Author: Olivia

I’ve been working at a new place for THREE WEEKS, first two weeks went great i can’t lie. First day i get called and ask to come in because someone is sick, it isn’t the location i signed up for but working somewhere else is better than staying home and doing nothing. After that i only get work at the other location which i didn’t sign up for, i still go while not worrying because it wasn’t that far from my house. Now two weeks later i get a call from a supervisor saying that something went wrong and i can’t work at the other location anymore because i didn’t do a “all around training” after that someone else calls me and says i can work at the other locations and should just show up at work, while at work someone gets called by the supervisor and the supervisor tells…

Cross Post from r/maliciouscompliance: I work a consulting engineer designing and implementing systems (network and server) upgrades for organizations with worldwide locations. When initially hired by my company the agreement was I would get paid for every hour I worked, usually 40 hours a week when at the home site, up to 80+ hours per week when at the customer's location. No overtime, just straight time as my position is “exempt”. While on-site I would also be paid MI&E (Lodging expenses, Mileage expenses, and Meal & Incidental Expenses) to include rental car. MI&E can add up to a couple thousand a week in places like Hawaii, Japan or England. Flash forward a few years and the company has been bought and merged a couple of times and the new company decides that exempt employees are now salary and will not pay for any hours over 40 plus of course no…

I live in FL, At will employee. I resigned and I keep getting calls from management and ex coworkers. Has anyone gone through this?

I will preface this by saying I understand that it's not all boomers and that there are plenty of socialist boomers out there who are with us. There are also plenty of conservative boomers out there who are still working because they weren't able to benefit from the economic situation for one reason or another, and I feel for them too even though they vote against their best interests. The Boomer generation took the most fertile economy that America could offer from world war II – the economy that our depression-era grandparents fought really hard and worked really hard to create – and they succeeded in it. That old economy allowed our grandparents to retire and live very comfortably on the pensions that they created. By retiring, they opened up space for the boomers to take their jobs and then also make a good life for themselves. The problem is…

I'm a Licensed Massage Therapist and the last 4 years I worked for a chiropractor. When the pandemic started the chiro made it very clear that they thought the virus was a hoax. I should have left then.. but I loved my clients and the chiro didn't force his choices on me so I was always masked throughout the day. The week of Christmas, the chiro came in super sick. (I assume it was covid but they were never tested) Proceeded to work with clients without a mask. At lunch, they told me they were going to take the rest of the week off and to inform our clients that “They are off for winter break” Ethically and morally.. I was not going to do that. So I packed up my car, left the key on the back table, and walked out. Texted the boss to tell them today was…

So Ive gone from making 200 a week (5 an hour) back in 2005 to working two 10 dollar an hour jobs in 2012. In 2014, two years aftee graduating college, I got a job in my field at 38K a year. 2016 I was at 55K. As of 2020, I was making 72K a year at that job. I just left that job and got one making into the lower 6 figures. One of the 10 dollar jobs I stayed on with part time, the entire time since. In 2014 I went to the boss and more or less demanded a raise to 15 an hour. I had all the leverage, and did some very important things for them. In 2016 I was ready to hang it up when I got the bump tp 55K at my other job. They gave me another dollar to stay. In 2018, same…

How do know you if you are walking into a trap that is gossiping A holes, cliques, micro managers, bullying, drunkards and your general run of the mil wankers…

There was a post here about this. And a lot of comments suggest that there's a lot of propaganda to make people believe renting is cheaper than owning a home, mainly because of “unforseen expenses”. So, here are some real world examples; I found rental listings on Trulia, pulled up tax and property records from the county, and found other data to put this together. First thing to keep in mind is when you rent, you're not building equity. You can rent a spot for 30 years at $804/month ($289k), and can never get a penny of that back, except maybe $804 in security deposit back. Mortgage a home for 30 years at $804/month and assuming the value is the same as the day you mortgaged, you have $160,000 in equity. If your home is worth $100,000 more, you have $206,000 in equity. Spend $35k to build an addition that…

This idiot is constantly looking for problems to solve, that only he can solve so he can swoop in and be the saviour. The only problem is that they're always non problems and sadly I have no real way to prove it. Whenever I call him out he gaslights me and uses a lot of overly complicated technical jargon to make it seem like I just don't grasp the full complexity of the situation. A little game he loves to play is after inventing his fake problems, he then goes to management and tells them how he just solved this enormous (non-) issue and how great it is for everyone. Today I finally found definitive proof that he's full of shit. Not that I didn't already know. We work in biopharma and his whole schtick has been that our predecessors couldn't do their jobs. There were some problems but somehow…