Author: Olivia

so i’m 26F and my boss 50sM. i’m already very anxious about germs and my personal space etc, but i’ve learned how to cope with everyday life and working around people. i understand that old people tend to lick their fingers to flip pages, my mom does it and it has always disgusted me. like why put your saliva on something that you’re giving me??? my boss has been doing this. he will set papers down at my desk and instead of letting me look at them (bc i’m not stupid, i can read them and understand what i need to do), he will lick his finger, and flip through the pages to explain insignificant things about the document. and now i have saliva on pages that i have to touch. it’s so unnecessary and makes me stall on doing whatever work i need to do bc now i have…

Actually, to be honest, Im working two jobs in tandem making that much… But i love them both, but can only afford to eat once a day. I can’t get sick, and if I do, I have to work through it. Im exhausted, not with my work but with society as a whole. Why is it that my job is not deemed important enough to provide a living wage? And with the fetishizing of material possessions, not having alot is looked down upon by my peers “What do you mean you can’t go out today?!” “You can’t afford streaming services?” “man why you so broke?” Im more than broke, I feel like I’m starving, suffocating

I got put in a PIP recently after 10 months in the company. Basically they hired me when the market was good and now they can get someone at least 20% cheaper. Also my boss doesn’t like me and wants to find a scapegoat as she has been screwing up a lot. Two weeks ago, I was in a 9 days PIP, then, recently, they made up a bullshit excuse to extend the PIP by a week. Next meeting being middle of the week first thing in the morning. I know it’s because they got a ton of unexpected workload with tight deadlines and want to ‘delay’ firing me. My worry is long do you think they can string me along without a clear answer? Every time they fail to plan something, they will delay my PIP? It’s annoying that I don’t get a clear answer from them and it…

My company has been pushing for a return to the office for about a year now, and it really rubs me the wrong way. I'm not normally one to be upset about petty things, but this one just irritates me, for the following reasons: 1) Very soon after my company told us to work from home, a lot of people moved to their vacation homes far from the office. So guess what? They don't have to return to the office 2) When the company mandated 2 days per week in the office, I complied. But every time I'm in the office, it's so empty. Some days, I'm literally the only one there, which makes me feel like a fool for even following the rules. Granted, a few people have been trickling back in recently 3) About 3 months ago, they started pushing for 3 days per week. I'd found a…

So I’ve been working for my company for a year now and I’ve known my boss a little longer. I thought we were cool but I get sick a good amount and always offer to show my doc note they never want to see it. Now I call off last week and get meds and a doc note and let her know what’s going on offer the doc not through text no response she also ignored me the day before when I called off when the symptoms started. Now last night I went to the hospital because it was just getting worse I get fluids in me. My blood drawn tests done I’m there until 3 am. So I text once I’m home hey sorry I went to the doc I have this he told me to rest till Friday I say I have the note. Today I wake up…

First time in 10 years I’m in an hourly call center job. (I’ve been salary and management in call centers before that.) They told me that if my shift starts at 9, I should be logged in at 8:50 to check email and make sure systems work. But there’s no unauthorized OT. So they want me to do unpaid work before my shift to make sure I can do my work during my shift. I’ve never managed any of my sales call center employees to do that; even when they were salaried I sent them home at end of shift or got them some sort of compensation or “gift” for early or late work. I hate this industry.

I work at a large insurance company as an auto claims adjuster and I’ve hit my breaking point. I started off at this job almost 2 years ago and I was doing great. So good, in-fact that I was actually instructed to start training people who have been there longer than I have! I was promised so many things, raises, promotions, shadowing opportunities, prizes, the list goes on. Never got any of that. What did I get? More work! Due to being so on top of my work I was constantly given other peoples work to help out with. At first I was doing it with no complaints because I thought well maybe this time I’ll get that raise or get that promotion. Nope as time went on I was just hit with more and more work. It’s got to the point where I’m so stressed out because I can’t…

Starting in January they sent a company wide memo saying we’d get W, Th WFH – amazing.. only lasted 4 ish months Bc now start of may now we don’t anymore because the salespeople aren’t selling well enough.. so now everyone feels the repercussions.. like maybe it’s just an impending recession? Why not penalize just sales? How does that incentivize anyone since before, if they hit their numbers, they’d be allowed to WFH… and now gas is $5 a gallon so I’m stoked