Author: Olivia

Like everyone else, I am stuck in this capitalistic hell-hole. I am a dreaded middle manager. I took this job for the pay, like everyone else. We work remotely – everyone, myself included, gets a lot of freedom. Be available during business hours, get your work done, that's it. The work itself is truly never-ending, but there is a set amount daily. It is not stressful. There's really no client facing positions, nothing critical, no deadlines of any kind, minimal meetings, like 2x a month IF that, and it's just a small group I manage. We don't have any monitoring of any kind. Decent pay, great benefits, like it's a pretty okay to be. As a “manager”, I do not care when you use your sick time, I do not care if you take a day off or what you take it for. I do not care if you work…

I feel in past jobs, there was at least an effort by management to provide morale boosts, at least on a perfunctory level: coffee provided, some snacks, donuts or even (gasp!) lunch for everyone that day. But the place I work in now: basically nothing. No coffee in the break room unless you bring your own k-cups, and snacks and food only if it is a periphery benefit from an event that has little to do with the employees themselves. I even have friends that work at small local businesses where the owner used to stock a fridge with food for everyone, but they say that perk has been slashed or done away with it completely. It feels like a post-COVID thing, similar to post-2008, where it’s work work work, no efforts to keep morale up with little things, and the management attitude that we should all be grateful we…

How have you all survived the final hurdle of toxic workplace before entering your new career? What are your thoughts on taking a pay cut to make a career change? I graduated with a degree in mental health nursing aged 21, coming from a family of mental health nurses and having hopes of making a genuine impact on peoples’ lives. I obtained my first nursing post as a Community Psychiatric Nurse. Within the first day of working in the NHS I quickly sobered to the idea that mental health services are extremely underfunded, and that most of my colleagues did not have the same positive intentions when working with service users. Most nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, and administrators were evidently burnt-out, resentful, cynical, bitter, and unwilling to acknowledge this. They refused to develop professionally or change career paths due to the security of NHS contracts, pay, pension and sick leave entitlement.…

As the title stated, I'm getting laid off and my last day is next Friday but I still have meetings scheduled throughout the week with the team. Should I still show up?

So I have a coworker who ironically is the oldest one out of all of us, besides the boss. She constantly complains of imaginary smells, which none of the 10 other people in the office can smell besides herself. These complaints of smell can be triggered whenever someone walks past her desk, or if someone makes lunch. The most back-words part of it all is she is the only one that does not want to work from home. I just don’t get people, man.

Hi! Looking to share my somewhat positive story here. This is about my 7 years struggle to fend for myself and get education, while being dealt very unusual circumstances. I'm hoping someone can relate and feel better about their situation. Mentions of suicidal tendencies, you're warned. I grew up in a multiracial “hapa” family in Asia, and when I hit 16 we moved to Europe. The decision was made by my authoritarian white father, who thought a “white” environment would be beneficial for my development. The problems soon started: they gave me a year to pass Uni entry exam in a language foreign to me. During this time I struggled with the language, cultural alienation by my peers, looking very different from the locals, lack of friendship. I got myself into a decent college a year after, parents were overjoyed. But my nightmare actually began here. I started failing classes-…