Author: Olivia

One of my colleagues died this past week. It was a heart-attack. This person leaves behind a spouse and children. The company made no statement. The company’s CEO made no statement. What actually happened was that one of the bigwigs in the company put together a gofundme for the employee. It feels as if the part where the company cares about you is now outsourced to the underlings. Shouldn’t surprise me. I had a death in the family and they were calling me 2 days after asking why my work wasn’t being done. Then I got demoted on the way to presumably being thrown out the door during the next round of firings/layoffs

Back here to bitch about my job because I don’t know where else to do it. My cat is currently sick and I’m taking her to the emergency vet. I told my boss and literally her only response was “OK thanks”. I get it it’s not your cat it’s 7 o’clock in the morning. Still, if anyone on this team had asked her she would’ve been very supportive. but not me. I’m the problem one because I regularly go to the doctor and therapy, I take off when Im sick, when the incredibly loud and distracting work environment became too much I got a reasonable accommodation. I advocate for myself and put myself first. I feel bad for her, the team had to convince her to go to a doctor appointment at one point, she almost never takes time off and when she does she still works on her vacation,…

A week ago my coworker found a new job and put in his two weeks notice. This was to help transfer duties and train someone on the immediate coverage stuff. It's also a common courtesy in most areas I think. After a couple of days the company's knee-jerk reaction was to tell him he no longer an employee effective immediately. Fast forward to this week and people are scrambling to catch up and assign things and everyone is behind. I've heard of more and more companies doing this when you put in your two weeks and it seems crazy to me, it makes it way more difficult for the people picking up the extra work. And then we get the articles of companies hating quiet quitting. Do you still think these days it makes sense to put in a two weeks or just quit the day you want to be…

My company is rolling out mandatory return to office policy, even for all employees who were hired as permanently remote, but is refusing to send out any kind of official communications (like email). Instead, it was only verbally communicated to us, and we were (also verbally) threatened to be fired for “some made up reason” if we don’t comply. Yes I know it’s a shitty company and not worth staying, but does anyone know why they refuse to leave any kind of paper trail? Are they really scared they’ll be sued for a RTO policy or something?

Hey all, back with another tidbit from the floral wholesaler. We just went through the living hell that was Mother’s Day, and throughout the month my company had served us food a couple times as a bonus to the ridiculous amount of hours we are expected to work. My own husband quit because he was expected to work 13 days straight without a day off, even though he was one of the newest hires at the company at the time. This company makes multimillions a year, and I know this because I’ve seen the profit metrics in my boss’ computer. Plus the amount of profit they make on flower is ridiculous, we buy daisies for .98 cents a bunch and we sell them to our customers at $12. Anyway, the first meal they gave us was those premade sub sandwiches that you can get from Wal Mart, the giant ones…

In a company managerial training webinar, a manager in the retail branch complained, “I’m so sick of other internal teams poaching my team members for open positions. What can I do about this?” It’s really funny to see that these managers believe they own their direct reports.

That's it, the title. I have limited leave time and no savings, so I'm not sure how we will deal with this. I guess my pay will dwindle until I lose our apartment and my job due to missing hours now that I cannot work from the hospital or infusion center. Sucks.

Joe works in a small gas station and he has a boss and a few coworkers. Joe has worked in the same gas station for years. His social circle consists of his gas station coworkers and his wife and children. Joe lives a normal quiet life providing for his family. Then one day he gets layed off from the gas station job. He has not had the time outside his working hours to network and he has to cold apply to jobs. He has taken care of his family and worked at the gas station. He applies for many retail positions. He is surprised to see that he will have to go trough several interview rounds, psychological assesments and other bs before even getting considered a job offer in a similar position. Joe has years of experience serving customers and now he is being assessed to no end. Joe gets…