Author: Olivia
I'm a hard working 34 year old woman. I was employed at a non profit for about 3 years. It wasn't the best job or the best paying job, but I liked all my coworkers and I liked that I was helping the community. One day the marketing person is moving onto another job, this guy was old school, did things like put print ads in newspapers and actually recorded and put an ad on TV. I was excited because I thought I was a no brainer to take his place after he left. I have a degree in New Media and Graphic Design and have extensive knowledge in video editing software, animation and game design. As well I knew the in and out of the company. I had also gone above and beyond in my job, helping the marketing department with new media projects, getting videos on youtube, sound…
Hi all. I am a 27 year old female based in England, UK. I have good academic qualifications, the highest of which is a 2:1 in Law. I have worked from the age of 16. First 2 jobs were in retail alongside my time spent studying. First 'professional' role was as a Trainee Law Costs Draftsman with an 18k salary working 40 hours per week. The role itself I didn't mind but the environment was awful and my contract was terminated after 6 months after i declined to work through my lunch. All other Trainee contracts were also terminated. All termination of contracts was explained as being due to not meeting targets. I then began working as a Family Court Clerk within the civil service. I enjoyed the role but the environment was toxic. I was working in excess of my full time hours all of the time, rarely had…
First time hearing about it? Indulge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain Great podcast episode of behind the bastards that goes into detail with some laughs: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-second-american-civil-61485728/ Is there any surprise they don't teach you about this in school? They don't want no lower classes getting ideas
The company will introduce the following new benefits starting April 4th, Bloomberg reports: Doubling paid sick days for both full-time and part-time workers. The days can be used for mental health leave and taking family members to the doctor. This change will give full-time workers 12 paid sick days, instead of six. Workers will receive more annual vacation days, beginning at three years of employment instead of five. Part-time employees will now get as many as six paid vacation days for the first time. Another first: They’ll get paid parental leave. That benefit will cover up to six weeks and will include the ability to gradually ramp up work time for the first four weeks back. Part-time workers also will get access to discounted emergency backup care for children or elderly family members. Full article here
So yeah, that just happened and I need to rant. I work(ed) at a place widely regarded on reddit as a company that takes care of their employees. I thought I was working completely fine (in fact, I know I was, every other person I know there thought I was doing good), but I came in today and the manager took me away as I was walking to my work area and took me into an office and fired me effective immediately due to “slow pace”, despite working through all of the busiest periods of work. I really don't know why he fired me of all people, I started with someone else who makes mistakes all the time and she wasn't fired and there are people who do almost nothing all day who just get left alone. I sat in my car after as I was really upset and about…
So I work at a bank and we had our yearly shareholder call going over 2021 results. They said that we had a 13% growth last year and this is our 6th year in a row over 10% growth. Then they went through our key areas of improvement, then HR talked about recruiting, COVID. Then the COO came on started talking about staffing problems and how the great resignation has been a big hit to the entire economy across all job markets. His explanation was “Engagement” people are leaving because they are not fully engaged by their work. He didn't elaborate on what the buzzword means, just that people that aren't engaged are more likely to seek other opportunities. Let me expand Mr out of touch executive, on why I'm looking for alternative employment First I'll admit the positives 1 my direct manager is a sweetheart and treats us well…