Author: Olivia

Long story short, I'm on a 20 hour a week contract and I get 80 hour of holiday a year. My shifts sometimes get changed because I'm basically the person they slot in where they need me however for the last six months my pattern has been pretty rigid; I do 4 hours Thursday/Friday and 6 hours Saturday/Sunday. I'm going to a music festival from the 28th to the 31st of this month (which is a Friday through to Monday) and so at the end of last month I booked some holidays. Because my shifts have been pretty rigid naturally I only booked off the days that I would work which is the Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I didn't book the Thursday because I honestly wouldn't mind working it and I didn't book the Monday because I haven't worked on a Monday in months anyway. I just checked my shift…

EEOC just received the position statement from my employer. “Before we provide the Position Statement and attachments to you, the EEOC investigator reviews the documents to ensure they do not contain protected and/or confidential information. We ask you to be patient as we receive many requests for Position Statements and it may take several weeks to review and release the Position Statement and attachments related to your charge” Can it really take “several weeks”to review and release? Who typically write the position statement? HR director or the company lawyer? Is it true most position statements use very vague and broad terms (and very short)?

My fiance has worked for a franchisee of one of the nations largest hair salon chains for over ten years. DL still remains employed by hair salon corporate as far as I know. After working there for so long and having a twenty something man appointed as her manager, despite wanting the position for a long time, and then attempting to quit a few months ago, and being told that, in there words “she could not quit”, the DL told the store manager that she wears her clothes too tight, and needs to do her hair and makeup. This is the same place where the pay is 11/hr and tips are taken out of hourly pay over a certain threshold. How is she supposed to afford a whole new set of clothes, make up, and supplies for her hair? Fiance is overweight, but has worn the same style for YEARS.…

Sooooooo… This one is a bit old, but I thought you might enjoy reading about it, especially with all the noise about remote work opening the door to “Near Shoring” positions. I used to work for a shipping company based in the US. It's a smaller/mid-size company that owns a couple of vessels and ships mainly from FL and NJ. Turns out that circa 2010, and mainly as a result of the 2008 crisis, their employees decided to unionize. They started to move all admin positions to Latin America, opening their “Hub” in a very specific Central American country. So, every time someone asked for a raise or took too much PTO, their job would be moved to Latin America, paying 1/4 of what these people were making in the US. Turns out (and I've seen this a lot), US companies seem to believe the entire world is the US,…

Got a call saying im fired from HR saying it was due to poor attendance (Ive only called out 2 times in the 3 months being there) and not for the actual reason of it being genuinely slow at work with legitimately nothing to do. I realized i wasn’t going to be the only one since 4 peoples numbers got removed from the group-chat, so i let them all know to be on their toes on their days off and not to do a damn thing while they’re there. So i signed up my managers number and other info i had to the scientology website:) small win for me, life time lose for them:)

I’m relatively new to the corporate world and I lucked into a good situation at a good company. I’m happy, I come from a background in government which is whole other subject so I might just be numb. I’ve noticed this obsession with scalability and I’ve realized this is a focus of basically every single company. Most of things we do to create a more scalable business make the customers and labor unhappy. This leads to losses which hurt management as well but nobody seems to bat an eye because they’re creating a product that is scalable. I’ve honestly started to wonder if this theory isn’t the source of everyone’s problems.

Basically what the title says, my work doesn’t really give us breaks, depending on when you work you’re the only person scheduled and you can’t leave the desk. They got reported to L&I I guess so now my boss is going to “fix the schedule” which sounds like everyone’s just going to work 3 hour shifts so they don’t have to give breaks. I don’t even know what to say

I just resigned from a job where my supervisor caused so much drama… the head honcho of the office privately asked me to send him an email about all that happened from my perspective and here it is. Feel free to use some of this wording if it applies to your situation. I'm really freakin proud of myself for standing up for myself and knowing my worth. I found a better job within 2 weeks and although I wish I didn't have to work at all, I'm grateful I chose this path. Hi ____ I want to start by saying that I'm not writing this email to submit any type of complaint, but rather at your request to outline my experiences and ultimately why I am leaving my role as ____ at _____.  The whole time I worked here there has been on and off tension and conflict in our department.…