Author: Olivia

I work for a franchised tax business that owns multiple spas throughout the east coast. Recently, I brought up health insurance to my coworkers and found out that no one is offered a plan despite their 40+ hour work schedule. My conversation about how everyone deserve rights, even the right to healthcare stirred up some curiosity and one of my coworkers did some digging with their accountant and found out that our employer is fishing over $2,000 per head to the IRS instead of offering health insurance. Is there anything that we can do to at least fight for their right to obtain healthcare? I recently quit my position but I would like to advocate for them if I can.

The title is exactly what happened. I was interviewed, and in the interview process I explained how I’m a full time student. I explain to them what medical track I’m on, and when I’ll graduate undergraduate, and I told them that my course load is heavy. I ask them how this will work out since I’m a full time student, and the hiring manager says they’re flexible. They tell me they’re flexible with scheduling and that they have many college students, and they mention nothing about working 40 hours or this being full time, so I think everything’s good, if I potentially get hired. Weeks go by and I thought I didn’t go get hired, but I was told by the recruiter that there was another process of getting references, and I do that. 2 days after that I’m sent an offer letter, and a pre-employment date where I make…

When r/antiwork first popped on my feed I was severely turned off by the radicalism but over the last year or two I have had a shift in views and feel like I did harm by advocating for a more moderate approach. There was a good episode of “Behind the Bastards” that addressed the movement and really opened my eyes to the method hidden in the madness.

Long story short, I am annoyed by just existing. I am stuck in this weird point of my life where I want to do more in my career, but cannot because I have debt I need to take care of first and I need full-time job in order to survive. Right now, I work as a paralegal in smaller law firm studying for bar exam (have an LL.M. degree here in the U.S. – an Immigrant in the US). It is really hard for me to realize that I have to start working from scratch to prove myself. My long wish is to go to a great law school and become a civil right attorney or work as a judge, but cannot go to law school to do a full-time JD because I cannot afford it due to high tuition and need to take care of my family. I just…

My team and I have all given up on asking for help resolving issue items. So there are issue items that have been sitting around, some are new and some are years old. Today, my manager sent a message to the whole team. If we don't correct the issues soon, they will have to have the other managers find dedicated time to support us. I don't even know how to respond.

It makes me so mad. His exams are extremely stressful and time consuming. He doesn’t get any free time, literally. He finishes work, eats something and studies until it’s time to sleep every single day. I can tell it depresses him. Furthermore, his exams are such that it’s fairly normal to fail one or two however, failing is devastating nonetheless simply because of the sheer amount of effort and time that goes into it. It sucks that employees are treated like this. All that effort and it’s not showing up on paper. He might as well be back in his graduate role. He has to work so hard just to have the same purchasing power he had back when he was making £10k less.

Rant incoming, sorry in advance. I'm a tech worker that got laid off back in April. Been struggling to find work since. I've had plenty of interviews at this point, I feel like I have it down to a science, but the part that's bothered me the most took place today. Due to the lack of work and UI getting close to drying up, I dropped an application to work at the gas station chain down the block to have a job to hold me over till I find my next position. Since then, I have interviewed with a Store Manager, had another interview with a District Manager, and they're scheduling a third interview with two other managers. When did a retail gig at a gas station become a 3+ interview process? It happens in my field of work, and I kind of ignored it, thinking it had something to…