Author: Olivia

Besides working… how do we make money?

So I just got fired today…and I can't rant to anyone about this. I'm a quality system professional for a pharmaceutical company. I generally get paid about ~$40/hr in a permanent position but due to labor shortage contract jobs pay about ~$80-90/hr. I was contracted by this billion-dollar company for 2 years to fix their system. (Should be from 2021-2022 with a possible extension) I've been with them for at least a year and the current director who I report to is satisfied with my work. Due to multiple issues in different departments, my director placed me under a new manager a month ago. I already felt something was off two weeks prior about this new manager as she was nitpicking every project I've completed and I just shrugged it off. I'm not sure if she was jealous… Since I work for an agency, the new manager had to sign…

I’m about to change jobs, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got this one. If I do get this job offer next week, then I will need to tell them at some point that I’ve already planned a cruise and flight, and will need 9 days out of work come August. This is probably the one and only opportunity I will ever have to go on a vacation like this. I also have a dental appointment in a matter of weeks for a crown to be put on. I will be working during the dentist’s working hours, so I will have to go during my working hours. How do I tell them all this without jeopardizing my job from the beginning? And at what point in the hiring process do I say anything? I’ve been trying to get out of my current shitty job for 6 months now, so I’ve got…

Anyone ever feel like being a helpless Morty, being controlled by the Ricks?

This is the same boss who ate half of my lunch before. That didn’t get resolved btw, but never happened again (needless to say, I was more careful about my food). Few days ago, she wanted to touch up her face before a meeting and asked to borrow some of my makeup. I gave her my makeup bag and she returned it shortly after. The next day, I noticed that my favorite glitter eyeshadow was missing and just… I want to ask her about it, but I’m worried it might sound like I’m accusing her of stealing. Should I just let it go and get a new one?

No successful societal change has ever happened without a clearly organized movement. Martin Luther King realized that “those who love peace must be as organized as those who love war” in order to affect real change to our society. Most people operate on hope, but hope is the idea that someone else, someone other than ourselves, is going to do the work. Truth is, we’d be better off without it. The hard truth is, no one is going to do the work but us. We must do the work. We must organize, we must organize as effectively as those who love war. Imagine then, a military without weapons, an army without guns, an organization ready to mobilize its energy and resources throughout the world on a moment’s notice. Imagine hundreds, no…thousands, no… millions of people singing the same song, operating under the same belief that corporate corruption is wrong and…

My friend suffered an injury (I’m not sure yet if it’s a work related injury) and she had to stay in the hospital because of this injury. She cannot stand for very long because it is painful- she does have a doctors referral to not use a lot of strain or pick up heavy things, the job has all of her medical records too form this. I just don’t know what else she can do, since no one will give her less hours, and I know they can because they give two other older women less hours. Trying not to give to much detail because of her privacy but this job makes us stand for 9 hours with one lunch in between She is sitting when she can now, but she has to stand when there is a customer, but it’s still rough on her