Author: Olivia

A month ago my office experience a surge of Covid. Nearly everyone got sick. I was exposed by my employer, became ill, and needed to use a week of PTO. I only accumulate only 2 weeks a year. This is right before my wedding which will take a week honeymoon and a few days of vender meet ups, so I will be in a PTO deficit due to this whole debacle. When I tell recruiters this they are flabbergasted that my company was so apathetic to exposing me to Covid and using my personal PTO days to compensate their lack of planning. I’m looking at new positions. One position is offering an additional $5k, financial analyst, great experience, a field that is more lucrative, and room for advancement because it is large. It is hybrid after the first 4 months. The second is the field I am already in, senior…

So I quit my job last April on really bad terms just walked out and said I quit and it really upset my bosses at the time. They were bitter about it and didn’t pay me out my retirement till 6 months later but now they haven’t given me my W2 even though the employees that are there have already got there’s is there anything I can do besides going to there office and demanding it? I know that’s what they want me to do but I don’t wanna play there petty games.

Help. I reported a bunch of cyber bullying to my school. The principal knew I was going to. She said under Mahoney Area School District v B. L., the school can't touch private social media. I reported a bunch of content posted by students taken on school property, featuring the school name and logo. I also reported it because specific groups in a protected class (LGBT+) are heavily targeted and I figured out what students are doing it. These actions are not protected by that case. Two days later, administration has severe concerns about my ability to function in the school. They say the person I was supposed to be working with today does not trust me and wants me removed. There have been multiple staff members who requested I not work with them because I am more of a problem than a help. The only examples are months old…

I’m a middle manager, I’m burnt out, my team is burnt out, and we’re all just trying to look for something that makes all of this effort worth it. I was hopeful that we’d be given a budget that would allow us to pay our teams a little better. Like many companies out there, we beat all expectations in profits and should be more than capable of giving out another few hundred dollars per person in terms of salary (not a one time bonus, since that does nothing long-term). So here I am about to conduct performance reviews, and I’m going to have to tell my top rated employees that despite how well they performed, even after pulling money away from other people’s increases, they’re still going to fall under inflation for this year, and ultimately make less this next year. Being on this side, I finally see why middle…

My gf is having an issue with her employer where the employer will only pay her base hourly wage for overtime hours. The employer says she “can't afford” to pay overtime pay, so any overtime hours is just the normal rate. Is this legal? If not, what do we do? My gf worked 96 hours this past pay period and none of them were counted for overtime.

So i was asked by a guy to make a change in his Shopify store. I implemented the changes and guy isn't paying because i did it too fast. He said 30usd for a 10 minutes job isn't worth it. He cancelled the order and is still using my code. I am a seller on Fiverr from a 3rd world country and this guy who claims to be a brand owner isnt willing to pay my fee.

So here's my success story that I wanted to share given the amount of joy this sub had brought me over the lay few years. Long thread alert if you want to fast forward. This started in 2020. Our department had just been through several shake ups and changes (my boss and our dept admin were both fired in a manner that were odd, to say the least). Our CIO came into town to announce the changes. He seems like a nice guy and gave the mid-level managers the heads up; he would be bringing in a new director over our groups. They also split our other support team off to a new director as well. That's when things started getting interesting. A few months in, the other support team's director let it be known they were working on outsourcing their team and my team as well. I asked my…