Author: Olivia

My office has a lot of different departments and has been holding “consultations” with different stakeholders in the organization about their plans to re-open to in person work, but in reality they have really just been giving everyone the run-around on it, and the workplace is not going to be safe in terms of covid transmission. I've gotten fed up with them refusing to directly answer stakeholder questions (and other staff being too docile to push them on it), so I decided to take an opportunity to talk to them directly. Let's say I'm from Department A. Recently, they were holding a consultation for Department B. I was free at the time of this consultation, and I have friends in Department B, so I decided to attend. While the meeting was intended for Department B, there wasn't ever any announcement that people from other departments couldn't attend. No one ever…

So, this is an insignificant situation at work. I just recommend you to read if you really have spare time to lose. This is how it goes: I work for a bank in the caribbean and got promoted last year after almost ten years of being stuck in the same position due to being essential in my team. Regardless, I was more experienced or academically more prepared, this stopped my former boss from considering me for the manager position. I got the promotion just after having an interview with another department in the same company. It was a lateral move, but yearly bonus payment would be added to my monthly payment so I wouldn't need a project to close to receive that money and I would work 8 AM to 5PM instead of being a slave 8 AM to Forever(That's how we say in spanish). So, after I got the…

It's very difficult to get a decent paying lab job, are there any unions i could join?

So I've posted about my shitty boss before but now she has taken it to a new level. I'm an HR assistant and she has has now put in rules that I'm not allowed to have private conversations in my office with employees because it “makes her uncomfortable”. In the past she has done sketchy stuff like firing someone for not picking up shifts but in reality she prevented us from offering shifts to the worker because she didn't like them. Or not documenting preformance corrections with an employee so when we found out the employee was committing fraud we (as in HR) were put into a bind. Well I was told by a coworker about how she was planning on firing an employee eventually once we got more staffing which without proper grounds would put me in a bind again. So to head this off I emailed my corporate…

I'm sitting here listening to my manager do training about updated hiring processes, they recommend that in the job posting they list pay between $15-$16 if they are looking to hire someone for $12 and they say “There's always room for negotiation”. Jesus they aren't even saying the quiet part out load. I took the job for $13 only because I absolutely needed something and have been looking for another job for a while. This place is awful.