Author: Olivia

On Monday I gave four week notice so they have enough time to find a replacement. I work in a private school and they have weird policies. In order to pay you holidays you have to go to work the day before and the day after that holiday. On Friday 26th we have an in service day and they asked me no to go because they don’t need me; which means they won’t be paying me the Memorial Day holiday. I asked my boss and she said “I’m sorry” is that allow? Can I do something? It’s two days that I’ll be missing. I’m so upset that I gave them this amount of notice now, I tried to be nice and they fucked me up anyway.

Started back in kitchens recently (had left to do IT for a bit and then had to stay home with new twins for a couple years) Appreciating the new top pay (19/hr for my decade+ experience as a cook compared to 11/hr at my last position) but other than that, nothing has changed. Management is better about keeping to my availability and request offs than I remember in the industry but other than that, things are still split among gender lines. I’m still expected to be “cool” in the kitchen to keep my hours. It’s still mostly men in the kitchen and women as servers with a few outliers like myself. I still even have women, younger than me, asking “why the kitchen?” just because I’m a woman. I still had my boss ask me “what my husband did” in my interview and feel the need to mention “well we…

That’s how my company announced 90 people getting fired last week. Along with another program offering 670 early retirement packages that you have 10 days to accept or decline. They promise if you don’t take it you also won’t be “involuntarily separated” in the l future. Thankfully, my friends and I are all in the Union and they legally can’t ask us or fire us with our cause. One of my coworkers supervisor was “offered” it. He’s only 55 and at 60, when he wanted to retire he would have 30 years so his pension would have been pretty good. But if he accepts the buyout, he’ll lose out.

I'm exploring a career change. I've always worked in education, but it's kind of a dead-end income wise. Thought I'd like to start over working in the industry. So I applied to a job that only requires a high school diploma even though I have a bachelors in order to gain experience. Shot me down because my experience is not recent. WTF