Author: Olivia

I worked for a company in KY while residing in OH for the last 1.5yr. The first 12mo went perfectly fine. Work from home, gave it my all and did everything they asked, no problems. Got a new “senior” manager at the 1yr mark and she was one of the worst humans I have ever met. Passive aggressive, demeaning, dismissive, presumptuous, accusatory, and she just really didn’t like me. She was young and had zero management experience and I kept hoping that if I just did the insane task she was asking of me, she would move on and leave me alone. I was wrong. She wrote me up after being my manager for one month, for “performance.” She didn’t even understand how our department worked yet. I was doing completely fine by all standards, my clients were very happy and nothing was behind. I talked to my boss and…

I'm not sure if this really fits here, but I learned that i end up making more a month than my sister who is a Shift manager at a CVS like store, while i work a job that is at the lowest in my company, cart pusher… I'm not entirely sure how this makes sense, she worked at her job longer and even went for a degree for this job through her company. I still make more at 15$ an hour…. this just sounds a bit wrong. If this post doesn't fit here, i'll take it down…

Without getting into too much, I'm physically and mentally not in a good place to go to work tomorrow. Part of me says,”Take tomorrow and Friday off, give yourself a 5 day weekend.” I keep telling myself “_____ needs to be done.” Or “'Feeling tired isn't what sicks days are for.” And to be clear, I could just go I'm and how through the motions, which I'd another thing. In the back of my mind I think,”You're able bodied. Go to work.” I guess my question is, do you peeps have trouble justifying using your sick time to take care of yourself when it isn't necessarily a bodily sickness? I'm going back to sleep so won't respond for a few hrs, but I appreciate any feedback/insighr/comments.

About two years ago I finally dropped out of university, and it was the best decision I ever made in my life. I'd been in higher education for 8 years—9 really if you factor in my Thesis extension—and while it had its good points, I can safely say that it wasn't worth it. I now have two degrees which are essentially worthless as I never finished the PhD, and a fuck-load of student debt. I chose to commit to sciences at the tender age of 16, because my gran died of cancer and I wanted to do my part to help end it. Sounds niave huh? I had initially wanted to be a writer, but my parents drummed it into me that STEM degrees gave you good jobs, whereas writing for a living was an unrealistic fantasy. Bowing to parental pressure, I took the right courses, I worked hard and…

There should be both and they should be permanently linked so these parasites thinking they're hacking life by draining our society for their own personal betterment have legal stops in place. I'm willing to fight for putting a system like that in place. Would also probably be the most effective way of raising the minimum wage and keeping it rising at pace with inflation.

I never had a great experience with a recruiter until now. I’ve been looking for a new job within my field (construction estimating) because I’ve been massively undervalued. I was hired at $45K a year salary, overtime exempt. A year later, no raise and I came to find out that a new hire was brought on for $55K a year, fresh out of college with no estimating experience. Another year goes by, I get a $6K raise but I’m applying to every estimating job I see. I go through many interviews, and it just seems like no one is biting. Maybe I’m bad at presenting myself (I’m autistic). Finally, I’m contacted by a recruiter. She is looking for candidates for a fully unionized company. I tell her exactly what my current day to day is and she says “huh, it doesn’t seem like you should be in a junior role”…