Author: Olivia

I appreciate all the posts where a person stands up for themselves against their employer and throws in the towel. If you’re looking for a sign to quit your depressing, rat-race job, this is it right here. I’m not an advocate for homelessness, and I’m not telling you to quit your job if you don’t have enough saved up for at least a couple months. The only way to take back our power is to do exactly that: LEAVE Keep fighting the good fight~|

I currently work at a small restaurant that's owned by a family who was kind enough to give me a job when I couldn't find one. I currently have an open workers comp case and lawsuit that's been going on since 2019. I was working as a home/facility health care provider when I had my work place accident. My injury prevented me from going back to work as a care provider and as COVID-19 got worse so did my case managers who were responsible for getting me the surgery I needed to fix my injured arm. I ended up waiting 18 months to get my surgery and now have permanent damage to my dominant arm. Due to this finding a job has been near impossible. I had to give up on my vehicle payments I lost my apartment nearly everything I owned and moved back to California with my mother.…

So I left my previous job after 3 years because I was being taken advantage of and I was being grossly underpaid for all of the responsibilities that were piled on to me (a tale as old as time, I know). I then moved on to another job that was a few dollars higher and promised regular bonuses based off of performance, so I took it. I was desperate to leave. I was one of the highest performers in the office even though I was new and I was receiving a mountain of praise from the clients, the higher ups and my boss. I'd only been at this job for six months and I was already starting to see the cracks. I started on a hybrid schedule due to COVID and I was content with that. But in January, they sent their employees a poll asking how we feel about…

I've been a call center trainer for 10 years. For six of those years I had zero control of the new hire training curriculum. In those six years, clients and senior learning managers had pass/fail final written and verbal assessments. If a student fails either one of those assessments twice they are fired. Call center agents were starting at $9 or $10 and if they didn't pass I have to fire them while only making $12.50. It was so traumatic to the agents who were already strapped for cash. They can barely afford professional shoes and I had to have difficult conversations regarding their appearance or lack of reliable transportation if a senior leader noticed it and brought to my attention because I would ignore it. I've had agents cry and sob begging to keep their jobs. Four years ago I finally own all call center training and my first…

had a frustrating experience with wendys today. made a mobile order coming home from work and went through the drivethrough for pickup. the kid in the window looked like shit… probably had been getting abused all day because they were out of buns (not a great thing for a burger chain). he offered to do my sandwiches with lettuce wraps but i politely declined and said i would cancel my order. parked in the lot to cancel the order on my phone but for some reason the app wouldnt let me. all these fast food places have a really bad application model. as a tech person its frustrating how badly it's designed. no integration with the restaurants point of sale except sending the order. no features allowing the restaurant to interact with the order (like if they were out of something) other than confirming it or even the ability to…

My work has had me working 10 hour days, 5-6 times a week, every week, since October. When I get home, I'm left with like 3 hours to made dinner, shower, then off to bed so I can slave away at this job for another 10 hours the next day. And then my one free day each week gets slammed with doing laundry and other chores I can't tend to over the week. The girl I was talking told me today that she's lost interest because I'm never available- my entire social life has disappeared, but this job has allowed me to start tending to my quality of life and doing things that I haven't been able to afford like getting repairs done on my ancient car. I am so tired of this trap between being too broke to survive and being too isolated to live. I shouldn't have the…