Author: Olivia

Friday night I went to work as an on site manager for a temp company it’s on an app but I have only started April 6th and it’s my first leadership position. I was super nervous I wear a full suit and haven’t taken it off since I’ve started. I have two other on site managers who have been doing other jobs and have been working for this company and companies like these for years. They are doctors or very close to being them in different practices and I feel dumb because I’m a two time drop out still finishing my political science degree. Anyways. They became a clique on Friday making me do all the work while they make jokes and sit around our entire shift. I feel like I’m being an idiot just trying to do my job right. Coworker 1 kept bringing up right wing politics and…

I see so many posts talking about quitting. We need to stop doing this. If they are making you go back to work (WFH return), then stay home, and just wait for them to do their job. Managers hate confrontation (most of them), so you will be able to get that extra pay check until they grow some balls to actually fire you, which may be weeks or even months…. Again, there are a lot of spineless managers in the workforce. They are fine to tell you what to do, but for them to actually have to “do something” is difficult for them. Especially when it comes to confrontation or firing a person. Theyre used to someone else doing the actual work… For example, I told my company i was no longer filling in for the vacant analyst position (after 8 months of doing it for free)… My boss basically…

Inflation is just a tax on people who save. Entrepreneurs have debt and assets and when inflation comes their debt value is lessened and they still have the assets. Which is fine, you should get a reward for risk, but the gap now is just so large it seems. And it feels punitive to save money.

So it was close to the end of the day and the one manager (my “boss”) had a legitimate family emergency. Her kid was rushed to the emergency room for some health issues. This boss has always done a fantastic job, always been helpful, caring, and very reliable plus she always gets compliments from many of the customers. And then this happened and she's fighting back tears insisting she has to make things look nice in the store and get the job done 110%. I insisted that she leave things to me and call the boss boss because she needs to be leaving and be with her dying child. Nope. Instead she's stressing over leaving things for the next shift to do, she doesn't want to be a burden, hates when things look messy, etc. Even with me helping her she was more concerned for a company that doesn't give…

My father and I both work for the railroad. Solid union jobs that can be hard work, but for me is pretty rewarding. I've always seen and thought about how wages have not kept up with inflation and it's infuriating. I actually went to college for business management and that's where I began to see how shitty the business world was before entering it. My dad informed me that when he started out in the 90s, he was making $19 an hour. So if our wages kept up with inflation which from what I can see has been 65% from 1996-2020, I should be making around $31 an hour… I'm making $41. Unions work. For the love of God organize. I personally have been threatened by past employers for organizing my coworkers. I'm no longer with those companies but I hope what I started carried without me. I just think…

Promote drunken brawls at workplaces and profit off misery. These are gangs not workplaces