Author: Olivia

It was a really good “inspection” (clearly an appraisal to raise the rent come June), because I cleaned everything up really well (including most of the repairs they never did) and lied about having a 1yo. Anybody have some free time today and wanna go on community pages and badmouth my neighborhood to keep the prices low? I'll do yours in return. PM me.

I have been trying to get out of a toxic work situation for about four months now and I finally have an offer. For context, its a position in the financial services industry, I went through 5 different interviews and this position will be a 40k increase to what I'm currently making. The HR rep I've been working with just called to let me know that I need to take a drug test within 72 hrs in order for the offer to still stand. I did not know about this, it was not in the job description and no one ever said anything about it. I live in a state where pot is legal for recreational use. I obviously partake, and pretty regularly (maybe 2 or 3 times per week, sometimes less). In fact I was literally doing so as the HR person called. Do I have anything to worry…

I used to be a lead for a certain green-aproned coffee company out of Seattle. About two years in, after receiving the best possible review with the highest possible marks in every category, the raise I was given was…10 cents per hour. Four bucks a week? You're rewarding your top-reviewed hourly employee a whole four bucks a week for my documented excellent work? That's literally only 16 bucks a month. Before tax. Hella insulting. I got another gig right away and gave my two weeks, and I told them exactly why I was leaving. Not only did they not offer to adjust my raise (“our hands are tied”), they said I *couldn't* leave in two weeks because we had inventory coming up in 13 days and everyone had to be there for it, no exceptions. I remember laughing in their faces in that meeting. Like, catch me on the airplane…