Author: Olivia

Im male 25 years old and i dont feel like working at all. I dont know if its caused by mental illness (not like im crazy, i have bpd, ocd and depression) or something else, but its not just about being lazy. Its like there is no place for work in my life. Like its something outside of my coordinates. I had summer side jobs when i was a minor where i worked month – 2 months and it wasnt a problem. Since then i had only one job which i got in summer 22 after finishing university and i quit this job a year ago so i worked there like 6 months. So yeah im unemployed for a year already. And when i had a job, i was late to the job everyday, i even skipped some days (but i worked them off later on). Generally speaking i cant…

Someone on LinkedIn reached out to me for a position. She was a pretty-screener / recruiter, and I basically checked out when she said it was on-site approximately an hour from my home (I currently wfh.) I wasn’t interested in the commute but proceeded with the phone interview for some much needed practice, and then we got to the stupid “greatest weakness” question. Why do they ask this? What is the point of a pre-screener asking this question? I have an appropriate bs answer (and they never contacted me afterward) but I’m still wondering why tf they ask this.

I'm so sick of this endless cycle of work, sleep, repeat. It feels like I'm stuck in a never-ending nightmare of commuting, sitting at a desk, and pretending to care about a job that doesn't matter to me. Why is it that we're expected to work our lives away, just so we can pay bills and survive? It's not fair that the system is rigged against us, and we're forced to put up with all this nonsense just to make ends meet. And don't even get me started on the toxic work culture. My boss is a total micromanager, always breathing down my neck and demanding more and more from me. And my colleagues are no better – constantly gossiping and backstabbing to try and get ahead. I'm tired of feeling like I have no control over my life. I want to be able to pursue my passions, to spend…

I received a corrective action plan from my boss on Monday. After not speaking to me for 2+ weeks (remote job, only email) the first contact we have is her raking me over the coals and describing all the ways I’ve fucked up over the last 6 months but this is my first written warning I’ve received about any of them. From the sounds of it, we don’t have a salvageable working relationship moving forward and this company is ass anyway. She wants me to sign my plan and provide my own written improvement plan tomorrow. I plan on putting my two weeks in tomorrow bc I can read the room; and I don’t want to be coordinating conferences or doing any more work for this company. I kind of want to mention in my email that the emotional tone of the conversation led me to this position, because it…

Today I had a CEO I was interviewing with go totally sideways on me in my email when I wouldn’t build out a sales process for a future sales team of his for free as part of my interview. I did tell him I would be happy to work with him on it under contract. He then made a LinkedIn post about me saying I didn’t want to work. I emailed him and told him That I was also interviewing him as an employee and that I would never want to work for someone who was so aggressive and petty.

[Kind of a rant but also genuinely asking] I’m getting really sick of the whole “we’re gonna hire you but schedule you to work alone on your first day” bullshit. do companies want their workers to fail? wouldn’t it cost more to fix untrained mistakes then to properly train new hires? or at least have another worker in the same position there to help pick up the pieces? I really don’t understand the logic in this. It needlessly stresses out new hires and creates an overwhelming environment for everyone else who has to deal with the ripple of those mistakes as well. Why is this so common?