Author: Olivia

So I don't know if anyone has noticed that circle k is buying any and all gas stations, at least where I live, and I've been in a few and they were unbearably hot! Like drinks in the fridge are getting warm hot. At first I thought it was just the one near my home that I used to go to all the time back when it was a Chevron but after going into a few others, I was actually just in one a few moments ago, and I made a comment about all the stores being way to hot and the associate told me it was because corporate sets all thermostats to 80 plus degrees to “save money” while their chocolate products are melting and their drinks are going warm. Now unfortunately I live in the south so it gets pretty damn hot especially at night so when I…

My SO works at a charter school in southern California, I will be masking details to hide this school's identity as there is a lot going on there and the person in charge(PIC) is not above retaliation. It is an absolute shitshow to the point that there is a faction of people working together to have the admin removed by the board ASAP. The PIC is toxic, inept, a terrible communicator, and unqualified to run a school. Recently this PIC has fired a few teachers, telling them that they are “terrible at their jobs” and “to find a new profession.” Now, my SO has found themselves under the crosshair of the PIC. As the title says, SO has been informed that they will not be teaching the class that they have been teaching all school year and instead will be the in-house sub(with no loss of pay). The PIC has…

So a few days ago a coworker was telling me how another one of our colleagues was disrespectful to our boss and called him something along the lines of being white (I don't want to be too specific). Today my coworker told me the full story. Our boss tends to make comments about our race and tries to be funny and speaks to us in our language. I don't mind it too much, but he has a tendency to do that and honestly he can be disrespectful at times. That day he was making a few comments about my coworker working together with someone because they're from the same ethnicity/race. My coworker told him he was being “white” (an insult similar to that). My boss told him to mind his language because he is still his boss and my coworker told him that if he's going to make jokes about…

I just got terminated at work without a reason. The termination letter says (not for cause) what does that mean? Does that mean I’m just being let go?

So my union recently ratified a new beginning agreement. The previous agreement ended July 1 2022. New one ratified Jan 31, 2023. Union rep and HR both seem to say the changes to previous articles in the new one take effect at ratification date. There is nothing in the agreement that says this. They “think its common law” but won't cite a law. Does anyone know either way, my Google fu is coming up blank. Decedent of generations of union labour's I seem to believe from experience that collective agreements are implemented at time of ending of the last one, unless negotiated and written in that they do not. BC Canada

So, I was pulled into my managers office after a meeting with a the dept. supervisor. This comes from my vocalizing my dislike of a move to a different part of the company as a stop gap so they don't lose profits. Nearing the end of our discussions at which I made very pertinent arguments that held true and accepted by herself and the lower level supervisor. She referred to me as a thinker. I am asking dear redditors opinion on this. I am thinking she knows I have it figured out and won't drink the cool-aid, but she can't fire me because they are already understaffed.

So basically , I’ve had about 3 jobs in my life , as I’ve mostly been in undergrad and grad school, and I’m currently finishing grad school online now as a work as a data analyst . I started this job in February and took it because it was my dream title , but it is not my dream job. For one, my salary is $42,000, while the average starting salary of a data analyst is about $66K-$77K. Secondly , almost 100% of the work can be done online and was during Covid , but the ceo likes things in paper and likes us to print reports so they can keep them in paper binders in their office. They are some manual entry parts of my work as I do enter documents , but once again, as stated prior, it can be done virtually if they really needed to: I’m…