Author: Olivia

I left my full time night security job because I was having up to five panic attacks a day due to the various factors of sleeping until the afternoon, barely seeing my family, and being forced to do mundane non-security tasks, so I got a job in IT working for a software company. I was hired to “work with the software and support team to help organise sprints for new features and development, while studying programming to join the development team next year”. Since that time I’ve been seconded to the support team entirely and for the last month and a half I’ve been making online bookings for customers and doing general support work. My prospects of joining the development team seem nonexistent and all day long I say and do the exact same thing, creating the same stressful cycle I was in before. When I first started it was…

Was I given a two week notice when you cut my hours in half around Christmas time? No? Oh ok then it’s kinda like that isn’t it. I’m trying to leave on a decent note but at the same time I was really hoping the boss would just say don’t bother coming in for your last week.

This morning I woke up with a migraine (feel better now) and texted my boss (who is a nurse) that I wouldn’t be able to make it to my shift at the sandwich shop where we both work (can’t remember why she’s working at a sandwich shop when she’s a nurse, but oh well). She gets all in a tizzy and asks me why I only told her last-minute. Like, I didn’t plan to wake up with a migraine and sleep through my alarm. So then she texted me that I still need to go in but that I can leave once a third person shows up (only one person was there so far). I didn’t go for obvious reasons but the fact that I told her I had a migraine and she still wanted me to go in is making me want to not show up tomorrow. Which would…

This is a long stretch but was there a post here a few days ago that was a story/quote from 1800s or some other early time about how the business owner was being invert viewed and he said the worker needs to make more so the employer can sell more and don't talk too loud or he might hear you?

I work in an industry that takes advantage of customers and is making it harder for the staff to make money. I am starting a business that will hurt the industry and trying to stay anonymous in the process before I start making enough to quit. I'm hoping to cut their profits 500 to 3000 per customer. It is not market-specific in terms of location. Do you think I will get fired if they learn I am starting it? I'm looking for a solution to the greed to give some power back to the 'every person'

so I started a new job today as a pharmacy tech. it’s a job but I also have 0 debt. I opened my welcome emails policies and something irked me right off. the sick/absent policy is to call 2 hours prior to shift and speak to the pharmacist. if the pharmacist can tell you an it med you can take to manage your symptoms you are expected to come into work. Excuse me what? the pharmacist isn’t my pharmacist and isn’t discussing phi between others a violation of hipaa? it don’t set right with me anyway I look at it. what do you all think am I crazy?

I’m his was a few years back, but oh boy was this place the worst. I had gotten an interview at a liquor warehouse through a family member. I arrived to my interview early and waited patiently as my interview time came and went. About 30 minutes after my scheduled time I asked the receptionist when my interview would be and she informed me that the interviewer was no longer on site and wanted me to return the next day. I needs the job so I said fine and returned the next day. Again, my interviewer didn’t manage to show up for our interview so I bailed after waiting for probably too long. On my way home I received a phone call from the interviewer and they apologized and offered me the job and I foolishly accepted it. On my first day of work they had a big staff meeting…

I usually just lurk and I'm on mobile, so please forgive any weird formatting. This is more of a vent than anything. My current job has a huge event that's setting up in their parking lot, so us mooks and other such little guys are being forced to park about 10 minutes' drive away and get shuttled in/out of work. To “compensate”, our oh so generous company has bestowed upon us an extra 30 minutes to each day that we can't just park in the lot. 15 minutes one way, 15 minutes back. Trouble is, it takes a good 45 minutes at the end of my day just to get back to my car, and then I drive another 10 minutes home. Just getting to work normally takes me about 10 minutes anyway, and now I need to account for an inconsistent shuttle that might or might not get me…

Basically the upper management (seniors) are dumping crap they are supposed to do to me. Other employees are used to their bullying so they keep quiet and do it. Things that we, outside of our own responsibilities, are forced to do because they are lazy. Now that I'm leaving, I don't want to put up with this, how can I make it difficult for them? Also can they still fire you for that if you have already resigned?