Author: Olivia

My job is gonna be closed for a few days this Fall and they haven’t made an announcement, we just know by word of mouth. It’s because some of the office will be gone on a conference. They said we could use PTO for those days or we don’t get paid. Conveniently, the ones invited on the trip are the ones on salary.

All I do so far, this temp job, this is the 5th week I'm learning the exact same thing. I'm an assembler and essentially I'm just waiting for a product to get coated, which lasts anywhere from 6-10 mins, then it spends 3 minutes drying.. I sit out and wait for the timer to go off to do the next step. Anybody would be thrilled for just sitting out to do nothing but wait, so I am happy to do the bare minimum for now, I just can't figure out how to use the time when im not moving. I've done some writing, making lists of various things but I'm running out of ideas. I would bring my music device and pop some ear buds in but Im not allowed to bring a music device into the area. Im in a clean room, I think its just a germ thing.…

I was warned that this guy was hard to work for, but I couldn’t fathom what level of insane they were talking about. I gout hired at a business owned by 1 person. There are less than 20 employees. He yells and screams and talks down to everyone. He’s been sued for hostile work environment and sexual harassment and the lady won. He’s sometimes nice but that gets overshadowed buy all the crap we have to put up with. Don’t get me started on the micromanaging. My question is though on the legality of his time off rules. You can’t take an hour or two off for an appointment, you have to take a full day or a half day. If you request a day off, you are required to use pto. And today, after asking for 2 days off, one for a concert and one for a leak in…