Author: Olivia

Just a rant, but I absolutely hate when companies ask you to volunteer outside of working hours, especially in non profit. Why would I want to be under paid in my 9-5 then turn around and work for free?

I'm a male in the United States and I'm really done working. I just want to get on government assistance and just sit on my ass, smoking weed and eating pizza all day. I'm obese and diabetic but where I live those don't count as disabilities or I'd try to get that. I know people live entirely off of government assistance, I just don't know where or how to start.

i know that some law and working conditions are totally absurd. and i understand completely why some people want to quit their jobs, but is there like some sort of alternative in order to have a source of income?

Out of nowhere this morning I was pulled into a meeting and given a termination letter, and told that I needed to submit a request in writing to get the reason why. I have not been talked to recently about any issues. The last issue they brought up to me was about office hours last year, and I improved and was told I was doing well at my annual review. When I pressed for a reason I got something vague about being a disruption in the office. I did get a patronizing talking to about conversing with my cubicle mate for “too long” the other day, but nothing formal. At will state, so could be anything. And I thought this was a good company compared to most. Fuck.

Posted in Health Insurance as well. Hello everyone! I am leaving my job, my last day of work was today and I was trying to use my FSA benefits so I would not lose them. My purchase was declined, and I was told my employment had been terminated as of 6/1 despite the fact that I’ve been working. I called my benefits coordinator and she said because 5/30 was my last pay period, benefits can’t continue past then (as far as FSA goes). This seems not right to me but I wanted to see if maybe I’m just completely wrong here. I’ve always known it to be that FSA expires on the last day employed.

Knowing that work is rigged, how do you get motivation to work? Apparently most people have a reaction of “I need to make money, so I'm going to work more”. But to me it feels more like “I need to make money, so I'm not going to”. Because the 'need' is SO I work more. If I worked more, that would be just doing what they want. How do you push past that and find work anyway? I'm finding it really difficult to react to money in the normal way, like get motivated instead of just completely put off by the whole thing. Is there anyone who relates to this and found a way around it so they could find a job?

I’m hourly so supposed to log all hours worked. However, my job is task based and sometimes I’m still not done at the end of a 12-14 hour shift. Last night I was still not finished at 9pm. We can technically only work the hours of 7am-9pm. But I’ve been taking a nap and working again at midnight for a few hours or so off the clock. There is no time stamps unless I send an email. But I’m wondering “how” illegal this is. Like just potential to lose my current job or like a criminal conviction where it could impact future jobs?