Author: Olivia

Like many others, I lost my job late 2020 due to covid. It took about 5 months to find a job wherein I drew unemployment until March of 2021. I tried to file my taxes and I have come to learn I still owe taxes on my unemployment income. I know for 2020 taxes, the first $10k were tax-deductible, but I see no such plan for 2021. Is there any relief on the horizon or am I (and I can only assume so many others!) stuck with this? So frustrating!

I gave my verbal 2 weeks notice to my boss. Told her my last day would be 2 weeks from today. With that, she told me I am no longer needed here and that today is my last day. Did I just get fired? Edit: I emailed her a formal resignation letter after this conversation. Will I get paid for the next two weeks?

I'm pretty well off. I work in tech and have been WFH during the last two years. I'm fortunate. But I have a bit of bias and don't know a lot of the realities of what people are getting. A member of my family said one of his in laws or an aquantence (don't remember, unimportant) stopped working during the pandemic and is getting paid to not work. This seems like it would be unemployment benefits and not the brief (three?) payments of like $600 or something that most Americans got. Anyway. What's the reality? Does the government pay for some set of people long term? Is it unemployment insurance only that would do that? It was hard challenging my family member because he wasn't the one who could show receipts. And since it was a blind fighting the blind kind of argument I just let it go. From what…

So this week while I was having my lunch. My manager gave me a key. I was confused and said “what's this for?' she replied with “it's to open the store when we open Saturdays.”. Which then she walked away. During my lunch I was thinking of it and I realized it's adding a lot of responsibility to my already loaded workload as I'm a safety representative for the first time and didn't really want this position of a key holder. Not only do I have to walk to work but my walk to work is 30 minutes, the weather conditions don't really help here in Canada . so I was thinking of a wage increase to compensate. I finished my lunch and she just so happen to walk about on my way out and I asked her “so does this come with a wage increase of any sort?”. Which…

I really do not understand. Somehow we in the US are unable to see the big picture. Our government and media outlets say better than I will but we have been told that people being paid in dirt is not only acceptable but necessary, when it isn't at all.

I feel like a failure or something. But I’m taking a month or two off. Draining my savings. Fuck it. Anyone else ever do this? Live off their savings to preserve their mental health?

Last summer, I started working at a center for autistic children. I was told I would be working in the center but after they were comfortable with my training – they told me they would be opening a new center closer to me – but in the mean time they would have me work with clients in their homes. I felt a little uneasy because this was my first time doing this and I had not been trained to work at a clients house and I never had to interact with the clients family in that way before. Anyway everything was fine. I had one client five days a week for about three hours per session. Then I had another at home client added, three hours each session but only two or three days a week. However, these two clients lived about 30 minutes apart. When I had a day…