Author: Olivia

I was the manager of a network engineering team for a medium/large sized for 20 years and was terminated in 2019. We had various passwords for routers depending on line of business the routers belonged to. My team had the administrative passwords stored in a secure, electronic password vault. Fast forward to last week when something got into the routers and locked everyone out, now they need the admin passwords but apparently the vault was taken offline and removed two years ago. Apparently half their business is at a standstill and they can’t make payroll until this is fixed. They called me demanding the passwords and when I couldn’t produce them, they the wanted to sue me. What a bunch of assholes. First they fired me they want to sue me 4 years later. Laughable. Only in America.

So let me just say, I obviously “just don’t want to work”, to start off. I am a truck driver, I have been for just over 16 years now, though I started when I was WAY under legal age working with my dad. (No complaints about that, loved it) Recently, I have left a couple of jobs back to back,fairly quickly, and I’ve been called more names than I thought I ever would. First, I left a job hauling frac sand for a company that told me I would be making 10,000-12,000 monthly. I left there after making only $8,700 in 3 months, and was told I just didn’t work hard enough, even though I literally spent two full months away from home working every day. Now more recently, I left a job that hauled a product called production water because the owner literally doesn’t have insurance on his trucks.…

As someone who worked a few jobs in food service and retail before my current position, when did calling employees to come in when they’re off work become a thing? It seems every job I worked since high school did this and I never quite understood if it was an industry thing, common U.S. labor law, or just personal choice.

| Not in America | I'm in disbelief right now. I work at an internet café and this morning, a client came and wanted to print a picture, he sent it to my by e-mail and i started printing it, he didn't ask for any editing or nothing. The picture comes out, and because of its low resolution, it comes out pixelated, and the dude started absolutely raging. He asks me why i didn't tell him that it was going to come out like that and i simply reply that why didnt he check the resolution himself. Dude while talking, comes behind me pretending he's talking about my screen, and while i'm looking at the screen sat down on my chair he blasts me with a punch that lands straight on my eye. We start fighting, punches are thrown ect and that's that, people fight, shit happens. Now i brush…

I noticed different strategies. Mark always brings up difficulties with his children to avoid calls and tasks. John simulate that his tasks are very very difficult. They are very simple and quick to do, but manager doesn't know. Luke is my favourite. He is always overtalking. No one can handle its loooong recap of what has done and have to do. Manager just want him to end the conversation and never ask him about anything else Sometimes I wonder if managers can't see these patterns lol