Author: Olivia

I work as a bartender/waitress in a small town, the kind of place where “everyone knows everybody’s business”. And it’s great, for the most part, until you have a customer literally steal tips from the bucket, in front of not one, but three cameras!!! So, what did I do? I hailed down a town cop and gave him my report. I was told this from another customer, that he reached his hand in the tip jar and pulled out a bunch of ones. I believe him, and even though I don’t necessarily keep track of my tips during my shift (to save from getting discouraged), I know he wasn’t being a farce because one customer in particular gave me $37, which his bill was $31 (and some odd change), and told me to keep the rest, so I “should” have had at least 4-one dollar bills in the bucket; but…

We should require employers to have to pay for commute. If they don't like it offer better wages so they can live closer. Commute should be calculated as 2 hours a day. 1 to get there and 1 to get back. Everyone should be getting paid 50hr work weeks instead of 40 hours. Commute = work I don't care what you say. We workers can make this happen. This will incentivize employers to offer Full Time WFH to cut down on payroll cost. Also it will help reduce green houses gases like the corporate agenda been telling us for year's.

I hear that all our emails and Slack messages etc are always tracked and I understand tracking is a simply process for the tools to do “functionally” but for my employer to actually comb through my 1000s of slack messages, emails, comments in our SaaS stack etc how would they go about “building a case” against me. I have a hard time fishing for emails and certain slack messages I sent trying to get details about a project etc, so are they just searching keywords within all my comms throughout the team? I'm not sure how these tools work, but it seems like someone would have to complain about something, flag to my boss, then my boss has to search recent chat etc, but if I said something that was factually inaccurate, but not all “explicit” about a product 7 months (but they don't know it was 7 month ago)…

And that’s the whole fucking problem with boomers, as a whole. They just don’t give a damn if it isn’t a problem for them. I told her the US is the only democracy on the planet without free or national healthcare. That we are almost the only country on earth with no vacation days or sick days or maternity days guaranteed by law. I told her other places are switching, or already have, to a 4-day work week. I said my vacation submission was denied because another employee quit and they aren’t going to fill his spot, and now we can’t have two people off on the same day. I told her if I lived anywhere else in the developed world, that I would simply tell my employer “Hey, I’m not going to be in next” and that’s it, they couldn’t stop me from going. I told her life shouldn’t…

I have been at this bank for a while. Today, I had a talk with my manager and he brought up “performance concerns”. Long story short, I have been working how I have been working the past 2-3 years , which is at a minimal rate. They want me to take more initiative but that is not going to happen. I am just being realistic about it. I rather they fire me but I want to make sure I have all my bases covered. If anyone with a similar position has experience, let me know. I am of 32 years of age and am a junior developer. Make about a $100K and I work in Ontario, Canada