Author: Olivia

I'm soon accepting a promotion and I'd love to know how to ask for some job security / benefits. When I started working I was wide-eyed and ambitious. Starting early, staying late, taking extra shifts, reporting 30x the amount of hazards as everyone else, always trying to improve etc. Lockdown happened and some people had to lose their jobs. I'm safe though because of everything above…right? I was so naive. That hard to swallow pill has jaded me severely. I kept my job and it had nothing to do with my work ethic. Since then I make no extra effort. I do my job well and nothing more. When I'm about to sign the new contract how do I say “You showed me you don't care if I am an incredible employee during lockdown. If you don't give me job security and reward me for doing more than required I…

Even after university I didn't understand this phrase, after many years in the corporate world it is becoming increasingly wild to me. People around me have tried to convince me that this is “normal”. That everyone has a “price”. But it's not normal. I am not a resource, I am a person. A human being sounds proud. A human resource is something that demeans human dignity.

First of all my apologies if this doesn't belong here and this is a throwaway account as a precaution.( The three day wait to post with a new account on antiwork didn't stop me from posting this 🙂 ) This is a great sub, I've learned lots and appreciate everyones contribution! Hopefully mine fits the bill. I work for Uscellular. A regional cellphone carrier that competes (kind of) with Verizon att and TMobile where we have home service. I've worked here for 10 years. During that time i needed to meet a sales quota. The first couple of years it was only new line activations. Then a few years later it was that and an accesory quota. Then a year later they added a prepaid (pay as you go) activations quota. Fast forward to around dec 2020 they have now added the following metrics, All metrics and quotas are monthly…

So while applying for another job in the medical field, it really hit me how much bs references are. Some people don't even want any references but they will require supervisor or above and then they will also require more than one and some people will absolutely not budge at all. This is something that really isn't talked about much when people want to say homelessness is just a choice. What if you have an employer that is bitter that you left, they don't necessary have to give a bad referral but they can just refuse to answer anything. Also what if you are looking around for options, many employers will refuse to give out details on the job such as pay, or benefits without going through the whole hr process. So you would have to make your boss aware that you are looking at other opportunities which can leave…