Author: Olivia

Because I am not “meeting expectations.” I’m doing the work of two full time employees because we are understaffed for our caseload. Didn’t argue. Didn’t try to plead my case. If they don’t like my work ethic now they’re going to hate it even more while I build my own clientele during work hours to transition to working for myself. Fuck them. EDIT: I am too radicalized to take any job seriously. I am feral.

So I have worked at a financial institution ( not mentioning names) for nearly 2 years. Just had my review and got a raise of a whopping grand total of .60. I’m a teller and pretty much have ran the lobby many days by myself because we’ve been short staffed for a while… To make matters worse, I had to go on leave back in October for severe depression. At the time it caused my to be out of balance for a very high percent of that one month. Mind you, I went an entire year without any mistakes or being over/short (coins if anything). Well I have had all of my limits reduced and basically starting over. I no longer can approve even the simplest of transactions and have to constantly ask for an override. Was told could take a year to prove myself and get back where I…

I recently left a remote nonprofit role where I was making $70k for a new remote nonprofit role making $80k with a 32 hour work week (yay!). In my old role, we didn’t have money for laptops so I used my personal computer from day one. My new gig offers the following options for a work laptop – either they provide up to $999 for me to purchase a work laptop that they will own and presumably I will return to them one day when I leave the role, or they reimburse me $750 and I use my personal laptop for work. Two caveats to the last option: 1) if I leave before 24 months of employment, I “may be required” to pay back a pro rated amount of that $750; 2) elsewhere in the employee handbook it says “devices owned or furnished by (org) may be accessed or monitored.”…

We all know that ideas are nothing without implementation. Let's share some of them for the community. I come up with these: software to create visitor/customer follow-up emails an analytics tool for eCommerce customers

I (26,f) am a tattoo artist working as an independent contractor in a tattoo shop. Today, the shop owner told me I was “acting like a bitch” and said that I have “daddy issues.” This conversation was held privately outside during shop hours and there were no witnesses. Does this constitute as sexual harassment? How does sexual harassment or a hostile work environment apply to independent contractors?

Acne Studios is not paying their interns. Apparently a majority of their workforce is interns who receive zero pay. At the same time the assignments did not change, for the few interns, when they got employed