Author: Olivia

Hi there, I need to write about my experience and see if it makes sense to someone else. I'm a FE dev working on the engineering team at this company for about 4 years. First it was a small company and everything was much better; few meetings, nothing too formal, I would just take care of my tickets and that was it. Then 6 months after the pandemic started the company was acquired by a bigger company, and things started to change; we have now stupid social meetings, and even if I could just decide not to go to those I would still be forced to meet other teams that I don't care nor need to know about. It was still ok. Then I was promoted to a manager position, and I started seeing and feeling things differently. There's so many early morning meetings now talking about 4, 5 project…

-In March I sent my boss/the co-owner of the company an email asking for a little more money. It was like a 5 paragraph email, which ended with me saying I understood if he couldn't do it, but if not then I would start looking for a new job. Did he think about it? Did he discuss the matter with his wife, who is the other co owner? Nope. Less than a minute after I sent the email, he called me and screamed at me for asking for a raise. -In April I began a job hunt and eventually got hired by a company that wanted me so bad that they bent over backwards to get me to come work for them and I have a start date of June 12. -I told my boss on May 12 that I had a job offer, but hadn't made up my mind,…

I'm starting to loathe my work place and I'm trying to find another job before I can finally quit this hellhole. Management is all cliqued up, supervisors side with shitty employees that have been reported multiple times, and other staff are dropping like flies because the “compensation” (if you can even call it that) is absolute shit. I got this job on a total whim when I quit my last job after only 3 days. My family was pissed so to get them off my ass I started working at my current place part time within a week of quitting. I handed in an application, no resume, and no extra shit. Had one phone interview and within a day I was hired and starting. Maybe something was finally going to work out. When I first started things were great. People were welcoming, and it seemed like a great fit, customer-oriented…

So last week my company has introduced this new shitty way to clock in and out of work. You have to switch on your computer, log into that webpage and click on “clock in”. The problem is. This adds some stress into my life as: I sometimes like resting for a bit longer during lunch ~20 mins (I like sitting in a park nearby) so later I have to spend those more minutes in the office. Those 5 minutes that take me to switch on the computer. Log into the web and click. That is almost 30 minutes more every day that I have to spend in the office. And last week I only clocked in 38 hours. My superior knows that I get my work done, so he won't be ratting me out. But some higher ups probably will question me in the future. Are there any easy to…