Author: Olivia

I worked in retail for several years for 24.50 an hour while I went to school. I hated the job but the pay was nice and I could work around school. Now I work in the hospital and absolutely hate it here. I like working with patients, but the coworkers are terrible. I thought I would be alittle respected wearing scrubs, and not be talked down to like I was in retail but it’s gotten worse. I tried to give it a try but half a year later and I can’t stand it, I even tried to go back to my old job but me and my old boss don’t really like each other since he didn’t like that I was in school. I took a pay decrease to work in the ER, and went to school. I went from 24 to 16, and only give me 25 hours instead…

I’m a freelance videographer and I had sent a message to my point of contact saying – “Good morning ******* I haven't invoiced the videos for the last 3 months and I hope you don't mind but I would prefer to continue working on the new videos after that is settled” Not soon after my boss called me saying he was considering firing me for saying this. This is my first corporate gig and I want to know where I went wrong as I truly don’t understand what he got so mad at.

I was curious on what the normal yearly raise is? At my job we apparently get 2% raises a year (and sometimes another one in July depending on if you get paid less than average for that job in the state). I calculated what a 2% raise would be for myself as I am coming up to a year in April, and it would only be $0.31. I feel like that’s too low. Or is this normal?

So, I am not a socialist. I'm opposed to wokism…but I agree with a lot of you about our current situation. I'm Canadian, so my pov may be a bit different as I've kind of lived the socialism route where industry drags and creates different avenues of industries for taxation. Namely in Canada…well at least some provinces…using real-estate as an industry, jacking prices to unfathomable unafordability, taxing their sales gor revenue, all while redistributing province funds of higher GDP, in equalization payments to other provinces with lower GDP, severely affecting millennial and zoomer upward mobility through sky high cost of living, all while ignoring creating meaningful production. Money printed is inflation with no production. High paying, high value production employment is more likely to create happy societies than free paper cash or freebies… which are never free. I get this may be against a lot of opinions here and that…