Author: Olivia

Just a joke to lift the spirits a bit, folks!

So one of my past coworkers were catching up. We used to both work under agonizing conditions at a mega corporation. Think Walmart, Fed Ex, et cetera. So she is telling me all the reasons why she finally left. And her last message was, “Idk why they are still paying me” I said wait. What? She said yeah this is like the second or third time its happened.🤣 Just wanted to share with all the folks that dislike how mega corporations create slave wage culture. Just know that they are getting too big for their own regulation. 🤣 Flying too close to the sun.

I just recently graduated about a month ago and I got hired at a construction management firm as their business developer. The company consists of 12 total employees. I am the only one who is not an engineer. I’m also the youngest by probably 15-20 years. I get little things to do and they are not time consuming. What I describe my daily routine as would probably be best described as my boss’s(the owner of the company) assistant. I do little forms. That’s really about it. Half the time he says I screwed them up… is it too soon for me to say f this job and resign? Or should stick it out for a year? What would look bad on my resume for my future employer? I think this is a great gig but, I do literally nothing all day and I’m so bored of it. I know a…

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What is wrong with these woes?

Title. Underpaid and my mental health is suffering so badly at this job it's starting to affect my physical health. Anxiety vomit every day sort of thing, the works. I have coworkers at this job who I can list as references in the future if I need to so I'm not terribly worried about not being able to list it on a resume in the future. I'm a little worried about being without an income but I have a few good applications in and an interview next week that seems promising. I've already drafted an email saying that it's effective immediately and laying out the major reason why (I won't get into it because the details would be too specific but my boss directly threatened my career a few weeks ago because I did something that they personally didn't like), even said that I'd be sorry to affect my coworkers…

Just wondering if this question is allow for this sub, but my friend works at a Latin American country for a company at the USA, she is considered to be promoted to a SME (subject matter expert) however we think the company is thanking advantage of her because of where she is working, just curious to know how much an employee with 5 years of experience and essential for the company might be asking for a job.