Author: Olivia

Moving is not an option; I’m taking care of family members with dementia. Very long hours and no room for upward movement. Pay is great for my area and the benefits are amazing, but I’m being worn down. I’ve talked to supervision about how newer hires should be doing the BS work and not me (we’re very seniority based ), but they tell me that I’m one of the work horses and that I do the job right, going so far as to say that they regret hiring the new hires due to their work ethic. I’ve thought about going online and taking coding courses through Cloud Guru, but I don’t know if something like that would secure me a remote job . Any advice would be great. ( I work for a LTL company )

At my wife's job, they have been making one of the employees that's been there for years file their taxes for them. He is not an accountant, nor is my wife. It's her first year there and this will be her first tax filing season with them. She feels that once this co-worker of hers is gone, which may or may not be soon, they will start telling her to take on that responsibility. I don't want to give too many details in case this is somehow seen, but this isn't anything close to her role for the company and was obviously not in her job description. She has told me when they eventually do ask, she will not do it because she doesn't feel comfortable. I'm wondering how she can go about this. It seems to me that either (1) she would need a significant raise if they expected…

Do you know the Boulder Pledge? Basically it’s just vowing to never buy anything offered via spam. Well those customer surveys you get are also spam. Don’t participate. Don’t do them, ever. For anyone who works in customer service they’re just another headache and another excuse to cut wages via not giving raises to at least match inflation. For every worker getting some sort of bonus for good surveys there’ll be 2 the surveys are being leveraged against. The expense of running and reviewing those surveys have to be excused by reducing labor costs, after all. And it’s not like they really care what your opinion is. That’s what they have marketing people for. The surveys are just about judging the end of the line customer service workers (and that they’re doing what they’re trained to, not necessarily that they acted how you’d like), regardless of how the questions are…

So I got a 3/10 in my EOY evaluation. I got a new supervisor 4 months ago, and he and I do not get along. He is known in the office for poor treatment of employees. He had multiple people leave under his leadership, I talked to someone who left his team that felt like they were targeted. I am a high performer. My mid year evaluation from my old Boss pained me as a high performer. For my EOY evaluation, I requested peer evaluation from people I work with regularly (leaders and subject matter experts), and they wrote amazing things about me. This was my bosses review of me: Overall, this rating would be much higher if not for his inability to get past his negative feelings toward his new leader. His negative feelings got the better of him and they have impacted his ability to communicate professionally and…

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there was any advice you could give me on how to avoid the mind numbing smalltalk I have to deal with when I'm at work. I can't stand it, and I just want to go in, do my job, and be left alone. Maybe I'll seek out an actual conversation with one of the people I'm closer with, but thats always deeper than 'traffic sure was bad today', or 'look at the rain'. Like I literally do not care about what 99% of these people are saying, and you would think after 2 years people would realise I'm not a morning person so to just stop trying? This is one of the reasons I'm trying to get my role changed so that it's more desk based so I can maybe start working from home.

First time posting here. It's a small local bbq restaurant. Have been there about three years. Have been working less due to college but when I said I had full availability for winter break, they said they might not be able to give me that many shifts. That turned into 0 shifts. Week after week I watched as I got absolutely nothing. I do literally every position they have so they had many options of where to put me. But the brand new high school students (who literally just fuck around and do nothing) got priority and one of the manager's boyfriend works every night shift despite being shit at his job also got priority over me. So did the other students returning from school for winter break. I honestly didn't even realize I was scheduled at first because I hadn't gotten a shift in so long. I'm a hard…