Author: Olivia

Hi all. I am a 27 year old female based in England, UK. I have good academic qualifications, the highest of which is a 2:1 in Law. I have worked from the age of 16. First 2 jobs were in retail alongside my time spent studying. First 'professional' role was as a Trainee Law Costs Draftsman with an 18k salary working 40 hours per week. The role itself I didn't mind but the environment was awful and my contract was terminated after 6 months after i declined to work through my lunch. All other Trainee contracts were also terminated. All termination of contracts was explained as being due to not meeting targets. I then began working as a Family Court Clerk within the civil service. I enjoyed the role but the environment was toxic. I was working in excess of my full time hours all of the time, rarely had…

So yeah, that just happened and I need to rant. I work(ed) at a place widely regarded on reddit as a company that takes care of their employees. I thought I was working completely fine (in fact, I know I was, every other person I know there thought I was doing good), but I came in today and the manager took me away as I was walking to my work area and took me into an office and fired me effective immediately due to “slow pace”, despite working through all of the busiest periods of work. I really don't know why he fired me of all people, I started with someone else who makes mistakes all the time and she wasn't fired and there are people who do almost nothing all day who just get left alone. I sat in my car after as I was really upset and about…

So I work at a bank and we had our yearly shareholder call going over 2021 results. They said that we had a 13% growth last year and this is our 6th year in a row over 10% growth. Then they went through our key areas of improvement, then HR talked about recruiting, COVID. Then the COO came on started talking about staffing problems and how the great resignation has been a big hit to the entire economy across all job markets. His explanation was “Engagement” people are leaving because they are not fully engaged by their work. He didn't elaborate on what the buzzword means, just that people that aren't engaged are more likely to seek other opportunities. Let me expand Mr out of touch executive, on why I'm looking for alternative employment First I'll admit the positives 1 my direct manager is a sweetheart and treats us well…

I work as a software engineer for a multi-billion dollar company. I honestly hate it but it would take a wall of text to explain all the reasons. All the decisions about returning to the office are being made by people (literally) 9 steps above me in the org chart who work in a different city. My boss, his boss, his boss, etc all agree that returning to the office is stupid for our particular responsibilities (sit and code all day and have zoom meetings with teams in other cities) but they have no real authority or even input on the decision making process. For the past six months or so we've had huge problems hiring new people and for the past 3 months we've had huge problems with good people quitting. I told my boss we should just pay people more because of how much better salaries had gotten…

I have been thinking of posting my story for some time now. This happened about 10 years ago. I used to work at a small advertisement company here in my country. One of my coworkers had lost his wife and son in a car accident a few months before. It was beyond tragic, the poor guy was really struggling, as you can imagine. He took some time off to grieve but when he came back his work wasn't up to the company's standards anymore and after a couple of weeks they fired him. He went up to the roof and jumped off our 12 story building. I was outside and actually saw him die. I was 19 years old at the time. A crowd gathered around his body and an ambulance was called to take him away. I don't remember all the details because I was so shocked at what…