Author: Olivia

I work as part of the management team of a popular cosmetics company. I am an artist and therefore freelance and take as many jobs in the industry I want to be in as possible. I was hired on with them knowing this. So if I book a job, it hasn’t been an issue in the past. We have a new manager who is extremely by the book and policy-driven. I booked time off for next month (three separate dates) due to jobs I’ve booked. He is now telling me I have to pick and choose as there are only two requests per month, so says policy. I didn’t go to school to be stuck in a retail job that’s making me choose between building my own business and career and a shift at the mall. There are other things that have happened/changed since he’s been hired on, and my…

I recently worked two jobs for an extent of a year. Now I see that I'm not able to play PC games that require focus and continuity like RPGs that I like so much, like if the game asks to figure out something or 'learn' I can't focus and feel discomfort. How to recover from this state? Any book, advice welcome

I am young and still in college. I have a few months until graduation and I genuinely cannot fathom working for the rest of my life. I don't know how my parents did it, I don't know how others do it, but when I think about working 40+ hours a week for the next 40+ years, I literally do not know how I will make it through alive. It just seems unbearable and I've already had my share of shitty jobs. Even more, I don't know how I will AFFORD to live. I have an apartment now that I share with roommates, but even with split expenses it is not cheap. Everything around me is raising in price, but I still have the shittiest pay. I just wanted to rant because living like this this just seems unimaginable.

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask for help like this, but my boss is currently withholding several of my paychecks. I quit working for him 3 weeks ago for reasons I will go into if people want to know, and told him where to mail my checks and he hasn’t. He owes me over $2000 and I’m not sure what to do.

I'm so sick of working. My wife and I put our hearts and bodies into these companies to be good employees and still struggle to make ends meet. My wife and I are both transgender and publicly came out in 2021. My wife was friends with everyone at her job, and was in particular very close to management. After she came out, they made her life a living hell. My wife would come home suicidal because of the mistreatment from her managers and the amount of physical work they would put on her. They were all small things that were difficult to bring up because they're easily denied, but if you're any kind of minority I'm sure you can understand. They did not treat her like a human being anymore. And they fired her a few days before a two week paid vacation she had worked there for YEARS to…