Author: Olivia

Hello everyone, first post to this group so I hope something like this is allowed. I’m a mechanical engineer who’s pretty young, only about 3 years total of relevant work experience since graduating with my Bachelors. I’m in the Duluth, GA area and make 70k now. Is that fair? What should I ask for as I start applying to new companies?

Our TX company/hospital is trying to force the staff to work unofficial holidays such as Mother’s Day, Black Friday, Halloween and other unofficial holidays which are notoriously understaffed. Staff already has required weekends and federal holidays. They will not pay extra for said forced unofficial holidays. Anyone familiar with Texas labor laws that could protect us when going to HR? Hope this is the right sub for this. TIA.

I started working for a nonprofit as a data analyst a few months ago and have mostly been enjoying the work. It's not necessarily what I was expecting, but the pay is nice, I enjoy working from home, and it's my first position out of grad school. It is a grant funded position, so it currently ends end of July, there's always possibility of extension, but I don't know when that discussion occurs. On my team there are 4 positions, and the pay increases based on degrees and experience (according to the job descriptions). except for one. data analyst (66-72k, 1 year exp, bachelors) epidemiologist (70-80k, 2 years exp, masters) senior epidemiologist (82-94k, 5 years exp, PhD or MD) junior epidemiologist (77-99k, no exp posted, no degree posted) Now the junior position doesn't have exp or degree in the posting (which no longer exists); however, the people on my team…

I'm considered “well ahead in life” as I have my car paid off (although it's quite broken and in need of regular maintenance too) and I have a small home with a mortgage. Even with that in mind, my wage job pays exactly enough for me to get by and my credit card debt only increase by a few dollars each month But I'm struggling more elsewhere. I hate my job. Year after year we lose a supervisor (usually fired for violating a policy, or they leave for better pay/benefits elsewhere) and I train the replacement to be the perfect boss, (for me and my team) my leadership operationally has always been far and above budgeted output and we regularly support the rest of our warehouse. I learned to code within our warehouse management software and automated quite a few departmental tasks, which increased productivity and reduced role complexity (it…

I’m 16, turning 17 soon. And I’m terrified about my future. My mom keeps pushing for me to go to college and she also wants me to start working with her this summer. I’m just scared. I don’t want to go to college. I struggle with depression, anxiety, and ADHD and am struggling with high school enough. I doubt that if I go I’ll even be able to pass. It doesn’t seem worth it. But should I consider it more? Or would going straight into work be a better idea? If I do go right to work, will I be able to live off of shitty minimum wage? How do you all make a living? Especially in America, as that’s where I live.

So, a few years back, a business I was working for was sold to another company. One day, this 'consultant' comes in to speak to the staff individually. He was at great pains to reassure us that he was only there to try and improve the business, anything we said was totally confidential and any insights we had would be appreciated, etc etc. The new company had changed a lot of things (and in my opinion definitely not for the better), so in my naivete I didn't mince my words and I told him exactly how I felt. Fast forward 2 weeks and suddenly cutbacks were needed and they offered myself and another colleague voluntary redundancy. I took it cos I hated the new management and I knew I would never gel with their bullshit. But yeah, looks like I was interviewing for my own job.