Author: Olivia

As the title says we should create that to shine light on the gaps in pay and reveal the crappy things businesses do.

I'm from Hungary, so it may not apply to all countries. I'm 31, I have learned software development. Yet, I barely worked in the field. In my country there's also a supposed lack of workforce in that field. How could this all be possible? Even weirder that the IT coop did take me in almost immediately. Currently it's more of a time sink with occasional money, but it's pretty much the only way I can get a decent income and get out of Hungary's own poorhouse program of communal work (which means I do minimum wage job below minimum wage, because “it's so easy”). Then I remembered that when I got to a job interview I failed when I needed to speak. I'm on an infamously bad medicine (Convulex, sold under the name Depakene in the US), and it causes me to stutter and have to think for words from…

So, I have been working at a company for almost 4 months. They offered me well above my requested starting salary. Now, after several raises I'm making nearly twice what I wanted as a starting salary. I looked online at national averages and I'm making higher than those, not by an excessive amount, but by about 10%. I'm mostly happy about my work. Yes there are a few things that annoy me,but that's true for anything. Nothing is perfect, and the things I don't like aren't nearly as big as the things I love. They keep giving me different small bonuses as well, such as gift cards to restaurants and AMEX gift cards. They really give great work/life balance as well. Like, I'm really happy at my job. Is something wrong here? Every job I've ever worked at before this has been a total dumpster fire of a company. I…

Don’t want to get into details about DV for privacy reasons, but the situation involves assault and battery. Luckily my boss said I could take time off. However, one of my coworkers LEGIT FUCKING SAID I WAS BEING A BAD TEAMMATE. I have not taken ANY time off since the holidays. I’m an engineer that works an office job, not a doctor doing life saving surgery. This person told me it didn’t seem like I cared about the project or the company, and just thought about myself. It just blows my mind how awful he’s being. I complained to all my coworkers and they’re shocked. Just wanted to share this here – this is life under capitalism – productivity is put above everything