Author: Olivia

So long story short I work in marketing and in November last year I took a week off on mental health leave cause ya know depression and stuff (btw I’m in Australia so that makes a difference in terms of our sick leave and such) Anyway ever since then I’ve been taken off some accounts, given intern level tasks like spending all day taking screenshots and changing fonts and all in all my workload has decreased significantly when my colleagues are drowning under their workload. I’ve asked plenty of times for more work but they seem to be hesitant in giving it to me, just giving me enough to make my timesheets. So like are they trying to make me leave without firing me because they know that they’ll be in the wrong if they do or am I just losing my mind

I work in a call center job, DirecTV specifically, and it has been stressful. Not the job itself but the situation. For the first 2 years it was fine. After that I found out I was diagnosed with Mytochondrial Myopathy which took me years to get a diagnosis to actually show something was wrong. After my first 2 years I got FMLA and it was great. Took the days off I needed to and it was all fine. This was back in 2020. Jump to now in 2022 and for the past year and a half FMLA keeps rejecting paperwork that worked before. I have called them asking how it should be filled out to make sure I get my approved days off and not have to visit my doctor every month to update fmla on specific dates. Every single time I call them they give me a different answer…

I learned this week that about ten percent of the roles in the organization that employs me are open reqs right now. Is this typical? What are y'all seeing?

I'm 17, I've been working since 16 full-time ( 40 hours a week) this past year I started working in a pallet yard 50-60 pound palltes repairing them and such, we have a outside company that takes a truck load or two of palltes I didn't think much of it, I figured out today that they get paid what we do in a month for half of our work, we've done 1,200 palltes just this month, for 600 they made about 10× as much as we do and I make 12.50 a hour. Been fighting for 6 months for a 1.50 dollar raise. Am I allowed to be mad or is it to petty ?

So i started a new job in supply chain distribution & was wondering if 1 hour of PTO for every 30 hrs worked in 5 day week is avg or subpar for the industry

Yeah ^ all of that. I’ve always worked in retail, until a recent (one month) stint working as an Administrative Assistant for a Real Estate Photography company. Over the last 3 years, mostly due to my stubborn stance of NEVER taking an insult unwarranted by employers, I’ve had 7 different jobs (some at the same time as others, some for 2 days… some for 9 months. You get the gist. I was not easily satisfied.). I kept encountering bosses that would either promise wages (and then never actually follow-up), verbally abuse me (to tears, multiple times), and gaslight me for being in shambles because of all of it. At the same time making like less than $12/h for a majority of the time. But anyways, just context. I’ve always tried to do my BEST in my job. I’ve had the same sh*thead employers call me back & beg me to…

Two parties control everything and have the exact same ideals, we vote for people not on merit or who is more qualified but who we dislike less, we are gaslighted at work and by “influencers” to just “stop drinking coffee” or “cancel those subscriptions” in place of discussions about worker protections and fair pay. We’ve allowed our lives to be dominated by talking points, politics, influencers and celebrities. We celebrate financial freedom only in the case of becoming exploiters. It has to stop, we deserve better than what we’re being given and we have the means to organize and push back against it. What do you want to see change?

A little background and some venting. Im a Flexographic Press Operator for a Union facility that makes cartons. I ironically work in a union ship while holding a bachelor degree in HR. My employer make cartons of all sizes from 4 oz to Quarts to Gallons between 6 facilities and 2 paper mills represented by different unions. Teamsters, USW and I dont know the other two. We have been working rotating 6 day work weeks since October and our sister facilities have been on 7 day work weeks for a while now. Management is terrible and the union doesnt seem to do much to help. I love what I do and the pay is decent 22.67/hr. What can we do to make unions stronger? We need stronger pro-union laws for sure but I highly doubt we will see pro-union laws passed in Congress anytime soon. However, we need more than…

I work in a hospital, so they’re obviously quite strict when it comes to Covid, working sick, quarantining, etc. On NYE I went home with a fever and got a Covid test the next morning from one of the only pharmacies that was open on New Years Day. Long story short: the results were taking forever to come in and I stayed in contact with the employee health and disability offices (disability handles short-term leave) every day. By that Thursday my results still weren’t in yet but I was feeling fine, 48hr without a fever, asymptomatic, etc and I was pretty sure I didn’t have covid but despite all of that I still wasn’t allowed to come back to work until my results were in. Both offices promised me even though I was feeling fine and able to work, I’d still be paid quarantine pay since they were the ones…