Author: Olivia

I moved to a new state in November of 2019 to start a new job with a decent salary. The company had a very generous PTO policy and health insurance was great. Less than 4 months later the world came to a standstill. Not my company, though. I work in the medical field, and we didn't miss a beat. At first, they did a great job of supporting us. Additional $1/hour, 120 bucks a day in childcare credit for anybody with kids. That lasted for 3 months. Then the surge came. Not the covid surge, though. The surge of expectations, increased caseload, additional documentation. People started quitting, and nobody was hired to replace them. We received laptops so we could work at multiple clinics and complete all the additional work at home. Morale plummeted, and we were told our raises were being cut due to the increase in pay, despite…

I’ve stayed in my current job too long because I hate this profession and I know another job will be more of the same shit (been doing it for 10 years). Every time I think about changing, I read a job description for a graphic designer and I feel like I genuinely want to die. I literally have no clue what else I would do though. I’m so burnt out with working in general that I lie awake in panic knowing I still have 30-40 years left of it. Cost of living has risen dramatically where I live and I need a job that pays more. It feels like such a trap and takes me all my strength not to give into thoughts of well… yknow, being unalived.

So I’m frankly fuming for my best friend. We work in two completely different fields. She has normal person desk job and I’m a pilot. Requesting time off or calling off sick or being tired never has been an issue for me. I was actually a flight attendant before my aviation career and decided to go back to the same company because how much I loved the life style and how I was treated as a human. So I tell the bestie let’s go to Hawaii. Yolo. But I looked up confirm seats and they were actually cheaper! So she tells her boss. A month in advance, saying hey I’m going to Hawaii on these dates. Which 3 were business days. Her boss responds. “No, I’m taking half days so you need to be here” My friend says well I wish you had communicated that to me you were taking…

So at the beginning I thought it could be a really great position, turns out hey don't pay you for training and expect you to 'invest' in this job. The fucking partner of the company told me people get gig work with doordash, ubereats, etc. until they complete training. If I wanted to do that I would. Not to mention needing to pay for licensing's on top of that. Once I looked into the company it turns out it's an insurance MLM where you work under someone and you could start your own if you do well enough. I feel stupid for getting dragged into but thankful I saw how fucked that is. For anyone interested in the name it's Symmetry financial, if you're looking for work from home options stay far away.

Does anyone else’s boss require them to ask your coworkers if “it’s okay” to take a day off? I have to do this and I’ve always thought it was a bit unnecessary if you’re giving them at least a month in advance notice.

It’s completely unfair for employers to hold onto paychecks for a month. Totally normal for an employee to have to wait 2 weeks for their first paycheck, or maybe 3 weeks depending on if the start date fell on a weird payroll cutoff date. These employers are literally stealing from their monthly paid employees.