Author: Olivia

The next time you or a loved one break a leg, have any injury that affects your ability to care for yourself, or have a devastating stroke, it’s worth knowing that the highly educated therapists who are with you in the darkest times of your life, likely work for a multi billion dollar “therapy contractor” who resells their skilled labor to Medicare, pockets up to 80% of that money, pays their therapists as little as possible, forces them to be face-to-face with patients for 90-95% of the day (barely leaving time for a bathroom break) despite being required to complete 4-5 hours of paperwork strictly for billing purposes. These people enter a “helping” profession, knowing they won’t make tons of money like an MD or even nurse practitioner, study their asses off, are incredibly knowledgeable after 6-7 years of post-secondary education, and genuinely want to help you . Many new…

I’m new to Reddit so forgive my overall ignorance about how things work. I’ve been lurking in this subreddit for a while and thought I’d share my story as the super bowl nears. We sold our business in 2013 and I needed to find a job. I was in my early 30’s and work in media and marketing which means I create or help create ads and then buy them on various platforms. Those ads can vary from a simple google ad to a super bowl commercial, hence the timing of my post. I put my resume on LinkedIn and a recruiter called me for a job that he thought would work. It was 2013 and the offer was for $48,000. I was like okay, let’s try it. The job itself was easy, most people didn’t know what they were doing but my boss SUCKED. He was a poor excuse…

I work for a restaurant that does out door catering on carts and we usually wear branded t-shirts that we are given for free, well this winter we’ve all been wearing our personal sweaters and stuff to stay warm and management has been annoyed because we aren’t “representing” the brand. They finally had hoodies made and a bunch of us went in to grab them and they are charging employees $20 for these hoodies and they’re defense is that the hoodies actually cost $40

Few weeks ago my father was diagnosed with cancer and so I’m in the process of making plans to leave my current apartment to move my partner, myself and our animals in with him. On top of that, I have to coordinate when my sister in law and her partner will take over our apartment, maybe by mid March. I told my boss this about a week ago as well as my plans to leave my position, and now she’s saying that I’m performing at 80% and that she understands with everything going on but she’d prefer if I gave it 100% Mind you she leaves work early over the slightest inconvenience or the slightest upset stomach or bad mood and often fails to carry out her responsibilities in the office leaving me and my co worker to pick up after her. I’m just tired of having to give it…

For context – we're located in Germany where worker's rights are pretty strong. I hope this post is understandable for foreigners too. If not do not hesitate to ask any questions. The last weeks have been tumultuous. We're a small company of roughly 15 workers. When they tried to fire a long-term employee we decided to start an intervention by founding a worker's committee. As one of the employees initiating the founding of a worker's committee she would enjoy protection against dismissal. She left our company nonetheless because she got a better offer and I'm so proud of her! But by law she was still a regular employee til the end of February and she kept supporting us in the process of getting unionized. As we're a small business our worker's committee will be consisting only one member by law – I am one of two candidates by now. When…

I had been sick and missed some days of work, along with having tech issues which werent even my fault(it was a work from home job). A soulless call center service job, where I was at least attempting to do the best I can. Dedicated 6 months of my time, just to wake up yesterday and have all of my accounts deleted and not even be told I was fired. They didnt even have the courtesy or courage to say it to my face. I called my contractor who got me the job, they werent even made aware until they called. Honestly I just feel uncared and disrespected from the jobs I've worked and I'm in a cycle I don't know how to get out of. Fuck this system.