Author: Olivia

This is more of a rant than anything else. I’ve been working as a full time contractor for over two years for this company. I started September 2019 and was finally hired on as a “Full Time Employee” this October. Mind you, I still worked 40 hours a week. I’ve had all the same responsibilities, if not more, than their actual employees. I’ve been pulled into special projects, training for different teams, and I’m even the SME (subject matter expert) for several different brands. I got this job right before Covid happened. I hadn’t planned on staying for very long, but then the world stopped and I was just grateful that I still had a job and survived several rounds of layoffs. We have monthly performance reviews and I have NEVER gotten a bad review. My managers have had nothing bad to say about my work. I have never had…

Would you stay at a job where 3 people are constantly on you and managing you. 3 Team lead support thinking they're now the new manager and telling what to do. In total 6 manager wannabe They all want to speak at the same time in the meeting. Deuces in a bit 🤞

Quitting with no notice means you say you quit the day of. Job abandonment means you just ghost them without a word. I worked at a Fortune 500 company and this guy from another department which I worked closely with just stopped showing up. Nobody knew what happened to him, he never quit, just vanished. Higher ups were so pissed and from what I was told they had to keep paying the dude for a number of days because he didn’t quit and he wasn’t fired right away so I think it benefitted him but can’t confirm. Hopefully it was just a ghosting and nothing terrible happened to him. Anybody have any experience with this? Maybe it’s beneficial to do if you work for huge companies but not a small business?

Hello I’m in college so I haven’t had much real world job experience, but the one office job I had was horrible. But I’m autistic so I thought it was just me. Once I made a joke about how I got a $0.04 raise, and the supervisor yelled at me in front of everyone bc I said that I got a raise and it’s not okay to talk about that with my coworkers. And I felt like shit about it for doing something she said was bad, but was also very confused. So now I know that I wasn’t in the wrong and it makes me feel better about myself and standing up for what I know is right. So thanks to everyone in this sub for teaching me about corporate bullshit!!

Given all of the spectacular budgets that have been shown on news outlets, I thought I’d share my actual one. Making 97.5k, as a single 26yo male living in a studio without splitting rent, my budget is the below: Rent: $1,700 Renter’s Insurance: $10 Car Payment: $330 Car Insurance: $140 Phone Bill: $150 Utilities: $60 (water covered by landlord and climate doesn’t get too hot or too cold most of the year) Internet: $70 Student Loans: $950 Subscriptions: $80 Food: $600 (groceries/eating out [which I don’t do often]) Gas: $120 Investment: $200 Entertainment: $250 Insurance: $100 (this is pre-tax and I pay for a dirt cheap insurance since I never go in. It will likely come back to haunt me given the medical system but oh well for now) 401k: $570 (pre-tax) Gross Monthly Income: $8,150 Pre-Tax Deductions: $670 Net Monthly Paycheck: $5,220 Total Spending: $4,660 (Amounts out of net…

I work for Natural Grocers, a middle sized chain of health food stores in the US. Over the past couple months, we've received several raises, along with the announcement of an employee appreciation month for Febuary. We've been lavished with free food, novelty company hats and scarves, coupon books, etc. Today, middle management (dept managers, assistant dept managers, etc) received a notification that NG is launching “union awareness” training modules at the end of the month. I'm assuming this, the novelty gifts, and extremely late raises (we are only just now as of this week competitive in wages with other grocery stores in town) are attempts to stop more people from leaving due to the understaffing, poor scheduling, poor pay, immense workloads, dirty working conditions, and so on that plague the grocery industry, and our company specifically. Although we can see the module on our training website, it isn't accessible…

A month ago my office experience a surge of Covid. Nearly everyone got sick. I was exposed by my employer, became ill, and needed to use a week of PTO. I only accumulate only 2 weeks a year. This is right before my wedding which will take a week honeymoon and a few days of vender meet ups, so I will be in a PTO deficit due to this whole debacle. When I tell recruiters this they are flabbergasted that my company was so apathetic to exposing me to Covid and using my personal PTO days to compensate their lack of planning. I’m looking at new positions. One position is offering an additional $5k, financial analyst, great experience, a field that is more lucrative, and room for advancement because it is large. It is hybrid after the first 4 months. The second is the field I am already in, senior…

So I quit my job last April on really bad terms just walked out and said I quit and it really upset my bosses at the time. They were bitter about it and didn’t pay me out my retirement till 6 months later but now they haven’t given me my W2 even though the employees that are there have already got there’s is there anything I can do besides going to there office and demanding it? I know that’s what they want me to do but I don’t wanna play there petty games.