Author: Olivia

Seriously, businesses that complain that there's a labor shortage are full of it. There isn't a shortage of hard-working people, only GOOD paying jobs. Imagine having all of that experience and education only to make $6.38 an hour. That is less than the legal minimum wage. “But you get benefits!” “Are those benefits another $60,000 – $80,000 a year?”

Schadenfreude is like a heavy pie. A small piece, with a glass of cold milk: perfection. A big piece: sits in your stomach like the rock of judgment. Go pour yourselves a glass of cold milk before you read this. I just read the post about the boss who deactivated a coworker's email when she quite, and in doing so deleted the company calendar so all the events for the next three years are gone. I'm getting to do something similar. The church where I worked as administrator and (in addition to my regular work) got them caught up on a two year backlog of work caused when the previous administrator developed lung cancer and was just too weak and too sick to do the job, so she showed up and did the bare minimum; and the day I finally had everything caught up, the minister scheduled a staff meeting…

I quit a job that I had a mental breakdown at once a month. I'm currently trying to get a job in the exotic animal industry but there's so much compitition. For every application I write a cover letter and link to my resume website which has breakdowns of the animals I'm most experienced with. Im ordering some buisness cards for my insect breeding side hobby to leave after interviews. I might have to go back to Petco aquatics where the whole job is refusing goldfish sales, and explaining that Petco doesn't sell the proper enclosure size for hamster and they will have to make their own. Feeling lazy 🙁

Managers are the generals. CEOs are the politicians. Shareholders are the shareholders. People stand by and watch war and watch their fellow humans kill and be killed (sad and frustrated but continue their day). People stand by and watch the current workplace culture use and abuse workers without a living wage. Is anyone writing about this? Any recommendations for essays or substacks or books? Thanks.

First post. so bear with me. My wife and I both work for a regional (think New England) bank as tellers. We got hired at the same time, August of 21, for the same position, in the same market, but in different branches. When we got hired, I was started at about 1.5% more than her due to previous experience (and the 'nonexistent' wage gap). To this point, we have both been basically on par with trainings/certifications/responsibilities/etc. I am certified in opening business accounts however, which she is not (and is a big part of being eligible for promotion). We just got our first annual/equity raises. Her direct manager spoke with HR and fought for her employees to get good raises. My manager, however, said it was up to HR and she had no control over it or willingness to even reach out to HR. HR put our raises through…

Remote” Today I quit. Sent in my 2 weeks and I feel free. I feel like a baggage has been lifted off of me. But now the job agency is chasing me with calls. Back story: I work with a company through this job agent, I made it know that I wanted a better opportunity and the job agent said if you found one you can go for it. I think found one, I applied and a different representative from the job agency called me to represent me and push my resume as I'm a perfect fit. Only for my representative to call me and said NO. That I couldn't apply for another job while I'm under their contract..I said I'll put in my 2 weeks right away. The rep said oh nooo, don't send in two weeks yet we'll see what we can do. .. I was calling and…

Let this be a cautionary anecdote ladies, gentlemen, and all. I want to caution anyone reading this to avoid Goodwill like the plague, both in regards to employment and shopping, if it can be helped. So, I'm a Cashier with Goodwill (at least until I quit, as they certainly don't have the manpower to fire me). My job description, as is plainly iterated and reiterated both verbally and in writing, is to assist customers by ringing up their purchases, as well as ensuring the sales floor is stocked and well put-together. What my job is not is all of the oftentimes laborious and unforgiving work of a Donation Attendant. So imagine my surprise when the manager who writes the schedule intercepts me as I'm going to clock in. She hands me a pair of work gloves and tells me: “You're going to be a D.A today!” Immediately, she can see…