Author: Olivia

Just a rant but I went to the restroom for 20 minutes cause I actually had to take a sh*it then he complained the rest of the shift and had his eye on me. I was the second fastest that day working with heavy boxes and moving them, there's a bunch of people who are working slower than me but somehow I'm the one that gets called out for needing to use the restroom. Well sorry let me first turn my body into a cyborg so that I can get rid of my biological needs or I can leave poop all over the warehouse

So many people I know are getting sick back to back to back. My one friend has had the stomach flu three times in two months. Her mom is just recovering from the same flu and now she has Covid. WE ARE HUMAN. THIS. SHIT. HAPPENS. Our bodies do not work perfectly. We need breaks, we get sick, sometimes a lot in a row. This is normal and almost everyone has or will go through a period in their life where they aren't healthy often. Why can't businesses understand that??? Why am I at home with the stomach flu, puking out my nose, worried I'm in trouble or my boss thinks I'm lying? Not to mention the post sick day weird vibes you get when you go back. Fuck managers. I am not working for twenty bucks an hour when I'm shitting and puking.

right after my symptoms started i let her know that i believe i have food poisoning and would be unfit to work. i have worked there for over a year and have been a very good employee, yet another person in my same position can come in over 2 hours late and be 10 mins late every day, and not even get a warning. i feel this would be a wrongful termination and i’m not sure how to proceed.

I work 2 x 14hr shifts a week completely alone (I'm 22F) as a key holder + supervisor + salesperson for $16.50 in Ontario, Canada (minimum wage is $15.50) I don't get paid for the extra 15-30 minutes it takes to open, or the 15-30 minutes it takes to close. I don't get breaks. I sit in the back for the majority of my day either reading, watching Netflix, scheduling my next week, doing my budget, or whatever else I feel like doing to pass the time. I eat when I'm hungry, and if a customer walks in, I drop whatever I'm doing to help them. I know some of this is illegal but I can't even bring myself to care because I basically sit on my ass all day two days a week and I make the same money as if I was working 4 x 7hr shifts at…

I've been in a new job about 9 months. It's a very physical demanding job as it involves working with highly flammable gases, ovens that sit at 750°C, torches, welding quartz products that are expensive and easily breakable. The heat is that intense that I can ring my top after an hour of work and its like a wet cloth (Sorry it sounds gross but it's the truth). The products I'm working on now are ones that have taken others nearly 2 years to learn while I have learned it in a couple of months. My manager called me in to tell me that I'm going to be trained to work on these new products that are being brought in which will bring the company 10x more money per piece then what we've been working on at the moment but the thing is they are incredibly difficult to fix as…