Author: Olivia

As the title says, I don't actually work infact I'm bored out of my wits. Not saying this to show off but given my background, I'd say i've come a long long long way. Started off in a call centre taking 30-40 calls a day. To present day where I plan the work I need to do and complete it within 2 hours. I'm in Europe. Got given a pay rise after a year of being with company which equals to extra €117 ($127) extra per month. I get 60 days holiday. I work permanently from home 4 days a week as the company has decided to do a permanent 4 day work week. My dream was to work in America, perhaps even live there. But based off the what this sub has shown, I won't be ever setting foot there, maybe for a holiday but not to live.

I just finished college and am gearing up to start my career this fall. But in the mean time, I grabbed a full-time position at a grocery store for the summer, with the potential of staying on weekends or even just one day a week once my actual career starts up. I was transparent about this at the interview and the store manager, assistant manager, and even most of the department managers are fair and not trying to work the staff into the dirt which is awesome. But it's the coworkers who have been working at the store for 15 years and are in the same position as me, or “team leaders” who are one step above normal staff. They are the ones making my job miserable with micromanaging. While working Backstock on a slow day I paused in the warehouse for a moment debating if I should take my…

I worked at a car dealership for just over 2 years and had a lot of fun with my coworkers and met many great customers. Built up a large, repeat customer base very quick as well for a newbie Environment can be very volatile, though. Never know if it will be a good day or bad day. After 5 weeks of being targeted by a manager more than the other sales people, and recently getting beckoned like a dog (whistling and “come here boys”) and having him make a joke about shooting your dog, enough was enough Wow will I miss my friends I made there. Didn’t think goodbyes at a workplace could be so tough

Months of applying for low wage positions at fast food and gas stations that are urgently hiring and they won't even call me based on… What, my age? My name? How is anyone supposed to survive in this hellscape. My bank is at -300 and my debt keeps climbing. I don't know when I'll be even again Edit: applying not interviewing. I've only had one interview and they just sent me an email saying they closed the position.

So I worked in subway for about two weeks as I desperate for a job, I thought it was okay the pay isn’t great…but there was so many red flags showing up. If bread went stale it would come out of wages, dropped something out of the wage etc we wasn’t allowed to be ill we had to go in, they would use under 18s to do trial shifts and just say they don’t want them (we didn’t need anymore staff). They underpaid one of my work mates because she couldn’t make one shift due to traffic they took two weeks worth of pay off her wage. They don’t pay overtime and they only let us 15 minutes break for 8 hour shifts.

I currently work for Allied Universal in Jacksonville. Gods, I know. Was a mistake. But they were the only ones willing to hire me at the stage of life I was in. I've been with the company for two and a half years now. However, a few events have begun to pop up that makes me think that AUS is shutting down, or at least is shutting down operations in my area. We've lost security contracts to local, and dare I say more competent, security companies. Half of our vehicle fleet is gone. Even the fleet service company we had dropped us cause our credit went into the toilet. Now my boss is doing a very illegal thing by getting rentals and going around, putting them in guard names instead of in the name of the company. I don't know what I should be doing? Should I try to leave…

I don’t feel comfortable taking on the financial burden of renting a new apartment, because my job is so boring I can barely stay awake to do it. It’s weird because my job is “safe” and “stable”, but renting would eat like 50%+ of my post tax income and it just doesn’t feel safe to rely on a job I absolutely hate when I’m not even able to save money. It’s like I’m working this uber boring job, just earning enough to pay to keep working this boring AF job. I’m not actually getting anywhere with it, i’m so bored and disengaged I can’t muster enough to try for a promotion or anything. There’s like a 0% chance i can find something else that pays as well, with my BA in english i feel stuck because I’m earning a subsistence salary and it’s so fucking boring I’m like emotionally and…

In short my workplace offered a monetary incentive for achieving targets that they would tack onto your monthly salary. We work with customers, so any target achieved already depends on how the client feels on a given day. The target is relatively hard, if you are just short of reaching the incentive target you're entered into a raffle of X amount of money against the rest of the company so you're still “possibly getting something”. The actual incentive money is a good chunk for a pretty low salary. They really didn't expect people to perform this well within the first month of it being introduced, because they are now scrambling to find technicalities for why certain people don't actually qualify for the money. It's yet to be seen if and how many will have it taken away but feels rotten af.

So I'm sitting here next to my SVP brother for a fin tech banking SaaS firm, on his headset in a meeting. Family together after Holiday. They are talking about a payroll company for which they consult, and he just informs then that he's “supposed to discourage them talking about wages” then says there I've done that, and shuts up. That means it's either in the policy manual or in the customer's contact. That's CLEARLY NRLB violation on the former, or torturous interference with contractual obligations (like legal compliance to the government) on the latter. All employers are fuckers.