Author: Olivia

Out of nowhere this morning I was pulled into a meeting and given a termination letter, and told that I needed to submit a request in writing to get the reason why. I have not been talked to recently about any issues. The last issue they brought up to me was about office hours last year, and I improved and was told I was doing well at my annual review. When I pressed for a reason I got something vague about being a disruption in the office. I did get a patronizing talking to about conversing with my cubicle mate for “too long” the other day, but nothing formal. At will state, so could be anything. And I thought this was a good company compared to most. Fuck.

Posted in Health Insurance as well. Hello everyone! I am leaving my job, my last day of work was today and I was trying to use my FSA benefits so I would not lose them. My purchase was declined, and I was told my employment had been terminated as of 6/1 despite the fact that I’ve been working. I called my benefits coordinator and she said because 5/30 was my last pay period, benefits can’t continue past then (as far as FSA goes). This seems not right to me but I wanted to see if maybe I’m just completely wrong here. I’ve always known it to be that FSA expires on the last day employed.

Knowing that work is rigged, how do you get motivation to work? Apparently most people have a reaction of “I need to make money, so I'm going to work more”. But to me it feels more like “I need to make money, so I'm not going to”. Because the 'need' is SO I work more. If I worked more, that would be just doing what they want. How do you push past that and find work anyway? I'm finding it really difficult to react to money in the normal way, like get motivated instead of just completely put off by the whole thing. Is there anyone who relates to this and found a way around it so they could find a job?

I’m hourly so supposed to log all hours worked. However, my job is task based and sometimes I’m still not done at the end of a 12-14 hour shift. Last night I was still not finished at 9pm. We can technically only work the hours of 7am-9pm. But I’ve been taking a nap and working again at midnight for a few hours or so off the clock. There is no time stamps unless I send an email. But I’m wondering “how” illegal this is. Like just potential to lose my current job or like a criminal conviction where it could impact future jobs?

…I come here, 17 years old. Seeing that America has gone to absolute SHIT and IS NOT BACK. I want to give you all something The EU has the right idea when it comes to sick leave and such. America doesn't force this EU idea. Even this is illegal, and no one can do a damn thing about it. Do ya want to know something? From an Outsiders point of view, this is HIGHLY unethical, but if you're part of the Higher ups, like supervisors, and managers? To them, it's Ethical. I swear to FUCK someone has to set america straight at this point! Im pissed, the Entire r/antiwork subreddit is pissed, yet we do JACK. SHIT about it. Im not calling for violence. We need to find a damn way to fix this. Soon, or it will become Irrepairable.

At will employment Everyone seems to know you can quit any time you want, two weeks notice or two minute notice. However when it comes to getting fired some say you can be fired for no reason then lots try and bring up you can’t get fired if you’re in a “protected class”. So what’s the deal? Can you be fired for no reason or not? If the employer has an illegal reason, can’t they just not give a reason so it’s legal? Then as an employee, you can’t do anything about it since it goes both ways? Since you could have quit whenever. It’s not like an employer is going to say “you’re fired because you’re X color” when they can just not give a reason instead. Say Samantha is X color, the only female doing a job males do, pregnant etc with a doctors restriction note for weight….say…

I used to work as an automation engineer (basically a programmer for factory machines). Some of the software we wrote had to be password protected. Clients wanting to be able to choose who gets acces and whatnot. Sometimes however we'd get software from a client where they provide the password so that we can update the software. When my job was done I'd just put in the same password so the protection didn't change. This particular client was one I knew well, having done multiple projects for them so I had a list of their common passwords. When I quit (multiple reasons, won't go into it here) I heard that the chief engineer on the client side did as well. Didn't think anything off it at the time untill 5 months later. My former boss contacted me through asking for a password for one of their machines. That list I…

I quit my toxic job working for an abusive narcissist last year in June. Next Friday will be the 1 year anniversary of my quitting. That job was hellaciously stressful and I had a multitude of symptoms from it, like my hair falling out, insomnia, constant anger, depression, etc. I lived on melatonin for sleep and energy drinks to stay awake during the day. As I said it’s been a year since I quit. I have a new job in insurance that I really enjoy. The only stress in my life now is trying to make this tiny paycheck stretch. But I was cleaning my room yesterday and realized the bottle of melatonin on my nightstand had expired. And it was still half full. I haven’t had to use them in so long half of the gummies expired! What a victory. Plus my hair has grown back, you can’t see…