Author: Olivia

Hi guys, I have been working in this store for around 9 months and this work place has been very toxic. There was 3 manager changes since i’ve started working here and employees who either doesn’t do their job or do nothing at all which leaves around 3-4 employees actually working. I got tired of working somewhere everyone talks about everyone and not getting enough hours so I decided to find another store closer to my house because I was traveling an hour to get to my job. This location is 20 minutes away from my house which is amazing so I went in today to meet the manager since I have to wait two weeks to be officially transferred. The manager I met today asked me if there was any problem at my job and how do I deal with problems which I know both managers have to talk…

As the title says, my job has screwed over a lot of people. The time clocks were busted for a while, they legit weren't actually taking time punches for a good bit of people. I have gotten into the habit of writing my times down because of this issue. Unfortunately, not everyone got the memo. A lady in my department is cut down by $600, another guy didn't get paid at all. Just to give a range of how much was lost. Everyone is angry, as we should be. Unfortunately, our boss made it seem it was US who messed up our own time? Basically said, “oh yeah, I know the clocks mess up SOMETIMES, but we also forget to make our punches too!” As if two of the clocks weren't completely down for two weeks because they weren't taking anyone's time at all. Here's where it gets worse: we…

It’s a real shame what’s happening now to Wrigley Field employees. There’s discrimination towards people with a disability, by the management office. It’s so sad. Someone I work with has epilepsy and our boss Sharon (who does the schedules) bullied him for having a seizure at work. He tried to report her for it to upper management and instead of it being handled by her boss, Meaghan, Sharon had Nick the security boss say he saw my coworker stealing from old women’s bags in the break room!! Just to get him off the schedule! That’s not right at all. I’m so infuriated for him. He’s such a nice guy. This is not the friendly confines anymore.

Long story short: UK tech companies went crazy. Just yesterday I had this encounter. I was interviewing for 2nd line IT Support role which required a degree in IT, at least 1 year of work experience and had a nerve to offer a minimum wage. Same day had a call from random agency offering me a Warehouse picker role. No need to finish high school, “we get you up to speed in 3-5 days”, will give you 10% over minimum wage. ​ Don't get me wrong, both salaries sucks, but an IT job is something of another level. I have just graduated recently and I do understand time is ticking and as the time goes it will be more difficult to secure higher paying role due to gaps between my work as IT Technician, degree and now a gap where I'm searching for work. I did tell the guy this…

Hello! I’ve been at my current job for just over 6 months, after working in the same industry at a different location for almost a decade. The role I had was, until the time I left, my dream job. This new role focuses on a specific area of my industry that I previously only got to dabble in. The first month and a half were fine. And then…it imploded. I won’t (and can’t, because legal reasons) divulge ALL of what happened but it was enough that HR got involved and it is now considered an “investigation” into my complaints. Everything with my boss devolved into a sh*t show. My mental health tanked. Here is where things are tricky/confusing. I just had my 6 months evaluation and it was surprisingly not bad. In fact, I got ratings much better than I thought she’d give me, because she’s been so anti-me since…

So I’ve been at this job for 2 years. When I got hired I got told there would be 8 people in my position, the most we have had was briefly 5, usually just 4. The boss regularly tells us we don’t do much and we can be easily replaced. I’m the first to transfer out, but 2 more are in the process to follow me. The place is screwed, but the boss can’t admit it and just hides in her office. The boss hasn’t said a word to me since my transfers been approved and doesn’t care or wanna know any of the reasons we are all leaving. The best part is our system changed about a year ago and none of the higher ups were trained on it, so when we leave it will be chaos. 2 more days and I’m free. Just so happy and needed to…

Boss gives me a promotion and promises me a 40k raise. Strings me along for 7 months, with every month saying we don't have the budget yet. I work my ass off bringing in the majority of new business and clients that otherwise wouldn't have been brought in. In the meantime a high level employee is hired who makes approximately 160k. A month later, the team receives an email that the company is broke and I'm the first to be laid off. Foresight? Forecasting? Don't think so

I'm a social worker and I just transitioned to a nonprofit. It's boring, but it paid ok. Then, the grant ended and I moved to a new project. I was pretty excited, because an email had gone out to all staff announcing a 3% raise across the board. But literally the next day I got an email from HR asking me to sign a “change of status form” accepting 9% pay cut. This was surprising, especially considering I'd been (verbally) assured upon hiring that they had budgeted to keep my current rate for 2 years. I added 2 supervisors to the email, no one advocated for me. I asked if this means I will not be getting a raise, even from a 9% cut to a 6% cut. I was told I could have one more month of employment at my current rate, or I could accept the cut. Period.…

What’s genuinely sickening to me is the fact that at 40 hrs a week in 1990 with 3.80/hr you could pay your rent and have some left over. It was very tight but possible. We’ve seen a 280.7% increase in rent price but only a 90.7% increase in federal minimum wage. Not to mention the fact that the inflation rate is higher today meaning that shit is costing more even faster. If the entire working class (the ones who make this country actually run) joined together and destroyed the gears of the system, it could work. I truly believe all we need to win is a passion-filled voice of unification. They do not pull the ropes or even understand how the wheels roll, but the working class does.