Author: Olivia

No long, drawn out story of me quitting unfortunately, but it feels so great to say. I graduated 8 months ago with a degree in computer science, and have been working a dead-end IT support job since then for a company that cares only about profits. After 8 months of dealing with dumb, rude, outlandish client calls and working unpaid weekends every month, I can finally say in done. Landed a development position for 50% more than I'm making now, and quit without notice early last week. After a lot of posturing from my boss, I called his bluff and havnt heard from anyone at my old company since. To all, it gets better! You just need the strength to get there.

I was the detailer for a Caliber Collision shop in my area. My primary job was just that, detailing cars. However as time went on, I kept being stuck with other bullshit jobs. Taking cars (some being completely unsafe to drive) to whatever location, and rounding up trash are a couple. And when I say trash, if you’ve worked at a body shop you know how it is. Mountains and mountains of cardboard, plastic wrappings, heavy junk parts off of wrecked cars, etc. I was the ONLY person expected to manage a whole shop’s worth of trash. All of this would detract from the time I had to do my actual job I was hired for. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago and I kinda fell into an amazing opportunity at the place I now happily work, for a boatload more money. I am now gone from Caliber, but…

Hey y'all, I'm right off the heels of this (just happened last night) and just needed somewhere to vent. I worked for a small business (technically a chain but we had all of 3 people working at a time max) and to make a long story short, I was the only one besides the owner who knew how to do half the stuff this job demanded. The holidays were our busiest time and, before they'd begun, I requested some time off in the future since I knew the owner was going through medical treatment and wanted to be courteous by adjusting my schedule around theirs. Big mistake. To make a long story short, they blew up at me when I tried to actually go through with the plans, refusing to grant even a single extra day and actually expecting me to cancel last minute plans that unexpectedly came up to…

Long time lurker here. I understand that some of you have been around since this sub had 14 people, you disagree with this person’s views or that person’s comment. It needs to stop. I am all for uprooting the system as much as the next antiworker, but let’s be real. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of small victories before we start seeing major victories that lead to real changes. I don’t care if you’re an anarchist, a social democrat, or anything else on the spectrum. I don’t care if your end goal is fair work conditions or not having to work at all. We are NOWHERE near either of those right now. If you’re both against the shit conditions we have now and want to see change for the better, YOU ARE ON THE SAME TEAM. That has to be good enough for now. Once…