Author: Olivia

Had a meeting with my boss last week where she described the ways she wants to continue to evolve our team’s “perception” across the business. She doesn’t see us as the internal IT department, we’re the “Customer Service Solutions” department. We were told: Our office door needs to be kept open so people can feel free to walk right in with problems. Apparently it's our fault for not hearing when people knock lightly on the door. Doorbell wasn't an accepted alternative. We need to help with anything people ask at any time, even if someone lost their name badge (which we don’t provide in the first place) or doesn’t know where the cafeteria is. The business has enough covid precautions, we don't need to be afraid of people coming into our room, remoting into someone’s computer shouldn’t be our primary method for working with our “customers” (coworkers), etc etc. She’s…

So, I’m about to graduate with my master’s in health administration in a couple months. I have 5 years of relevant experience, and I applied for an “administrative specialist” position at a top university/research institute in the country for a specialized surgery unit. The job required at least a bachelor’s degree with experience, and it described high-level administration responsibilities. Perfect, exactly what I’m looking for. I went through three rounds of interviews, all of which required me to take time off work at my current full-time job, and all of which were intense behavioral-based interviews but luckily were conducted on phone/Zoom. The interviewers could only give me vague descriptions of what they thought the job would be, but I assumed that was normal since it was such a “catch-all” type of job. I get invited to a final interview, which is in-person and over an hour away from me. I…

So applied for a job and got an email back asking me to answer some questions about myself. One of them was asking if I could “please” confirm what my current annual base salary is? So question to you lovely people, how would you answer this? Should you even answer it? I'm getting the feeling like they're trying to get out of paying what they actually can, but I'm not sure.

I know that I probably shouldn't care but after committing myself to my company and working my ass off for 10 years for my bosses. I feel insulted that they just forgot about my 10 year work anniversary. It wasn't until the next day did I actually say something through our internal online messenger and had one boss reply with “Thanks for your commitment and being a part of the team. We appreciate all that you've done.” Which I appreciated but all my family and friends seem baffled not only at the fact that my bosses actually forgot but that I didn't get any kind of reward for all my years of service. My brother in law got a gold watch for his 10 year anniversary, my sister got a paid vacation, my mom got a 3 month paid sabbatical, my mother in law got a huge bonus and a…

Moreso a rant than anything, but I'm exhausted. They cut our hours in the new year “because there are no hours to give”. People aren't buying clothes and things, which makes sense—milk is five fucking dollars now. But how are people supposed to survive? A close friend and coworker of mine can barely pay rent right now. Another coworker hasn't worked in nine weeks, going on ten. For me, personally, I feel like I'm dying. The shifts are getting longer but my wage only went up .65 cents just in time for 15/hour to no longer be liveable. Luckily, I'm still at home so I don't have to worry about that aspect too much…but my mom is super worried about me. It kind of makes me sad, because outside of work, life is pretty alright right now! But even that is being affected by my sleep and stress level for…

whenever I read some hourly wages in this sub, i wonder if this is before or after taxes, and if before, how much is deducted? (asking bc I'm from Austria and things around here are different in many ways) TIA

Hi everyone. Where I work at is a somewhat well-known retail store which is short-staffed, and since I'm still working there I'll be vague on some details. Since they are short-staffed, I have been working by myself as a cashier in a kiosk for 7 hours straight, with the last hour working with a coworker. I have only been able take breaks maybe at 5 minutes at a time, twice a day if I'm lucky. I go to the bathroom to scarf down my food during my “breaks.” I leave a note at the kiosk that says I'll be back in 5 minutes. I don't like leaving the kiosk alone for too long as the customers start to complain. If I get too many complaints the company starts to threaten me with punishment. Anyways, I'm close to calling it quits. It is hell working this job with Graves disease. The…