Author: Olivia

Summer 2021 -Coworker 1 is constantly late and decides to come and go as she pleases. -The owner Hires 2 new employees (one sale and one hybrid sale and truck) -Owner tells me it wouldn't affect me and asked me what I wanted for hours and I said full time. -Owner tells me Coworker 1 will be let go. Sept 2021 -New sales quit because of unfair qualifying of customers (Coworker 1 and Manager hoarding customers) -Owner talks to me. My hours were reduced. Then tells me I can't be average or id be terminated. -Current employed new sales (Coworker 2) gets equal hours than I. -Coworker 1 gets hours reduced as she prefers. Oct 2021 -Truck worker gets injured Coworker 2 is on the truck -I get full-time hours back Late Dec 21 / Early Jan 22 -Coworker 2 is injured -Coworker 2 is “offered” another job. -I confront…

I have a friend who drives for UPS, and is in the Teamsters. He makes good money. He's also a hardcore Trump supporter and encourages everyone to vote Republican. When I tell him that the Republican party wants unions dead he seems to be clueless. Likewise, my younger brother had a seasonal job at a large hardware superstore that I won't name. Apparently they've done a lot to fight off unions. According to my brother this place employs a lot of blue-collar white males who love the Trump culture. On the other hand, it's seems obvious that all the Starbucks and Apple store workers who want to unionize are probably mostly liberal/democrat voting. Some questions… Are there any unions that anyone can think of that has a lot of Trumpers/Republicans? And perhaps they're oblivious to what the Republican party stands for wrt unions? And are there places that probably should…

Does anyone know a person like this? They want to get out of the paycheck grind, and see the job market getting more unforgiving each day, as many of us do here. But their plan to escape it is to get into a high-risk career in the entertainment industry. So the rewards can be high, but the chances of success are very, very low. Is it reasonable to see this kind of aspiration growing? I just hope he's prepared to get disappointed and depressed a lot more, because he would be hopping from a hard life making close to minimum wage, to a hard life fighting against odds for the very slim chance of “blowing up” in the entertainment industry, when he hasn't proven he's got the right network to help make it happen. I'm just being a realist here, if you want to be a millionaire, gotta prepare for…

I have tried every normal route to resolve this. But now the gloves are off and I am naming names. A while back I worked an incredible 55+ hours per week during the preChristmas season and right up to New Years for this company. The pay was terrible, but i took the job to be near my mother (i had a house in another province) who was starting to be unwell. I busted my butt at this job and often got letters of thanks from the office of the president, and the occasional prize (low dollar value, but recognition) for taking charge of the calls. The culture there was like high school. The Team Leads thought they were demogods.. and there was rampant favouritism – but I didn't care, I just worked and worked everyday, in case I'd have to leave. The bonuses spoken about in HR didn't materialize but…