Author: Olivia

I’m currently sitting here crying in frustration. I have been a temp with this company for 8 months and for 6 months, they have been leading me to believe that I will be hired on. After every meeting, I’m told I will be gotten back and then nothing. We had another meeting on Monday and I kind of let him know how I felt I was being jerked around and there wasn’t a real offer on the table, he said we would talk Tuesday. On Tuesday, he canceled the meeting and when I said, “this is the reason for my frustration”, he told me he needed to think about what I said and there have always been “concerns” on hiring me. What is the concern? I mentioned ONE TIME that I preferred working remotely over in office and he doesn’t know if I will be a good fit because of…

I recently posted on someone else's thread about 1 episode of a satirical “debunk” style show called Adam Ruins Everything. It is based off a College Humor running character. The show is on Tru. tv and covers a lot of subjects. It had a few seasons picked up by HBOMax. There is an episode called Adam Ruins Work in season 1 that breaks down almost all of the things we routinely gripe/complain/whine/vent/b@tch about here. It shows how they(big business) lie about things, mislead about things, and use a divide and conquer strategy to keep us down and under compensated. You can find it on YouTube as well. It is worth a watch for those who are in other countries or haven't had the pleasure of being bent over the barrel by the system. It will give you some context on what people all over the world are dealing with when…

I ask as an environmental consultant. If you're not familiar with environmental or engineering consulting, we are required to hit what are called utilization goals. These goals are the percent of your 40+ hour work week are “billed” so a Client's project. My, and most of environmental or engineering consultants, have to hit 90% utilization, depending on the Company. I know of others that do not have 90%. So basically it means that our employers only pay for our salaries 10% of the time. This is usually charged as Admin. If you get sick, have to do some training, have to fill out safety sheets, etc. all of that goes to Admin time. If you go below 90% you get fired. To me, this is inherent exploitation because our employers don't even really pay us. We have to depend on other companies to give us work, or we are fired.…

I work for a corporation you probably all shop at (if you have pets) An incident happened that I reported to my boss, she said everything was fine and move along. Upper management started looking at the cameras last week because of other issues. I made sure she was reminded about said incident, that they would see on camera. Today I was called into her office. She acted stupid as she sat and asked me about what they found on camera. I repeatedly told her I HAD told her, and she’s definitely known about it all along. She snarkily repeated “no I didn’t” over and over and had this shitty look on her face. And then said if I had no further reason I wouldn’t have reported said incident, I am now terminated. Prior to this I was told I was an awesome worker. Feels great to be fired from…

I work for a big logistics company, they handle most of the whisky exports from Scotland. I get paid £10.50 an hour and I do a minimum 50 hours a week and I'm constantly pressured to do overtime at the weekend and I'm being told that I am required to do an hour of overtime everyday meaning I will be working 11 hours a day, so a year ago I asked for a promotion and some extra training and was told yes and that they where looking for someone to step up and do this but the thing was I was told I would need to step up and show that I wanted it and I did I done all the overtime helped out whenever I could trained people and put my all in and after a year of this and no word as to what was happening to be…