Author: Olivia

Working in India as a indirect employee for an aerospace giant based in a first world country. After working for five years, I can proudly say that my achievements are a 530$/month salary, 25kg weight gain and acute hypertension. While doing half the work that I do, the people sitting in the parent company earn 12X of what I get, with countless other benefits, I sit here pity over the new mentees that I'm training, alas what their futures will be. Utterly hopeless situation.

Today is the last day I tolerate being underpaid. I have worked at this tech company as an ecommerce associate for a year now When I started, I was forced to settle from my original asking price of $17.50 to $16.50 because of a lack of direct experience (Pretty much just never used excel). I went with it because it's fulltime (m-f) with weekends off (perfect for the budding musician!) And good benefits. 4 months in and the only other person in my department gets moved, leaving me to do all the work from September through the Holidays. I'm talking gathering and pricing material (laptops, towers servers, random medical and lab equipment) photographing and listing it on eBay (in compliance with strict licensing regulations), maintaining inventory and areas around it, and finally shipping. My department alone grosses an average of $12-20k a week, often beating out our main department, out-of-state,…

Live in a country where we have lifted all the isolation rules for covid. Today I have a temperature, feel unwell and testing positive for covid. There is no legal requirement for me to isolate but I have a public facing job in which social distancing is impossible. Deal with all sorts of people including vulnerable and elderly. My boss tried to talk me in to coming into work today as they would be understaffed and said I could just wear a mask. Obviously not going in and they can't make me. Hardly ever take sick days but not going to knowingly expose my clients and colleagues to covid. Got bombarded with texts this morning from manager trying to guilt me.

Inflating gas prices are really stressing me out. I haven’t seen a raise in 8+ months. Gas will easily be $4 a gallon by Monday. It costs me about $7.50 a day to commute to and from work. That’s already 3/4 of an hour’s pay just to physically be in the office. I am a teller for a local credit union so unfortunately my position cannot be done remotely. How much does everyone else spend in fuel/tickets/passes to commute to work?

I took 4 days vacation, and told my boss I was going out of town, which isn’t even their business to begin with, but nonetheless. Two days into my vacation my boss has the audacity to call and text me multiple times asking me to come in, I then plainly told her that I can’t because I’m out of town, to which she plainly responded, “thanks for letting me know! Make sure to have a great time!” My boss never talks like that, and was clearly being a condescending asshole. It’s the small things like this that just piss me off.

im applying to ENTRY LEVEL JOBS. i have the filter on linkedin set to ENTRY. LEVEL. the SH*T that i have seen is BLOWING my mind. a position for a teachers assistant- ASSISTANT- “masters degree required”. WHAT. imagine getting your MASTERS DEGREE JUST TO BE AN ASSISTANT IN THAT FIELD or the countless, “5+ years experience required” THAT IS NOT ENTRY LEVEL. FIRST of all lets assume you had an internship every year in college, which doesn’t happen, that’d still be only FOUR YEARS so how would someone BE ABLE TO EVEN GET 5 OR MORE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE FOR AN ENTRY LEVEL POSITION??? i HATE THISSSS I GIVE UPP

Yes, it's me. No rising salary in 2 years, while the CEO and his friends regurarly get bonus (to buy new house, car, drugs, whores, etc). No politeness nor kindness if the boss has a bad day, while I was scolded to be more kind and polite to anybody and everybody always. No tools, no proper equipments for production, bosses have no clue why we can't grow the volume or the capacity. Or just don't want to see the problems. Once in a regular check, I found unusual, and really poisonous matter in our industrial wastewater, and the CEO said I was wrong when I mentioned it for the workers and warned them to be carefull handling it. Because to consider the danger is HIS duty, not my duty, and he thinks it's not a real problem, I just maked unnecessary panic among the workers. (Yeah, it's just some iodine,…

Quit my job yesterday and I don’t currently have a plan to get another (which is entirely the point). I was kind of taken back with the response I received from family and friends. They all seemed to carry the same negative energy when I shared the news, the general sense being “you can’t just do that”. I didn’t expect a “congratulations!” but I’m not sure how to handle this weird energy. It’s as if, in telling them this, I’m advising them to do the same. For context, I’m a 30 years old with a wife and two kids. I “threw away” a well paying, but highly stressful job. Going to sell our house and travel around for a bit and see what happens. Would love to hear some similar stories and how you handled these weird conversations.

Throwaway just in case, but goddamn do I need to vent. I just had the most annoying, frustrating job offer. I have a specific skillset in a small, but saturated field. I applied to a company back in December. Didnt hear anything for two weeks, so I went back to the company's website and filled out a second form. That got my application noticed and I had an interview two weeks later. I felt it went alright, but not great. I was told they'd get back in a week, which did not happen. I sent an email asking if they had made a decision and al least thanked them for an interview. I didnt hear anything for two months. I finally got an email yesterday saying they “are interested preparing an offer letter” for an on call position. Note, this is not the job I applied for, which was a…