Author: Olivia

So for some context I work in retail. We had a few people the other day come to help my department set things up for back to school. One of the people helping us usually works in the online orders department. They're helping me out, put things on shelves and they asks me ” so how do brakes work over here?” I thought it was obvious we take our lunch and two 15 minute breaks for an 8 hour shift. I told them that we take all our breaks over here whenever we need to take our breaks. That question in itself concerned me so I asked them ” How do breaks work over in your department?” They proceed to tell me that in their department they usually don't take breaks and if they do they take one 15 minute break. I was in complete shock. I told them that…

So ever since return to office last year I have been bringing in lunch to work to save money and eat healthier than pre-covid. One of my issues before for not bringing food is some days I would forget to take it in the morning. So now I put in my calendar and forcefully remember to take food certain days and usually take 2-3 days worth of lunch and leave it in the fridge overnight. I have been doing this for the last 14 months with 0 issues. Today when I went to get my lunch my bag was missing. It was an ordinary plain white bag but had 2 containers of food inside. I’m inclined to to believe someone took it accidentally but it bothers me that I don’t know if it was an accident or intentional. I thought may be the cleaners threw it out but there was…

So we need a person who can do sales and has experience in that. But we can't hire a new person, because of the budget limits and etc. So I was asked by my manager to choose one of the existing workers, that are doing some other job in a different department – to fire em, in order to hire a new person. Not sure how to act or react

Somebody on the weekend shift messed up by blindly scanning something in instead of reading the label for how to process it and asking a question so now us on the weekday shift have to take extra time to do our job. Please please please ask questions if you're unsure so you don't end up fucking your fellow coworkers down the line.

We can’t get new people in because we offer $11.50 an hour to start. We have a skeleton crew and the only people applying/interviewing are doing so for unemployment benefits/job hopping (don’t blame em.) We are all suffering because we are short staffed. I only work three days a week because I do contract work on the weekends and I’m still burnt out from busting my ass to get the store in shape since a lot of the workers we DO have know they won’t get fired and slack off. Is there a way to approach my managers as a regular ole cashier and propose ideas to get raises for the old crew and raise starting pay for the new hires without overstepping boundaries? TIA!

All of this started in 2010, when I ran away from Jeff's house as fast as I could while my partner Marion stayed in touch with her Life Alert operator. As I was running away, something strange happened: I was able to read the license plate number of the car that was leaving. What a stroke of luck, right? When I got home, I quickly saw that the problem was getting worse. The police radio channel was being used to talk about my car, and before I knew it, a cop car was outside. In a panic, I snuck out of the car through the back window, holding a shoebox and a fake phone. I had to hide in a trash can because the area was so crowded with cops. There, I found Ed Galbraith's business card in my shoebox, and I made sure to remember the key line. Fate…

So the place I work at did a lunch-and-learn. Basically got a speaker to come during lunch to talk about a specific topic. This person talked about how to be better during conversations. I didn’t think it would be helpful, so I didn’t attend. As it wasn’t a requirement. Now they sent a survey out about the meeting and even want people who didn’t attend to put why they didn’t. I didn’t go because I didn’t want to and ran an errand during that lunch break. Those surveys are supposed to be “anonymous”, but let’s be real, they know. So what should I put as my answer?

I’ll try to keep this brief. The owners of my current workplace at a small franchise fired the GM (and, just to be clear, they had no good reason to fire her, but I digress). They said they’d promote me, the assistant manager of the store, to the position. A month later, nothing has come of it. I’ve frequently been the only person in charge there, as the owners have been in and out. Usually, the owners are just there for a few hours in the morning till I get there, then they bolt. I’m still being paid like an assistant, of course, even though I’m often the only person in charge there running the store while I’m there. I’ve asked them a couple times what their plans are with me, and they keep giving me wishy-washy half-assed answers about “eventually.” Today, I find out that in August, they plan…