Author: Olivia

I feel like all decent paying jobs in my field have fierce competition. Even the entry level positions for my field have a lot of competition. I am surprised to keep hearing that right now the job market is swayed to candidates, for what type of roles exactly? I took a role that had 50 applicants for an entry level role right out of school and feel lucky I even got this job.

Backstory: Two people quit right before thanksgiving and I agreed to go from part time to full until we could fill the position. We went from five people to three. The third was totally useless and dangerous as we work with animals and his mistakes were very stupid. He was never once wrote up and was given so many excuses by our head manager. Dude literally sexually harassed someone that was helping out our team, as well as asked HER what to do for a job he had been working at for months. They never hired any new people and then, surprise, he quit by no showing almost two months ago. Well my department manager gets approached by our general manager about hiring someone, something she was never given access to or discussed. Turns out big boss lady wasn’t even looking for any new people, nope! Not during that entire…

I just read that text screenshots are restricted to Sundays — shoot! Anyways, I’m a barista in a chain coffee shop. My general manager started a conversation in our shift leader group chat today about drawer shortages. For the whole month, we were short ~$70. He then said to make up this $70, he was taking all of our tips for the week. Legal????

I’ve been drowning in work since Covid, the mass exodus to remote working / people quitting created an even bigger workload with more expectations to complete it. Unfortunately I’ve been a people pleaser all my life, so once I became severely burnt out and tried to find answers I just find myself getting bitter. All this talk of ‘managing your burnout while working’ or that quitting won’t help your burnout, kinda just seems like the reporters are writing in the interests of big business just to keep us peons going. Why don’t they ever address the root of the issue? That a small percentage of workers do majority of the work? And that businesses don’t hire enough staff to give appropriate R&R time to their long standing employees..