Author: Olivia

A few days ago, the SCOTUS gave a middle finger to all college loan borrowers. My expectations were low so I anticipated the forgiveness program to be shot down, but waking up every day and remembering it actually happened is soul crushing. Then the existential crisis pop in and eventually one has to wonder what they realistically expect us to do to pay it back. I have had the same wage for almost 3 years. Meanwhile, what I pay in rent has increased significantly. Even in income-based housing, rent is over half my monthly earnings. I've been trying to save money but of course, regular expenses and the occasional unexpected event set me back; I never got past $2,500 in savings. I literally can't pay back my loans. I can't go out and seek greener pastures. This was my greener pastures. Moving expenses will only set me back even more,…

Title says it all, really. His reason when I asked? “It’s just not working out” and refused to elaborate. What, after almost two years of me working with nothing but praise from clients, I’m not up to par? From what I know, nobody knew, but a colleague reckons I’m being replaced by a family friend of the boss. I’m going to try to arrange a meeting with him and my manager (who honestly has no clue why it happened) to get some more info. I’m upset, but honestly did want to leave. I get to not work my notice period, which is nice, but I still feel something is up. I’m not sure how to feel as this was a shitty thing to do, he did it as soon as he came in and didn’t even ask how my holiday was! I’ve always known he’s a dick, but didn’t really…

I’m actually a hard worker and I love going into a place if I know what my role is and how I can contribute. I hate how so many jobs have this level of confusion and uncertainty. And then they make it worse by having lacklustre training and hoping you just wing it and pick it all up.

Common theme in this subreddit. Just don’t answer if contacted on your day off.

She started shaking and was like, “But we just can't not have you there…” I felt SO guilty, but I stayed firm. I'm a supervisor for a restaurant and catering business, and I dropped out of classes because I kept skipping evening classes for catering events. I signed up for the fall semester because I needed to get my life back on track, and I knew my supervisor would react like this because she's so anxious about how understaffed we are. I feel so bad, but I stayed firm. I gave her a month's notice and even said I'd pick up Fridays and help pre-set everything for the catering crew before I leave for classes, so I was really accommodating.

My husband was fired from his job in January of 2021 after 10+ years, because we got Covid and he was down for the count for like a month. 2 weeks ago, out of the blue, one of the higher ups sent him a text, asking him to reach out because she hadn't talked to him in a year. Yesterday I found his old job being advertised for $5 more than what he was making when he was fired (this is the 3rd time since he was fired Ive seen it advertised). My husband was a construction manager. He took the job at 19, so he wasn't aware of the real value his work and position had. When he was fired, he was making $17/hr. It's been a year and a half and they're realizing they can't get anyone else to do that job for less than 30. I told…

Hi folks! I've been with my org for a few years now. They've had some missteps, but for the most part are decent. They recently put out a revised conflict of interest policy requiring “staff act in accordance with duty of loyalty to the organization”. I'm sorry, LOYALTY? Loyalty is to be earned, not enforced, and orgs should be loyal to their staff and not the other way around. Tomorrow there's a meeting where they will be presenting this to us to sign. Any thoughts on how to respond in a way that I both keep my job, and get this changed for other folks?

“Hi OP, I didn't realize that your vacation request was all unpaid time off. Goal reduction is given for PTO but if you are taking time outside that there will not be a reduction. Also, I don't want to get into situations where people are taking time off solely to get a reduction to their goal. If you want to take unpaid time please fill out this leave of absence form and Joanie and I will review it. Thank you!” ​ As clarification, we had a 1:1 and discussed that the request was put in for unpaid time off but to fill as many hours as possible with what was in my bank at time of approval for that check. I requested 54 hours off in total but had about 19 PTO in my bank. We had to cancel our vacation but was considering keeping the time off anyway.. just…

Other post got taken down, just going to copy-paste what the review I posted mentions to save you all the time of a full story. Honestly ridiculous that managers can still get away with this. “While Silent H offers good food and a nice atmosphere, I would strongly suggest dining elsewhere for the reasons below. Unfortunately, management has taken it upon themselves to make the lives of their employees miserable. When dining out, you would expect your tips to be distributed among those who are working hard to make your experience great. However, management has taken it upon themselves that their salary is simply not enough, giving themselves a healthy share of the tip pool! In addition, many support employees (in black and white) are making as little as $30 a week in tips, while many servers have an inflated percentage of tip out to compensate for the management’s share!…

To keep this short, my fiancée was not feeling good a night she was scheduled to work because she is pregnant and she is going through more than just “Morning sickness”. The manager then told her she needed to pick up a shift and come into work to get the hours she missed and scheduled her without asking on a day she normally doesn’t work. Something just seems off about a pregnant woman not feeling good and can’t come into work, furthermore telling her she needs to come in to pick up another shift to re-gain her hours. Looking for your thoughts and what you would think about the situation.