Author: Olivia

I applied and received an offer for another internal position at my company. Part of the “standard process” is for the two managers to negotiate the start date of the employee in question- between themselves, without any input from the candidate (me). All of this happened before I accepted the offer. Because all this happened without my input, my existing manager is telling the team- other managers and my peers- that I’m leaving. And of course, making these announcements without consulting me. I never submitted a formal resignation, never even mentioned to my current manager I was interviewing or whether I accepted the position (I did accept). To add insult to injury, my current manager is making me stay with his team for 6 weeks before I start the new role, due to him needing time to find a replacement. And had the audacity to tell me I actually have…

Thank you to whoever posted in this sub a picture of one of the National Labor Laws for the US. I just submitted a complaint! I took a job working an event and in the confirmation email the 5th bullet point said “Do not talk about your pay rate, politics, religion, or any other sensitive subject with your coworkers or with consumers.” I believed this to be a violation Of the National Labor Relations Act so I figure I should report them. I am considered freelance but if I understand correctly I should be covered by this act. Either way thanks again to this sub because I never would have known I could do this.

I swear to god if I hear about this one more time I will lose my mind. I'm burnt out. Not just from work, but some life events just wore me out. I can't sleep. I get upset easily over little things. I don't want to do anything fun, and the weight I lost last year all came back and then some from stress eating. I want to just take a long break, for my mental health. I sincerely give zero fucks on it affecting my productivity. Just make it all stop.

its not worth it

It's always “you wouldn't be so poor if you didn't buy a coffee” or “if you didn't get fast food once a week for lunch” or “if you didn't waste your money on that game console” as if getting ourselves nice things is a moral failing. We don't have a living wage, we work long hours and wind up with nothing to show for it because we can't pay off our rent, our bills, our loans, and still feed ourselves with just our one minimum wage job. And we're seen as stupid or selfish for it. Why shouldn't we get to do nice things for ourselves after spending most of our waking hours in hell? Why is rewarding ourselves for our hard work bad? Why is it our fault for wanting any kind of positivity or relief when it's the people we work for who won't pay us enough to…