him and got her fired. She picked up a new job quickly. I just got promoted to GM of a small family restaurant and am in the midst of hiring some staff. The one guy I interviewed actually works for my past bitch of a boss and hates his job and life. I told him to resign and start with me that night. I also told him to send my regards with his resignation to her and gave…