Author: Olivia

I currently have the perfect job – it pays well, it’s remote, I’m doing exactly the kind of work I want to do. But my team is so, so cruel. It feels like they go out of their way to bully me. They talk over me in meetings. They ignore my questions. They ask me to ideate content and pull reports that they never use, then get angry when I have to reprioritize my daily projects to make time for their asks. They don’t communicate when things change and send passive aggressive Slack messages about why I didn’t triple check the process. Or they ask vague questions instead of saying what they need and blowing up at me for not following their directions. I’ve become a project manager for some, sending reminders on THEIR daily projects and explaining everything I’m doing so they seem up to date if our director…

I'm really confused as to how they even verify employment. Do they call your previous employer? I'm applying to a ton of jobs, and I don't want them all calling my employer without me knowing. I want to at least notify him first. Or do background checks mainly check criminal or education history?

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Hi there, I work for a fairly large company in the U.S. There has been a slew of layoffs, offshoring, and automation within my company the past 6 months. Nothing that made the news, sadly. Reducing some departments by 70%. There are members of my company being sexually harassed by customers and others being bullied by their own managers. Any complaint to HR is brought to the offender or ignored and usually leaves the employee worse off. I'm pretty fed up with it all. I joined the IWW just out of class solidarity about a year ago and I just emailed them today about my options. If there's better options besides the IWW, I'm open to it, I've heard some criticisms of the IWW as an actual union. They're just who I know. In a survey they sent out today about how they can “better support us to become a…

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