Author: Olivia

Wording and any possible replies will be purposefully vague because my tin foil hat is screwed on too tight today… The backstory: So like many, the pandemic caused my SO's company to go full WFH. While business was impacted to a certain extent, they were able to continue operations almost completely. Over the 3+ years, multiple “no raises, but be glad you still have jobs” (nearly verbatim) type e-mails have been sent out or line has been stated on all hands conf calls… The company has been teasing return to office for the better part of a year and it finally happened last week in the form of a “hybrid” schedule with much corporate fanfare. Pretty much everyone has been grumbling about it for months – they've been successful from home, so why go back into the office? My theory: because someone decided to move the office (location makes business…

In September 2022, I found a job that was my first ever full-time job. As soon as I started, I knew it would be a disaster. There were two categories for my co-workers: kind and miserable, or mean and miserable. Plus, I had an awful boss who was extremely passive-aggressive. I had no support, and anything I did wasn’t good enough. I try my best to laugh at it now. But I can’t. That job destroyed my mental health. I developed a problem where I cry every morning at 5 am before work. And I truly mean EVERY MORNING. This went on for months until I abruptly quit this April. I would also cry every weekend thinking about going back to work. And sometimes, I would call my mom or BF on the way home to cry to them about work. It’s too painful to share all the bad things…

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Never work again

So I am going to take a summer job before college. I have decided a 9-6 job from an uncle who has his office literally 6 minutes walking from my house. I decided to take this cause it pays somewhat good (for context minimum wage here is 10 dollars a day and he pays about 14 dollars a day), I have a break from 2-3 where I can go to my house to have lunch and then return. My gym is at a 5 minutes walk from there too so I can go after finishing the shift. I am allowed to wear headphones. So what can I listen to that will make me a better person which won't drain my whole attention so that I can still give somewhat consistent results?