Author: Olivia

So I work for a retail store and I forgot to take my lunches before the 5 hour mark. I just learned how to submit meal penalty sheets and I guess I didn't get them for a couple of my old paystubs. I was told it's too late to submit for the old paystubs but I just wanted to know if I should be aware of anything else while working? From now on forward I'm checking all my hours are correct before the week ends and before I clock out now lol

I work for an outsourcing company. The first company I was sent to, I was promoted to a management position. That company went through a seriously terrible PR mess and then had to go through massive downsizing. I was taken out of my management position with no notice (demoted to what I was promoted from) then sent to a different company. At the new company I do not have the same management position so now on my resume it looks like I was demoted out of something I did. They took my position away right before it hit the six month part too. Not to mention my promotion only garnered me $14 an hour while my friend who washes dishes makes $17…

I don’t have a lot of issues with my current job. I do what support. I work 9AM-6PM and I get two days off. However, I’m still in college and I’m full time there as well. I make very decent money for what it is I do, but I so badly want to quit and get a part time job as mine doesn’t offer part time at all. I want to focus on school but the fear of decreasing in income is too strong and it hinders me from taking on less of a workload to focus on academics more, especially that I’m in my last year. Any advice? To add on, I don’t have many bills. It’s simply the fear of not having money when you need it. I grew up in poverty and I guess you can say it still takes a toll on me.

The commercial glorifies missing sleep and overworking so you can graduate and get a job where you'll miss more sleep and continue to overwork. This is how “fulfilling your dreams” is advertised. It really gets under my skin.

So I went through the interview stuff, and I kinda noticed some red flags, but I thought I was being paranoid/anxious cause I'm a little uncomfortable around men (I know it's not all men, pls don't start with that). Then today I went to the orientation with my other two co-workers, who are also males (which I didn't really care cause they were my age). He starts it off with a joking threat that he can flip out sometimes if we do something wrong (forgot what it was), and then he goes over the rules. He mentions tying up your hair, I was like k, valid, then he's like “and no nail polish or fake nails, nothing like that”, he then looks directly at me (note my nails are short, and unpolished), then turns to the other two dudes and he says “I don't really care about you guys” (something…

I don’t have a memory of this man not at work, being at work or around a desk. The memories I have are the smell of his musk and cigarettes in his office. The stain of that ugly green in his office. The few times I saw him was while at his house where he’d come home, the pots would clang he’d fix something to eat and go to bed. There’s been an occasion where some times he’d pull into his garage and the vehicle would be running with the lights on. We’d go there and find him asleep inside. To many he was the king he had a central AC system, internet, and his boys, my cousins had gaming systems that just came out. In a third world country these things were luxurious. He had a maid to clean, there was a young girl around all the time and…