Author: Olivia

I'm tired of the tipping culture. Business owners won't pay a living wage for their workers and some even steal tips. And some workers expect tips for doing nothing but take an order in a drive thru. This needs to end. We should as customers start asking to be tipped for coming in their store and buying something, extra points if we do it with a smile and are friendly to the workers. If workers get tipped for ridiculous reasons then why shouldn't the customer? Maybe this could be a way for the whole country to realise how bad this culture is if everyone started demanding tips in protest.

For all you remote workers out there, are you still working the traditional 8-5? Or is the time-suck flexible if you get stuff done?

I (23M) started last September at a consulting firm. I get both sick days and PTO, but my PTO rolls over while my sick days do not. Assuming I don't actually need my sick days by the end of the year for illness/injury reasons, I'd like to use some of them for vacation before I lose them. I'd prefer to use them in conjunction with PTO so that I have a couple sick days on reserve just in case. Any advice on how to do this without looking bad to my boss? As a note, I do very much like my job and my coworkers, so I'd rather just use my PTO than do anything to screw that up. Maybe that puts me in the wrong subreddit but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Was just told we have to go back to the office 3 days a week. I've been remote for almost 10 years now. Such stupid bullshit. Time to get the resume updated and start applying.

Just took a call, not to give anything away but I work for a pretty big home improvement chain. A woman called who wanted a walk-in tub, an associate had already put in for somebody to call her and she hadn't heard from anyone, so I looked in the system. Got her name, nowhere to be found. Asked when they put it in, nothing under the date. She said they read back the information and everything, this is ridiculous that nobody called her, yadda yadda…. The only thing I can do is put another one in, so I tell her. She obviously doesn't like that answer and says, “You're obviously not the sharpest tool in the box”. I explain I'm just trying to help move everything forward but if she's going to be nasty then I can't help her. The next thing I know she starts screeching, “I am the…

I work in a senior position on a team of 3 in an IT company. Burnout, stress, and being over worked are a huge problem at the company. A lot of people end up quitting within one year, mainly due to all the stress. I wont say me and my coworkers are un-fireable (because no position is) but if they were to fire us, it would be INCREADIBLY inconvenient for the company. Anyway, the other week in our team meeting our Boss brought up quarterly bonuses to increase morale. At first this sounded amazing! But then it said the bonuses would be about $300 and you had to work 12hr days, and be oncall 24/7 to qualify. I said something along the lines of “I'd rather not” Boss started asking probing questions like “Why not?” “Your telling me you don't want free money?” and “Its practically $100 extra dollars a…