Author: Olivia

I've dealt with 3 instances i would call sabotage, 2 of those times directly impacted production. He has attempted to instigate a fight with me twice, and each of these times I wrote a formal report, or directly took it to the supervisor, and so far I have not seen anything that would suggest appropriate action is being taken. Its getting to point im having dreams of getting into a fight with this dude, and it looks as though my supervisor is either prioritizing keeping operators, or has a bias to this person since he's been here longer and they talk to each other like friends. My supervisor says he is dealing with it, but that he will not disclose how with me. Im planning on going to HR soon and asking them about this situation. I know this communities feelings towards HR, but what do you think I should…

So instead of getting 4 bonuses a year, they replaced that with some stupid points rewards program. So if our manager sees us going above and beyond (basically breaking our backs), they give us points which we can redeem on their website in exchange for items like household appliances and crap. I don’t need a new toaster oven I need cash. I’m so infuriating. And that’s on top of implementing a max 2% pay increase per year. And if you get a good evaluation, there’s no guarantee you’ll get a raise. Which honestly doesn’t matter because they’re behind 2 years on the yearly evals anyway.

I work for a nonprofit and I actually really like my manager. I'm not saying that to be a scab – I know I'm very lucky to experience that. Today she let me know she's moving onto another opportunity. Another manager in our department gave notice for extended leave. Apparently it's just a month but still a bit jarring. Then a coworker was fired. I honestly don't know anything about her performance or anything so I can't speak to that, but I did overhear it going down and it's giving me anxiety. We had a new VP join a few weeks ago (so my boss's boss) and all this happened within this span. I overheard her speaking to the fired coworker. I can't speak to the coworker's performance, but the fact that the new VP continued the conversation outside of her personal office with the person getting fired is what…

I already have a new job lined up and was planning on taking a week off between jobs. Can I get unemployment for these three weeks? Also any tips for what I should ask when I get fired tomorrow? I've never been fired before so this is wild and uncharted territory lmao.

Taking an ethics class The question is: Is it ok to embellish on a resume to get a job? My response essentially is Yes its the employers job to make sure your qualified for the job, not yours. If an employer hires an underqualified candidate that's the employers problem not the employees. Fact is most important thing is taking care of your family, providing them with a roof over their head and if you have to embelish a little bit to do that, then so be it. Professor told me that's unethical cause you aren't being truthful to my employer. To which I said “My ethical responsibility to provide for my family, not my employer” Not quite like that, but pretty straight forward.

This is what my various bosses and managers have been telling us for the 11 years I've worked for my company. It's become a running joke with my coworkers because they've been telling us that new lockers were being procured (the old ones are like 50 years old) for so many years it's comical. Today was my last day at that job after 11(!) years there, and the new lockers actually showed the fuck-up today. I laughed so much, it's almost poetic.

Title says it all. Do employers and society-at-large actually give any incentive to go to work other than to just get money. Sure for the tiny, tiny percentage of people who are in their “dream job” there is a lot of incentive because you're doing something you love, but for the rest of us, what is the incentive for getting out of bed in the morning. I swear once AI becomes good enough to replace humans in most jobs, there will be mass unemployment like we haven't seen since the Great Depression. Office work? Gone. Transportation? Gone. Manual labour? Gone. The only thing left will be technicians to make sure the systems don't go down and to fix things when they break, a few very specific, very niche high skill jobs and creative work, and even then AI programs are proving that art can be made somewhat well by an…