Author: Olivia

Currently working a job that I dislike greatly. Coworkers are racist and very political while I sit at my desk in silence/feeling uncomfortable 🙂 I have been looking at jobs for a couple months. Gone through many phases of either applying to everything I can or the downing periods of applying to a couple a week. It seems most job postings out there are scams. Most “opportunities” in my area are showing pay starting at $15… Not ideal at all as I would like to at least make the cost of living. Does anyone have a luck with a specific website or tactic to find a job that doesn’t have scummy factors? I have just moved my remaining savings into my checking account to make ends meet. Not that I need to defend myself but I don’t spend my money recklessly enough to be struggling this much. It’s almost like…

Yep. The past month or so has been getting increasingly more awful here, a place where you both live at and work for. One of my coworker friends got a gun last night, and before someone came out to help us with talk therapy today, corperate started throwing us a pizza party before 11am. Our friend died. This morning they already got the humane society to sieze his pets & have been getting his property removed off the lot. It hasn't even been 16 hours yet.

Here's a set of laws that should exist because it's common sense and would help nearly everyone. This is U.S. specific, because that's where I live. These aren't meant to be set in stone, each one is just an example of a strategy that I think could be effective. A lot of the details would have to be discussed and tweaked prior to implementation. Which is a funny thing to say about some hypothetical “laws” that I'm making up for internet theory-crafting. Any living space (house, apartment, condo) that has nobody living inside of it for longer than three months, triggers a 10% Hoarding Fee each month it remains unoccupied. This helps keep housing costs reasonable and prevents a lot of exploitative bullshit. Wealth greater than 100 million dollars is taxed at 100%. Providing HUGE funding increase to the government, which could be used for All welfare systems are abolished…

The CSUEU is fighting for student worker rights as well as many others. If you are a CSU student at any campus, please sign this petition in solidarity as every student is a potential student worker. The CSU has increasingly leaned on its student populations as a supplemental workforce, and will assuredly increase in use during a strike period. Petition for better conditions and help avoid a strike! Even if you do not intend to work for the CSU, these issues do and will only further impact your educational pursuits.

I (26F) never had a “dream job” or any career I was interested in enough to get a degree for. I have an associates degree in general studies from a community college. The only thing that truly held my interest was psychology (most of my electives in college were psychology/sociology classes), but it didn’t seem like I’d make any money unless I had my own practice and that wasn’t something I was interested in doing. During college, I worked as a personal aid for a disabled client. After, I worked for a couple health insurance call centers. I currently work from home as a radiology scheduler (also a call center). My current job is the best paying job I’ve ever had, especially for a call center, but I’ve honestly /hated/ every job I’ve had. I can’t seem to get out of health/call center work because I have no clue what…

I could have sworn there was a law regarding this… something like 30mins for every 8 hours? When I Google it however I get this: “The FLSA does not require meal or break periods”

Two years of working and they won't approve of my leave request. I asked them a few weeks in advance but they said I have to inform 3 months in advance. I'm at my breaking point. I wanted to visit my family in another country. The company doesn't pay me enough to afford anything but flight tickets to another country (and only after saving for a long time), and they won't approve of my leave. They don't even give a good enough reason, they just don't want to encourage leaves that are planned quickly (three weeks in advance is not enough apparently). I think this is it for me. The thought of quitting has already made me feel kind of at peace.

I'm a receptionist. I like my job, but I get bored. My only task is to sit at my desk everyday and greet people/answer their questions. I think roughly 5 people come everyday. What can I do to kill time? I'm reading a book on my PC, but I get tired of reading for hours straight. What else can I do? I don't want anyone to notice that I'm “not working”, so I don't want to draw or listen to music, for example. I want suggestions of things I can do with only my browser (I can't install anything on the PC).

I applied to what looked like my dream, part-time position in February. This was with a crown corporation (government owned but operates like a private business with corporate partners) so it was able to offer me amazing pay and great health benefits. It's hours also were great, which I was so excited for because throughout my job search, I had difficult finding jobs that were actually part-time. I am in my Masters and need a little extra space to do school stuff. I didn't hear back from them until around mid March. This isn't unheard of and I was still looking for jobs so I was happy to get a response. Over the next 2 months, I went through THREE interviews. One of them was in person and 1.5 hours long. They all went really, really well. The in-person interview went so well that the man who would be my…