Author: Olivia

This post is one part unloading; one part question I’m employed with one of the worlds most popular proprietary electronics retailers. “Technical support” for lack of a more personally identifiable term for my role. While it was originally appealing because of the starting wage, the benefits package, and the fact that opportunities like this are few and far between in my city…my enthusiasm has worn off over the short six month period I’ve been with the company. I, as well as the people on my team tend to have to deal with some of the most unreasonable, emotionally taxing customer interactions you can imagine. Entitled, annoying, etc. The demands of management also tend to be much to say the least; troubleshoot issues, build personal connection, sell extended warranties, and look for opportunity to sell product…within a fifteen minute time span. You are expected to be interacting with two or more…

Peaceful protests and bringing horrific working conditions and wrongdoings of corporations to the public has gotten the people no where. People it is time to ACT with a detrimental blow to the higher ups.

Last week my company sent me out with a couple of other guys, to a little island to do some improvements. First few days went smoothly, but on the third day we ran into trouble with the conditions and plans need to change in order to continue. Im not the person who decides how many millions of dollars more need to be spent to fix the situation. But I was stuck on an island in a little cabin away from my family for an extra few days waiting for the ferry ride home. Is it fair for me to expect to be compensated for those days I wasn’t working but was stuck on the island? Also, the project was on behalf of the town, so I was being paid a lot more in prevailing wage then my normal wages. How would you log your hours for compensation if it was…

I am a logger and in the last year I finally found an opportunity to run logging machinery in the woods which was a huge step for me. My father has loaded trucks basically his whole life and because I made poor decisions in life I never really took the opportunity to learn to run machine from him when I was younger and now that I'm in my late 30s I finally have and it's been great for me and my family. Getting to run machine has been much easier on my body, however the longer hours makes it much more stressful. A lot of days I didn't even feel like doing anything after 10 or 11 hours and just wanted to bitch about work and then go to bed. My dad has done this job his whole life, at one point working 6 or 7 days a week, 10+…