Author: Olivia

As of January 1, 2023, SB 1162 is now law and allows employees to ask their employers what the salary band is for their position. Have you asked and what has been HR's response? I'm about to send an email to my HR department. Curious to see if I'm on the low, medium, or high end of that band!

I am a woman in tech. I need an excuse to not let this potentially new employer contact my old manager. They asked specifically for my old manager for reference. The title says it all, and this old manager is the reason why I left. This old manager expected me to be his personal girlie cheerleader & made sexual advances, I had to work entirely on my own and was constantly fighting with this manager for the bare minimum respect. And there is NO HR department at this place either, HR department was on their side if anything (just a single woman who enjoyed the culture, ugh, that was the entire HR department). Also, I don’t have any other managers they can speak with. I am a consultant and my last job was my first role outside of consulting. And my consulting gigs were local businesses and hard to get…

I work in accounting and there are a ton of 1980s mentalities in this field. From viewing people as numbers in a column of a spreadsheet to mandatory working in the office, it's pretty clear this field is having a very hard time advancing into the modern day. The worst of which, for me, is the necessity of paper for many of these people to understand anything. My boss has to, on a daily basis, manually update an excel spreadsheet version of a report that our software automatically generates, print it out, and then package it in a daily financial report binder for review. All of this is because their boss is incapable of running a report and reading it themselves on a computer screen and they “like the feel of the paper” better.

Hi, sorry this is kind of a random post as I’m going into work right now so I probably won’t respond quickly, but I’m very confused with my last paycheck. I can provide more details/proof as need be but for right now here’s the main gist: I requested to use my 40+ hours of PTO I had saved up to take a week off (from Jan 14-21) and I told them I just want to exhaust all my PTO during that time (I didn’t tell them it’s because I’m currently job searching and hopefully leaving soon after I’m back) it was approved back in November/December. According to my calculations I should have around 50 hours of PTO but on my last paycheck it says they used 8 hours of PTO to pay me? My mom thinks it was because of Christmas and it being a “paid holiday” but I’ve never…