Author: Olivia

I’ve been working at this job overall for almost 5 years, but this particular department for about 2. Normally it’s a steady, easy going department. However, there are some weeks where I get a heavy amount of workflow while also being assigned additional daily job duties that add on top of it. My management decided to surprise me yesterday and mention that I’d start training for their busiest job function next week. Yet, there’s quite a few issues I see with this: 1: This particular department not only has the heaviest case volumes, but is most of the time always behind on completing these before the required time period set by management and is known to do a lot of excess overtime. 2: The coworker who most likely will be training me has been avoiding me and acting slightly passive towards me for almost a year due to outside of…

So much of what the franchise administration and top management did ultimately was the cause of their demise, which also made front page news. This is a bit long and reworked from a prior retelling – definitely a satisfying outcome to see abusive ownership/management get theirs. TLDR at bottom. Over twenty years ago my life and plans that I had to stay in my hometown were drastically uprooted and found myself moved to another city. Pounding the pavement almost every day looking for work wasn't getting me any results and would from time to time find myself relaxing at a cheap diner and reading a complementary newspaper… and there it was a job opening for an assistant manager for an expanding well entrenched fast food franchise in town. So I called and basically set up my own interview (one of many more omens I seemed to have missed) and tadaa…

so i work at a prison in florida that requires me to wait in a security line, be searched, and then get my keys that are needed to get into my office and a personal body alarm. i am being told that i have to be at my desk at 8am. security sometimes takes upwards of 20 min and i can only clock in as early as 7:53 am. in order to be at my desk at 8am i would have to give up 20 or so min of my free unpaid time to get through the line to my office. i know there are laws stating that i have to be paid due to it being “suffered to work” but im struggling to find the laws. ​ im being threatend with a write up because i will not come in prior to my shift and do these things that…

Since September I’ve been working as a temp at a factory across town that pays really well but the hours are brutal. Rotating 12 hour shifts from days to nights every 2 weeks. I feel like my brain has melted since taking the job. My coworkers who have stuck it out longer than a couple years all say the same thing. “You never get used to it..” A lot of people had this weird obsession with the place. I still remember my coworker asking “why do I never see your name on the overtime board?” after we worked a 60 hour week. Anyway i finally decided screw them, and their rotating shifts. Besides, they had 6 months to sign me on permanently and instead opted to pay me $10 less than everyone else doing the same job. I’m starting a new job next week working for an online candy store…

Im a nurse at a unionized hospital. Nurses are notorious for working OT, skipping breaks, staying late, etc. I refuse to do any of those things and my coworkers hate me for it. I tell them that if they keep agreeing to work extra and understaffed then what incentive does management have to hire more nurses? They tell me they feel sorry for managers bc they work so hard. Im not sure how they know they are working so hard considering that we never see management and all scheduling and issues are now handled by the charge nurse. They seem to worship management, always covering for them, buying them gifts, etc. When I moved to a morning shift a few years back my coworkers tried to pressure me into coming in an entire hour early unpaid to set up for the day. That’s what they all had been doing for…