Author: Olivia

I have been working at a company with a good manager, good coworkers, and opportunities for continuing education. It was nice. I recently had a good annual review. All positives. For the first time in years I was feeling stable and hopeful about the future. Finally felt like maybe I could get a house. Maybe I could finally relax. This weekend all tech workers were asked to work to handle and test important tech work. When I discovered about the weekend, I cancelled my weekend plans. The issue seemed important and I wanted to be a team player and not leave the testing to the rest of my team. Instead of going out, I sat at the computer to work. Then this morning I was, along with multiple others, laid off. It was a shock. I am still reeling. And I am once again worried for my future. I was…

I scored a job in January as an Apprentice mechanic for jets at this company I'm not going to name. Great job, great benefits, decent environment, and training that's paid for. After a few months working there, I'm starting to realize that maybe mechanic work is not for me. I only like certain parts like doing function tests, I think troubleshooting is extremely frustrating, and I think I have OCD. I have not gotten diagnosed yet, because I could get my FAA medical pulled and not be able to fly anymore. Which I don't do much of anyways, but I worked really hard to get my pilot license and I want to use it in the future when it's more affordable for me. Anyways, this possible OCD problem really makes work suck more. I always worry about the littlest things becoming a big problem for the pilots once they take…

I've been supporting my friend for the last 6 months or so after she got covid and was unable to work for a while. She's been hired for no fewer than 6 jobs since. The first job was a holiday temp job that they told her had the option to go to permanent. Then they told her she was doing great and they changed her to permanent. Then they told her that she was still temp. Then they laid her off. The next 3 jobs are national retail/service chains. She interviewed, got hired, and then…. never has been called in for a shift. Technically she is still employed at these 3 places. Next job, she got herself a nursing assisstant certification, which the assissted living company paid for after hiring her (that's 2 weeks of paid training and an exam). Immediately after that they told her she's the contingency hire…

My last job was as a quality control technician for a certain sour cream company named after a flower. It wasn’t a bad place to work for by any means, but our boss would get extremely overbearing to a ridiculous degree when she was stressed. During one of these fits of anxiety-induced micromanaging, she was looking at PDFs we uploaded of some logs and called my lab coordinator (LC): Boss: “Hey, what pen does [redacted] use? It writes so beautifully!” LC: “Um… I don’t know. Probably the same pen we all use, so most likely the Sharpie.” Boss: “Can you please check and send me a picture of it when you get a chance?” LC: “…sure.” Me, across the room: “Uh oh. You’re making a face. What does that face mean?” LC: sigh “She wants me to take a picture of [redacted]’s pen and send it to her.” Me: “…why?”…

employer just told me at my cubicle this morning in front of people she is unsure about my position going foreward because i was out sick 3 days in my first month. 2 with a cold( and i came in on the weekend to catch up) and one stomach thing where i was throwing up. She hardly shows up on time herself, and theres little consistent communication about urgent orders other than them being dropped on my desk saying ASAP. Few meetings I had have been with the owner not her. We just lost our operations manager and many other loyal employees so i get that her workload is large and heavily reliant on the art department, but why she thinks putting pressure on me in public to show up to work when i was legitimately not well makes me uncomfortable. Any thoughts would be appreciated