Author: Olivia

I work at a warehouse style store, just not a “club” one. I got hired in March of 2020 and am approaching my 2 years with them. I enjoy the job after it being a huge switch from being in the service industry for 15 years. I enjoy the benefits and the pto and all the stuff I had no access to in my previous jobs. I've received 2 promotions in under a year. Im a hard worker. My issue is this: I feel that I am being taken advantage of due to me being a male. The position I'm in means I am accessible to handle many different positions throughout the warehouse. If im needed to assist somewhere, then I get sent. Last year all of us assistants were told we would be rotated out to assist with pushing carts. That turned into only two of us. Myself and…

I won’t drain my last 40 hours of sick leave, but I’ll add every team member I can to the roster and destroy the wage budget for the week so everyone gets more money and we all do absolutely nothing that isn’t the bare minimums. Have fun with that labour report next week whilst I’m at a different job ya chode.

As a teenager I worked at a movie theater and we used to scarf down the leftover hotdogs and popcorn after closing while we cleaned. One day the terrible manager mandated that we had to break each extra hot dog in half and throw them in the dumpster, no more eating. We also had to start leaving the leftover popcorn in the warmers and reuse it the next day (very common these days btw). They monitored us with cameras to make sure we didn't eat any. I later got fired for a very strange reason and realized later they also had mics hidden around and heard me bad mouth several upper management people. What a dump.

I'm currently working 50% while studying 100%, i know other people do a lot more than that but im burning out. I have to work extra to pull through every month as my loans are not really enough, but im also falling behind in school so I'm starting to sweat about losing my loans too. You can't really go “ah too bad”, quit school and grab some shitty cubicle job anymore, everything is part time or requires college education WHICH I HAVE, i just have the wrong kind because i went to college one time around right after high school before i knew what i actually wanted to do. It's not even like collecting student loans as a way of income is great either, but it's the only thing filling in the gaps right now.

Documentary just documents a literal conspiracy to push a completely unsafe plane into the skies and keep it there, despite them knowing how unsafe it was and even after one fatal crash. AND…shout out to our justice system, Boeing paid a fine and no criminal charges were ever filed.

This December I got a promotion and a 7% raise!(Where I live in the southwest US, this is less then the inflation). Couple of recruiters reached out and I said I am interested and now I am fixed to start a new job that will be a 25% jump from the current job(even with the raise calculated). This will be my 4th job in 5 years and I will be making 3 times of what my first job paid. Moral of the story, jump the ship the first opportunity you get. Being loyal to an employer just hurts you and no one else.

Originally made this a comment, but I'll make it a post of its own in case anyone else wants to share. This situation proved to me at an early age that companies value exploiting you more than developing or utilizing you. This happened to me while working for my first and only HUGE company. ( a US automotive manufacturer ). I had an opportunity to move internally from a 15$ an hour position to 60k a year management – which really was a lateral move, but to a department with much more funding for payroll. They insisted I get my current supervisors approval, which I thought was bull shit but it did, and he told me to my face I was a perfect fit and he wished me good luck. I interviewed 2 rounds, was told it was my job to loss, meaning I was the top candidate in a…