Author: Olivia

Workers here hate unfair treatment, being underpaid and overworked, under or over scheduled when it was agreed upon differently, major disparity between the owner's (or CEO's) workloads compared to their own… The people here won't pat you on the shoulder for missing shifts you were scheduled to work (without letting the employer know in advance), being lazy during a shift and dumping your work on other colleagues, stealing from small businesses… We don't shield bad employees. We shield good ones that don't get treated the way they're supposed to be.

I work for a huge hospital conglomerate. My manager just sent out an email asking us to complete our yearly self-reviews so that she can finish them. She actually said that she's so happy to tell us that we're “eligible” for the full 3.5% increase this year. Woo hoo!

I’m constantly being put down/ordered around at work by management and it’s making me want to quit. Every little detail of what I do and how I say it is belittled and it’s making me think less of myself… I can’t be happy in an environment when I feel like I have to change myself to make others happy. One time I offered to sort out a task and a manager ignored me. Then they stood up and said I’m going to do [task] now as if they never heard me in the first place. The same person also didn’t trust my word on a fact I knew – they had to go and find out themselves rather than go with what I said was true… Another time, I was using a computer at and a manager told me to get off it, despite another computer being free, and then…

Maybe I’ve just been unlucky but I suffer from severe anxiety and this makes it HELL to go into work every day. I obviously have to because I have bills to pay, but I can’t explain the peace of mind I’ve felt every time I’ve quit a job. Fuck being a chef. I quit recently and I’m going back to school. I thought it was my thing but it wasn’t worth the dread and anxiety I felt every day. Not to mention that job becomes your entire life. I was at work more than I was at home.

I'm autistic but my psychiatrist says I'm high functioning. Due to that, the only support or accommodations I get is antidepressants. I can't DO this. I go to school full time and work full time. I make 17 an hour and I overdraft my bank account every week because I can't afford to live. I'm doing everything right but I can't afford to live. Work is so difficult for me as an autistic person. Transitions are difficult for people like us, and I spend most of my time in anxiety thinking about transitioning between work and home. And at work I'm forced to speak with customers, which means I have to mask all day or else people think I'm rude or unfriendly. Then I'm exhausted from the masking. I can't make time for my homework because I have a shit job and I'm always stressing about it I don't even…

I'm not sure how much of a universal experience this is but I feel like I'm hearing about it more and more recently. I'm a 90s baby, not really fitting into either millennial or gen z but inbetween, and grew up in lower class and have only recently gotten myself to a place that I could call comfortably living. I've got 3 roomates and we split living costs based on how much we make at our respective jobs and pitch in extra when we can to help each other out. My parents have been pushing me to work more and to try harder to find a better paying job, I'm an overnight gasstation clerk making 18.25 which is fairly decent for the area, and I feel like I'm talking to a wall when I try to explain to them that paying off the dept they put me in and just…