Author: Olivia

Title says it all. I work at big box pet store- came in and started feeling off. I went on my break and all hell broke loose. I literally had to change my shirt, but I took the time to thoroughly clean after myself. I tell my manager I will be clocking out for my reason and they berated me for being late (6 minutes late) and leaving early because now they “can't get what they needs to done” and that it doesn't look good for me since I'm new (I've been working at this company for months but just transferred stores though so :/) What am I suppose to do, keep working after I puke? Isn't it illegal to not send me home if I am expelling bodily fluids? Honestly they've been antagonizing me since I started and I'm not quite sure why they accepted my transfer in the…

I guess this is more of a rant than anything, but we got an email in early January that was basically like, “we had such a great year, here are the top ten order writers”… four were 100% work from home since March 2020, a handful flex, and the remainder work totally in the office by choice. Got an email the following week that my department was required to return to the office March 6th, 100% back to the office, the usual reasons cited – ‘team work’, ‘build camaraderie’, etc. Mind you, I work with basically 0 oversight because my company has never truly embraced wfh, even though other people in different departments also flex. A lot of us also have been using our own computers, and the people we regularly need to speak with are either in different buildings or different cities. After hearing nothing about it since early…

A person should not have to pay for being born in this evil greedy capitalist world.

I worked at a small hospital in a rural area… worked my way up from entry level to upper management over the past 26+ years. I read the posts here, but I thought my situation was different. I thought I was different. I was running multiple projects and supervised several clinical departments effectively (at least that's what I thought). We had a new CEO come in about a year ago and I was the only member of the admin team that he didn't pick himself, yet I still thought my situation was different and I was safe. Today, in a mere 45 seconds, he told me I wasn't working out and he was making a change to the leadership team. After 26 years, my career ended in 45 seconds. So I sit here tonight admitting that I was stupid and naïve. I never thought it would happen to me, but…

I had an interview today with a company for a developer role. I’m a beginner with no professional developer experience and I make that VERY clear on my resume. Even in my overview I directly state that the position I’m applying for would be my first role in this industry. I spoke on the phone to their recruiter or HR person and basically explained my resume and experience. She pushed me to the second round of interviews which included a technical portion. I spent days preparing and felt I was ready. This is for a start up and the interviewer was nice but I could tell he was not well seasoned as an interviewer. That’s fine, I get it, we all have our strengths. But we continued the interview for about an hour. I thought it went well. He asked if I had any more questions and I asked what…

Just as the title says, but with some more juice. I work at a call center for a fairly well known company. Oct-Nov of last year there was some talkings of people getting let go. No details, but we would be informed if it affected us. About a month later there’s an email saying they have cut ties with contractors they were working with, so the only employees would be ones officially on the roaster. Made it seem like that was that. Few months go by, and then there’s an email for a sudden all hands meeting, which turned out to be higher ups telling us we were all being let go end of March. I don’t know how many in total it is, but it’s at least my department of 30ish people. Another week later, come to find out my direct managers are already training the new people to…