Author: Olivia

The other day I had to push hard for my employer to pay me the proper weekend award wage set out by the ombudsman. He was underpaying me by going by the hours worked rather than the 4 hr min for a call in. He got pretty emotional, explained that he wouldn't have taken on the weekend work had he had to pay me this much 🤣 as if to say having to pay someone else to make the company money was a hindrance. Odd choice of words I thought. I explained he should just go by the award rate so there is no confusion or problems down the road for him just as much as me. All he could think of was $$$ he was now losing. After much back and forth, an hilarious moment came when we went to look at my payslip to compare what I'd incorrectly…

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I’ve been trying to seek legitimate job postings on the site but more often than not come across scammers and it’s irritating.

Im really struggling today. I work in IT doing graphic design, multimedia video production, print, UX/UI, multiweb script builds, photography, marketing, marketing analytics, creative strategy development, animation, and any “duty as assigned” by our micromanaging narcissist ungrateful belittling CEO. They never conceptualize the behind the scenes processes for projects. I am “juggling” (he said to multitask which I find horrendously incorrect for this kind of work) about four intensive projects that are all demanded to be due by the first of June. I dont even have the content to a few and tomorrow is the first. I do my best to work as hard and as fast as I can but Im the only one doing it in the entire agency… I know it’s my own fault for doing it to a standard I hold of myself. I cried in the bathroom. Once again they dont care about my efforts…

Today I received an email from upper management that pretty much read “To celebrate us delivering the product to the customer 22 days early, we will be throwing a pizza party for the technicians.” So you’re telling me… us technicians that build, test, and tune the product won’t get a single dollar from the multimillion dollar bonus the company receives for finishing a defense contract early… Do they think we’re brainless monkeys?!

I've just tested here that leaving a weight on the ctrl key, teams doesn't stay away and doesn't even lock the company's pc on the protection screen. I wanted to do this not to sleep, or play video games, or anything like that, but to take advantage of the time when nothing is going on and go read a book or study tools that I would use at work. But even doing it that way I feel bad, like I'm cheating and cheating, I think I'd rather even do those things on the weekend or after work. I don't know if it's the fear of being caught or because of some culture that they put on us, but I have a problem with doing it. Does it happen there too?