Author: Olivia

Last year a dean promised me a scholarship if I would work for her department. Well I started work and for the past five weeks have been asking where the scholarship is. She wouldn't talk about it at all over email and waited to tell me in person that she couldn't do it anymore. I tried to confirm our meeting over email but she responded in a different email with no mention of it. That's when I realized she's been purposely evasive in the emails so she could outright deny it if she couldn't get me the scholarship. That's when I quit. The scholarship was why I felt financially stable enough to go back to school. Now I'm fucked. If you are making big decisions based off of promises employers haven't met yet make damn sure you get a paper trail.

I am interviewing for a job which pays £10 per hour (a few pennies more than the minimum wage). The recruitment process includes 4 steps (interview with the recruiter, the hiring manager and 2 role plays). Is this to be considered normal or shall I just tell them to f.o.? Edit: is a telemarketing job (in my native language, so shouldn't I be paid more because I speak a language they need?), no training, no career development, nada. It's only appealing to me because it's fully remote, BUT i will also have to use my own equipment (laptop, headset etc)

Sometimes it feels like we are all trapped. The bosses had to be suffer hardships to become bosses and now the need impose those hardships on you to validate their past suffering. It's almost as if they made the environment healthy and functional, that means whatever they sacrificed (because of the unhealthy environment they developed their careers in) was pointless. Sometimes it feels like we are all trapped…

I despise going to work everyday! It's such a waste of time and I'd rather be doing a million other things. I hate waking up early for work, I hate getting dressed for work, I hate having pointless conversations with my coworkers and I hate doing a job that doesn't improve my life in anyway other than filling my pocket. Working sucks and everyone knows it, people just pretend that it's normal to wake up and do something everyday to make a living. It's no different than children going to school. Most kids hate school because it's forced and they don't have a choice but to go. They hate doing mundane assignments, following a pointless schedule, scarfing down food in less than 30 mins and being told what to do all day. School just prepares you for the shitty workforce you have to deal with after you graduate. Who designed…