Author: Olivia

I work a full-time hourly job at a bike shop. Our state says that any work over 10 hours per day, or 40 hours per week should be paid time and a half as overtime. Usually, I work 4 10 hour shifts (Weds-Sat) in that period and stay below the threshold. Last week before payday, I worked an extra day on Sunday to cover for a coworker going out of town, so I bumped myself up to about 48 hours for my work week. I traded him for a Thursday the following week instead. The issue is that my company seems to be slicing the “work week” as being from Sunday-Saturday, instead of Monday-Sunday like a normal person. They consider my extra Sunday as part of the “next week” and therefore not eligible for overtime pay. I will not go into OT this coming week because of the Thursday off.…

Long story short I recently was hired by a company I left, due to moving, for a remote and part-time role after the company reached back out to me. Here’s the problem, the offer letter states that I am a part-time employee and benefits will not be extended. Cool. But then they made me sign an independent contractor contract to get the position. Nowhere in the offer letter I signed did it state I would be an independent contractor. This has resulted in a significant gap in compensation between what I was expecting to be paid and what I am actually being paid. Further, the company apparently only has 1-month overhead which I found out from a employee and wasn’t told before I was hired. I top of that, they are taking me with stuff that is outside of my job description, but put in the offer I can’t work…

I am yelling this into the ether that is the internet. I don't care what industry you work in, the customer is not always right. They rarely are. If they were, they would do the job themselves. I work as a graphic designer and I can't stand when non-designers try to tell me how to do my job. My manager embraces the “customer is always right” mantra and I die inside a little bit every time she says it. I was working on a project where the client wants us to use lime green text on white background. I pointed out that would be hard to read for the vision impaired. My manager says, “but the customer is always right.” The agency who came up with the branding did not show a single example of using lime green text on white background. It was always on a black background…but here…

My partner has a WFH job. The pay is decent but not incredible. I make significantly more. My partner requested a raise based on their multiple outstanding performance reports. Raise was denied. However, the company told them that they would now be doubling the case load. Effectively rewarding my partner's hard work with more work. Partner is currently off on stress leave. The amount of work and conflicting direction/ lack of direction they are experiencing has begun to affect them physiologically. Anyway, sorry for being so vague. We figure we can still make ends meet if my spouse takes a lower paying job. Their well-being is worth more than the salary they were giving her. First interview for a new job is this afternoon. Send your best!

I work in food 5 days a week 8 hours a day and excepting occasionally after an open I'll have some energy. But my work has now taken all my energy. I have developed permanent damage from achilles tendonitis in my left leg which was also previously injured bc of working. One could argue work is ruining my life. On my off days I need to rest because another work week and a previous strenuous work week, and on closing shifts even if I wake up at like 730 and think about doing stuff before work it sounds utterly impossible. If I do occasionally have some energy to try and do something before work I'll need a nap and feel exhausted before work even starts. If it's after I need to be in bed before 10 or I am cranky af So basically all I do is relax some basic…

Hi, hope you're having a great Friday! Going straight to the point with a little context, my company provides employees with compensation for sport. I know for sure that they can compensate gym, sport equipment and as I asked they can compensate massage. I'm not really into gym nor do I want to buy bike, roller-skates etc I figured I'd rather buy health&fitness tracker and a pair of sneakers. But I'm afraid to ask if I can, and I would like to prepare for it. How would you ask professionally so they're more likely to say yes? How to present these goods so they fit precisely into sport compensation? Feel free to share your experience about sport compensation, let's have a discussion I'm really interested in what sport compensation looks like in different companies. xx

Hi, i just wanted to vent some frustration. I work and a werehouse with beauty products and so on. I have weeks with barely anything to do but at the end of the month, like today, i must do days of work in one. It is a phisical job -picking- amd the women at the office just keep making me hurry as soon as i just start to work at a regular speed. Like a human being and not crazy superfast robot. Somebody experiments something similar?

Couple months ago I was working for a manufacturing facility in the IT Department as a System Administrator. I was on a 6 month contract to hire. The job description was a mix between tier 3/4 support and working on upgrading the infrastructure of all the facilities. I have 10 years working in IT in production environments like that as I was a Site Admin for a salt mine. So I am more than qualified for this position. So I start this place and find it is in absolute shambles IT wise. If you know anything about IT you would know that for a company that has 3 locations total there is no need to have 30 different servers. All of them 10 years old which is WAY outdated. The IT manager and CIO there come from the finance world and have no clue what they are doing when it…