Author: Olivia

I'm part of a ton of local FB groups where chain restaurant managers are/have been posting available jobs. I've been noticing though they cut the hours and upped the pay. For example, 32 hours at $11/hour ($352/week) whereas prior the pay was more along the lines of $9/hour at 40 hours ($360/week). Does anyone else see this trend?

I got hired into a company but they want to run a background check through HireRight. I told them that I worked at a company from 2016-Feb 2022 that just went out of business. My father owned this company but they went out of business in 2016—he told me that he would lie for me and tell them that I’ve worked there from 2016-current and that they just went out of business a few weeks ago. On the form, I did put his phone number down but there’s no website or anything any were, and I don’t have paystubs, W2, or other employment related information. Will they just call him to verify or am I screwed?

When I was in my early 20s I worked at Walmart. I don’t have any issues with Walmart, but I gotta tell you that the middle-management in that company leaves much to be desired. Anyway, my direct supervisor, one of the front-end douchebag supervisors, made it glaringly obvious early on that he didn’t care for me. I had a target on my back and truthfully I don’t know why. I believe I have a strong work ethic, so idk what his deal was. Anyway, Walmart used to have a “thing” they referred to as “D-Day” or something like that (I don’t remember what it was called exactly) but basically, it was like a last chance thing before you’re terminated. This douchebag supervisor, gave me a handful of bogus write-up’s; for example: he wrote me up for “not working” because “he couldn’t find me when he was looking for me.” I…

Very long but I have to get this all off my chest. I moved 2 hours away to pursue a career at an artisanal bakery. I graduated from college last year with a BA in graphic design and studio art (yes yes I know fucking useless but it’s what I’m good at) but COVID cost me several internship opportunities, and my foster mother’s sudden passing derailed me personally. I decided to switch career paths to baking because it was her trade and it was something I was talented at and deeply passionate about. I have worked at several tourist attractions and restaurants with high production rates so I knew what I was getting into when they told me they were a production facility (IMO a little contradictory to being “artisanal” but whatever). I was a massive fan of said bakery, and I would make pilgrimages out from where I originally…

I just quit the company I work for this week. It's a small construction contractor. I saved some hipa violations. They would take 20 min off for lunch if we didn't clock out. I documented the whole “exit interveiw” which was an excuse to try to offer me $100 to never sue them or talk negatively about them. I declined the offer. Would in be worth it (more than the cost of a lawyer) to do anything.

It's about a person who got harassed at work by one of the bosses' niece. Basically, niece wants to call OP by a nickname that OP is uncomfortable with, and OP told niece that and also said if niece called her that she'd ignore it. Niece doubles down instead and took to calling OP by that nickname every chance she got (which all got ignored, of course) and it all came to a head one day when niece just sings nickname over and over loudly across the open office floor in an attempt to annoy OP enough to get her to respond (she didn't). Finally, the other boss storms out and scolds the niece and threatened to write her up if she continued calling OP by the nickname. During lunch, niece confronts OP, yells at her for getting into trouble, and calls OP by nickname again. The other boss happened…