Author: Olivia

The company I work for is going through what its calling ‘modernisation’ reforms. That mainly consists of working practise changes for cost saving, rather than actually modernising or bringing in new tech etc. Had a meeting today with my manager where I was told the numbers of Team leaders is being reduced. These roles are being downgraded to the rank lower, a pay drop of 9k… The selection process is being done on juniority to the business. So unfortunately a colleague with 6 years in the business, myself with 10.5 years and another colleague with 13 years are all being downgraded. Time to look elsewhere

I’m still heated after today. To start, I work at a call center where we get annual performance reviews with our supervisors and determine how much of a raise we will get. On average, raises would be between 35-60 cents (sometimes $1.75 if you hit certain initiatives). Even for someone who is a lower performer, they at least get a quarter and then some. Me? Well, I got a 10-cent raise…… Why? I had a supervisor last year who was by far the least professional leader I’ve ever worked with. For the whole 9 months, I worked with him he was never available to reach out, our ‘coaching’ sessions would be him talking about “implementing call center behaviours” without even trying to help me with issues to improve on. He would make crude jokes all the time and is rude to the other agents. When it comes to performance reviews,…

I’m a cart attendant. As you can imagine, working in a parking lot that is coated completely in ice is difficult and dangerous. I don’t ask for help because I already know damn well that my supervisor doesn’t care to give me any. But today, my supervisor not only forced me to work out in the most hazardous terrain I could possibly work in as a cart attendant all day without help, but two minutes before the store closes they demanded that I further put my literal ass at risk, just so they could have the peace of mind that I didn’t spend two minutes not working. And then to rub further salt in the wound, literally, they told another employee to salt the sidewalk, because they didn’t want anyone slipping and falling when they leave. No boss of mine has ever made me so face-meltingly angry in the 10…