Author: Olivia

This is a long one, growing up nobody in my family had a BA degree, with the exception of a Grand-Uncle In-law. We were taught to revere this man. He ran a small insurance company, which I got to work on by accident. Why by accident? Glad you asked! My uncle was like the father in the TV Show Succession, in fact I’ve had to pause that show many times cause it remembers me too much of him. OK, when he was 70 he told his oldest son he was retiring and wanted him to become President of the firm. The guy started to take steps for the transition and his dad DIDN’T like it! So my uncle decided to not retire and fired his son and all his team. We were still in high school but were brought in through Internship arrangements to help. At some point my uncle…

It’s like a PTSD flashback…

Hey guys I got hurt at work and told all my managers like 20 hours in advance that I need to go to the doctor and no one would respond. They were making me do a job that isn’t part of my jobs titles responsibility. They have also not scheduled me for this or next week when the doctors note I gave them says I was cleared to work with no restrictions on the 4th. They are really mad I brought up workman’s comp and are now saying I’m bad at my job and someone has reported that I seem under the influence. None of this has ever been brought up until I got injured. I think the drastically changing my hours,role and pay (a flat rate of cash under the table) means I qualify for unemployment but that won’t be enough to live off. They are making threats and…

I’m currently sitting here crying in frustration. I have been a temp with this company for 8 months and for 6 months, they have been leading me to believe that I will be hired on. After every meeting, I’m told I will be gotten back and then nothing. We had another meeting on Monday and I kind of let him know how I felt I was being jerked around and there wasn’t a real offer on the table, he said we would talk Tuesday. On Tuesday, he canceled the meeting and when I said, “this is the reason for my frustration”, he told me he needed to think about what I said and there have always been “concerns” on hiring me. What is the concern? I mentioned ONE TIME that I preferred working remotely over in office and he doesn’t know if I will be a good fit because of…

I recently posted on someone else's thread about 1 episode of a satirical “debunk” style show called Adam Ruins Everything. It is based off a College Humor running character. The show is on Tru. tv and covers a lot of subjects. It had a few seasons picked up by HBOMax. There is an episode called Adam Ruins Work in season 1 that breaks down almost all of the things we routinely gripe/complain/whine/vent/b@tch about here. It shows how they(big business) lie about things, mislead about things, and use a divide and conquer strategy to keep us down and under compensated. You can find it on YouTube as well. It is worth a watch for those who are in other countries or haven't had the pleasure of being bent over the barrel by the system. It will give you some context on what people all over the world are dealing with when…

I ask as an environmental consultant. If you're not familiar with environmental or engineering consulting, we are required to hit what are called utilization goals. These goals are the percent of your 40+ hour work week are “billed” so a Client's project. My, and most of environmental or engineering consultants, have to hit 90% utilization, depending on the Company. I know of others that do not have 90%. So basically it means that our employers only pay for our salaries 10% of the time. This is usually charged as Admin. If you get sick, have to do some training, have to fill out safety sheets, etc. all of that goes to Admin time. If you go below 90% you get fired. To me, this is inherent exploitation because our employers don't even really pay us. We have to depend on other companies to give us work, or we are fired.…

I work for a corporation you probably all shop at (if you have pets) An incident happened that I reported to my boss, she said everything was fine and move along. Upper management started looking at the cameras last week because of other issues. I made sure she was reminded about said incident, that they would see on camera. Today I was called into her office. She acted stupid as she sat and asked me about what they found on camera. I repeatedly told her I HAD told her, and she’s definitely known about it all along. She snarkily repeated “no I didn’t” over and over and had this shitty look on her face. And then said if I had no further reason I wouldn’t have reported said incident, I am now terminated. Prior to this I was told I was an awesome worker. Feels great to be fired from…