Author: Olivia

If you are in a position of power, please explain this to me like I’m slow. How come teachers are so stressed and burned out and no one is doing anything about it? Also, can you explain to me why a Superintendent can give themselves a $40,000 raise but no one wants to pay the teachers more money? Am I missing something here? Can someone educated on this matter educate me on this. It’s obviously a problem if someone teachers are quitting. Can someone help me out here?

I call it the D.E.N.N.I.S system D – Demonstrate Value Essentially boils down to: do job interview and get job E – Engage Physically Go to work N – Nurture Dependence This is where it gets interesting. You should find a task or tasks that only you can or are willing to do, and do them consistently such that your boss starts to take it for granted, then it’s time for the next step N – Neglect Emotionally Stop doing the task, either by just not doing it because it isn’t in your job description, or quit, whatever is appropriate. This will make them realise just how much they need you, but your aren’t there so they get sad enough for step I I – Inspire Hope Offer to return to doing the task for a significant raise and do it S – Separate Entirely Use your new wage to…

What good am I as a person if I can't compete in today's hypercompetitive world? If I don't have that killer instinct, that ambition. If I'm simply just not good at anything? To the thinking of many I don't really deserve to live. Those are the questions I've been asking myself the last couple years, and I've suffered through massive confidence issues and mental crises as a result. Even burger flipping seems beyond me at this point. I haven't been employed for years. Whatever few job interviews I've had never go well. I assume they just take one look at me and nope out of there. If there are any good qualities to me at all, they are not “marketable”. What hope is there for me, when even the strong, smart, fast, good looking and socially charming are struggling in our capitalistic society today?

Ok so I’m a nurse a family practice. In our office there are several work desk that the nurses share. They are not assigned but each nurse has one that she sits at daily if that makes sense. On Fridays management comes around and hands out our paystubs even though we get direct deposit. We’re supposed to put these in a safe place. Last Friday management handed me mine and I tucked it under some paperwork in my desk. It was unopened. I got a call from sons school that he needed to be picked up. I was flustered and left my paystub behind. Long story short. My coworkers OPENED my sealed paystub while I was gone and have been discussing my pay. Management is upset with me because I left it in my drawer. Ok fine. Today my manager says they want to write me up for this because…

I used to work at an independently owned wedding/prom dress shop that would buy cheap dresses and slightly modify them and then sell them for 50 times the price. I was initially told by the other workers that it's an easy job where you mostly just sat around doing nothing all day. One or two sells would usually be our goal during the slow seasons. I was hired and told I'd be paid $8 an hour before training and $12 an hour after. My wage stayed at $8. My manager was a hard ass, always asking me to look busy for the customers whenever she would watch me on the camera. It usually seemed like nobody was working in the store because the stuff I'd do would hide me from customers. I was only looking busy to her and no one else. I also have scoliosis, so being on my…

I used to work in this private company that was created by a few major banks in Canada. We did back end work to store certain encrypted information for them. This was 2015. Anyway, this Architect who was 45 years old was often in meetings I was in because we were working on the same project. The bank client we were working with is incredibly demanding and hard to deal with. It was common to have meetings well after 7 pm local time. One night, we all finished work and went back home at 5 pm. By 6:30 I got a message to join a meeting immediately because some executive on the client’s side was having a chronic meltdown. We SCRAMMED on the call and after realizing that there were no issues from our end, it was a third party vendor that they insisted on using that was causing THEM…

I work as a data curator for a cloud data company for about a month. I work remotely, and I need to work 8 hours a day. The thing is, before this I would work for about 5~6 hours a day. I think most people who never worked remotely can't relate to this but, the thing is: this 8 hours of work is equal to me sitting in a chair being productive, no stop. Working 8 hours in an office or something like this you can get up, walk, you can talk to other people, get lunch somewhere outside of the place you work…But working at home, I can't even go to the bathroom and the time I'm away it's not valid, so I need to stop and start the tracker. It's literally 8 hours with me sitting in a chair looking at a screen doing data compiling, following strick…