Author: Olivia

TLDR: wanted to share how free I feel after my last day at a job that I was at for 2 years that just kept getting worse. This was a white collar desk / computer job with a great salary when I joined. When I joined it was on a team of ~10 folks that all shared responsibilities to execute different customer projects. Over the last 2 years, 5 of them quit (citing burnout and company not staffing the team to succeed since we were basically asked to do the job of a 25 person team) 3 of them moved to other groups that were focused on “higher priority” efforts That left only 2 of us carrying the load of 10 for about the last 6 months. At one point they decided to hire a new guy – but when he joined they used it as an excuse to offload…

Actually, I am not hahahahaha.

Doesn’t this concept just seem like a way to get more out of people without paying them? Anyone have experience in holding a company to only the duties related to your job and before taking on more get a pay raise or something first?

I work a seasonal job and have been laid off since late November. All of our work is in the local area and we never have been required to travel overnight. My boss has secured some work that is out of town and will require weeks and overnight accommodation. Now, I have no problem going out of town for a day or two or even a week, but I really don’t want to be away from my wife and kids that long. Travel work was never in my job description nor did I have to agree to it as a condition of my employment. I explained that I’m not comfortable being away from my kids and don’t want my wife to be left to take care of a preschooler and 1st grader alone for weeks on end. He informed me that he’s not going to authorize unemployment when he has…

Listening to execs talking about gaining market share during the all comp y meeting currently. Yet my paycheck is still the same and there’s no talk about how this will benefit team members. The whole FOC watching BM and BW letting us know how they continue to steal from us

I have always wanted to restart my business. I had a t-shirt shop years ago that went belly up. I had to take a night time job to keep my shop afloat for 6 years, then I got married and gave it up. I would like to try again, but I would like to be able to do it in a way that is fair to the employees. (I couldn't afford employees in the first business). So if I try again, and get successful enough to hire employees, how do I make it fair for them, and how do I pre-emptively safeguard them if I ever turned greedy? I hope it would never come to that, but I am human. I'm sure every corporate person started out trying to be decent to their workers, but the greed bug bit them.

This might be a stupid question… I've only discovered this rad sub a few months ago and love it… but how do y'all afford to quit your jobs? I see tons of people quitting and encouraging others to quit, but I don't understand how people are surviving without making a salary. Unemployment is not enough to live on where I am (it WAS during Covid because of the extra amount coming in, but would definitely not be without that additional amount). Like… HOW? What are you doing for money after you quit your job? I'm not a minimum-wage worker, I've been working full time for 10+ years, I finally started renting my own apartment without roommates after age 30, so I'm paying for the whole thing myself. My salary would seem high to some but is absolutely not high for the cost of living where I am. I have an…

A few years ago I was doing work experience in a small multi million pound finance company. I seen the soap in the toilets was running very low,.So told the manger, she just watered it down. By end of the next day soap had completely run out. I told manager. She said she would get some more. Later used facilities – no soap. no soap in men's or kitchen either. No one seemed to care apart from me. Was a supermarket at end of the street to buy soap. I was.like I'm not paying!! I lived a few buildings away, so I just ran home every time I needed the loo during working hours. Kept checking soap situation. It took them seven working days to get soap put in the men's and women's toilets. No one washed hands properly that whole time, and no one cared. Absolutely disgusting!!! just thought…

I work in security and I get plenty of overtime. I normally work 40 hours a week sometimes but even that is way too much for me. I have done weeks where I did 12 hour shifts in a 5 day period sometimes 2 weeks in a row. Normally I would get to go home early on Friday in the afternoon. But for the last few weeks they have been asking me to work later. I'm just sick of doing OT and I just want to get off when I'm supposed to.

I've interviewed at a few jobs today, haven't gotten offers yet but I except to get at least one. How can I slyly ask when my annual bonus will pay out? Any tips or tricks?