Author: Olivia

She openly humiliated colleagues of mine and myself in public settings, multiple people have quit because of her, but she’s friends with a VP and HR will not fire her. This is a white collar tech company job. I’ve since left, but is there anything I can do to make sure other people aren’t impacted by her/get her fired?

Recently a fellow coworker quit, some context recently the corporate overlords enforced a new system upon our fair supervisors to set daily goals which were draining all satisfaction from the work. They were specifically designed to each person for example if I do 150 units a day they would set the goal to 160 and if I hit 160 consistently they would set it to 170, all for the same pay. I’m not sure what was said when my co worker quit or why he quit but since he left the goals have become much more reasonable, and the push to achieve them has been relaxed. I honestly believe that quitting is what made them realize to not put pressure on employees. In conclusion quitting a bad situation to find something better can sometimes also help those still in that situation.

This is an update about this post and my entire leadership team’s HR investigation. You can see my original post about the issue here. After they spoke to my leadership team, everything got kinda strange. Slowly, my projects have been taken over and my responsibilities reduced, and no one updated me at all along the way. When I asked for updates or informed my supervisor about how they started treating me even worse, she would just say, “Just do what you can, and don’t let it get to you. Changes are coming.” Well, changes came today. After all of this mess, the anxiety about speaking out, dealing with subtle backlash, everything, I finally had a follow-up meeting with HR. The conclusion? They’re moving ME out of the department because it was “too difficult for me to work with so many moving pieces and communicate with so many people.” They came…

So I was just given a talking to by my assistant supervisor that I leave 1 minute early everyday to go home and gave a big speil on how we are contracted to give 8 hours a day yada yada. Conversation started with, how would you approach someone that is leaving early everyday? I soon realized he was directing the question at me and said well I would ask them if their watch is on the correct time. He then asked me, hey, is your watch on the correct time and then proceeded to say I cannot leave the parking lot until the exact time my shift ends. This is one of the many reasons I left my previous employer, the micromanaging bullshit like this just drives me batshit crazy, especially when I always get to any job I ever had 30 minutes prior to start, even sometimes finding myself…

As a school aide it astonishes me how some teachers are so arrogant and act high and mighty with certain school staff who are “lower” than them. I really want to know what is the psychology behind it? I also notice this in people who obtain masters of doctorate degrees. Can anyone enlighten me?

I am middle aged, single with a dog. I have worked all my adult life in a field I don't like but I never had a clear profession path that resonated with me and I went to a trade school but discovered I didn't really like that profession. I have worked in customer service- or a less horrible variation of- all my adult life. My most recent job ended because our small company got bought out, dismantled and everyone laid off. I have been looking for another job while unemployent nears it's end but my heart is not in it. I have moved in with parents for an unrelated reason, and I want to move out, but they want me to stay. I help out with groceries and chores, and they could manage on thier own but of course they are getting old and less able to do things. So…

I kept telling everyone it was coming, but was told even last week that my contract states remote and it always will. Surprise! New CEO decided for us.

I have worked at my current occupation for coming up to 3 years now during which I have celebrated 2 birthdays, granted I was off work for both of them as I booked it as holiday. I have never received a birthday gift from my office yet have been told to contribute to other people's birthday gifts on multiple occasions. The most recent of which was just today. I have contributed to multiple birthday gifts in the past but now I'm putting my foot down. It was my colleague's birthday this past week which she was away for but received a gift of flowers and a gift card before she left. I received an email this morning saying I owe a £5 contribution for this, to which I replied simply: “no, sorry. Not the best time.”. I then received another email later than morning from the colleague who's birthday it…