Author: Olivia

I've had issues with this boss once before. She once got demoted and then eventually rehired as a supervisor because my workplace was desperate. She nitpicks me when I don't sign into my phone right as I clock in. I clock in at 8 am. She messages me at 7:58. I have been doing this job for 10 years. I'm well aware I need to sign into my phone. We do not get a lot of phone calls and there are at least 5 reps signed into their phones when I come in (three which happen to be her best friends). If she can't see me on Teams, she asks why (my icon is green but for some reason, she can't see it). Thus making me restart my computer multiple times before the icon turns green for her and she can see that I'm online. Yes she is messaging me…

Hi. We currently have someone at work who is obviously sick, coughing, sniffing, hacking. It’s disgusting, least of all because we work with food. Yesterday I asked our manager to tell the guy to put a mask on AT LEAST, because whatever he’s got, I don’t want it. Unfortunately my manager is absolutely useless and said he would but didn’t. Am I within my rights to say either he puts a mask on or goes home, or I’m going home? I really don’t want to get sick, and it doesn’t seem fair that this grub is here spreading his germs around and no one is willing to tell him it’s not ok

This is just an angry rant on my end. I left my job at a big company due to almost 7 years of promises that were never fulfilled. I started out making 38k while the person I managed made almost 60k, and left after almost 7 years at 92k, 30k under other people who did what I did. I ended up joining a company as a lead developer handling one of their main projects. After 60 hour work weeks for a year, 15 pounds of stress weight gained, me going without pay for a month, and losing almost 50k for this company, we finally sold our company. The higher up kept on telling my that I would make 2 years worth of pay, ontop of a 30k increase in pay a year due to me taking a pay decrease with the company. I found out today that not only am…

I am of sound mind and free from any willingness to act on my assertions or findings. As a good capitalist, I was putting together a financial prospectus to determine any way in which I could maximize my financial contribution to my household and I came to a shocking conclusion. It would be a better proposition to leverage an adequate life insurance policy with a robust incontestability clause to improve the financial standing of my household than to continue working for a significantly high wage for the remaining years of my life until retirement. Assuming an average wage of $120,000 and given my remaining 27 years as part of the workforce that would result in a total income 3.24million dollars, which would depreciate over the same period. I called around and got some basic quotes for life insurance. For a conservative $5,000,000 policy, which based on my age and relative…

$27/hr. That's the bare minimum you'd need to afford a single bedroom apartment, NOT including taxes or other expenditures, if you factored rent at 25% of your monthly income (which is what I was taught). You'd think people would be like, “wow, that's insane!” or “rental prices are out of control!” But no, the actual responses I got were, “you need to work a minimum of 60 hours a week if you want to get ahead in life” and “just go to college and become a dentist or learn a trade.” People just don't fucking care about the rest of us. If you work minimum wage, you deserve to be homeless and miserable. That's what everyone tells me without actually telling me. I'm so sick of this shit; even when I try to explain factual information about why all of that is bullshit thinking, it just comes down to “get…

I am PhD student (I am only get paid with stipend) but it is common practice in academia to use us as universal slave workers. There is a lab manager (50+ years old) in our group who is working full time and getting good salary and has many sources of income from the university. He is not my supervisor but that does not stop him from always bullying and micromanaging me. He started this week with bullying me again and because I was required to use facilities he is managing for my experiments he started to criticise, hurry, and push me to work over limits. The critical point for me was the moment when he said: “you need to work as hard as you can and if you do not manage to do double norm (he just increased the specific task I got from my supervisor twice!) you will must…