Author: Olivia

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for background, i’m 17 and just got let go from my food service job. i’m about to graduate high school and have two months of summer break until i go traveling to see family for all of august. then in mid september, im moving across the state for college. i’ve also completed enough GE to graduate within two years or less with a bachelors degree and don’t know where i’ll go from there. while i loved having a job to build up some savings, i realistically don’t need to scramble for a job for the two months i have left in my hometown since my parents are financially stable enough to confidently pay for my two year degree. they ensure me that i shouldn’t be stressing financially and that i have the entire rest of my life to work. i’m very grateful to be in a position where i don’t…

Can I get in trouble for not disclosing this raise to my boss? Should I ask management about it?

Yes. Just as the title states, today I got a talking to from my office manager for two things 1. shuffling papers too loudly and 2. sitting in an attorneys favorite chair in the lobby just before we went home on Friday. I am still dumbfounded that anyone could string together such a perfectly stupid sentence and then just say it out loud. Needless to say I am currently looking into other employment opportunities. To do anything less would mean a serious lack of self respect on my part.

I’d been with my company for 13 years. I started as a temp on a production line and had been promoted multiple times and was currently working in a salaried role in an office area of our company when we got an email Monday afternoon announcing the company was laying off several hundred employees globally to achieve a cost reduction percentage. The next morning at 8am I received an email telling me I was one of the employees being laid off. Several others I work personally with who had also been with the company for a long time were also let go. This all happened while our private company’s billionaire owner doubled his net worth over the last few years during the pandemic while the company continued to induce more and more cost-cutting measures that were blamed on Covid and were supposedly temporary while telling us that we’re a family…

This is more of a vent than anything about job hunting. I’ve been out of a job since December, and I keep looking for jobs but it’s so difficult. I don’t have a car so I’m reliant on my mom but she’s always helping my sick grandma so she can’t take me to night shifts. Literally 90% of the jobs in my small town are retail so as soon as they see I can’t come in all the time they ignore me, and I don’t know what I can actually apply for anymore. One of the most frustrating ass things is being completely ignored. About 5 of the places I applied to won’t ever even deny me, they’ve just kept me as ‘under review’ for months. I don’t get why a simple no you’re not hired email or call is that hard? I live in a small town, it’s not…

Title says it all. I work for a mortgage company and have 2 main bosses. They’re co-branch managers basically. We have maybe 15 people in my office. Or we HAD that many. Over the last several months they’ve laid off 4 of the most important people because they “couldn’t afford to keep them on.” They also told me just last week I couldn’t get a raise, and that at this point I should be happy to just have a job in this market. Today the other boss remarked to me that we wouldn’t have had to fire the people if we didn’t have to pay the other bosses wife 5k a month. I was taken aback. The lady doesn’t even work at our company. I make HALF as much as her. Her name comes up in the company directory though. Wtf. Her husband (the other boss) is crazy hardcore about…