Author: Olivia

Like at a regular hangout outside of work. How'd it go? Happened to me. Got lucky and nothing happened to me.

It's not my job to find my own coverage if I cannot be at work, no matter the reason. But being put on the spot by having someone TELL me to do it always leaves me with nothing to say. I know everybody here wants to come back with “That's not my job” or just telling them to fuck off, but what's a good response that's not deliberately antagonistic? Like, yeah I could say all kinds of stuff, but I also can't afford to piss off my boss on purpose.

I quit my job at the start of 2020 to relocate. Shit hit the fan around that time of course, so when I found a new role, it turned out to be – luckily – fully remote. I worked there for 2 years. Simultaneously, due to very low micromanagement and plenty of “free time,” I developed my preexisting side gig which became more of a side business. Got screwed over during a round of redundancies about 6 months back. But by this point, my side business was enough of an income to just dive into it full time. Well, recently I decided to find another job. Being at home 24/7 after already doing that for 2 years was driving me a bit nuts. Also, the economy is so bad right now that I could use a second salary to reach my goal of owning a home sooner. I thought some…

I've always been tip-toeing around out because of some invisible fear of being “exposed” for dealing with interest. It's almost been built up as the sort of boogie man in my mind. I want to face it head first. As an adult in my mid-20's I'm setting my foot down and realizing how foolish my avoidance was. I've been living with a religious family my whole life and I'm personally an agnostic atheist. Because of the beliefs of my family, there was always this fear around interest and I've avoided it out of fear of “being exposed” for doing anything related to interest. There's always situations that happen in life especially come tax time and I figured that there might be times where I need to share financial situations or issues that I'm experiencing and I think in the back of my mind I was always worried that I would…

I have been in my position for 7 months and have steadily improved in performance during that time. I have had a couple of informal conversations with my coworker (who is also informally my acting “supervisor”) about mistakes that I’ve made throughout the training/learning process. After a chat last week I followed up with an email asking for clear guidelines for how my performance would be evaluated moving forward and what kind of timeline would I be on for the next (informal) review. She ignored the questions and followed up with a phone call last night. The job is inherently rife with opportunities for human error (TONS of tiny details and tons of distractions all day long) and I have been told repeatedly that mistakes can and will happen and that I shouldn’t worry so much about making them. My “supervisor” makes the very same mistakes that I make (though…