Author: Olivia

Title. Me and dude have similar experience but mine is more relevant for our job, we started at the same time, he was new to the company I have been there a year, and he regularly calls out “sick” or shows up drunk/hungover. We are a team of 18 split (unevenly) depending on our specialties. I can’t say much about the job/company because I don’t want to lose it until I find another. I’m trying to switch depts or ok with leaving for the right pay of course. But for the time being I really want to see if I can make this job livable for a bit longer. Any advice is appreciated.

Long post. TL/DR quitting my job because of corporate fuckery and piss poor management. I currently work for a well known multinational auto glass replacement company as a glass technician. The job has really gone downhill, especially during the past 2 years or so. I was initially hired to be a full time Tues-Sat schedule, with Sundays and Mondays off, with the promise that I could switch to Mon-Fri with the occasional Sat once my child started going to school. It worked great at the time because we were saving quite a bit of money by only needing daycare for 4 days a week instead of 5. The store manager (henceforth known as SM) was strictly management. They did not do any of the actual installing. Normally, that would be fine, because they would handle answering the phones and deal with the customers so that we could keep out in…

How do you reply to someone that says comparing today’s wages of the past is like comparing apples and oranges. Here are the 4 main arguments I see but am not sure how to respond: 1. Comparing COL today with earlier in the 20th century is cherry picking benefits and downsides since life expectancy was much lower in the recent past. 2. If people live in smaller cities/towns as they did 50/70 years ago then cost of living is lower. 3. The wages of the 50’s-70’s in the US were inflated relative to the world since we did not have the damage to infrastructure that other countries did so we had a relative increase in wealth and ability that has since been more evenly distributed across the world. 4. Population is much higher in the US so obviously things would be more expensive than they were when there was less…

I never thought it'd come to this, but I'm asking for help on the internet. Hear me out, please. I'm interviewing for a job tomorrow and I want to continue being a stay-at-home Dad. I'm currently building a business and I fear that I will lose all hope and desire to continue this with having to return to work. August will make one year since I left my job in pursuit of this dream. I honestly fear that the despair I get at a mundane 9-5 will crush me into giving up on everything I've worked so hard to build and achieve so far. My wife has been begging for work, but cannot find anything, remote or otherwise. She's been a stay at home Mom for three years now and wants to make money. She had a college degrees, as well and would like to use it, if possible. We…

I declined a one-way interview for a management role. I wrote back to the recruiter stating that I prefer to speak with the hiring manager about the role so I can ask questions. The recruiter said that if I do well, then I get to move on to an interview with the head of HR… I have been a hiring manager. My hiring philosophy, if you really want a candidate, you freaking roll out the red carpet and hire the person. They walked… I feel accomplished for not bowing down to some impersonal system. Has anyone else gone through this, what are your thoughts?

Hey everyone, I currently hate the job I'm at and am looking for a new job. I am a great employee/lead and my manager loves having me on. I do like my manager quite a bit, but I don't enjoy my work or coworkers anymore. I also am not allowed to work from home and I feel underpaid. Should I tell my manager I'm looking for another job in the hopes of getting a raise or any extra leverage? Thank you!:

Hi everyone! ​ I had a bit of a pickle on a post about a sensitive subject: a woman getting confessed by her boss. To be honest I absolutely didn't see the problem with such situation as he confessed, got rejected, and took the rejection. I understood people saying “be careful” or similar but tons of people were really creeped out by the situation, calling that sexual harrassment, saying to change job and take a lawyer, reporting to HR and else. I asked about and lots of people were quite rude and abrasive on the subject. Some were kind enough to take the time to discuss calmly and I finally understood the problem. ​ Guess what? The problem wasn't me, it wasn't them, it was just a cultural thing. I'm French and believe me when I say asking an employee out when you're a manager or a boss is 100%…

It's an app on my phone and I need to use it to clock in and out everyday. It tracks who's late and can be used to apply for leave or whatnot. I tried using GPS spoofing (non root) on my Android phone, but the app instantly detected it. Now I plan to leave a secondary phone at work, and AirDroid in from my primary phone to clock in, in case I'm late. It also doesn't mind that I have my GPS turned off when I'm not using it. Does anybody have a better idea?