Author: Olivia

I had a phone interview set up for today at 3:30pm. It was for a job I was pretty excited about. I rearranged my entire day to be available, woke up early, left work early, skipped lunch so I could get all my work done. The employer never called. My time isn't important to them already

I work at a car dealership of 700 employees, it’s huge. My department is small has 5 people in it including my boss. For the third time in the three and a half months I’ve been working here the Covid status of my coworkers was hidden from me. Only after my coworker was gone for two days on a ‘family emergency’ did I get notified they had Covid. A different coworker finished her work day a desk down from me and said, “alrighty time to quarantine now!” Because her son whom she lives with tested positive that morning and she’s not vaccinated. Today I come into work and my boss isn’t there, not unusual her father is in the hospital and said she might be taking time off. One person said she probably wouldn’t be in for the week. An hour into my shift I ask a coworker if she…

So, I got my start in the film industry and it's gone…weirdly. I've spent my first year mostly as a PA but I've also gotten promoted to a specialist position within the health and safety department and then as a camera operator. Firstly, the abuse health and safety people get because they have to enforce covid restrictions is DISTURBING. Like everyone hates you and bullies you because you're a PA and you're forced to tell actors, producers, and everyone else “beneath” them to keep their masks on and wash their hands. I've already been groped and assaulted as a result. Second, after my second breakdown from all that, and trying to confide in my friend that is a bit higher up than me, I was shamed. She tried to flex to me how she tries to educate people about “liberal truths” but then tells me how im a crazy, conspiracy…

I was hired for a support role this past summer but now they want me to spend 50% of my time as an unofficial solutions architect because “doing support work isn't enough” (translation: we need work done for cheap) Glassdoor average compensation for my company: my current title: 140k (I make 152k) new title: 220k I am already qualified for the new position. They tout it as career growth but I intentionally took several steps backwards in my career for this job so I don't know what growth they think I want. I'm planning to present the following options to my manager: 1) Give the project to someone else (eg, the senior solutions architect they assigned to help me, like wtf?). This is my ideal outcome. 2) Give me a 25% raise. This would be ~40k which I figure is reasonable since I'm meant to spend half of my time…

I just spent the better part of a month and a half interviewing for an “entry level” job, which then sent a generic “go fuck yourself” email. I sent a gift, interviewed with four different people. All for a job that's base salary is $50,000. Call me crazy, but an entry level job should not require four fucking interviews to make barely enough to survive in the North East.

So what are some good ideas to take advantage of working from home? Currently I am looking for remote work and I may have gotten a new job lined up for me if I get it. I know it would just be easy to find a minimal effort remote job where you get to watch Netflix and gaming most of the work day. But I have thought about doing some online college courses or learn other online classes that I can use to help me get a better remote job during company time. What are some other ideas to take advantage of remote working?