Author: Olivia

My company consolidated buildings during Covid and my role is a hybrid role. I’ve gone into the office a few times, but spent the whole day on virtual meetings. I no longer have an assigned office or desk and I don’t know where people may be sitting on a given day so the idea of face to face, spontaneous water cooler conversations is a total joke. I work longer days when I work from home. Management is unwilling to set expectations about what days we should come in, so it’s a cluster. Management hasn’t defined core hours either, so that doesn’t help. Curious to see how it’s going for others.

I don't have the math at the moment, I did the calculation in college and I no longer remember the skills to do it. But think about it: Money is taxed every time it changes hands, so when you give welfare after about 100times changing hands, 99.97 (3 sigma) is returned to the government in taxes. The conclusion is that welfare doesn't actually cost anything. ​ What I recall about the math is that it was a summation with a recurrence relation. I could write a program that reaches the same conclusion but I never used the advanced math enough to remember how to do it.

Hey guys! I’m just here for a bit of advice. I have a job interview tomorrow for a retail company that I am very keen about. I have a job in grocery retail that I have mentioned to the managers already. I’m just not 100% sure what would be a good way to organise/discuss availability when my hours are all over the place at my current job. Am I better of telling one that I can work Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday night and the other the rest of the week? Are there any better ways? Would love to hear from someone who’s been in a similar situation. Thanks!

Fuck it, the worst that'll happen is nothing. It's a grocery store, I figure if Starbucks can do it in a few places then it's worth a try. I'm preemptively looking into a lawyer just in case of retaliation, but truly I don't have much to lose at this point. We're painfully understaffed, we're all burnt out and exhausted and openly fed up with their shit. The only reason I haven't quit is that it pays the best in my area. Here's hoping.

I work in a sales job. If sales goals are not met, we are put on discipline. One way my coworkers avoid discipline is by buying the products under the name of family members, neighbors, etc. I do not agree with this and refuse to do it but it has become a common practice in the office. Recently another salesperson who has been struggling with selling certain products has been asked by our direct managers to purchase these products in their partners name. I have ethical issues with purchasing products to avoid discipline to begin with, but to be directly asked this by management is another thing entirely. What do you all think? Is this even legal?

Finally turning in my notice to start college after dealing with a a half baked excuse for a boss who would make 60,70,80 yr olds work 55+hour shift while only working 40 himself, while still managing to be there enough to make the place toxic.