Author: Olivia

I have been working auto parts retail jobs for the past few years. Was just a easy job and was good at it, never satisfied with pay but whatever. After peak COVID I got fired from a place I put my everything into, absolutely crushing my spirit and becoming jaded from the experience. A couple days after I stumbled into another auto parts store, with the manager hiring me on the spot. When I tell you he was a cool dude, I mean I've never met a manager like him in my life. Could shoot the shit, left everyone alone to do their job, was hardly at work so no pressure, always took care of his people when it came to corporate, that kinda guy. About a week ago or so he got fired out of the blue, he always told us the district manager had it out for him…

Hello, I've been a long time lurker of this sub, especially as I've used methods and tips described here to better my job prospects. I come now since this situation has not happened to me before and I am unsure how to proceed. I put in a one-week notice to my job since I accepted a higher paying one. My soon-to-be ex-manager takes me aside and starts to pester,annoy and push me into still working at this job. This job needs people to cover overnight, which I applied for, but I won't have to do that at the new location. She really thinks I want to work a 9-5 take a 2 hour break and then come back to work. What really pushed me over to the 'burn bridge' mode was the fact that there wasn't even a mention of a pay increase, especially since I mentioned that it is…

At what point in this movement are people going to honestly start discussing and agreeing on a day or week where we all decide to sacrifice a little bit to show how large this movement is and how serious we are that systemic change is necessary? Are we all going to wait forever and let the golden opportunity we have now before people get used to things again and all devolve back into apathy and complacence? The time for talking is nearing an end. I think the vast majority of us can probably agree that wages are stagnate, health care is too expensive, and politicians are bought and paid for by corporations (Looking at you Citizen's United). Let's pick and day, or preferably, a week, to put the elite on notice that we are sick and tired of the disrespect and lack of action. I propose Monday, May 2nd. This…

I started work as a stablehand nearly 4 weeks ago now. I was promised 5 shifts a week from 3:45 to 9 or 9:30, but in reality I was getting 3-4 shifts a week finishing at 8, sometimes 8:30. Beyond that, the manager was constantly telling everyone but her besties how slow they were and how lackluster of a job they were doing, even staff that had been there for years and moved really efficiently. The straw that broke the camel's back was when 6 horses came into the washbay at once, overcrowding it when there is only 2 staff. This was a direct result of poor organisation from her and the trainer, but we got yelled at and blamed for the system slowing down. Not long after, she berated me for not washing a horse's skin condition hard enough because she thought it was dirt, and told me to…

Was recommended to post this here from r/AmITheAsshole because they thought you might like this story so if you guys don’t think it’s appropriate I’m fine if it gets removed. So I came into a problem today and want to take it to the general public of work place issues and see if I am the asshole for the way I acted. I was hired at my job back in June of last year. I was told as a driver, if I skipped my lunch I could be off at 330. Once I got hired on they would sometime make me take my lunch, but other times after I worked 8 hours straight without lunch they would send me out on last minute deliveries that made me work overtime. We have a backup driver who works later than I do. These were deliveries that customers would call in 2 hours…

I have a elderly coworker who I like as long as we don’t talk about the current day struggles because I was told “Money isn’t everything, at least I have my health” Well I asked her “& do you have the money?” “Well..yeah” ALRIGHTY THEN! No room to speak! I get that older people worked for their money but these current times are NOT like it was back then!! It’s just not!! Between rent, gas, food, regular bills? It’s ridiculous!!! And the wages? You have to FIGHT AND FIGHT for more to simply LIVE. She then today is going on about medicare and how it really doesn’t help but just a few days ago told me how America is still the best out of everywhere she has traveled (which is a lot) I forever wish that if I ever get the money myself, I NEVER forget the struggle I came…

Why do employers expect you to care about their business anymore than what's on your job description. If you aren't entitled to any of the profits beyond what they pay you, why would you take on any more stress or liability then giving them your time? This is a given expectation when you join a company, is there a way we can fight back on this? For example, If a co-worker calls out, and your boss calls you to drop everything and fill in for said co-worker…it is not your problem they didn't accommodate for the likelihood of both of the employees being unavailable… That is the risk of doing business, and somehow employers want employees to mitigate this risk by giving up their day off. The US does not use flex companies, and I think it needs to be more common where employees who can't come in for work,…