Author: Olivia

I finished my PhD just in time for the 2008 recession to hit. I managed to land a postdoctoral fellowship, then once that was over started looking for jobs in my field; at this point it was 2011. The next town over from where I went to school had a biotech company start up that grew rapidly, and has done well. I sent so many resumes and applied to so many jobs with their company, never even got a call back let alone an interview. That was my experience with almost every biotech company I had applied to. I moved on with my life and got a job in a completely different field while, maintaining a consulting side hustle in my field.   After about 10 years of being underpaid in full-time shitty jobs to maintain health insurance, and continuing the side hustle, I landed a job with amazing benefits,…

Like it says. Every week forced ot and everyday forced all breaks off the clock. Am I crazy or are employers just expecting too much? I have a doctors orders saying I need a break for my messed up knee. I'm overthinking it right?

This might sound a bit like a conspiracy theory, but I have beating my head against a wall trying to find this out. So, last year when I was having some issues with a difficult boss, I bought a small audio recording device to start recording all of our conversations. Long story short, the company laid off a massive headcount and I lost my job. This was the best day ever! I hated that place. I was going over my recordings and I got to the one where I caught my manager really gaslighting me. The conversation started on a teams call. For some reason, she acted like she couldn't hear my audio, but there were actually no issues (I test my audio regularly, especially where this bitch was concerned), so we switch our conversation to our work phones (iPhones). All of a sudden, the entire audio is completely inaudible…

Hi all, As a European in this forum I'm amazed at the level of abuse our American friends have to go through. It's therefore with great joy that I have read about a Florida based lawyer that is sticking up for the little man and specifically and deliberately attempts to take big companies to the cleaners for you! He's very picky about his cases so no guarantee on help, but his posts on LinkedIn have a lot of entertainment value and might provide some much needed mental support. Good luck all! https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-pollard-9761333

I jumped for joy by the way. It was an okay job that was kind of close to my house at the time but really horrible owners and really horrible asshole coworkers. I treat people how I would want to be treated but coworkers and owners were horrible to me. Owners were two faced. Could be nice one day and asshole next day. Had enough and I quit. Anyways, I did not include them on my resume because obviously left on bad terms and worked there only 9 months. It was an okay job until owners hired new asshole coworker. I digress. My question is… Should I include them now on my resume and tell a lie that I worked there for 2 years or longer ? Not sure to include or still not include because of the things such as LinkedIn, Indeed and various other resources online. Don't want…

My job technically has a dress code that requires black jeans but I was explicitly told by my manager on my first day that blue jeans are ok. I’ve been working at my job for about a month and have been wearing blue jeans with no issue. Today apparently corporate execs are coming in the afternoon so my manager asked me to go home to change into black jeans. This commute there and back will take around 2 hours total. I’m currently sitting on the train home and am realizing that I forgot to clock out. How problematic is this? Should I say something?

I started working for a company 3 months ago. I quit my last sales job because I hated selling and it was draining me mentally. I started looking into account management as a lot of those skills translate over. Well I interviewed for this company and I was adamant I did not want to sell into existing or new accounts and they were completely cool with that since they have a very strong customer base and have phased out traditional sales. I got the job and my role consists of creating work orders, visiting customers for pickups/drop offs, addressing issues, answering calls, etc. Now the Senior Account Manager (who has been here 6 years and is paid much more than me) and myself are tasked with a “July challenge” in which we each take 3 accounts and do what we can to sell other services and grow the accounts (while…

I just left a job to move to a new city. I received my paystub for my last check which I will receive on Friday and noticed it was just over 12 hours short from the actual amount that I worked. I spoke with them and they told me my check is short because of sick time and vacation that I had previously been allowed to use that I had not actually accrued. They let me borrow against my sick and PTO and are now docking that from my last check. I believe this is only happening because I gave 11 days notice instead of 14 and they were mad about it. Is it even legal for them to do that?