Author: Olivia

Hello everyone, I want to share an incident which happened this past weekend. Context: I am a manager in a fast food type of restaurant in US. I work part time(3 days a week) and am still in school. My GM (General Manager) recently took over the restaurant and has been an absolute gem to work with. She is an example of a leader. Her boss is the AD (Area Director) , who manages around 30 restaurants. Cue the story. My normal shifts are 1pm-12am, being the only manager from 5pm. I am completely fine with working shifts of these lengths btw. It is also important to note that from open to 5pm, 3 managers are usually working with the morning shift staff. This past Friday, we had our busiest day of the year so far, having nonstop orders (literally) since the lunch rush. This involved everyone working nonstop with…

I enjoyed the overall aspects of the job (non-profit nature conservation), but there was some weird operational and policy things that I never really got the hang of. It just created a bad situation. I've had a good amount of experience and have transferrable skills, so I'll likely land on my feet, but c'est la vie. Make yourself marketable in several different fields. Treat yourself in the meantime (when you can).

I have a coworker who is part time. They have the same amount of PTO days as the rest of us full timers, even though this person doesn’t work the whole week. This seems unfair to be working full time, receiving the same amount of PTO as someone who is part time. I’m not saying this person needs to have their days reduced but would be nice if full timers got extra days then… We are a small business so there’s basically no HR or policies in place. Just floating by on the whims of the superiors I guess…

“Junior” graphic designer here. 2.5 years experience in the industry, 1 year of which has been in the agency I'm currently with. These people pride themselves on being worker-forward and fair and all that jazz. To be blunt, I do a vast majority of the design work for this company's clientele, and I do a damn good job of it. You can see the overall aesthetic improvement from before I was hired vs now. I'm quick and can handle a LOT at once. I've proved myself and then some. It's just me and my supervisor on our internal design team (will refer to this person as they/them). The dynamic: they quite lazily “oversee” me and then take most if not all of the credit for my work when presenting to clients. For the sake of fairness, I'll concede that they likely do some administrative stuff behind the scenes that I'm…

I guess we know who loses their job first, thanks to Beaumont and Spectrum merging. I can just feel it…

As many of us here, I hate work. I often have a physical reaction to having to do work. Today I got lightly chewed out by my current manager for often being on my phone and being generally uninterested/distracted at work. Problem is I find it difficult to stop being on my phone. I get extremely tired when I’m not doing anything. I don’t think I’m in danger of being fired, but I don’t want to be taken off this project because it’s close to me. Any tips/tricks from y’all to make things more bearable and be a shudders better employee?

So, my chronic health condition has fired it's warning shot. And now I can no longer work overnights, or I may end up in the hospital. But my manager won't change anything, for any schedules already posted. So if I don't find someone to cover all my shifts for the next 3 weeks, I'll be fired for too many attendance points. And I'll also have no income, for the rest of the month. I'm literally in the process of moving, as my landlord is not renewing my lease and I have to be out by the end of the month. But, unless my shifts are switched, I'm completely fucked. I can't get a doctor's note until tomorrow. And it's not like I didn't try to get one before. I know my illness, and I know this is a note a doctor would write in a heartbeat. But admin at the…

so basically I am an 18 year old girl living with my parents. I finished high school 3 months ago and unluckily I got this 44h per week job offer which I didn't know I would hate it this much, it's not even been a week and I can't wait to quit once I complete 1 full month I'm just afraid my parents are gonna be disappointed about it but I'm pretty sure I can't no longer be happy working at that place for many many reasons and mostly important, no i don't need the money my parents just convinced me to get out and work bc I was doing pretty much nothing, staying at home 24/7 but now I convinced myself the only thing I really need to do now is study to get my dream job asap

So, I've posted bits of my story here and there, but the TL;DR version is that I spent my whole adult life working jobs that sucked, and that I nearly killed myself working extra hours and taking on loads of stress for my last job. When I got the nerve to leave I gave them 4wks and they thanked me by firing me during my notice period. Since then, I have no desire (obviously) to do that again for any company. Now I work a cushy corporate job where I can get the work done that I need to in 20hrs a week or less. I want to enjoy it, but I've always worked HARD jobs and feel anxious that I'm not doing enough, even though I know I'm finally being paid well for the work that I put in. Even though I don't believe that I should have to…