Author: Olivia

This might be a long read but I need advice dealing with a toxic situation. I graduated last year with a bachelor’s degree and got a job at a regional bank as a full stack software engineer. When I started out the manager who hired me was incredibly nice to my surprise. She always took 40 minutes every other week to have a 1:1 with me, she also approved my access requests and pto in a timely manner. I initially worked on customer facing applications and established a good rapport with my new team. However things changed in January when the company started laying people off. First it was our principal architect, then it was our lead UI developer, scrum master and product owner, and by March my initial manager was replaced with someone from an entirely different organization with in the company. They took two months worth of leave…

Hey folks. A little situation I’m currently going through at work. Just need to vent… I applied for a specialist role a few weeks ago with my current employer. Been there for eight years and in my current role for five. Always had good yearly reviews and consider myself pretty good my job. The business is currently going through a restructure and letting a lot of people go via redundancy. My team hasn’t been specifically targeted yet but I think that will come by the end of the year. We have about 8-9 data entry type roles and are consolidating our systems, so once that’s done I figure they’ll cut that to 4-5. I have no interest in reapplying for my current role (sr data officer). The main area I work in is SAP and they have let so many SAP specialists go that I can see it being a…

Years ago, I was a cable tech. It was a good enough paying job, but the kind that ran you ragged. Being in the field, we didn't get to spend a lot of time in the office, except for meetings. Anyways, the office admin, who we were all kinda chummy with, decides to quit her job. I guess she wanted something better paying, and I know one of the managers was really getting on her nerves. Anyways, one of the techs decides to go around and gather some cash ($20ish) from all the techs (30-40 guys) to put in a goodbye card. Anyways, he calls me… and I just say, “no, I won't contribute.” He's kinda flabbergasted for a sec and just says, alright and we ended the call. I dunno… I always felt harsh for saying no, but I really didn't see the point of it. Like, if she…

I’m a 17y/o high schooler who since the day I turned 15 has worked at this small grocery store in a medium sized city in the US. When I first started working I worked one day a week and slowly built up to 4 days roughly 24 hours a week while being a student full time. I was able to handle it well while maintaining good grades. When I first heard that the minimum wage was getting raised I ecstatic I planned on working more in the summer then I did in the school year. But today the manager of my Friday shift came up to me with the new schedule. He said “hey, because of the minimum wage raise [owner] is prioritizing adult employees which means we’re gonna have to dock some of your shifts. We’re only going to give you Thursday 4-7 and Saturday 1-7”. I was shocked…

It has been two months now. Every. single. night, they call me. “We have detected a critical vulnerability on your app. please advise immediately”. We keep patching stuff, they keep happening. I used to help at the beginning (even if it's just assigning tasks and ensuring communication), but now I don't answer the phone anymore and they are shaming me and blaming me for it. Should I quit? For context: I am a business owner of a cloud app, with really good work conditions. I've been in my role for 2 years and happy about it, even during spikes of work. Recently the company I am working for started to harass me every night with compliance breaches. The issue isn't that we have to fix some vulnerabilities, but it's always out of business hours since they are coming from a different timezone team. I can't blame my current provider for…

So I work in an open plan office where I am expected to remain in the same chair all day. My boss sits about 1.5 metres to my right, perpendicular to me, and there is absolutely no privacy. ​ The company says that I am not allowed to leave my desk for more than ten minutes and they used to keep all the blinds closed so no natural light got in. It was only after I persistently complained about this that they started opening one or two sets of blinds slightly to let in a bit of sunshine from outside. ​ The lighting in the office is artificial strip lights, rows of them all along the ceiling. The light from these long bulbs fills the parts of your field of vision not taken up by a computer screen. You are not allowed to look at your cell phone during work…

I applied to work a seemingly low-maintenance position with my university for our freshmen orientation programs. The portion of the program I would mainly be working is at the beginning of the school year, but we are also required to work here and there throughout the summer. Before I was set to go to my first shift, I realized I hadn’t received any kind of communication for payroll setup. I emailed my supervisor and asked to confirm that we would be paid for those shifts throughout the summer. It’s a job. I was under the basic assumption we would be paid to work. Turns out we won’t start getting paid to work until the main part of the program that’s at the beginning of the school year. I told them I couldn’t make accommodations to work and not be paid. I’m already working two other jobs as it is. I…