Author: Olivia

Pretty much what the title says. I have (had) a co-worker who crossed his 10 year mark with the company last month. As per company policy, the final bump in pay and PTO is at the 10 year mark. He is now making the most money he will ever make with this company. He could stay for another 10 years and will not get another raise after this one. This last week, he put in his resignation. When HR asked him why he’s leaving, he them that he has no incentive to stay with the company. He said that because he can’t get anymore raises from this employer, the only way for him to make more money is to go to a different company. He is using this most recent raise/benefits bump as a bargaining chip when negotiating wages at the next company. He took an offer with a company…

Hi, Did anyone here see it, and what did you think? If you didn't see it yet, or if you did, the miniseries structures work around four levels of work, or types of work: service jobs, so-called middle class jobs, dream jobs and “the boss” or “c-suite” executive jobs in large corporations. I thought it was interesting in some ways. One thing I wondered, for myself, was about how the middle-class jobs were portrayed. The documentary shows one young man who I think is supposed to be from the millennial generation who is passionate about electronic music, and who is shown to use his middle-class job at a tech company where he lives to finance his passion for music. He has trouble affording his own home. I wondered about the tone in the movie and the portrayal of the subjects. I thought it suggested that young people should be more…

My sister works for a very large engineering company who she’s been working for around 3.5 years. Her starting rate was around 79K and after her promotions she’s making around 89K now. She’s the only woman on her team and she had just discovered that the relative new hires have a starting rate of around 95K. These guys just are out of school and have barely any experience even though my sister has a lot of experience at this company and two others prior to her employment. She brought this to the attention of HR and HR asked her “well, how much experience do you have?” As if her experience has anything to do with her capabilities. She is overqualified for her roll, she is smarter than the men on her team (trust me I’ve heard her speak and basically run everything) and yet, because she is the woman, they…

My Co-worker died in his sleep unexpectedly last week. He was 60 years old and literally got worked to death. No announcement, no meeting, no day off in his memory. Hell i didn’t even find out he died from my damn boss, another co-worker had to tell me and boss confirmed. Ahhh but they did hang up his obituary for us to read it. I talked to him every day Monday-Friday we always discussed how it was a race to get back because we do not get paid an hourly wage our field of work is stressful and will definitely take a toll on you if you let it. Anyway, moral of the story is that it’s true that these companies really do not care about you if you die they won’t even bat an eye and will find your next replacement within a week. I miss you buddy.

I’m 16 and I just passed my lifeguarding certification which is a very physically demanding class to take just to get certified, I conveniently live right behind a pool that is also attached to a golf course. Was told I would probably get hired because there is such a shortage of lifeguards, turned in my application and certificate of completion and got ghosted. not to mention 3 years ago I did an extra class and got certified by the Red Cross for cpr before even taking lifeguarding classes and now the place I applied to has ghosted me. There were multiple kids in my class that were “re takes” who had been lifeguards already for 2 years and needed to be re certified, every.single.one of them failed the class. Why the hell did I even take a lifeguarding class and PASS to get ignored by a job who supposedly was…

needless to say i declined. these managers are on a power trip for $13/hr (min wage here in IL). also would like to mention that they advertised the job on indeed and other sites as starting pay being $15/hr—only after you fill out their application (which included three short answer questions and two proficiency tests) do they send you the rest of the info which clearly states it’s $13/hr for a probationary 3 months before they raise your wage, during which they can fire you at any time with no notice or reason. please