Author: Olivia

Does anyone remembers Reddit post where the wife was pregnant, got fired, and the boss mentioned she thought the wife was faking it? Can you please link to it?

I see a lot of posts in this subreddit about “when are we going to have a nationwide strike” or “let's just strike” or whatever and I get it, life is really shitty right now and we need things to change. But changes like that don't come out of nowhere. You need to organize, you need talk to people, you need to get involved. And you need to do that all at the local level. Once you're part of a union, or founded an advocate group or gotten involved in local politics then you can start reaching out to other groups who ajbe done the same. It takes small groups to make big ones, and big groups to make change. So get involved. Please

For example, I‘ve been applying to a „grower“ agricultural position, an entry level behavioral therapy position, museum positions, and lab tech positions with my BA in Anthro and grad certificate in Biotech. Should I list gardening experience/lab experience/customer service experience/Psych experience (what little I have) all in one?

I have an okay paying job for my degrees and experience, but the work is not what it used to be. First, two people quit, one was replaced by an incompetent, the other is just gone. Over the last two years the nature of the work has changed to something I never really wanted to do, is intellectually deadening, and, worst, morally suspect. The boss has been taking projects that are doomed from the moment the incompetent guy starts them, but I’m the one ultimately responsible. I’m the one who gets chewed out by the clients (I don’t like the clients, they’re so demanding), and by my boss. The workload is too high and the mental charge is too much to keep track of the projects. The environment is toxic everyone is constantly yelling at each other. I applied for a dream job in November and had 4 interviews and…

I thought I was losing my sanity. I was experiencing terrible obsessiveness and anxiety and kept trying all the tricks to battle it. I tried antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, therapy, exercise and good sleep habits. I tried mindfulness (this actually does help a bit), yoga and other forms of “self-care”. Nothing was relieving my distress. Finally, I quit my job yesterday. I am like a new person today. Calm, light and hopeful for my future. For reference: I worked as a case manager in social services.

Just got let go today. No warning, right in the middle of doing an important task, managers didn’t even stay on Zoom or look me in the eye. Immediately passed me off to the incompetent HR person who told me “this is the hardest part of my job.” I was hands down the best in my department, constantly fixing others’ mistakes without saying a word. Years of experience, better writing skills than management; my department was such a mess. They are gonna be so screwed, but they are too mired in mediocrity to care. Now I have to start all over somewhere else- with finals week coming up (trying to finish my degree). I am in my forties and so frustrated with doing a quality job and it not meaning a damn thing.

Basically the title. Had a few openings for a promotion and one of the guys who gets it has worked there roughly a year less than me, has had lots of serious quality control issues and a few other things. But he's related to the manager so he gets one of the opening because why not? Guess I'll just do the bare minimum since I'm already doing that job anyway and see if I can move back into the old position. Fuck'em.

Today, I ran into the CEO of the company that fired me last winter. He said he was disappointed in the way it ended for me and didn't like the rumor he heard that he was responsible for my demise. I just shrugged my shoulders. (because he could have prevented me from being fired, being the CEO and all.) He then said that everyone needs a villain in their story, I guess….