Author: Olivia

I sent an email to HR Friday morning saying that I believe I have been discriminated against for taking FMLA leave. (A lawyer advised me to do this. Also, previous posts about my situation can be found on my profile.) I talked with HR and said that I feel I am being pushed out and my coworkers and manager are against me. I said this stress has led to awful mental health issues. I got home from my shift to another call and was told I am not allowed to come in for work until I have a medical professional sign off on some paperwork. This is such bullshit. They also made me feel like I’m a conspiracy theorist because I said my boss wrote in the final write up that a coworker believes I take off more days than anyone else when I was using short term disability/FMLA leave,…

I know “everyone goes through it”. I’m not the first nor last. But it doesn’t take the pain away. I started this job 6 months ago for a better opportunity and loved everyone there. I’m upset because today of all days, I busted my ass off doing my duties and beyond. I was non stop. The owners acted like nothing was wrong. Come 3:25pm, my boss invites me to talk. His first words “I’m going to need your laptop, we are letting you go. The position is no longer needed. I’m sorry.” My heart fell to the floor. He gave me a letter – we talked a couple minutes, I packed my belongings and left. They let go about 6 of us. 2, including me, in management. Yesterday, we were told our jobs are safe. I was caught blindsided and I’m embarrassed. They all knew it was coming but still…

I have a gap in my job history. After a few years of using my honest resume, it became clear that the gap was preventing me in obtaining gainful employment appropriate for my level of skill and experience. In order to cover the gap on my resume, I long ago deleted Job A I only held for 7 months and extended the time spent at Job B. I’ve been through seven rounds of interviews and was finally extended an offer to a company I want to work for. They have only now asked me to fill out an employment application (which to my understanding is a legal document and precisely why they request those who have received an offer to fill it out) I was told by the recruiter that they will verify the dates. What is my recourse? Do I put the correct dates of Job B (the longer…

in Massachusetts, workers have the right to a 30 break after 6 hours of work. i work overnights, alone, in a very busy store. since we are now the only store that's open all night long for miles and miles, we've become even busier. and now we even recently started offering doordash/uber eats etc, which makes us even busier. all night the stupid mobile order alarm is going off. i sometimes get 15+ per night. (i gotta go through the store and gather everything from the order, scan them all an bag them up so they're ready for the driver to take and go.) its honestly a lot of busy time with very little down time, between that and all my regular tasks i don't even have time to go to the bathroom usually, unless it's a really quick piss. even then, when i lock the front door and put…

not when you throw out weeks' supplies of food, into the garbage, on a daily basis, when it could be priced to sell, or even donated not when you employ self-checkout systems that condescendingly tell me when to scan what like I'm mentally crippled “thank you, valued customer” yes, I'm sure you mean it and not when you have dozens of people with thousands of millions of dollars (a billion is a thousand million. A thousand million. One thousand millions. One million one thousand times. You can spend a million and still have 999 million dollars) who can afford to buy everyone in the country a lifetime supply of paper bags with a fraction of a percent of their wealth no “How many bags would you like to purchase?” None. I'd like these bags for free ​ if you can afford to regularly throw away good food, treat me like…

Two weeks ago, I decided to start searching for a job again, and yesterday one place emailed me to see if I could come to an interview today at 10am. I said yes because she needed to know by 5 and I didn't see it until 415pm. But as I started preparing for the interview that night, I realized I didn't want the job, and the hour-long bus ride there didn't seem worth the “interview practice” I usually use as motivation. So I emailed her around 11pm last night to cancel. For context, it is for a lead teacher position at a childcare center. It was listed at $18/hr, which is what I was making as an assistant teacher in 2019. My email read: Hey C— I decided to cancel the interview. I am not as excited about the position as I should be and the pay is too low…