Author: Olivia

As a remote worker I was 10x more productive and I could cook some decent lunches and make sure my metrics had been meet. Being forced back to work feels like a prison sentence, waiting for calls or tickets to come in I used to be able to make coffee watch some shows etc. It’s like we had a taste of freedom and now shoved back into these useless office situations. We are just stuck here awkwardly talking about covid and how it’s only time until it takes out the office anyway as one after another each employee is self isolating due to their kids having positive RATs. No one wants to wear a mask even though it’s the law, so you feel obligated not to as well, as you don’t want to go against company culture. Been lurking for a while thought I would share.

Saturday I had an incident with a customer. The assistant manager wanted me to work off the clock for this customer. I refused. The customer was following me screaming at me. I asked repeatedly for the manager to stop her following me and diffuse the situation. After about 15 feet of her following me screaming in my ears I finally turned and screamed at her. Afterwards I spoke with the store manager, who is actually great and is the kind of manager that makes you want to work and do your best, about the situation for about 30 minutes. He chose not to do more than give me a verbal warning, and said he was going to speak to the assistant manager. This also isn't the first situation I've had with this assistant manager. His first day, he called me a disrespectful little girl, and young lady. Thursday he threatened…

Hi, I recently began an office job on the west coast. I quit after 3 days. Why? Hear me out and let me know if I was being unreasonable. Day 1: On the first day, I showed up on the front door. I had to call my manager as no one was at the front desk. My manager kicked the door open (lifted his foot and pushed the door open toward me with his foot). This was the second time ever meeting him (first was during an in person interview pre-Omicron). Anyway, later I am taken to “my office” which was a nice size office, but was full of shit. There were 3 coffee mugs with caked/dry coffee on the bottom. An open container of oats, a gallon of water, other odds and ends. Anyway, the whole office was dusty and there were dead flies all around the inside perimeter.…

So, I work for a company that services a major retailer. We stock certain products on the shelves, and reset certain areas when inventory needs to be moved. I have been here since the store opened. I've got a good rapport with the employees. We stay out of each other's way, and there have been very few issues. I generally write my own schedule, and part of my job description is that I'm supposed to act independently and adjust the order of tasks as needed. One of the interesting things about my job is that each task has an “estimated completion time”. So I might have a 4 hour, two 2 hour tasks, and a couple 1 hours in a given shift (I work 10 hour days by choice). I'm lazy. I don't believe in working hard, I believe in working smart. I was very clear about this when I…