Author: Olivia

Just submitted my resignation to move to a job that is 100% remote. HR immediately calls me to tell me I submitted my resignation with false information and that I'm not acting rationally. Asked me how I found the job, what ties I have to the job, how much I'll make at the job. When I expressed my concerns that 5 people this week have left over I was told 'you never brought those up to me' Somehow I just feel like if HR intentionally tries to berate you…you probably weren't in the right place to begin with. HR isn't anything but a bully for the bottom line

Inflation is 7% so make sure you don’t let them steal the same amount of work for less pay.

It was clear that they'd overhired, there wasn't enough work for all the workers so we all sort of saw it coming. I'd had some attendance issues related to depression so I knew that if they did a round of layoffs I was vulnerable to due that. By today I'd worked for about 5 1/2 months in the company, from October to February. They told me they were laying me off and I told them I'd seen it coming and no hard feelings. They then deliberately postdated the “last day” to march 1 so I'd have another month of bennies and gave me 2 weeks PTO to help me look for a new job — this also, “coincidentally,” stretched my time worked so that I just barely qualified for unemployment in my state (which has a cutoff for jobs worked less than 6 months) and made sure the paperwork reflected…