Author: Olivia

Please offer me any advice you have. I just feel miserable and alone. (TL;DR at the bottom) I (18M) am currently “no show”ing work (a small retail store), because my anxiety is so bad. I did the same on Thursday because I had a full on meltdown (I am autistic) about going to work. It’s a wonder they didn’t already fire me, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they do after today. I know it’s bad, but I’m too anxious, overwhelmed, etc. right now to do anything about it. I feel like such a failure. I have quit three “easy” retail/fast food jobs in the last year and a half, each within 3 weeks of starting. I got this job like 2 weeks ago… I can go the first few shifts, then something seems to break in me and I dread going back or physically can’t. I live in a…

My girlfriend works at Walgreens. It’s in Texas and she makes 16 an hour which is a decent wage for her. But she’s having so many issues there with managers. First off something that can’t be fixed is they keep cutting her hours when they get mad at her. Then there’s some other weird things. For one her manager, jerry, straight up yells and screams at her when he gets mad. One time she asked him a question and he went up to another girl and said “can you help her I don’t speak brown”. He’s white and she’s middle eastern. Then there’s another thing where they’re giving her “homework” and then not allowing her to do it on the clock and forcing her to do it at home? Then there’s little things where they’ll make a mistake and when a manager or corporate will ask what happened they use…

I'm forced to live in this society where my self worth has to be tied to a job. I've worked here for 5 years, and went from crew member, to shift leader. I worked hard and cosplayed as a working individual. I genuinely enjoyed my coworkers and my customers and took pride in the job. I've done nothing but express to hr and the higher ups that I love my job, but the toxic and illegal happenings via my manager were making me and the coworkers miserable. After months of saying they would speak to the manager, they sat me down and said “looking at your conversations with HR, the VP and the district manager, it seems that you don't like working here, so we're going to go ahead and just separate right now” They gave me the week of pay that I worked, and paid out 38 hours of…