Author: Olivia

I remember everyone raving about this movie when I was a teenager but I never saw it until just now, and I hated how the entire movie justifies an abusive and controlling employer. A few things that may resonate with this subreddit: The assistant, Andy, is underpaid (dad pays her rent) and bullied by everyone in her workplace and then gets gas-lit and told that she isn't working hard enough. Gets given a virtually impossible task where she is set up to fail by her employer. Told that she must accompany the Director to Paris with threats that she will be black listed from working at any major publication if she refuses. One other hard working employee of 18 years is promised a promotion which turns out to be a lie to which he replies with something akin to “if I pick myself up by my bootstraps and work harder…

I’m from India unfortunately where there are no laws in place to protect employees from exploitation. At my current workplace where I have joined a few weeks ago, I’m seeing a lot of disturbing behaviour from a supervisor towards a fellow colleague. He is constantly asked to stay at work late, almost on a daily basis, he is screamed at for things that are not his fault, things that are not even in his purview. He is being treated as if they literally own him and it’s disgusting. I feel like that supervisor has a kink of wanting to play Dom all the time with my colleague. I’m going to help my colleague find something else so that he can get out of this stupid hellhole. Also, if you have a supervisor who is like this, get the fuck out of there.

So my employer (big firm type) has a referral scheme that they heavily promote, signs everywhere, everyones lockscreen, regular emails. I gave a few referrals a few months back but its still within the 6 month probation so I haven't gotten payout yet. But another friend is leaving the company after referring someone, they stayed the full 6 months, met all conditions, both were still employed but HR said 'sorry the transfer will take a few months' months pass and nope, she hands in her notice and they admit she will never get the payout. So at first im all richeously mad, like if they say 'if you do this I will pay you x' and you have it in writing, surely they will have to do it? But yeah, looking at legality all bonuses, including referral, are 'discretionary' so much like a holiday bonus, if they don't feel like…

I know there’s always an article coming out saying remote working is bad and needs to end and people need to be back in offices working. However, I wasn’t sure if there’d been any articles comparing number of sick days people were taking previously vs as remote workers/hybrid working/not having to be in the office full time. I know I’ve been more inclined to work from home with the flu getting some work done. If I was in the office full time I would’ve called in sick and not worked from home.