Author: Olivia

It's just now hitting me how bad the system is fucking us. We're basically doomed if we don't take action. I'll try my best to explain. I'm a college student right now. I'm paying tens of thousands of dollars per year to get a little slip of paper saying I spent four extra years of my short life studying. And the thing is, I don't even like what I'm studying. I only chose it because it is a sure way to get money in the future. I fucking hate it here. Studying something I don't like just so that I can spend the rest of my life doing the same thing I don't like. All because it's make a living, or starve. The thing I love most in the world is making music. If I had my druthers, that's what I'd be doing right now. Working on music and spending…

Originally I use to be very open about my personal life, what I did this weekend, where I went and who I was with on vacation. After a few years of employment, I now want to be that person who doesn’t tell everyone about my personal life. I work with around 40 other healthcare coworkers whom are very open about their personal life’s. How do I draw back without stirring up impressions and gossip at work?

Quite literally what's in the title. To elaborate, I work at a certain coffee shop popular in the northeastern U.S (not sbucks) that unfortunately has not unionized and I do not have hope that it will. My coworkers have no desire to do so cause “hurr durr fees and dues” and it's really a rather bleak prospect for unionization for the franchise's workers. I just want to be paid more for what I do (I think that while I'm not perfect, I try my best to do my job being neurodivergent and all), and on top of that, be treated like an actual human being instead of a robot that can do 1 million things at a time. I've decided that I won't go above and beyond what's in my job description (no I won't do the manager's job), and I'll limit contact with the district manager, I'll leave my…

Hiv everyone. I need a little advice. I was working for our major regional health care network for a call center through a staffing agency until this past Wednesday when my agency told me the client terminated my contract. For some context and backstory I started in March 20th and I'm openly trans and non-binary as well as I have 15 years customer service experience 10 of those in call centers. Thec person who was to be my manager was on leave for the first week and a half. All the managers and team leads my first week and a half seemed great. That was until my manager came back from leave and I felt tense. I should also point out the first 2 weeks were class room learning for training and the 3rd was just listening to calls. The agents were great except one who I'll call Sarah purposely…

I just remembered this one time at my old job where a coworker and I had an unfortunate coincidence occur.. both of our grandmothers passed away in the same week.. both in Puerto Rico while we both lived in nj. Our job could be very petty. Needless to say they looked at us funny when we both mentioned in the same week (different days) that we had to take days off.

Did they remove the COVID sick pay?