Author: Olivia

They want me to have an online meeting with a company to find out something. I tell them that I had the meeting and give them a made up summary based on a 5 Minute Internet search. Why? Because I need this job and because there should be 2 people doing this stuff an not me alone. Just 10 days ago they asked me to find an appartment for someone from abroad that was hired spontaneously. They wanted like 5 different appartments to choose from. I searched for a very cheap one – then included 4 expensive ones I picked out randomly and told them that the cheapest one is the best – and as expected form greedy Business owners that cant raise wages by even 50 cents – but pay themselves Millions in bonuses – they picked the cheapest one. If you give people more work than they can…

This is after working 6 day a week day shifts, and they give us one day to swap to nights. I'm here bc i'm exhausted. we're paid the equivalent of like $15/hr with 5 sick days, and if you call out someone has to come in to cover you, so it's not guilt-free. I have 1 day off to recover, and I basically work every day of the week because I get off at 7am saturday morning and I come back at 7pm sunday night. I have another week of this. They call 2 day weekends “golden weekends” – no, those are just regular ass weekends. Resident doctors can't advocate for themselves for fear of backlash from program administration and the hospital, which can impede your ability to graduate or get a good recommendation for a future job. They mostly make between 50-70k/year depending on cost of living, and student…

For only the second time in my 30 years on this planet, I have quit my job. I was managing the busiest (and employers flagship) ski/bike rental store and one other smaller location in the resort town where I reside. During peak season I oversaw these two locations with upwards of 27 staff. I don’t really feel like getting into a big long backstory as there was just so much buildup to get to this point. Micromanagement, mental health issues being blatantly ignored, illegitimate disciplinary write-ups, daily power trips and the list goes on. The nail in the coffin for me was having what I perceived (and so did every other store manager I asked) as a completely reasonable vacation request denied. Then promptly being berated (on two separate occasions) by my direct superior for “having the audacity” to ask for the time off. I had to cancel my last…

I’m drunk and just speaking off the top of my head but I remember a year ago this sub was on the news and creating a lot whole movement that just kinda stalled out. Me personally, With all the nurses, teachers, railroad workers, striking I thought this shit would start to snowball. Idk if this sounds too facismy but I swear I think someone in the next 20 years is gonna unit the workers and have another general strike like what they did in the 1800s. This shits getting ridiculous.

How do I go about reporting managers not giving 10 minute breaks? My general manager would tell me not to take my break and tell me he was going to punch in the break for me. The job I worked at does this with many employees and has been hiring people under the table and not treating the workers right. How do I go about reporting breaks I never went on?

Asking for advice and opinions, but some ranting is sure to occur. Thank you in advance for taking the time to help me! Okay, I’m pissed. I’m trying to get back into the work force (I was living off of “university income” – grants/loans – because I desperately needed a break from everything tbh, and I lost the aid bc of some time frame rule they don’t tell students about, so typical uni bs + my previous advisor told me I had 7 years to complete and it’s been less than 5 so I’m going to appeal so I can finish my MS, but be warned: the university and the university’s financial aid may have different rules 🤬) a bit earlier than planned, and because I didn’t have work experience listed for the last 6 months, they emailed me this: “…Your registration did not provide enough information for us to…

I’ve been in retail for the better part of a decade with the same company. Started off as just a box boy, climbed through the ranks and gained the confidence of the board to where I was appointed intermittent manager until they went through the formal process of selecting a new General Manager. I knew everything the corporation had going on, what projects we’re currently working on and what we have planned for the upcoming years. Knew my tasks and completed them to the best of my ability and even had the difficult responsibilities laid upon my shoulders as a General Manager. All the contacts and contracts we have current business with but no… I guess the board decided to go with someone who has a degree in community development…. Guess it doesn’t matter what experience you have as long as you have a totally irrelevant degree… Fuck the system.

In my old job when my boss promised me a raise after I worked for about a year I talked to him about it and he said to me I had to show that I enjoyed working There You’re kidding right? For context I was a dishwasher and it was a hard job I was working full time hours despite me being in college It was very hard for me I feel like my boss disrespected me