Author: Olivia

I spent a good year and a half on site at a client taking care of the employees needs, only to be under mind by the ethically compromised plant manager, his boot licking lackeys, and willfully inept supervisors. There comes a tipping point where enough is enough. I’ve never considered walking out on a job before. The environment was so combative it was conducive to this type of behavior from the employees. If you push someone enough, they break. I’m not sure if I feel like I did something wrong, but I know that things could’ve been handled completely differently, mainly by the toxic management. I am so glad I’ve moved on, within a week I was offered a boost in pay and the title worth holding onto.

Worked my ass off for 6 months for this company, was promised a raise twice, and then with no message or call, I went to work and the door was locked with a different key, I had to call these idiots for them to tell me the business had shut down. I honestly don't know what people are thinking.

CW, depression, suicidal ideation. Edit: I wrote this as a comment in the above thread, and found out after I tried to submit it that it had been deleted. I figured it might be worthwhile for some of you to hear what the inside story sounds like, and how variable it can be. Currently coming up on three years Costco after fifteen in retail, two of which were as a salaried manager. My time at Costco has been almost refreshing. The store functions as perfectly as can be said of any business in history, even in a pandemic. Everything that can go wrong has a plan in place with mostly good authorities in charge of it making the changes necessary when someone calls in, or someone gets hurt, or a department is getting crushed. People are cross-trained to cover, extra help is there. The worst thing that happens is a…

So I had this really idiot manager who requested of me to do disgusting things like clean a toilet! Yuck!! One time, I had to clean a poop stain, and he said that he didn't care if I got my hands dirty, just get it finished. So I decided to show him what getting your hands dirty really meant. Th next day, I brought in some gloves and cooler full of cow manure from the local farm. As soon as I saw my boss, I put on the gloves and flung cow manure into his face! Then I began to chuck manure everywhere including the food. The entire batch of food was spoiled because I threw cow manure at it. I then threw manure at my co-workers and the customers. I made sure to get some on the floor. After manure was on the floor, I began to vigorously stomp…

Long post ahead, I don't know how to make tldr so please bear with me. So the CEO of the company I'm working at (a service company in Hong Kong) announced that they're releasing promotion and salary increment arrangements in mid-Mar, and any salary increases will be with retrospective effect from 1 Jan, 2022. Say if I got a salary increase of $1k, my Mar salary slip will have an extra $3k. It's not the first time they're doing this retrospective thing, they used to happen in mid-Jan pre-2019 which is totally legal and understandable, then pushed to mid-Feb in 2020 and 2021, and now even later in Mar. I told my ex-colleagues and they think it's their way of deterring staff from resigning during the peak season in Mar. For the record, our department has 200 people and my team has around 20. Only 1 of us got a…

1 Chance at life and it's this bullshit, can joining the military allow me to escape? If so what branch/job do you recommend?

So I work at walmart. Tonight I come into work and a few new rules were dropped on us. A policy paper was being passed around to sign. So they have a point system for attendance. If you call off a maximum of 5 times within a 6 month period, you get terminated. This was a policy that I did sign upon being hired. Tonight, they announced that if you have 4 call offs, you will be docked 1 day every week until one of your points falls off. Essentially making any full time employee part time. And you do lose any benefits. This became effective immediately and several people have already lost hours. It doesn't affect me personally because I'm not there yet but I'm still in a huge disagreement with it. Now the policy that they passed around to have us sign was just the normal attendance policy…

Becoming a heroin addict/drug addict. I didn’t touch any hard drugs until age 25. I was probably the last person you’d imagine that would ever touch heroin. Nobody plans to be an addict quite frankly.. I believe it’s something that is programmed in our DNA, environmental factors bring it to life. I’m thankful to be in recovery but that doesn’t mean my addiction goes away. Life is much harder in recovery because you have to dig yourself out of the hole from your active addiction. You can make “plans” to rebuild your life but it’s much, much harder than you could ever imagine. I am coming up on a year almost for when I went to rehab, and in my plans; I should have a lot more than I do today. I will get it all back and then some eventually. However, what I do have? I have complete sobriety…