Author: Olivia

Seriously, you barely have time to think about something else, and eat at a healthy pace, let alone eat healthy. I've hated every employer that only allowed 30 minutes, just because the law where I live is dumb. I can't be the only one that thinks this.

Today my coworker asked HR for the ability to work from home this week due to his spouse contracting covid and experiencing some negative symptoms. HR told him no, because he tested negative he has to come in. He then took two weeks of mixed PTO/sick days to stay home and take care of her and not risk acting as a carrier in our open office space. I have several issues with this. We work in IT and it is 100% possible to work remotely, we did it for the majority of the pandemic. His spouse is sick, I would understand if work was busy and the org is worried about getting work done, but this place is where good ideas go to die and everyone gets by doing the bare minimum. I’ve never seen my coworker openly criticize this place; but the dissatisfaction is widespread, and only growing like…

It's just a way to get an extra 5 hours of unpaid labor a week from us. I'm working my shift alone today, so there's nobody to cover for me. Is there a way I can get my bosses to let me not take the unpaid break? Would legitimately rather eat at my desk than be stuck here an extra hour each day.

I have been working at a job for five years. I had worked hard and done everything they asked and worked my ass off. Recently my living situation fell apart and I asked for a salaried position to help with myself and my mom. I also pointed out that the job market was high and I would look for another job if they couldn’t promote me. That was August. December they said HR was delaying my promotion and wanted me to work as a salaried position for three months before they decided. On January 23, I found out my dad was hospitalized with COVID. He was actually dying and had a less than ten percent chance of living. I had my brother wanting to intubate him against his wishes, my mom fighting with him and trying to help deal with the rest of the family who were all fighting and…

I have been a bartender and a bar manager for the majority of my life. I was cutting dinner for the night ( veggies, garlic etc .) And I sliced my finger wide open. It took about 5 hours for it to stop bleeding. My partner was rather concerned but I just kept telling him it's cool it's a bartenders cut. It dawned on me how normalized it was to acknowledge I'm wounded and I just keep working. How many people out there have normalized being wounded on a job and just keep working?