Author: Olivia

Do you think you have missed out on potentially good job roles because you dismissed too soon? I’ve had people reach out to me and at the start of the conversations it always starts so eager. “Your resume looks strong and suitable for this position.” That sounds great! What’s the salary on offer? “Sorry, we/I can’t say.” Well then why the fuck should I apply for this position? I’m only moving for a potential salary raise. I have just ended so many conversations at that point. I sometimes wonder though if I have missed out on good roles because of my strict approach to ending conversations which won’t state the salary. Are there companies out there which do hide salary information but at the end of the recruitment process give the new employee a good salary offer? Why can’t a company be proud to show they pay their current and…

I'm totally fucking clueless as to what to do but we're underpaid service desk analysts with unreasonable expectations for performance comparative to our base pay. We make 20% less than the national average for SDAs and I'm fucking over it. I used to feel like I was lucky and could support this sub from the outside but I quickly found myself in a poorly managed hellscape. Now, what the fuck do I do to start? And, go.

I started watching the new series and can relate too well (through personal and friends’ experiences). The solidifying of the “work self” as a person who exists separate from my real self and the fact that businesses want that work self to become the dominant half feels too close to home. It’s got that glorious satire of Office Space, but that takes second chair to the allegory of the modern work space and the toll it plays on our psyches. There’s so much to unpack from the first two episodes, but I won’t ruin anything. I’m curious what others feel. And do you think it’s anti-work? (Or do we have to wait and see?) Some time back someone asked for anti-work movie recs. So far I’m feeling this may be at the top of my anti-work TV shows.

So this morning the manager I report to yelled “Don't tell me how to do my job!” at me when I told him the justification of the color I used is that it's in accordance with the brand guidelines. Not because the design didn't serve its purpose, not because the design was not up to standards , but because he doesn't like the company's primary color. It's not the first time he has done this. He told one of the programmers they shouldn't be telling him what to do when they wanted to upload the website to a live dev server so that relevant people in the company can help check for errors. His argument that even in this dev server, the website has to be perfect and error free.