Author: Olivia

Short back story so I work as a line cook at a counter service restaurant that opened over the pandemic. They havnt been doing so well and I’m pretty sure my boss isn’t making money, in fact probably losing money after payroll/expenses n all that. But he asked me to cover him so he can go away for a couple days. Is it reasonable to ask for a bonus or time and 1/2 or something like that? At my old spot when my manager needed me to cover he’d pay me his wage for those hours.

Mostly a vent. I am currently on disability for mental issues, and they don’t give me much at all to live, so I figured I would try to work an under the table job to try to make a little extra, to survive, and keep my insurance so I could stay in therapy. I got lucky because an old acquaintance/friend of mine, has a family partaking in running a business, and I Had worked for them before. When I started things seemed to be going well. I had laid out how much I can work because of my disability and number of appointments, and everyone seemed understanding, first two weeks flew by. Week three my friend says she’ll be going on vacation to Florida with her step brother, and is leaving her sister, who was supposed to be “supervisor” in charge to work with us. Making 4 of us left…

Graduated law school last year. Got a job as a law clerk after I took the bar exam in August with a part time professor I had at his firm doing a mix of criminal and civil and family cases. Started off great, he was very supportive and friendly and complimented me a lot and said I was doing great. Even said he wanted to train me to take over the firm in 10 years. Said that after I pass the bar I'll get the associate attorney job. I find out I passed the bar in mid November, and I get business cards with associate attorney on them, and boss tells me he's got an offer letter coming my way. December comes and still no letter, ask him about it, says he will get to it after this big criminal trial he's doing. All this time I'm not hearing anything…