Author: Olivia

Employer- we can’t find enough workers! We are short staffed Workers/applicants- well pay more so we can actually afford rent to live in these expensive areas (which is basically everywhere now) Employer- let’s not get carried away now, we have a free pizza day!

We were told a few weeks ago we were gonna be working overtime the week of Memorial Day, ending Thursday. After cancelling it yesterday, they just sent this out today reinstating it. Mandatory overtime should be illegal, and last minute notices like this should also be illegal.

Work work.

I have had this problem since my first job. The idea of having to go to work just fills me with constant dread. Having a job feels like a constant dark cloud hanging over everything. Even when I have leisure time, vacation, etc., I can't fully enjoy anything knowing I have to go back to work. I have tried therapy, career counseling, antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and anxiety meds, and none of it has touched this in the slightest. I have tried endless meds and combos of them. It feels like I live in a world that was not made for me because I don't enjoy anything about adult life. I am a ten year old trapped in a 30 year old body. I enjoy playing with toys with my sister and living in our fantasy world in my free time. I am also asexual. It seems to me that…

I’m pissed. I need a place to just rant and get this shit of my chest. I work at a multi billion dollar corporation, been with them for about a year and have been consistently #1-2 performer since hiring. I’ve taken on multiple special projects, assisted high level team members, and even helped unannounced projects and benefited everyone i’ve worked with greatly. Today was my performance review. You know what they offered me? 25 CENTS I’m pissed. After being strung along for so long being promised this and that, the reality hit me like a ton of bricks. They had the audacity to even say “oh in another 6 months” yada yada yada. They wonder why the have a high turnover rate, they wonder why no one wants to work. Because they’ve created an environment where hardwork does not pay off.

I'm being treated like shit by a coworker and have been trying to move to a different shift for months. My boss won't let me change shifts because we are short staffed and the solution as of right now is to sit us down together so we can have a conversation. We have done this twice already. Nothing changes, just added tension. I just want out of this so bad I have been considering quitting, but my boss promises me they will switch my shift in the next 2 months. I'm tired of crying after every shift and being so anxious on my days off that it's difficult to eat or sleep. I'm off today and I've been crying thinking about it. I told them how badly this is affecting me but they still want me to sit down with her. What do I do?? I came to them with…

I was employed for a few months at a consulting company, let's call it ABC consulting. It was a tough environment, no structure and harsh feedback on why the things you should know (not sure how you should know them) are not done how the boss wants. After a few weeks the boss was micro-managing me and at the same time not providing structure. The employer announced that our client had layoffs and that it would also affect us by removing me and 3 of our team mates. I was going to effectively have to move to a new client, but they don't tell you who and there is an air of suspense in the call as they mention you might not make it past the cut our company will surely need to do. That same week my boss was acting very shady.. picking on me in front of people…

There has to be a special hell for employers like that. Just that.