Author: Olivia

Good morning, I have been diagnosed last month with kidney nephrotic syndrome and I'm still awaiting for a follow-up on June with a urologist. I want to get weekends off to rest from work but it seems like work doesn't really care about me that much and want me to work whichever days they want. But I don't want to as it is when I have the most time to let my kidneys rest and because weekend work days are much longer (I'd have to stand up longer). Until I find a new job I have to stick here, but I was wondering if it's possible to go to my hospital where I was diagnosed with this, and ask for medical documents to officially state that I need to limit my work availability? I did not ask for any doctors notes or anything at the time as back then scheduling…

So I work at an electrical construction company, and recently I’ve been moved to a job site that is 1hr 10min from my house. I’m already upset that i have to drive that far, not to mention that I get 0$ per-diem for my drive because “they didn’t budget that in the contract for that job site”. Even though I meet said requirements for per-diem. So I called out labor division asking for a raise to compensate for not getting any per-diem (i’ll be at this job site for 2 years also) and they told me no because I “already make 2x” what entry level electrical helpers make. But I feel as if i’m worth a little bit more than the 17$ an hour i’m making right now, considering I have 6 years experience and with 3 years of electrical tech schooling while working full time for this same company.…

Everyone needs Healthcare at one point or another; now more than ever. It is a vital necessity that everyone has to be able to access. With Healthcare prices skyrocketing, deductibles have gotten higher and higher. Half the health insurance plans offered by employers these days make accessing Healthcare more expensive than if you had no insurance at all. The rates the insurance companies negotiate with providers are hundreds more than they charge people with no insurance. If you can't afford to pay these inflated rates until your $5000 deductible is met, you are not being paid a living wage.

I was hired by a large bank to work in a remote role last year. As part of my hiring I was told we would go into the office maybe once in a quarter or less, but that I was hired to work primarily remotely. During this time, I purchased a home in a rural area about an hour from the office and (in order to reduce my debt level to afford the house) I sold my nice, newer car. I used the funds to purchase a small kei car designed for town driving (30-50 mph local driving for groceries and errands). Fast forward to a few months ago. Company wide return to office mandate. Since my offer letter and written communications didn't state anything about being remote (that was all done verbally or thru phone calls) I had no way to fight the mandate. I am now forced to…

I been with my current job for a little over a year now (started March 2022) and at first we hardly ran any production. I’m talking about running for a total of 3 hours out of the 56 I worked my first week. Fast forward to the beginning of this year, we’ve been more productive than ever. For whatever reason my job decided that instead of 2 12 hour shifts they wanted to get 3 8 hour shifts. So they started hiring more people trying to get enough for 3 shifts. Somewhere along the way that planned got strapped, and it left us over staffed. Instead of moving some people to other departments or simply stop hiring people for our department, they decided too make four shifts total (4 on 4 off). They claimed to do this because we need to run 24/7, but in actuality it’s because we have…

Was at work yesterday and my supervisor comes down and told us that our donors and big company execs that give us boat loads of money (that the workers never ever see) saw us on our phones, and supervisor got chewed out for it. “Keep yourselves busy. and please limit phone usage to your break or after work hours.” At my job there's literally nothing reception can do if that “busy work” is done. So I stare at my computer screen bored out of my mind, so I answer texts/order food. I don't get paid enough to care that deeply. Pay me a respectable wage instead of making these rich assholes think im happy in being paid barely 500 every two weeks.