Author: Olivia

Organizational culture is the shared knowledge within the organization regarding the rules and norms that underpin the behaviors and attitudes of employees. Organizational culture can be categorized into three main components: Observable artifacts Espoused values Basic underlying assumptions or values Observable artifacts include symbols, physical structures, language, stories, rituals, and ceremonies. Espoused values are beliefs, norms, and philosophies that the company expresses in written form. Additionally, basic underlying assumptions are the values ingrained in employees which they act upon without questioning the validity of their behavior in a given situation. That’s it. A couple of facts: Basic underlying assumptions may not even be apparent to organizational veterans as they are not always visible. Company culture is primarily learned from other employees. Without having worked there yet, there is no way for you to know what the culture entails. The ASA Framework suggests that potential employees are attracted to organizations that…

I quit my old job a year and a half ago, and since then it has been nothing short of mental hell. I have anxiety when I have days off,because I am just waiting for someone to call my phone and yell at me for something. As I worked alongside the direct and CEO of a small company. So anything that went wrong(no matter if I caused it or not) was my fault. Constantly on eggshells, whenever I would talk to them about remotely anything. They would constantly bring up the fact that I am a woman in a male dominated field. Which I was well aware, but I wasn’t aware that being followed home from work, called outside of my name, and blame for literally everything, was part of the job description. I missed holidays, birthdays, and even the birth of my niece and nephew. When my nonna (grandmother)…

She’s a middle aged lady with a kid. Working 66 hours a week isn’t something she should be proud of. She should be spending time with her kid not spending the majority of her time at work. Now maybe she needs to work those hours because she need the overtime pay to provide to her kid. But it’s the fact that she BRAGs about the time she puts in the annoys me.

German guy here, so please let excuse this stupid question, but I’d like to have a better understanding. As a waitress/waiter in a better restaurant, restaurant where you pay 50$+ for a steak plus side dishes (plus tax – I’ll never get used to that), what would be a normal hourly wage? Would it still be the minimum wage with an expectation of higher tips or would it be a higher wage?

If your work expectation is to do X, but most people can't, even experienced professionals, does that mean your above average? For example, my department hired everyone around the same time. An expectation of all of us was that we achieve a specific certification (not referenced for the sake of anonymity) within 6-12mo of being hired. Of my coworkers, I am the only one who achieved the cert. One coworker failed the exam, the others are “still studying”. Granted, it has a 70% pass rate. So not easy, but not super difficult. I've put it to my boss, and friends, that because I am the only one who has passed my exam, I'm technically above average. My boss thinks I'm “technically right”, but it was part of my job description, so it doesn't really do much for me as far as performance reviews.