Author: Olivia

I’m 24 years old and have an associates degree and I’m one year away from getting my bachelors. I have been working at the same job for 4 years and make $16 an hour. I’m overworked and have tried leaving so many times before. I get emails from indeed and other job sites sending me jobs that want me to apply but when I do I hear nothing back. I have been calling jobs. Going in person and nothing responds/ offers me an interview. I am either over qualified, or they just don’t want to hire me. I’m so miserable and sad that there is no opportunity around me that I can find.

i just remembered the time in third grade that my math teacher got mad cause no one was listening and decided to make us calculate if you could actually live off of minimum wage and have the moral of that slightly traumatizing lesson be “work hard in school so you can get a better job”

I work in an industry that's open 365 days a year, which means I often work on holidays. Since I'm part of the management tier at my location, I get holiday pay, and if I have to work on the actual holiday, I'll get some other day off during the week to make up for it. E.g., I'm working today but will get Wednesday off and full pay for the day. I consider this a pretty good way to handle it for a business that's open every day. Unfortunately, that benefit only applies to those in the management tier, not regular staff, because only managers are full-time and get benefits. This always pissed me off when I was working as staff, and it still doesn't sit right with me as a manager. So, I'm cutting a check to everyone on my (admittedly small) team whenever they have to work a…

Organizational culture is the shared knowledge within the organization regarding the rules and norms that underpin the behaviors and attitudes of employees. Organizational culture can be categorized into three main components: Observable artifacts Espoused values Basic underlying assumptions or values Observable artifacts include symbols, physical structures, language, stories, rituals, and ceremonies. Espoused values are beliefs, norms, and philosophies that the company expresses in written form. Additionally, basic underlying assumptions are the values ingrained in employees which they act upon without questioning the validity of their behavior in a given situation. That’s it. A couple of facts: Basic underlying assumptions may not even be apparent to organizational veterans as they are not always visible. Company culture is primarily learned from other employees. Without having worked there yet, there is no way for you to know what the culture entails. The ASA Framework suggests that potential employees are attracted to organizations that…

I quit my old job a year and a half ago, and since then it has been nothing short of mental hell. I have anxiety when I have days off,because I am just waiting for someone to call my phone and yell at me for something. As I worked alongside the direct and CEO of a small company. So anything that went wrong(no matter if I caused it or not) was my fault. Constantly on eggshells, whenever I would talk to them about remotely anything. They would constantly bring up the fact that I am a woman in a male dominated field. Which I was well aware, but I wasn’t aware that being followed home from work, called outside of my name, and blame for literally everything, was part of the job description. I missed holidays, birthdays, and even the birth of my niece and nephew. When my nonna (grandmother)…

She’s a middle aged lady with a kid. Working 66 hours a week isn’t something she should be proud of. She should be spending time with her kid not spending the majority of her time at work. Now maybe she needs to work those hours because she need the overtime pay to provide to her kid. But it’s the fact that she BRAGs about the time she puts in the annoys me.