Author: Olivia

A few years ago, I worked for a hyper-toxic finance director. She forced us to work evenings by sending us Outlook invitations to “book our evenings” without asking us if it was convenient or paying us overtime, she was always making nasty comments about everyone and she was always telling us that we were not grateful to her. In short, at one point we went to report the situation to human resources. The girl from human resources told us that we shouldn't expect the situation to change just for us, that the company maybe was not made for us. We were very angry with this indifferent answer from this girl from human resources who left at 4pm every night, so we expressed to the VP of finance directly that he was going to lose a part of his finance team. The VP of Finance had the HR girl come into…

Go through high school and learn about things that are irrelevant to the grand scheme of life, become conditioned and programmed to take on debt at an early age through college loans, sit on that debt and watch it pile up and multiply as you try to find a job that gets you out of the paycheck to paycheck cycle, pay your taxes and get little to nothing in return, but don't you dare question anything. After all, this is the American dream.

Sorry for the weird title as there’s a rule that doesn’t allow the world “title” in the title but I think that applies to a different context. Just looking for some advice on things to say to my boss today regarding this topic. This is my first job out of college and first non restaurant job. Some context is that my current job title is data entry specialist and I was hired in June last year but I’ve been doing the job of a data analyst for months. I work for a supplement manufacturer. I’ve taken time to learn the a lot of the skills a data analysts has and have self taught everything while on the job through YouTube. I’ve completely changed the way my company reports their production numbers with an interactive report using PowerBI that my boss, area supervisors and the ceo look at. I’ve setup a…

A contrary thinking : hourly rate is based on the value you add in the present time not the future. Companies who trust their employees should pay them for the future value added. You just can’t invest your time in building a company and suddenly being let go like nothing happened.