Author: Olivia

Any advice, stories, experiences, best practices, anything not to do. It’s somewhat stable income with benefits. At the same time, we need to hear about all sides and experiences. Good and bad I hope it’s ok it ask this here. Feel free to remove if it doesn’t align.

Many of us can’t do so due to constraints outside of our control (such as feeling uncomfortable doing so in public), and you are doing good praxis in reclaiming your labor value.

Just spent nearly an hour in a webinar just for them to announce they only pay commission for a role that's 40 hours per week. So in other words I'd be working full time but only getting paid if I make sales, despite the job posting not specifying that it was a sales role. Immediately left the meeting and recinded my application.

How come I couldnt choose to be a software developer?

I had to take my daughter to the hospital due to an emergency mental health situation. Ended up spending 27 hours in the emergency room while we waited for a bed in the inpatient program. Company owner would not stop calling and asking when I would be available to talk. Ummm, I’m at the hospital? My boss also had told him I was at the hospital and told me to take as much time as I needed. Owner asks ‘who authorized that?’ Crazy thing is we’re an HR company and owner should be familiar with NY paid sick leave laws.

I’m a closer at a butchers shop. It’s just me most of my shifts, and i work 5 days a week. I feel empty when I clock in. I do the same tasks every day and then go home and don’t feel accomplished. I get “thank you’s” and “I’m sorry’s” from the morning shift whenever they leave the shop especially dirty. But it’s not rewarding. I’m only here for the pay. What can I do about this. Can i even do anything?