Author: Olivia

I (finally) got an interview for a place paying $14-15 an hour. My current job is paying $16 and I'm considering asking for $17 if they offer it. My job is pretty soul-sucking at this point so I might end up taking something that pays less, but I'd like to make more if I can. Do y'all have any advice for getting a couple more $ per hour out of an hourly job?

First post on this sub, hope this is allowed and all. I have been working 2 jobs with my shift being 7:45-3 at one and 3:15-6 at the other every weekday. I am a teacher assistant making 20$/hr (what I’ve come to discover is A LOT for my position). My other job was an after school daycare program making roughly 16$/hr. I figured I’m young and in good health, so I decided to “grind” and make some extra cash despite the long hours. The extra cash began turning into a necessity however. Between maintaining mine and my girlfriend’s cara and furnishing our new apartment/catching up on bills on top of making rent. I was terrified of falling into a pit of death. Christmas time is always a stressful fucking month. Presents are no joke especially having a large family. All my debt was catching up to me and when February…

I don't have any sick time. Oh well.

I am presently writing my formal resignation with a 5 day notice. My current company is hybrid and tone deaf that we “want to get back to normal and have a work life balance. ” I hate commuting and sitting in a cubicle. My manager micromanages the shit out of me and keeps track of when I walk in (literally had an email sent to me for supposedly waking in at 8:01 multiple days, even though I'm sure our clocks were slightly different. I don't walk in until I have to. I sit in my car.) On top of this I have a client who has treated me like shit and management allows it stating I should keep track of instances where I am treated badly or the client makes a decision that I advised them not to make. Basically “cover your ass.” I was also written up due to…

So, my husband and I are in different fields, like most couples. I'm an admin, he's in a more specialized field in IT. My field is underpaid, more than most people know, I actually saw postings for $14 a few years ago, joke wages and managers rarely realize the skill level required to keep everything running smoothly. I've taken lower wages, you kinda have to sometimes as the secondary income earner. Husband makes 4 times as much as I do pretty consistently. There have been a few times where my living standard has broken the brains of management. I realized how freaking classist our society still is based on a few experiences. Now, my family isn't wealthy, we are middle class. I had one manager who constantly referred to my apartment, it was weird, but I couldn't put my finger on why. I lived in a house, but he just…

I work remotely for a job based in Canada and have done so for 2 years now. It's hands down one of the most toxic environments I've ever experienced in a job. There's no HR, so nothing gets addressed or resolved. The bullying has been ramping up over the last 6 months and multiple people have ghosted. They've left their duties and the role without saying a word to anyone. Most of my colleagues contact me last minute asking me to do tasks for them, they contact me at midnight and at weekends asking me to do corrections. Even when I'm away for the weekend, they blow up my phone. I offer up valuable marketing ideas as the clients are failing – none are taken on board. If I don't respond within a few minutes, they begin blowing up my phone and demanding an answer. Most importantly, my boss does…

You've heard them – the crowd that says something like “people don't want to work, because the govt is paying them to stay home”. Most of those saying this tend to be Trump fans. How do I argue with them that Trump's tax cuts of 2017 took way more money out of the govt than any of the recent unemployment payments and extensions did?

Anyone else annoyed they lost an hour of their weekend because of it? “Yaaa but it was when your sleeping so you didn’t even notice.” Bullshit. Why can’t we spring forward halfway through the day on Friday, that works better for me, say at like 10 so I can just fast forward that annoying hour and go to lunch.

Hear me out: No one really has open availability. Everyone needs time to rest, eat, run errands, do laundry, or just live. All the jobs in my area are so desperate for employees but won't work with my schedule being I have to work around my children's school schedule. I've had places try to suggest putting my children in an after school program. If you think any job means more then time with my children your crazy. Fuck open availability. That's a trap.