Author: Olivia

I’ve been thinking about this for a while; I can’t help but think that corporate capitalism is poisoning our very souls. I come from a pretty bad background, but I struggled my way into an economically comfortable position. (I really feel for you all who are working your asses off and still struggling because of the greed of the few.) I’m doing okay, but I’ve seen some shit and I’ve seen so many fall on the way. I can’t help but think that the economical system poisons our values and abuses us on a deep emotional and mental level. When you look at how corporate culture works, all virtues in ordinary life are tools used against people. If you are compassionate and have goodwill towards others, it will be used to manipulate you. You will find yourself doing extra work, maybe work for free, for the sake of the “teamwork”.…

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I work as an operations manager for a startup with about 60 staff. I started out reporting to the COO. My role involves improving the day to day operations and general business processes of our business as well as to support other senior leadership members with their projects. I've been at my role 12 months in which 50% of my role has been events/office manager/it operations work because we lacked the staff. I didn't know this before taking the role. This was annoying at times but it was okay exposure and I thought I was proving myself in the business, so I copped it. My leader, the COO and only other person in operations, left to go on maternity leave on Christmas day 2022. I spoke to the COO about some projects I wanted to work on before she left, for which she was happy I undertake. I then went…

Basically title. As I’ve advanced in my career (Commercial Insurance; product management) it seems to me not only are many of the folks in decision making roles not qualified, result of nepotism, silver spoon kids (one, all or some combo), but even having ‘worked my way up’ I don’t think I’m qualified for the half the decisions I’m asked to make. The way things go in our ‘data driven decision making’ world is that a question comes down “what’s driving xyz?!” My leaders ask me, I ask my analysts to pull together data. They give me an overview, and despite the data being unclear, poor/questionably reliable info, or just plain showing there’s no central cause the world is just complex and bad things happen, I have to make a decision/plan for how to address and shoot it up the chain for approval. Everyone feels better bc we’re taking action, but…