Author: Olivia

This is kind of the opposite of what this subs about but I figured someone here might have some experience with it. I’ve been having trouble finding a second job and I have been starting to wonder if it’s possible to work a second job at the same company. I work in a production environment and I got lucky with the position I got but there’s a lot of work in other areas that’s less physical/less skilled that I’d be interested in. I’ve thought about asking my department manager if I could start doing some other work around the plant, possibly at a different wage. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it possible to have two separate positions at the same place to avoid overtime? They’re kind of cheap but there’s a lot of things I’m interested in learning so I wouldn’t mind taking a pay cut for…

I became sick at the start of the first week back to work and asked for sick leave for the week. I work as a designer at a prestigious consulting firm, and am one of 2 designers on a project. For context, I started off asking for Monday and Tuesday off, worked the Wednesday as I’d gotten multiple emails asking to finish off some urgent work, then took Thursday and Friday off as well since I wasn’t feeling much better. On Friday, my manager texted my phone at 12pm asking if I can work the afternoon to get some stuff done as the other designer is taking longer than expected to finish a task and is going on leave the following week. Is this considered out of line or toxic work behavior?

So I work for a small DBE company, and there are no more than 5 people working here. Time keeping isn’t a real thing and if we show up and do work, we are paid. PTO is kept track of on a whiteboard and we progress from there. Employer wanted to touch base on why I had more PTO than he had expected and I explained to him that they were added up from travel days when he gave me the next day off after coming home, but I inform him I would still come in and save the day for PTO. He had requested us to work on December 26th 2022 and January 2nd 2023, 2 observed holidays since the days before landed on Sunday. All this totaled to more days than what he had thought initially. He then requested that I keep a list of 2023 holidays so…