Author: Olivia

I just about had a fight with my sister over the first bit of the title about offering to work for free. And it's been a reoccurring theme from others i have come across regarding the other comments of selling yourself short just to get a job. I know my sister means well and i get where she is coming from in terms of doing WHATEVER it takes to get a job so you can pay the bills, as no job at all means no income, but my beliefs, my criminal justice background, my ideals of fairness and a better society for all SCREAM AT ME that supporting that kind of ideal/attitude is just wrong. I live out in Northern Utah in a rural area where there are more people looking for work than good paying jobs. This means we have families in the area all pooling money together from…

Is this something that just happens? To me paying $25 and not even seeing a doctor seems like robbery at that point. (Sorry if this is the wrong sub for this, but r/medicine didn’t allow me to post this.)

So I was fired from my job that I have been at for 6 months. Was hell ever since I got there. No communication, no real training process. Actually my first time being fired! Mixed feeling part of me is glad it is over! I quickly talked to an employee in the department as I was leaving. She basically agreed with what I had said!

I have worked at a veterinary hospital for over 2 years, started as a CSR and worked my way up to Director of Client Services. I was used during this time, to essentially fire the practice manager. I was called into meeting to address some complaints about her, and was really used as leverage to push her out. Then some of her tasks were divided up and given to me. I was working diligently, but becoming increasingly burnt out. I was also feeling really weird about being used. In addition to the new tasks, there came the insanity of the practice owner. I saw this man pay more attention to a downed tree branch than someone sending the wrong insulin home. He talks in circles, he can't make a decision. He'll write you crazy notes about he wants everything changed, you'll change it and he spirals about how its not…

(Long post, I’m sorry) My employer forces me to work in conditions that I did not agree with upon hiring. I’m a social worker of sorts. They force me to do unpaid work from home, work in excessive heat without air conditioning and do not have any breaks (work 7 hours a day, but I live in Michigan so it is not mandated). I have to lead groups of up to six individuals who cannot be left out of my sight. Each of these individuals have between 1-3 pages of paperwork. My employer expects me to be able to focus on my clients and complete up to 13 pages of paperwork. Usually with the activities I take my clients to do, it is extremely difficult to complete the paperwork while simultaneously focusing on what they’re doing. When I try to complete my paperwork during my shift, my employer accuses me…

I am mostly just ranting, because I am not sure if I can even go anywhere legally with this. I have a hypersomnia issue. I have had it since I was a young child (since at least first grade. My mother was actually called because I went from being fully awake to completely passed out and my teachers though I had epilepsy at the time). I have never been able to find the answers, and I highly suspect that it's narcolepsy, but it's been hard to find a doctor willing to work with me on that until recently. I have gone through so many tests and diagnoses only for the treated health issue not be the root cause of why it happens. This isn't just me being a little sleepy or falling asleep when exhausted. I can go from being awake to the part of the sleep cycle that is…

Wife's company wrote her up because she had to call in sick with a back injury. She brought them a doctors note and they couldn't care less, just saying “you went over your available sick time so that's a write-up” When did so many organizations lose all compassion?