Author: Olivia

If you need a day off- whether your car won’t start, you have an urgent family emergency or you need a mental health day- DO NOT EVER tell your employer why you need it. Most of the time they don’t want to know! I assure you, (and this may sound harsh) your attempt to pepper-in sympathy does not go as far as you think in the backend. Please stop trying to engineer a request you think they want to hear! Request the day and YOU ARE DONE. You filled your end of the request! Your employer and especially your boss are not your friend, HR is protecting the company not you, and it is not legal to be forced to disclose why you need that day (especially if it is medical related). Request the day, delete the reason why you need it off if you typed it and consider quitting…

I have a decent paying job but I'm dead inside. I'm at the point where I'm so disengaged that I barely know what's going on anymore. I know it will likely get me fired and make me broke but I'm at the point where I can't even force myself to care. Anyone else at this point?

My supervisor recently called a team meeting; there are 8 of us including the supervisor. He starts the meeting by telling us, “I got thrown under the bus, so now I'm throwing you all under the bus.” Then he goes on to talk about metrics being down and makes several comments about how none of us are “working 40 hours a week” and leads in that we need to return to the office full time, etc. We are all doing more work beyond our job descriptions and all of my coworkers brought up in response how they are feeling overworked, how these kinds of comments make us feel that we aren't trusted, and so on. Few days later all of us are called into HR separately for statements because they felt we were all “ganging up on the supervisor.” What in the “hurt my ego” response game is this? 🤣