Author: Olivia

I had multiple projects lined up, for what would have been the best year of my career, essentially putting me on the map after years of dedication. I have as much to lose in this fight as almost anyone could. But I’m ready to strike until the bitter end. This is an opportunity for the working class to stand up to the greedy bloodsuckers at the top. This may just be about actors and writers now, but this is an issue effecting ALL workers. We will need the support of all the fans of the television and film we create to beat them. It’s not just about “not having your favorite show come back”, a sentiment I’ve read a lot of. Its about not being taken advantage of by greedy capitalists. It’s about being able to make a living. It’s about pride in a society that respects creators, artists, and…

I work at a mid-sized tech company not in the US. Every two weeks there is an all-company meeting which starts an hour earlier then my normal hours (which are flexible and I chose what's more comfortable for me). And they tell everything the departments accomplished in two weeks, how many more users and money (in percentage) the company has and what are the plans. But I don't give a d! It's all white noise to me. All I care about is them paying me on time. I do my job properly and that's it. I don't have a share in this company and have to fight with them for a raise. They even cut all the budgets like education, transportation etc. Lucky us they still have the health insurance. Am I a bad worker or something? Do I need to care about their statistics?

I m20 started a new job to earn some pocket money at the beginning of this year. At the beginning it was ok since the company expanded in my area and there wasn’t much to do. It was a company delivering meds to people and I went by bike. They didn’t give me a bicycle as their ad for the job stated neither did we really have a hub to stay in. Instead we had to use our own bikes and often waited outside while not delivering stuff. We were like 4 people at shifts which was fine. But then they fired a lot of people, cut our shifts and just made people doing shifts alone. They often did this on evening shifts which were more crowded while also expanding the area we delivered by a ridiculous amount of time. So one day I had to work alone for the…

I work for the government in the social service field. There’s 4 other supervisors, three of whom are amazing. One however, is a Fuc*king shit. Our team is so underpaid for their work and following federal procedures can be a tad confusing for a lot of our staff. Our main job as supervisors is to dumb down the process/ policies, manage the workload, audit the work, and distribute the work as evenly as possible. The lord decided to test my patience this week, leaving me alone with the one shitty supervisor & 40 case managers. It’s Thursday, and the last three days, she’s done absolutely nothing but sit in her office , unresponsive to emails and calls. Looks like I’m stuck with her alone next week as well. I just put in emergency paid leave. It annoys me to hell, that you work as a supervisor, but you do absolutely…

i left my position in a local comm hosp about 5 years ago. We were the very small outpatient surgical dept called endoscopy – basically if a hollow organ needed to be 'telescoped' they were sent to our dept. We were all registered nurses educated/trained in advanced sedation, a few techs & 1 RN manager all overseen by a Gastroenterologist doc with a rotating group of surgeons/pulmologists requesting & using blocks of time. The issues we had with this dept were as follows: one surgeon didnt follow protocol by NOT doing a complete colonoscopy and not spending enuf time searching for Ca ( protocol mandated that the scope reach/touch the cecum and take 6+ minutes to exit the colon- this surgeon complied with neither). Another newish surgeon was horrible at scoping – she just couldnt negotiate the scope adequately around all the curves of the colon and often took 3…

I read a lot of threads on here that say to file for unemployment but what does that actually mean? In the UK you get next to nothing as employment benefit. Is this one social security net that the US has right? I never see anyone type “but unemployment benefits won’t pay the bills”

Hi All, hoping for some genuine advice/ opinions on something that’s happening currently. I’ll try to give some context. I’ve (m27) been struggling in life atm, family members getting ill and needing care etc. A friend I know through sport got talking with me about work and he mentioned he might be able to help me get a better paying job if I sent a CV his way. My current job doesn’t pay particularly well but I work with nice people and I’m good at it (it involves analytics and data handling) I updated my CV and sent it over and a few days later my Nan died, we had her funeral and then a few days after that my Grandad passed away too. I got an email from someone that same day (Friday evening) who had been put in contact with me by said friend above asking to meet…