Author: Olivia

Most of my life I've avoided the 9 to 5. I've taken bartending jobs, smoke shops, even a vet clinic once. Now , I'm in one. I really do enjoy the job. Its the best job I've ever had and I'm crawling out of my skin sitting in the same position all day, hearing the same music stations, knowing we all feel the same and none of us have enough PTO to leave on a whim just to go home and relax. The weekends almost seem bleak having not enough time to even look forward too. I know I should be grateful to have a good paying job with benefits in an area where they are hard to find close to home. But I'm struggling to be content. How do you get along with your desk jobs, in a capitalistic hellscape knowing retirement is laughable and you just want to…

Hi all, im on mobile so bear with me. I havent shared the full story and its too long to share now so ill try and be brief. I work in the US, in a “progressive” state that allows for up to 3 months of baby bonding time for newborns, adoptions, etc. Im protected from being retaliated against for taking this time and had a meeting with HR, my manager and his manager to discuss the ways he has retaliated against me for taking leave time and how at this point I just want a transfer (denying a lot of time off and any additional leave requests, attenuating my career with the agency, gatekeeping information and connections, etc) My bosses boss inadvertently pointed out how they denied my request to extend my leave time (apparently everyone gets a 1 time extension if requested, which I did request but was denied)…

Context. I'm a closeted queer person and living with my very conservative parents for financial reasons. And with how much I make a month… If I were to move out I would need to find a place to rent for 1000 a month or cheaper… The only places I can find that match that are 30 minutes away from where I work. Which would result in an increase in my gas usage and quite frankly I don't want to drive that far to go to a place where I feel underutilized and underpaid just to drive 30 minutes back to collapse in bed and start over again in the morning. That's not for me. So that means I'm gonna need a new job, but I suck at interviews! Like my brain doesn't operate well when I have to be like “this is why you should hire me” like I got…

I moved to a big city because I wanted to pursue art and be in a place where art was more valued than it was in the rural area where I grew up. In order to support myself I got a 9-5 office job because I felt like that was the safest thing to do. I have a lot of medical issues, so I really needed something with health insurance. The job is catastrophically boring and pretty depressing too. It's a city government job, so the benefits are good, the pay is not good, and I feel like I'm a cog in a horribly inefficient and sometimes actively harmful machine. It's also lonely because I just sit alone in a cubicle most of the time. It's so unfulfilling that it keeps triggering existential crises every day (what's the point of living if I have to do meaningless, unpleasant things all…

My wife and I retired last summer after working for same company for a long time. I cannot say how much we appreciate all of you that are working so hard for wages that are far too low. I come here in peace and I have a question. When we are out in public I’ve begun to try and thank people for their work today. Additionally, when tipping is involved we’ve gone to close to 25% whenever possible. Should we skip the acknowledgment of their working today? Thank you