Author: Olivia

Would you rather work for a large corporation or a small mom and pop business?

Just have been thinking about this, what are some tale-tell signs that a manager, leader or employee will attempt to undermine you or sabotage your career? What are some things that they will say or do? I think we should also look out for predatory coworkers too who are corporate shills looking for their piece of the pie, at your expense.

I mean the entire company. Every level. All he talked about was acquisitions, sales and how well the company was doing. After he was done talking he started a Q&A in which two of the most asked questions were about matching 401k and increasing pay to meet cost of living. To both he simply replied that these would be extra costs to the company. Wow. No shit. Guess what asshole! My entire wage is technically a “cost” to the company. Should we get rid of that? This company makes fucking bank and then brushes off the idea of investing in their most vulnerable workers. Needless to say the webinar was incredibly demoralizing and I've started to aggressively look for new jobs. Anyone in the Denver area have any leads? Holla! 🤙my experience ranges from operations to some mechanical, electrical and wood working.

I have a contract with a small clinic near by where I see patients part time. My counterpart is the brother of the owner and he is CONSTANTLY trying to undermine me, going through my notes and picking apart my work. I have noticed he makes 10x the mistakes I make, but he never gets reprimanded. He wants me out so he can take over my patients, even tho all of his patients hate him and constantly ask to switch over to me. This is a warning to everyone; never accept a position with a business that employs family members. It never works and you will always be treated unfairly and your boss will use double standards to justify it.

Where to start. May last year I resigned from my IT Infrastructure Team leader role because my entire team resigned within a week of each other. They were basically sick of the workload, senior management wouldn't listen, so they voted with their feet. So rather than recruit a whole new team, I had enough so left too. June last year I started a new role, with a major fashion brand that sells boots, as a team leader. Initially went really well. Then the wider team had a reshuffle and I was suddenly looking after the retail side of the team, retail IT being something I know very little about. The team as a whole – 10 guys – kept making mistakes with creating MS Dynamics 365 accounts. I looked into it and every member of the team was making these mistakes. I was told by my manager to make an…