Author: Olivia

I am a very responsible person who is also very human, and made a mistake by sleeping in longer than usual and being late. This is an absolute first for me, I always arrive to my workplace practically half an hour before my shift starts. I get pulled in to the office and am given a write up, manager stating that it’s “customary to give write ups for late employees”. Didn’t want to even waste breath explaining that it was the first time, I did everything I needed to do correctly to fix the mistake, etc. I’m just so mentally exhausted and drained. It is so discouraging when you are doing your absolute best and one slip up is taken so seriously. Quiet quitting is in progress… Edit: been working here for over a year. Only called out twice the entire year and have never been late any of those…

Be me, be underpaid keyholder making less than fast food or retail and less than my coworkers, showed up to work today, no paycheck, ask about it without getting any answers, I put in 4 hours anyways, leave, get called immediately and told I'm unreliable, and fired. Remember, don't work harder for someone else's dream and don't accept a lower pay! I still don't know anyone else there who would have stayed to work knowing they hadn't been paid or where the money even was. Oh well~ time to enjoy my time off 🙂

Just blocked my manager, what a worthless piece of shit.

I’m significantly underpaid for my position. I accomplished a lot in the last year and it was the highest profit year in company history. I decided if I’m so undervalued that it was probably time to move on and try to get paid closer to my worth. When the owner found out I was thinking about leaving, he said he wasn’t aware I was so underpaid, and asked how much to stay. I need to come up % increase that borders on unreasonable but with a chance they might bite. For context ~40% would bring me to the high end of the salary band with additional points to account for inflation.

The owner of an IT company thats an MSP doesn't know anything about tech beyond the brochure. We do all the tech stuff, his accounts do the billing and record keeping, etc yet he gets all the profit. Like I was stressing out about not doing a good job for a client when I realized “this isn't my company, I'm just selling my labor, that's it.”