Author: Olivia

I’m 49 at the end of a 29 year career in community-campus partnership work. I’ve been unemployed since quitting my last job Oct 14,2022 after 9 months. The last job was me taking a risk to value myself: I took a job offer for a job at a different department in the same institution I’d spent 8 years building up a different job role. In the 8 year role, keeping this who saga short as possible, I was being pushed out due to my burnout & perimenopause symptoms. I had collaboratively built an educational program that could get me through retirement, then the push happened after the program was fully funded and began its pilot. I went on a six week FMLA leave to get treatment, during which I was invited to apply for the “new job”. Turns out the new job was a super toxic environment. While it doubled…

I have been working at a company for 2 years. I have 15 years experience in the line of work, and have been running a shorthanded crew for a year now. Another company in the same industry head hunted me to get a promotion, a sizable pay raise, and better benefits. My boss asked for some time to negotiate. His counter offer was less of a pay raise, no promotion, and no pay raise when evaluations are done. Now I am the bad guy because with me leaving the company will lose a $11 million contract. If I am that important, why not pay me for it?

We know the saying “boss makes a dollar I make a dime that's why I poop on company time.” What are some ways you work your wage instead of constantly burning yourself out from day to day?

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My previous job fired the whole staff all within a week for 1 incident. I was lucky enough to already have another job lined up 2 weeks after that. I applied for unemployment during that time period. I just got a confirmation that I was denied (it’s been 2 months since the incident). Reasoning: falsifying time records & aggravated misconduct. Let me give context. We were fired after about 6 months of working there. We knew it was coming; they were looking for a reason. On a day we had no supervisor we all came in to open the store at 9. My coworker locked the door and our DM noticed customers coming up to the door on camera and turning around because of the locked door. Did I lock the door? No. I will admit I knew it was locked. The DM texted us saying we needed to unlock…