Author: Olivia

I'm going to give a backstory to this because there is a LOT of layers. Feel free to ask questions and I'll clarify. (Using a throw away for added anonymity) Tldr at bottom. For the past 5 years I gave my entire heart and soul into a local Science Center. I was the only paid employee and did the work of at least 8 people. MINIMUM. I never complained because i LOVED what i did. When i started there, i began taking in rescued animals to have on display or interact with schools. I was the only care taker of the animals for years. It was a huge hit for the Center. This Science Center is a non-profit organization run by a Husband and Wife. They are in their 70's and the husband in particular was on a slow mental decline throughout the years. The wife had serious anger issues…

They are about to fire 2.8k humans because a handful made bad management decisions

TLDR- in a brand new workplace I’ve found my workmates and I to be very compatibly pro-labor and committed to creating a good work environment. I and four others were just hired to open a new store in my city (another two exist in a city a few thousand miles away). The boss has a ton of other commitments/businesses so for our first two days of work, they just left us alone to clean/organize/prep the new space. Well y’all it’s day fucking two and I love this crew. Our hourly is what it is because we will receive approx 30% of our total earnings in tips but for now we are doing 2-3 weeks of work before the store can open and therefore cannot receive any tips. We discussed strategies for collectively negotiating a temporary pay raise for this time along with a plan to negotiate a revision to our…

I REALLY hope this pic isn't a repost, and if it is, I sincerely apologize. I've been in IT for a long time now, and I've learned the hard way that any real raise (like anything over 3%/yr) or a noticeable promotion tends to require a job/company change. It sucks. I could go off on a VERY long rant about hiring practices and employee treatment in IT, but I'll stick to the pic here for now. I just left a VERY good company who preached “family first” and talked a big game about how well they treat their employees, but after being on-call 24/7/365 for 2.5 yrs (and believe me, they got every ounce out of me that they could….nights, holidays, even date nights with the wife) I just wanted a little more…just a little. I wanted to recover at least some of the MASSIVE pay cut I took to…

My wife is required to tell her boss that. They expect it to take her three minutes to walk across the store, use the restroom qnd walk back. Is that legal? Edit: small mom and pop store. The manager telling her this has hired numerous friends and children of hers. My wife is the only one being spoke to

I’ve been with my company for three years and stayed through the pandemic and huge staffing changes. I’ve been an extremely loyal employee. Last week, we had a blizzard and I even walked to the store to turn on the faucet and check for leaks two days in a row when I was asked by my boss. I lived close so no big deal (I wasn’t compensated btw). After reading this sub- I decided to get a new job that’s remote so I won’t have to be on my feet. I’m disabled and have ADA accommodations for the 10 hour a day standing customer service position I was in. Anyways- I wrote a thorough and thoughtful letter of resignation stating my last day of employment would be March 1st. I even made sure to explain with an entire paragraph all the things I loved about the store and teared up…