Author: Olivia

Hi, I am working in a market research field. My team is comparatively smaller and most of them have been in this field for quite some time. They either have learnt how to take up less work or just are able to showcase that the current work is enough for them. My manager recently joined and he is new to this type of work, even not knowing how to set up or refresh a pivot table. The team members showcase that they have huge amount of work and as I am new to the field and come from a previous worke which was very much fast paced, I tend to do things proactively. Over the months as rest of the team members either find an excuse or just take up a leave during most important meetings, my manager has started to dump more and more work on me just so…

I used to work on a theater. It was my first job. The boss was an old boomer dude, who would constantly curse out my coworkers, who were all teens by the way. He would overwork us and treat us nice whenever he was in the mood. He would throw constant tantrums over small simple mistakes and treated everyone (including managers) like shit. We were short staffed, thanks to the pandemic. There was only four managers and about thirty employees. The majority still went to school. They were teens. He overworked them to hell. A team lead, who was only 17 was overworked 10 hours. He had school the next day and also was told to work later in the afternoon. He did that to many other coworkers. He would also forbid and scold us for speaking about pay. He didn’t like it when we spoke about our wages, because…

Honestly I’m still kinda reeling from this. I had to take a couple days off because my house almost burned down because my brother left the oven on, and when I called my boss, who I’ve always gotten along with, I asked if that was alright. And he was like “Yeah, sure, take all the time you need.” So I go in tonight, work for like two hours, and then he calls me up to the office and told me I was fired. I wasn’t always 100% confident in what you guys were saying, about how our bosses don’t care at all. But now that like 3 people with less experience than me, who have missed just as many if not more days than me are still there, and I’m gone, I know you guys were right, he never gave a shit about me. I just wish I had realized…

So I work a part-time job at discounted home decor store. In our morning meeting today, manager was fed up; they emphasized how we need to step up our work and be a team player. How we need to help the store run smoothly and meet the goals that corporate puts out. However, everyone there is being paid like 12-14 an hour. Sorry not sorry but when you pay the bare minimum you get bare minimum labor. I could care less about hitting corporates goals or promoting credit cards when I have other shit to worry about. Like my schooling or my mother whose some health issues etc. Seriously, fuck this whole “team player” corporate mentality where they expect you to work 50+ hours for literal peanuts so management can just hide in the office all day.

Location is in Europe. In my country there is a legal 1 month requirement for giving notice for employees on a permanent contract. I can understand that, it takes time to launch the job posting, interview and then hire and train the employee. 1 month is plenty. But for my company, it has to be 3. Why? I don't know, it just says it is 3. Unless you can come to an agreement with your manager. Sometimes I wonder if telling them 'I won't show up after X date' is sufficient to get their 'agreement'.

Hey everyone! I hope all is well 🙂 Let’s jump straight in… My manager is telling me that I have to download a work app on my phone to punch in and out. He wanted me to do this when I started my job over a year ago but never got around to it. He texted me around 2am asking me could I come in to the office so he could put the app on my phone and show me how it works. I DO NOT want to do this. I don’t want any trackers on me and it’s already bad enough all the data I use for this job in driving to work using gps and using my own hotspot while at work to do work related things. Is there anyway to get around this? I thought about getting a “burner phone” but my manager and I text here…

Work said they will deny our monthly bonus for calling in sick (even if it’s just for an hour, even if it’s the night before). And if it happens more than once every 3 months we’ll get written up. But they let slip that this wouldn’t happen if we had FMLA for a disability or health condition (the example given was migraines). I have a long history of migraines and, while I rarely take time off work, I’d like the option without basically reducing my pay by $3/hour for the month. The only thing is, I have no idea how to do that. Do I contact my doctor or HR first? I’d look for another job but finding legitimate remote data work that doesn’t require customer interaction is really hard to find, so I’ll take advice on that too if you’ve got specifics. Thank you!

First official “come back to office” day. My superior interrupts my convo with a colleague and says that nobody cares about my opinion. I love how the manager said that office working is better because you get to “socialise”.