Author: Olivia

Were they orphans? Then they had help.

That’s it. Business has doubled the last couple years with no end to the growth in sight. That’s the work of us workers, not the CEO.

I told my boss Monday, I'd like $25 an hour to continue working. I was a vital part of the process of a larger than normal “mom and pop” sign shop. I ran their large format printers and cnc machines, managed time tables for production with the front and shipping. I gave him a week to figure out If he wanted to keep me, as I had been informed by a co worker that he had hired someone while I was absent with covid. This kind of was my last straw. It's been an awful year. My hours were cut down so I lost my health insurance, my pay rate wasn't increased to compensate as promised, I've had to learn two new machines at the same time while also fulfilling and managing a team for a rush order of 50k worth of signs in a restricted time limit. My “bonus”…