Author: Olivia

But they are an exceptional start. Unionize your workplace today.

Everyone's going to tell me that working IT is going to become mundane and monotonous but after this past week I've come to the conclusion that, literally anything is better than working retail or a call center customer support job. I'm constantly told that I'm overqualified with my A+ certification just for a help desk analyst position, and I get that, but this puts me in a field where I'm working a standard 8 to 5 dealing with things I actually enjoy working with. Plus I get a much more significant pay bump than when I left my retail job. It's an absolute win-win for me.

So basically, I work at the front desk of a hospital in the oncology department. It's bittersweet, but I love my job. I'm also part of our union, though union power is somewhat limited due to us being unable to strike. Before my current manager took over, the front desk always had little seasonal decorations or artistic gifts from patients, and it really helped to brighten up the place both for our coworkers and the patients. Since our new manager took over, we've been getting stricter rules about what we can have at the front desk. No more seasonal decorations, so we got rid of those. No more personal items, so I got rid of those. I took home some of the patient gifts as well. People actually comment nowadays that it looks kind of sterile and depressing. All I had left near my desk were two small, painted rocks…

I actually have a real question: I am super fucking over it with my job. I don’t know how much more I have for this job. Also some background: I am a paralegal at a law firm with 3 old white men who are between the ages of 67 and 76. There is also another partner at the firm who is actually younger than me; he is 38 and I am 41. He is a actually kind of the worst: won’t respond to emails, impossible to discuss issues with. I’m making all of this way more complicated than it has to be. Let’s make the long short: I am super over these old white men who cannot remember shit and expect me to endlessly fix their fuck ups. Just for reference, I get paid salary $2,4000 per month and I work well over 80 hours per week. Also: I have…