Author: Olivia

(post glitched before, posting again.) Working in sales, companies give you a low wage usually intentionally, and you end up having to make the other half of your pay through commission. However, with my job they have screwed with our commission structure so much that I am barely meeting their requirements in ONE area to earn commission pay, which barely gives me enough money to live on. The management team saw sales slow down so they looked at competitors and all decided unanimously to change the dress code. For us workers though, the problem was we did not receive prior notification, no e-mail, no message when we login to the system, none of the middle-management telling us about it at our morning group meetings, absolutely fucking nothing. We just ended up randomly in the middle of the work day receiving a notice in our Groupme app group (it's a tool…

Okay, who all has been to a working interview? I went to my first today and it was awful. It was at a doggy daycare and the manager left me alone with the dogs almost immediately to go smoke and kept leaving. When I asked if this would be the entirety of the interview (standing there by myself watching the dogs, she asked maybe two questions) and she said yes because they had a call out and it would be FIVE HOURS! I asked since I was covering someone's shift if I got paid and they acted like I was crazy! I said it wasn't going to work and they basically told me to leave. She said I didn't understand working interviews, I said they seemed to be looking for free labor. I could hear her badmouth me as I left. Am I crazy or is this normal??? I'll admit…

I've been working for a startup company for about a year and a half. When I first started, it was VERY bare-bones operation. My manager worked on his computer under a tent and myself and 4 other employees worked in a half dirt half asphalt lot. Time passed, I was promoted and doing well in my position. I enjoyed my job. It sucked that we were constantly making big changes, often with little to no notice, but it's a start-up, so I didn't think much of it. My problems really started around this past December. The company raised the prices and, as a result, the quantity of orders took a steep dive. Long story short, hours were cut for Christmas and the company announced that they would not be paying out PTO for the rest of the quarter either. I got 12 hours in all of December combined. Ok that's…

I'm not sure if it's a shared a policy in HR departments in the UK, if I pull a sickie close the same day as I pulled one (and got away with) a few years ago will this be flagged? I don't know how long work places keep a record of sick days for, and how detailed they are?

A bit of context, I’ve been supporting a vacant role at work since the end of November 2022 (!!!). They have finally filled this role as of early last week and unfortunately I was not the successful candidate (of course lol). I have communicated that my last day I can feasibly support this role on top of my own (very demanding) workload is March 15, which I think is fair and reasonable. However, they are having issues training the successful candidate for the role due to how busy their role is as well as the trainer’s schedule. How do I nicely reiterate that I will not be supporting this role after March 15? Please reassure me also that this is reasonable? I’ve been doing 2 jobs since November and I am exhausted. And now that I didn’t get the promotion, I need to move on and resume my own duties…

The corporation I work for has decided to cut all the bonuses non managers were getting and cap our yearly raise to 2% (Obviously not getting near what inflation is achieving). Sunday pay, holiday pay, quarterly bonus etc.. However, management still gets their bonus (in the case of some management positions up to 140% of their salary) and yearly raises up to 5%. Because of this the managers work the employees like dogs, treat them like garbage, and don't care about them as long as employees are killing themselves to enrich the managers. Oh and they want to know why we are not happy employees. SMH