Author: Olivia

I had been having other issues, so I think they were looking for an excuse to let me go anyway, but I cant get over the irony. Basically I worked in a hotel, and they had to fire all their KPs so front of house staff ended up having to do the dishes. I have sensitive skin so I looked around for gloves, but couldn't find any where they should be stored. I wasn't going to leave my colleague to do all the dish washing herself, so I just got on with it. It took maybe 2+ hours to get it all done. The next day I had rashes all over my body, and my lips started to swell up. I'm first aid trained, (an investment I made in my own employability lol shoot me) and I know that lip swelling is the time to call an ambulance. I notified…

Don't know if this belongs here, but my Grandmother was recently hospitalized and I went to see her on my days off. After, I was feeling depressed and feel no motivation to “mask” and go to work. I've taken two days, and my partner is now worried I'm going to lose my job if I take anymore, even with a doctor's note. To be honest, I'm not willing to sacrifice my mental health to play food gatekeeper at a grocery store for $17 and hour (US). I feel like my partner is more concerned with how my employer is dealing with my Grandmother's hospice, rather than me. I just wanted to point out how toxic work culture poisons people into thinking their mental health is a lesser concern than a companies need for staff. It's even coming out of our loved-ones' mouths, and I don't even think they realize the…

The day I feared finally arrived: I had been struggling with anxiety at the thought of going into work and did a no call no show because I couldn't even call in. My supervisor called me and the store called me. But, my heart was trying to break out of my chest so, I ignored the messages and calls and basically shut down. I vowed I would at least give a two weeks notice: but, that place overworked me and gave me so much stress. I'm fairly certain it was a panic attack.

We hear about the CEO's of publicly traded corporations sometimes taking $1 yearly salaries as a show of their company spirit – the truth is that they also harvest gargantuan executive bonuses through “carefully aimed” stock price targets, all made possible by the gaming of the system via stock buybacks. Here's the real story: even the well paid CEO's harvest those bonuses. It's those stock buybacks that have been wrecking the middle class for forty long years… TLDR: Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were illegal. Stock buybacks vaporize all available (and borrowed) corporate cash for the sole purpose of triggering short-term executive bonuses. Buybacks benefit nobody else in the long-run. In the long-run, companies that refuse to do stock buybacks fare much better (Ref #4). Stock buybacks, for the manipulative purpose of hitting stock price targets, have been the primary driver of employer wage abuse and layoffs for the past…

So I’ve been wfh since the pandemic started. The C Suite wants us in the building, but my team lead lets me do what I want. This fine Monday morning, there is a meeting that I felt like it was important to attend in person, so I came in. We have two toilets on a floor seating at least 60 men on a normal day. Maybe 10 people here today right? I go to bathroom at 9am and someone had pissed all over the toilet and left a nasty shit in the bowl. Fuck offices, fuck coworkers, fuck this bullshit country and system. Pay me to rant on Reddit about your Slumdog Millionaire toilet culture. I’m so fucking over it.