Author: Olivia

I'm pretty well off. I work in tech and have been WFH during the last two years. I'm fortunate. But I have a bit of bias and don't know a lot of the realities of what people are getting. A member of my family said one of his in laws or an aquantence (don't remember, unimportant) stopped working during the pandemic and is getting paid to not work. This seems like it would be unemployment benefits and not the brief (three?) payments of like $600 or something that most Americans got. Anyway. What's the reality? Does the government pay for some set of people long term? Is it unemployment insurance only that would do that? It was hard challenging my family member because he wasn't the one who could show receipts. And since it was a blind fighting the blind kind of argument I just let it go. From what…

So this week while I was having my lunch. My manager gave me a key. I was confused and said “what's this for?' she replied with “it's to open the store when we open Saturdays.”. Which then she walked away. During my lunch I was thinking of it and I realized it's adding a lot of responsibility to my already loaded workload as I'm a safety representative for the first time and didn't really want this position of a key holder. Not only do I have to walk to work but my walk to work is 30 minutes, the weather conditions don't really help here in Canada . so I was thinking of a wage increase to compensate. I finished my lunch and she just so happen to walk about on my way out and I asked her “so does this come with a wage increase of any sort?”. Which…

I really do not understand. Somehow we in the US are unable to see the big picture. Our government and media outlets say better than I will but we have been told that people being paid in dirt is not only acceptable but necessary, when it isn't at all.

I feel like a failure or something. But I’m taking a month or two off. Draining my savings. Fuck it. Anyone else ever do this? Live off their savings to preserve their mental health?

Last summer, I started working at a center for autistic children. I was told I would be working in the center but after they were comfortable with my training – they told me they would be opening a new center closer to me – but in the mean time they would have me work with clients in their homes. I felt a little uneasy because this was my first time doing this and I had not been trained to work at a clients house and I never had to interact with the clients family in that way before. Anyway everything was fine. I had one client five days a week for about three hours per session. Then I had another at home client added, three hours each session but only two or three days a week. However, these two clients lived about 30 minutes apart. When I had a day…

Last year I was in contact with an employee that had COVID. My employer forced me to take a week off to make sure I stayed negative. They used my vacation time without me knowing. Found out, fought them for months and forced them to give it back. Today they tried to reprimand me for not wanting to use my personal vehicle for company work. (We have a massive fleet of vehicles and one at my disposal). If I got into an accident my insurance wouldn't cover me, their insurance wouldn't cover me and the governmental worksafe insurance wouldn't cover me. They also came out today and said that regardless of what the government comes out with. If we cross the border we have to take 7 days off. Be it vacation or sick leave. We have about 25 full time positions. In the last 3 years we've lost 1/3…

So I moved out of state for a job in my industry. Pays $6 an hour with tips ranging from $100-$500 a day. We keep our own tips, but up to $20 of my tips are shared amongst the low level managers, and this is rather rare in our industry. It bumps their pay and we tend to get to work with a better quality of what is usually poor supervisor (for many complicated reasons). All to forgo giving the supervisors more salary. Still many of these supervisors suck to work for and I will NOT be supporting their tip pool. We have three locations so my schedule is whack, I could have my schedule start times change four times in a week. The properties have separate leaderships that don’t communicate well or standardize rules. If another location needs the work we are told to clock out, transport ourselves to…

Like the title said, I’ve been yelled at by my boss in front of the customers. Untrained by the official staffs, the let the part timer train me to allow certain numbers of customer into the shop. And by certain timing, I am to stop them from entering. However, for whatever reason, I was called out from my post only to get yelled at on full blast for stopping the customer flow without asking the boss first. So I explained that I was trained to do what I did. The boss then yelled at me again and said “By right, you’re supposed to ask ME!” In conclusion, fuck your by right and train me like you’re supposed to.