Author: Olivia

I got pulled aside (on my day off) for a meeting with my boss. I've worked there for three years, and have been a star employee. I make the most tips out of every employee, I receive compliments on my chipper and cheerful attitude often and on my good customer service. I make 50 cents above minimum wage right now (wages went up in my state, luckily my employer kept my original 50 cents above minimum), and it's hard. Customers are brutal sometimes, I'm going through a million life changes at once, and my manager sort of treats me like his dog. So during this meeting my boss told me that he heard that I was moving 30 minutes away with my friend (a coworker at this same place) and would be looking for a new job. He said he needed to know exactly when it would be that I…

It was awful. I quit after three and a half weeks. They tell you on day one that the incentive system is stacked against you and they openly laugh about how this place is a revolving door. (Turnover rate) Full of those classic boomers hacking their lungs out after smoking another cigarette in the wearhouse right next to you while you're learning how to do the job. Going on and on about nonsense. They make you wear steel toe boots and a visibility vest to sit in an office room on a painfully slow computer for nine hours a day for a week while you do remote classes. The boots and vest are required. To sit in an office. Using a computer. While the instructor is at home. A couple days we sat in that room for FIVE HOURS doing NOTHING because the first class didn't start until 1pm. I…

I'm not looking for another job but the city I live in has an opening for a position I wouldn't mind. So, if I get the job cool, if not whatever. My interview is at 1PM, I showed up at 12:40 but was told the person doing the interview will be at lunch until about 1:15-30. Scheduling an interview and then being late isn't sitting well with me. If they don't respect me enough now to be on time I can only imagine the disrespect I'd get if they actually started paying me. So, now I'm just sitting here waiting, typing up this post, trying to decide if I should just leave or go in there with a DGAF attitude.

In December, I resigned from my previous job as I was being severely underpaid and were requiring me to be on-site 5 days a week even though I could do a majority of my job remotely. They also started tacking on more responsibilities that was no where near in line with my career. Anyways, fast-forwarding to January: I began my job search and received a job offer about 2 weeks ago paying me significantly more than my previous job. I still interviewed at other places trying to itch out more money. One interview in particular rubbed me the wrong way. The interview was going well, but HR was giving me weird responses to some of my questions. The reason I gave to quitting was a family member being sick (which the family member was and I did take care of him). However, HR asked if I didn't ask for time…

This morning my son told me he had a dream where he worked in an office with cubicles, and he had to go to the bathroom really badly but they wouldn’t let him. Then the cubicle started shrinking and he was afraid it would crush him. But just when the cubicle walls started to squeeze him he started shrinking too, getting smaller and smaller until he thought he was going to disappear. Is that not an intense work anxiety dream for a kid who doesn’t even work yet? It makes me so sad. I guess kids are more aware of the future they are being prepared for than we’d like to believe.

I was working as a soccer coach. We ran a class for young kids not in school to start learning basic things and following instructions, a one hour class. For the last 3 months we have had this new hire who is an ex military guy, American, who was living in Korea until his mum passed from cancer and COVID prevented him from returning to Korea. We will call him Dave. So Dave was given the shifts for the little kids and there were typically two a day 3 days a week. As was the norm for many other programs the business ran, he recorded his hours as 2.5, because he would come in early to set up and clean up afterwards. In fairness it was not a full half hour of work to set up and clean up. Dave was assured that he would make 18/hr after 2 weeks…

A few months ago I started a new part time job. Full time is too hard for me to manage between my kids and my cancer. Anyways, I took the job at $14 an hour. They originally tried rescinding that and offering $12, but I got $14. The job is fairly easy, and I enjoy getting to organize and consolidate everything in the building. I asked if I could learn more as this business is something I have seen myself growing in before. They seemed eager for me to train but were dumbfounded when I insisted that I also be paid appropriately for it. I told them I need a $2/hr raise to start and little more once I become full time, which they offered to me in the first place. In this time, a full time employee quit and so I started to pick up his slack. My boss…

Written in my performance review: “While it is not illegal to discuss pay with other people, such actions do not reflect professionalism, as it is done during paid work hours and has made the other party uncomfortable of the situation” I spoke to 1 person about salary after they were upset about not getting a raise (although she was praised as a hard worker) I spoke to another person NOT about salary but about another opportunity I had and the negative workload of our current company. We were overheard by a supervisor, which was then reported. This coworker was not even spoken to about the conversation. I feel like I am being gaslighted.

Of course its easy to start a business in the USA. You're not required to treat your workers like a human being or pay them a decent wage. It's probably soooo easy to start a business when you can have your workers subsidize your business. But once that changes, will America still be on top? I personally, don't think so.

Long story short… I signed a job agreement for compensation and benefits. These benefits included a 401k match. Yesterday 15 minutes before the end of the day they send out a mass email saying they are cutting 401k matching for the foreseeable future. Fast forward to today talk I talk with HR as I signed a job agreement that states if I leave within one full year of employment I have to pay back my sign on bonus. They said this is still the case. I don’t see why I’m in a legally binding agreement when they can change the terms at anytime…? Fuck corporate America! Edit: missing words..sorry lol still pissed Edit: wording misuse of word contract should be agreement