Author: Olivia

Got sick before work last night and went in because I can’t afford to miss work (both because I need the money and I’ve only been here a month and a half). Miscommunication happened and none of the supervisors heard I left but my coworker knew. In the morning my direct supervisor asked my coworker what happened then asked the other supervisors if they were told and they said no. The one supervisor (who also came and talked to me tonight) said if I was under him he’d see it as a voluntary quit and fire me. My coworker says he doesn’t think it’ll happen because it’s up to our supervisor but he also doesn’t know. I was told if I didn’t think I could handle walking back through the factory I could’ve gotten someone with a radio to call to one of the supervisors that I wasn’t feeling good…

WTI Crude oil price today $ 115 March 2021 $ 60. Wheat & Oil = Food prices. Better get ready at the groceries.

A few weeks ago I was contacted directly by a tech company. Since I had been waiting on an final agreement for a 10% raise at my current company for 6 months, I decided to talk to them. It turned out to be exactly the kind of work I was interested in and languages I wanted to code in. I aced all their technical interviews and was made an offer. Today, both my lawyer signed off on the new contract, AND unanounced my boss gave me the raise I had been waiting for since last fall. Nothing against my current boss and work. I love them all. I'm lucky. But the new company has much more interesting work. And they offered me a 100% pay increase PLUS equity. If current company would have just given me the 10% when I asked, I probably would have ignored this message from the…

For a moderator position here. Am I too late or?

About 3 weeks ago, I left a small(ish) software development company. I was working there for about 2.5 years, and to put it nicely, it was fucked. I was constantly working until ~7ish every night, with no overtime. The stress was immense, I'm 23 and I've started to get gray hairs and I swear it was because of that job. The amount of responsibility I had, for the pay I was on, was insane. I was put on a new project 1.5 weeks before Xmas break last year, and was expected to get it done before the break. This was easily a project that would have taken 2-3 weeks. I was working until at least ~10PM every night those days. There was no documentation for ANYTHING. For anyone that is familiar with software development, you know that no documentation is horrible. It was all “cultural knowledge”, so you had to…