Author: Olivia

Let's say I created Articles of Incorporation that bound the corporation to treat its employees well, limit CEO pay to something reasonable like 6x the lowest-paid worker, mandate free health insurance for all employees, etc. I could then take the voting stock and put it in trust to be delegated to the employees to vote upon my death. The corp could raise money by offering dividends on profits and a steady rate of return. I would, however, cap the RoR with the rest of profits used to expand the business so it would function like an annuity for the investors and would always have a low P/E ratio, but who cares, as long as the employees are taken care of. I feel like this could be a big thing if anybody dared to start doing this. Any thoughts? Suggestions? Comments? Questions? Insults?

How to look insanely busy, and super diligent, without getting anything done: Inspect the equipment required for your job early and often. This is for safety and quality, take as much time as you need. Go back over areas you've already done to ensure quality. This is QC, take as much time as you need. Have a clipboard somewhere with a checklist containing items that generally fit the description of the task at hand. Check them off while looking at things, appear to think hard about it. If you work construction, get the measuring tape and double-check everything (as long as you know for a fact it was accurate the first time). If you work in an office, always have a spreadsheet open that relates somehow to your job. That shit is like the Jedi Wave to micromanaging bosses. If you work in tech, it's a system error no matter…

On the last week of my 12-month contract I pretty much had no work left from the company (it being the holidays and all). Before this week, the company was happy with all the work I had completed to this point. So my supervisor gave me some last minute work with unclear instructions. I did the best I could with the instructions but he was not satisfied with it. Because of this he rejected my billable hours for the week. I understand if he didn't think I completed all the instructions, but is it illegal to not pay me at all for the week? This is in Texas.

So I work for company A. Company A bought company B. They make me do customer service for company B as a “Guinea pig employee” for their poorly planned merger. Company B will be closed for inventory for the rest of the week so I will be the one person customer service rep. Again. For the next 3 days. I will be the only phone/live chat/email person. Everyone else is doing inventory or at home. They didnt tell me anything till the last minute. AGAIN. This is the third time. They said that “it should be slow” and sure it is going to be slower than December but it’s incredibly disrespectful to me to not be told till the last minute that I have to work alone again. I come in even if company a is closed because company b is opened. I come in when company b is closed…

Usually be it in person or virtually. You are expected to attend a job interview 15 or so minutes early. I had an interview that should have happened a couple minutes ago. I wasted 30 minutes of my time hoping for someone to join the conference call to no avail. Yet when we the working people 🤔 are 5 minutes late. All of a sudden all our professionalism and skills and experience we have as candidates become irrelevant in the interview.

The work wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for such long hours. 10am to 7pm was my shift today. I’m female and the rest of my colleagues are male. They’re all lovely to me and I love them all. I’m very lucky in terms of help the guys give me.. like today a water pump was so heavy to pick up. Joe watched me try and then offered to get it for me. Some of the stuff I just can’t lift. But there’s tons of small parts nuts, spacers etc that I pick all the time. I justify doing heavy manual labour as I don’t need to join a gym. Today was my first day back at work after the Xmas holidays and my arms ache and my legs ache. My parents always praise me for working hard.. if it wasn’t for their praise I don’t think I could…

Got my first salaried job but not too long ago, and I’m really struggling to see how this setup benefits employees in the slightest. Another professional I know said if you’re salaried and making less than $200k, you’re getting screwed, but really, is there any scenario in which being salaried works to the employee’s advantage? Do salaried positions typically come with benefits that hourly ones don’t?