Author: Olivia

Job 1- Shelf stacker- If you are ill, tell them you aren’t coming in the morning of your shift. I worked the Saturday of my job and felt awful and thought the decent thing to do would be to tell my manager that I wasn’t going to come in tomorrow as I felt terrible. This would then give him time to get someone to cover my shift. He moaned at me, saying that I was here today that surely I could do tomorrow as well. I called in sick the next morning because big surprise, I wasn’t very well. Job 2- Labourer- Pretend to work instead of resting. I worked 11 hour days and some of those days involved getting lumber off of a ship and then taking it to the storage. I worked very quickly and often got out of breath so that my colleagues could get all the…

This sub has opened my eyes on alot of the abuse I took while working for companies. I'm fairly young and have only had a few jobs where I stayed way too long. I'm a CNA. What are good questions to ask during an interview to assess how they treat their employees and compensate them fairly?

The family and I went to Chilis last night for dinner before the Superbowl. We figured most places would be a total shitshow because of the game, but the parking lot didn't look like it had a lot of cars and we didn't see a lot of people eating through the window so we thought maybe it would be okay. We were wrong. The place was absolutely swamped with take-out orders. The kitchen was backed up. Nobody said so, but I got the distinct impression that the kitchen was under-staffed leading to delays. There was a sizable crowd of people waiting for carry-out. There also looked like a shortage of wait staff, although more of them might have been pulled over to deal with carry-out. Our waitress was running everywhere, and kept apologizing for delays. We kept thanking her and telling her not to apologize. It's not her fault somebody…

When I hear the phrase, I think to myself “Is this really a thing I want to be going through College for? Working 9 to 5 all week for the rest of my life for a paltry hourly wage?” I still don’t know the answer to that question.

So I worked as a research assistant for my alma mater's lab for about two years. Some shady stuff went on with my hour slowly getting less and then getting to zero for at least a year while I was still considered an employee. My hours went to zero suspiciously shortly after I filed a formal disability accommodations request with HR, and I had been socially pushed out of the loop and repeatedly ignored by multiple coworkers long before that. The for a long time while I had zero hours, I was getting paid a “COVID stipend” of about $22 a month and was told that I was now a “resource employee” and that they “couldn't find the right project for me to work on”. My coworkers did not have anywhere near zero hours and the place did not shut down at all for the pandemic and just moved everything…

So, a few days ago, my manager pulled me to the side, let's call her 'Emily' for privacy purposes, and it's no secret I take medication as I have to get someone to cover me so I can take them. So, Emily pulls me to the side, and tells me that while she knows that I take medication to help me function (to the extent she doesn't know. I am entirely dysfunctional so not taking these are not an option), but she tells me I need to brush my hair and take better care of myself. I get it my hair is super duper frizzy but I brushed my hair that morning and my uniform was spotless. Idk, sorry for the vent, it just really sat wrong with me.