Author: Olivia

I work for a company in a Caribbean country where Easter is “Semana Santa”, and although it is not within the labor law. It is a tradition to give “Holy Thursday” as a day off starting at noon. But the COO decided that the few staff that we have to come to the office full time needlessly had to come, completely ignoring the fact that most of us had plans. And the worst thing about it is that we don't even have any projects or work to finish. We just had to come in and look at each other's faces because we are not even allowed to talk to each other without them starting the obsessive micro-management. The truth is I don't even understand how capitalism works because they literally lose money by coming in and having the office fully operational without us even producing. It's like doing evil just…

​ I'm patiently waiting for someone to ask why our social media is stagnant Spotify is also blocked so I'm just listening to music videos from YouTube in the background

I spent 3 months doing interviews for a top ten. My hiring class was promised that if we stayed, we could make our career there. That from the first day, the company has never does layoffs and that we’re offered multiple opportunities before being fired to take trainings and make improvements to turn our path around. My first year, I got a nice raise and then my second year it was amazing. The kind of raise that I had never received anything close to in previous jobs . My third year I got close to nothing and three months later I was laid off with one day notice (along with most of my particular office). I’m really struggling with this after working so hard to secure the position and putting my all into it. Even worse, we were told the layoffs were completely randomized and nobody could take anybody’s place…

Living in California and temp agencies seem so popular. Especially the ones that focus on hospitality, like when a hotel or event needs more servers or universities, etc. Some pay ok, like $20+ but always at the risk of being sabotaged in a way. They somehow seem to be always getting away with not paying overtime. I joined this agency because they had a lot of catering work and coworkers told me while it's W-2, they never seem to pay overtime but it's OK because they get work. Ugh agency claimed that I was late 30 mins, which I was not and they gave me a warning and haven't given me any work lol. So yeah what's up with those?

I'm a college student, pretty sheltered, and have been fairly privileged in my life (which is its own problem that I'm working on solving). Anyway, most of the people I know are fine. Happy with their lives, not consumed by jobs, and okay financially. In other words, they're middle class. But online (mostly just on here), it seems like people are very unhappy. It makes me very sad and I feel like a majority of people are unhappy and in an impossible situation. I'm not pro big corporations and agree that there's a ton of corruption and problems, but it seems like on average, we're okay and life is fine. Am I just blinded by privilege?