Author: Olivia

It feels like an employer’s halfhearted contingency plan to pay you as little as possible without making you quit. Thanks for this useless gift card, but I’d have felt more appreciated if I was given a raise greater than 1.4% for my annual appraisal when inflation went up 6.8% and we had multiple meetings talking about how we profited during the pandemic.

I worked at a restaurant that was on a very busy “bar” street. The owner was this sweet old woman, but she ended up giving the whole place to POS alcoholic son. He was such an aggressive, angry, creepy person(40+ years old and would constantly hit on the 18-19 year olds.) He got this very pretty just turned 18 year old to go out drinking with him. He got her extremely drunk, kicked her out of his place, smashed her phone, and refused to take her home or call her a ride. She ended up in a bad wreck and literally ruined her life. (Just to give y'all a little picture of who he is) Once a year they had a festival and every employee was forced to work from open(8am) to close (anywhere from 1am-3am). This was the busiest day of the year. The rules were absolutely no breaks.…