Author: Olivia

so yesterday i felt ill in the morning and i decided to go to work anyway. not knowing i had a 103.4 fever. i was working all day yesterday and my shift ended at 4, they told me i could go home at 3:30 because they saw how pale i was, and i said “it’s okay, i can do this.”. i worked as hard as i could accidentally dropping a fryer basket because i was so weak i couldn’t hold it up with one hand as i can usually do on a day im not sick. obviously. i dropped it back into the fryer and hot oil burned me all over, i looked up and everything started spinning and i fainted. it was about 3:45. i was taken to the ER and they told me i had a fever, which i didn’t know i had, and strep throat. they asked…

Hello everyone, here's a situation: Jessie the employee who works at Johnny's Pizzeria got back from a paid FMLA and after two weeks working, gave a two weeks notice letter. Meaning, Jessie's last day would then complete the 30 calendar day return to work period. As the U.S. Department of Labor states: An employee who returns to work for at least 30 calendar days is considered to have “returned” to work for the purposes of the FMLA. My question is, can Johnny's Pizzeria recover all of the health benefit premiums and/or salary paid during Jessie's period of FMLA leave?

Getting new federal law to protect workers rights should be the goal. It's nice to see unions getting support but unions are not as always as innocent as they appear on the surface.

I’m upset and need to rant, might delete later. I work at a smoothie place. We’re purposely understaffed, so naturally when people call out, it’s near impossible to find a cover. Despite being a full-time student, I literally make myself available as often as possible and I’m scheduled more than most of my coworkers minus the managers. I don’t need the hours, but my manager asked if I could work more and I said sure. I am the go-to person for covers. I took a 2 month leave of absence because I was bedridden in the hospital. When I came back, I covered 6 shifts in 2 weeks. I worked 13 days in a row. One girl who asked me, told me she didn’t want to ask me because I had just came out of the hospital fighting for my life for 2 months, but our manager told her to…

Hello, I figured this would be the best place to get honest, real feedback. I just got a major promotion at my company. Something that I’ve been working toward for over 15 years. It’s an amazing opportunity and the company is fantastic. Needless to say, I want to make the most of this. A little about myself; I’m 40 which is young for this type of role, and I don’t have the most experience. I’m a likable guy that can work with anyone and I have an absolute passion for problem solving. I was managing “my team” a year before I got the actual promotion and I have a great relationship with them. I hate meetings and mass emails. I prefer to talk to people one on one so I can have a direct connection with them. Everyone on my team has my cell number and I encourage them to…

When I first started this job was actually fun to come to. Then I started to see the quick turnover rate. And management kind of helping less and caring less. There is no work life balance. A few of the employees constantly message each other through the app that we use to communicate to other team members and I have to put my phone on silent just so I don't get PTSD from hearing my phone go off every 5 seconds. I've never been so stressed in these past couple weeks due to being short staffed and just the crappy attitudes of our staff and being basically promoted to a new position that I have no idea what I'm doing and expect it to know what I'm doing within less than a month just completely over it …I'm more exhausted sitting in front of a computer then doing physical work…

Yale University professor Stanley Milgram’s famous shock experiments from the early 1960s on the nature of evil revealed that every day people can be pressured to doing evil. Professor Milgram experiment and the disturbing results have been examined repeatedly and most interpretations over the decades have focused on subjects’ unquestioning adherence to an authority’s commands. The idea that ‘it is not my decision, I am just doing my job’ allowed a lot of people to go all the way through the experiment believing they were causing great pain to others, simply because someone told them they it was required. Corporations are the very embodiment of this social structure. Those who are doing the cutting of benefits for workers, laying off staff, providing a product that is less than it is advertised are doing so at the command of the share holders, who demand they take these actions. The prospect of…

I had this weird sensation that I’ve never quite experienced before. I took my pills that I took everyday, and the INSTANT I swallowed them, I had a slight almost/weak cough/sneeze feeling, and I started feeling head pain. What’s so strange is that it felt like my entire brain was being stabbed by a ton of needles, best way I can describe it. It was unbearable and I’ve never quite experienced that, the kind of pain that feels way beyond what you can even imagine, you just want it to end but you can’t stop it, you’re forced to endure it. I kept hiccuping, and felt extremely nauseous on the way there, and for some reason, extra aggravated/irritated, and even felt like drinking water would make my stomach feel worse. I was also strangely sweating really bad. I worked for a bit over an hour feeling like this, also kept…