Author: Olivia

Why do jobs feel it’s okay to overschedule teens during the summer? I’ve seen many of my friends complaining about working nonstop over the summer and did not know how bad it was. I have a job in food and am about to be on 8 straight days. Do they think because we don’t have school we don’t have the right to some free time. This is a general question, not a “what should I do” type scenario. Had anyone else on here experienced this? I cant wait until leave this place and am out of school entirely (I’m freshly 17 for extra context)

I saved that and printed it about five different ways. I work with this real piece of work salesperson who will just say the gnarliest shit out of left field. She is super conservative (observant Mormon exclusively educated by LDS) and has very stringent ideas of what people should be that I think are rooted in that. She also ironically feels entitled to ignore all rules of my pretty strict industry. I had to enforce a required rule and she decided I was the enemy. At some point, she fired off an e-mail that I should be fired and replaced with a woman, with strong, sexist implications that a woman would be easier for her to control (she is no direct authority over me, it’s more different departments.) She starts acting out again today, complaining that one of my co-workers is on PTO (until she found out it was because…

I mentioned to my boss how much I LOVE seeing my coworkers sit around when there's work to do. He asked me if I thought about nudging them to work. I said no since im not being paid to be their boss. He tries to pull the “that attitude doesn't really work around here”. I spent the last 3 yrs of my life going above & beyond. Only for me to now be making base pay, had a brand new person be handed the spot I was working for, watch the new kids be allowed to basically do wtf ever without getting talked to, and other more identifying BS. After I said I'd spent the last 3 yrs busting my ass, he says the title. Like fuck allllllll the way off at this point. I'm literally in a worse position now than when I started. Either I'm one of your…

I’m a therapist transitioning from one clinic to another (pay raise) and my last day of my two-week notice was Thursday. The next day, I received a call from the office manager (not my boss). He informed me that he needed progress reports to send to the case workers…I don’t want to leave things unfinished or burn bridges, but isn’t it their responsibility to have informed me prior to my last day? There was no protocol for reports or I would have followed it. Should I complete the reports?!

Today was shocking. Things have been tense at work because we all came together and complained to our union rep about our supervisor being micromanaging and invasive when it comes to asking for time off especially for medical appts. On top of that she sent a super invasive micromanaging email asking everyone to detail what we do in the first hour of the day since she’s not there at the office. So now the supervisor is in hot water for all this crap. Today, my friend coworkers and I were having lunch in the only office space available, the conference room. Never ever did our supervisor bother sitting with us for lunch until today. My coworkers and I were having a conversation and then the supervisor casually gets inside the lunch room and sits down trying to join the conversation. This is just another level of micromanaging? Now we can’t…

Seriously, it's been about 3 months since I quit my last job (please read my post history if you're curious) and I still haven't been paid for the work I did. I thought I was following all the steps I could to retrieve my paycheck from them and honestly, I am exhausted and my mental health is going down the drain. I filed a wage claim with the state, I contacted the IRS (again due to the reasons for me quitting) and they wouldn't do anything unless the wage claim was settled by the state. Which I also didn't know before contacting the IRS that they would only be able to recover minimum wage ($7.25 for my state) from the hours I worked if the wage claim didn't give me back everything. I have also hounded the wage claim office and they told me these things take months, usually longer…

I work at a grocery store and I was getting great hours until around a month-two months ago. I have some health issues and was feeling like my work/home life balance was out of whack, so I dropped my availability by a whopping 8 hours per week. I only did this after months of consideration and the hiring of 2 more people in my role, as we’d only had myself and one other until then. Almost immediately I was being scheduled for 15-20 hours a week. I then went on a planned trip for a few days and came back to my whole front end team having doubled. After that, anyone who’d worked prior to the hiring surge started seeing their hours dropping while new hires got full time. That first wave of hires in April is now seeing their hours drop with the current wave of new hires. I…

I work in an open concept office. Coworkers walk past my desk every five minutes. I have a mirror to see them coming, but they can see my screen before I can see them. My manager has one of those angled screen blockers, but it's because he handles money, and I highly doubt they'd let me get one. I tried using rss feeds via Outlook for Reddit, but they have now blocked Reddit for me… I made an appeal to IT under the guise of wanting Reddit to help my job (I'm a librarian, so I said I want access to book news subs). Are there any good Reddit mirror sites? What are some ways I can entertain myself at a desk everyone can see?