Author: Olivia

He was working for an unemployment office in Ohio while in his 20s. He processed unemployment claims. He made $50 a week doing that. While processing claims, he realized unemployment paid $45 a week. He intentionally started making tons of mistakes and was let go. He walked in the next week and started collecting unemployment. Said he’d rather get $45 a week for doing nothing than $50 a week for 40 hours work. (In those several weeks, he wrote his earliest comedy routines.)

Walk into my first day of training as a clinic RN, supposed to be a colonoscopy nurse. That is what I applied for and was hired for. Boss calls me into her office and informs me that they have an urgent opening in their drug addiction clinic and ask if I would be interested. I say I was willing to shadow and train for a week with the nurse in drug addiction to see if it was a good fit for me. 4 days into training I find that the job is a lot more work, at multiple sites, and that my responsibilities will be expanding significantly due to this program growing. Long story short I find out how much they are paying the nurse who is leaving and why she is leaving. Turns out she loves the place and job but just found a better paying job(she has her…

I was told that they fought to get me the 1.5% as other employees got nothing, and I had the feeling they thought I should be grateful. That doesn't even cover inflation. I almost refused it since I found it more insulting than anything.. give me nothing or something reasonable but that was like a slap in the face. I just accepted a role for $43,000 more than I earn. When I get the paperwork and I resign I'm sure they'll be surprised. I can't imagine why.. if you pay your employees terribly of course they'll leave. I just can't understand how companies can operate this way and think it's okay.

My husband is a doctor. He’s a good husband and an amazing doctor but he is awful as a boss and is rude to his staff. I’m a nurse myself and I would rather die than work for him full time. His office manager is amazing. She has so much experience and have been patient enough to deal with his attitude for years. Yet he refuses to raise her pay even though I’ve explained to him time and time again that he could lose her if he didn’t. He’s been stressed out at work due to the challenges healthcare is dealing with right now and has been even more rude. When I call him out on it, he gets defensive. I saw her cry last week after he yelled at her over something very stupid and decided to encourage her to leave and find a better job. I asked her…