Author: Olivia

I don’t want better hours or wage I just don’t want to work, never. No unions just unmediated hate

I'm a manager and recently had a meeting with the CEO. He starts off by showing me a video about navy seals and how they'd rather have an incompetent but trustworthy (bootlicker) team member than a competent one. He then proceeds to show me a plot chart with all of the management team members and where he thinks they fall on a scale of competence and trust. He has 3 people that no one in the organization trusts because they're incompetent as the people he thinks are the most competent and trustworthy. He follows that up by heavily implying that if I want further advancement in the company I need to be in his inner circle and I can achieve that by spending off work hours doing off work things with him. I'm now looking for a new job. FYI, I was in the quadrant that is competent but not…

Guys, i need some advice. So I work in India and resigned from my current company because they were paying me pretty less. Now I am joining this new company which offered me 110% appraisal. My current company didn't match, however offered me like a 88% match. Current company (it was acquired by another big company a week ago) will give ESOPs and is expected to go live with their IPO in a year. I love working at my current company because there's absolutely no stress – my managers are good, so is the management. However, what I do isn't really teaching me anything as a Content Marketeer. Coming to the new company , the job is remote & also offers ESOPs. However it is a new company that started in 2020, it got like $10mn funding last year and is growing. The role is in the content marketing realm,…

I understand Fair Trade items cost a little more, and those of us who enjoy coffee, tea and chocolate may be hesitant to spend a few more dollars per week over a year. I get it, yet I had the opportunity to meet someone who was intimately familiar with the current cocoa and coffee slave trade. No, they're not slaves in the sense that we used them in America, but they are highly underpaid workers doing a long, rigorous and sometimes quite dangerous job. Imagine doing your job without the promise of being paid on time? Without the promise of any safety inspections and no breaks? Imagine working 7 days a week and not allowed to leave because you won't be paid for your last month if you quit? Imagine having to rent all your uniforms, tools and shoes from your company but they charge more for them than you…