Author: Olivia

For the third time in my professional life I have found out that my employer is stealing from me. Keep in mind, I'm only in my early thirties. For most of my professional life, I've worked in the automotive industry. At one place, my first job in this industry, I worked for 7 years total, barely made it above minimum (i was young and dumb), but then i find out that my boss was paying a raise promised to me to a coworker. I just didn't come back the next day. The place i started at a week later seemed like a step up in my career. But after six months as a service writer there, I ran the calculations and found out that my check was way shorter then it should be. Should have known something was amiss when i was hired for one role, but placed in another…

I work in Airforce IT. A serious field. My boss and my co worker have gotten much too cozy with each other on the job and off. They call each other, bro and discuss home life, sex, hot females, you name it… Everything this co-worker does is correct, even if it's not. He has botched so many linux commands and is a total brown noser. He's admitted to lying his way through a job more than once. They hang after work, at work they wear matching do rags in our Airforce facility when I got told I could not wear a tee shirt. When something happens, they have blamed it on race. They are black, so they lost security access is their reasoning one day when their token was disabled. Secure access isn't lost for kicks.. It is not racial if you lose your admin rights. Fucking a yall. I've…

Not in the US. English isn't my first language. Now I'm not unfamiliar with corporate but this is my first full-time job under a big company. I'm currently working as a trainee, and have been so for two months. I didn't actually have any plans to work full time, but after a great deal of trouble with university admissions (at the end of the lockdown) meant that all my plans to study were derailed. It had plunged me into a terrible and dark place but I'm trying to make it better. Now this job was part of me trying to earn my own pocket money (in my country we don't usually move out, so I am still at home). Mostly I'm trying to save money for my future when I do have to move out and pay for myself. When I spiralled into an almost-depression state my already affected sleep…

Just thought if the pay was shit no one would wanna do it, and those that do would be trying to do it right But as I write this it sounds naive because it’ll inevitably be exploited and optimized for a few

We’ve all been there for whatever reason where leaving relatively quickly isn’t an option. How’d you get through without losing your temper, quitting, or getting fired?