Author: Olivia

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

The amount of literally very unsafe hazards (like, potentially immediately fatal) I have been exposed to at my minimum wage retail store job – demanded of me in the most automatically angrily entitled way imaginable – is truly insane. The fact that we live in a society (US) where people in your own family will become angry with you, and fight you and bully you and try to make you feel like less of a man for not tolerating it emotionlessly and voicelessly, is equally insane. And people say “ohh report them to this, report them to that” – the thing is, I’ve done things like that before, and we live in such a work-oriented culture that even the boards dedicated to that sort of a thing don’t care to regulate things/punish as much as they should. They go “yeah wow, that is unsafe, have that fixed by the year…

Without notice, my company delayed my (possibly everyone’s) December payment until January. I incurre 3-15k credit card balance per month traveling for my company . As you might imagine this was not a pleasant surprise as my reimbursement was also delayed; causing me to carry a statement balance and pay interest. Someone told me they did this to make Q4 look better and that it was illegal to do so. Lots of frustration with HR lately.