Author: Olivia

I feel like I have 2 jobs. My boss dumps all of his assignments on me ,he has no idea what is going on , my co-workers are coming to me instead of him, he doesn't come to work, answers e-mails when he feels like, takes credit for all my work, he's almost 70 years old and seems to have dementia…the manager he reports to has no interest either, we have meetings, my boss is basically babbling in-coherently—nobody cares. I have only been at this job a year so although I am looking for something new, it is not ideal…I have no clue what to do, I need the job, I have bills…

Hi there. I recently started a job as a community manager, and I feel like I only do about 3 to 4 hours of real work per day –the rest is a performance, or me being tired and taking forever to do relatively simple tasks. In spite of my best anti-work efforts, I do feel a bit guilty about not being more productive. I compare this to uni, where I got great grades, while never studying more than 6 hours per day (and that was few, adrenaline packed days). I feel like it's not humanly possible to do 7-8 hours of deep work every day for weeks on end, or at least not the somewhat monotonous, homogeneous work that I do. What are your experiences with office jobs? I have read that according to some studies, only doing 3 to 4 hours of “real work” is normal.

I made a post a while ago about voting third party and many said that they thought it would cause the democrats to lose and essentially our democracy would be downgraded. I think that's always possible, but right now Biden's second term is more likely than not, and it may be worth the risk given that neither party will ever make the changes I want. A third party is very unlikely to win, but could force democrats to agree to policies before handing over its votes. What are your thoughts?

I work at a production nursery. There are two foreign “interns” who live on the property now in semi-decent conditions. There is currently no kitchenette set up in the employee common area, other than a sink, microwave, an instant pot and some hot plates. This is the response I got from my boss when I pointed out some raw chicken defrosting and dripping juice onto the microwave. By the way, those interns are not part of this group chat, and they were nowhere to be found yesterday when I saw this on my way to my car. Am I a prick, or am I being gaslit?

This has happened twice now. Last week, I was scheduled to come in a hour early to take a fire safety training course, it was specifically mentioned we would be paid for that time. So I clocked in as soon as I got to work , which would’ve left me with 41 hours for that week. I noticed today that my time for that day was edited to my normal start time, and not the time I actually clocked in. Leaving me with exactly 40 hours. Which means they definitely did not pay me for that hour of training. This is not the first time I worked over 40 hours and they edited my time sheet to take away any additional time I worked passed those 40 hours. How should I handle this situation?

So story time. I was part of an smaller insurance agency that also does taxes. There's four co-workers here. Fake names here but we'll call them Tom, (my boss/insurance agent/ tax agent), Nolan (insurance agent/tax agent) and Mary (CSR). I started working here right out of highschool, so I was pretty ignorant at the beginning. I am also a CSR and I worked here for five years. At first, the experience was overall fine. Busy at times but fine. I did have a few complaints with company that I tried to get resolved. We had no official lunch breaks. We could take a lunch break but if a customer came in or the phone rang we had to stop and go back to work. Whenever I tried to have a lunch break, I was always got called back by my boss to work. I tried to get teach Mary how…

My boss has been telling me that I’m shit at communicating, ruining the team’s reputation, and costing the company money for months. What’s funnier is they got mad at me back in September and disabled my access for a weekend (don’t ask why I didn’t leave then, I’ve been wondering the same damn thing), and they fucked up an automation because of it. I told them that if they’d checked with me first, I could have told them how to avoid that. Their response was “communicating that was a low priority because we were trying to do damage control” for something else. LOL ok. I was the only one who knew how to fix that issue too. Anyway, I finally found a new job (paying DOUBLE for less than half the work I do now) and put in my two weeks. They said they don’t want it and they’ll just…