Author: Olivia

The corporation I work for has decided to cut all the bonuses non managers were getting and cap our yearly raise to 2% (Obviously not getting near what inflation is achieving). Sunday pay, holiday pay, quarterly bonus etc.. However, management still gets their bonus (in the case of some management positions up to 140% of their salary) and yearly raises up to 5%. Because of this the managers work the employees like dogs, treat them like garbage, and don't care about them as long as employees are killing themselves to enrich the managers. Oh and they want to know why we are not happy employees. SMH

The amount of literally very unsafe hazards (like, potentially immediately fatal) I have been exposed to at my minimum wage retail store job – demanded of me in the most automatically angrily entitled way imaginable – is truly insane. The fact that we live in a society (US) where people in your own family will become angry with you, and fight you and bully you and try to make you feel like less of a man for not tolerating it emotionlessly and voicelessly, is equally insane. And people say “ohh report them to this, report them to that” – the thing is, I’ve done things like that before, and we live in such a work-oriented culture that even the boards dedicated to that sort of a thing don’t care to regulate things/punish as much as they should. They go “yeah wow, that is unsafe, have that fixed by the year…

Without notice, my company delayed my (possibly everyone’s) December payment until January. I incurre 3-15k credit card balance per month traveling for my company . As you might imagine this was not a pleasant surprise as my reimbursement was also delayed; causing me to carry a statement balance and pay interest. Someone told me they did this to make Q4 look better and that it was illegal to do so. Lots of frustration with HR lately.

Don't know whether it's the crappy health benefits, the measley 7 paid days off or the $3 above minimum wage, but that 20-25 minutes I claw back every day really makes me smile. Yup, I've held it till I got to work and clocked in.

My dad used to always tell me there’s two kinds of people those who mislead others and the easily misled. I’ve always be the later. But I think I finally broke. 7 years ago I dropped out of college to be a mechanic. 2 years ago enrolled back in school, but my boss talked me out of it with talked of earning potential and buying our shop from him. Well I re connected with one of my engineering school buddy’s last weekend and he makes well over double what I make with 8 total years in this industry. I fucked up. I’m re applying for school to finish my degree and leave this shop. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to accept staying here knowing what he talked me out of. In the last 2 years I could have wrapped up enough classes to transfer back to the local…