Author: Olivia

What he means by team work – is you willingly training your cheaper replacement as they absolutely will lay you off the first chance they get. Better to never ever be on a team. It benefits only the CEO. Plus no one wants to go to work and have to associate with senior managements personality disorders.

Hello everyone, I work as a development officer at the Roman Catholic church. I research and apply for grants, develop and communicate giving and planned giving strategies, coordinate between different parishes. I am responsible for 33 in total. I also manage the donor data base and write newsletter and letters on behalf of the archbishop for prompt giving for collections. I have surpassed my goals and put in work much more than anyone else in my office. My boss has not liked me from the start because he doesn’t like the fact that I asked for more money after a year of good reviews by my “acting “ boss in my regular bosses absence. He spends most of his time travelling, at dinner or lunch gatherings, or some other way of avoiding work, so he tends to dump the financial administrations work on me. I told him that it is…

I'm getting an extra $0.17 per hour. I'll be fucking rolling in it soon, woohoo.

So, I live in Portugal, where unions are commonplace. Less than three months ago I started a new job I'm intending to keep for at least a couple of years, so I immediately joined the union. Yesterday I had my first plenary in the union. I am one of the union's youngest members, if not the youngest and I'm more versed in Marx and Engels and communist theory than most of them, since I've been class conscious since the age of 14 or so and it's been the main focus of my life. People in the union have high hopes for me, even after I spent most of the plenary roasting them for my perceived obsolescence of their methods. They asked me for solutions. They are open to change their ways. So I'm here today to ask for historical references and books that I can read to understand what actually…

I became very sick with Covid last summer. When I asked my job how they wanted to handle it, they said to stay home and test for a week. A few days later I had my pcr confirmation and that day they packed up my desk and sent a separate letter that I was fired (received box of belongings days before the letter). I texted my boss if she fired me for Covid and she wouldn’t answer the question. They sent the box and letter on one of the days they told me to stay home and a day I was to quarantine by what the dept of health told me to do. Now this matter is being investigated by a state agency. They confirmed that Covid (at that time) was a temporary disability in the eyes of the state. And my employer was asked continuously why I was fired.…