Author: Olivia

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…

Basically I have a job that is public facing. My boss owns the business. Basically halfway through a meeting with a client I learned that my niece was born and passed shortly after due to a birth defect. We knew she had one but we were hoping for the best outcome, obviously. My family was keeping me updated through text since they are one state over. I held back my tears and finished my meeting with my client. I am also 30 weeks pregnant and hearing that my sister’s baby didn’t make it was extremely upsetting. Afterwards I did my best to let everyone know I had a family emergency and that I needed to reschedule my next meetings. I tried to call my next client and I left a message asking them to reschedule. They showed up 15 minutes early so I spoke to them in person asking to…

My monthly 1:1 is this week. The last 3 months i've brought up the lack of raises given due to cost of living. I've been with my company almost 2 years now. My work is being used by our training team for examples/expectations. I'm at the end of my rope. How can I make it clear to my supervisor that I need a raise NOW. I'm tired of being brushed off, tired of my living expenses getting tighter, and mostly tired of not being fairly compensated. Any advice on making myself clear? I'm considering letting my sup know that I'll be polishing my resume. I'm so frustrated at this point. I've been making $24.64 for over a year and it's not cutting it. I want 27$ to afford COL plus inflation