Author: Olivia

I started a new job a month ago, as a part time employee working with people with disabilities. I’m pretty good with time management, have a good level of enjoyment and understating of the job, but I’m getting texts, every day- multiple times a day to work someone’s shift or cover call in’s all over the company, or the schedule was overlooked and scheduled wrong and needs to be fixed/ It’s a larger company. It’s SO OVERWHELMING. I’ve taken a few shifts so far, inside of my comfort level. I’m basically working 40 hours a week which is fine by me for the time being. But besides putting my phone on silent I can’t get past HOW often I’m contacted! It’s insane and has me contemplating the job by the lack of awareness of what they are doing. What do you guys do??

This was the most unstructured interview process I’ve ever dealt with. I wasn’t offered a position, but if I were, I would’ve declined in a heartbeat. I applied for an entry level A/V tech position for a company that hosts online court hearings. The pay was 18/hr with no health insurance. Firstly, I was contacted by a recruiter to schedule an interview. I was then interviewed by an individual I didn’t originally speak with and the recruiter that contacted me sat in on the interview never turned on her camera or introduced herself simply joined the call and muted. The interview with this individual was the only positive note I had during the interview process. Next, I got a text that same night saying I need to urgently set up a follow-up “tech interview”. Because the hiring manager would be leaving the following day and they wanted to get it…

context: broke my wrist a month ago (on their property too due to slipping on ice) and still recovering slowly. i work at an undisclosed fast food chain and constantly get lectured for not bringing the drive thru times down. on tuesday my manager wrote me up for not prioritizing the ‘SOS’ “speed of service” and i swear to god i’m close to walking out. i’m in a splint now after being in a cast for nearly two months and don’t want to use my hand much yet so i’m literally making due with one arm. when i told my manager this and that i’m trying she compared me to a past employee they had that worked with one arm due to a car accident and was faster than me. im so angry. why not put one of my other coworkers on the drive thru??? i feel like i’m being…

My job is making everyone sign a new attendance, much of it is pretty normal until you turn it over to the back page. On the back it says if we call in and it is deemed as unwarranted they are considering it job abandonment and our resignation. Asked one store manager (who is somehow also our hr person?) What the difference was between an unexcused absence and job abandonment to which she didn't have an answer. Seems the difference is at their decision and they are trying to fire people without paying unemployment. Legal?

Hello, red flag. But the pay is so much better than where I am right now, I have to take it. I have bills. So, advice? How do I survive in a “family” work environment? I just wanna do my work and go home.

So roughly once a week the guy that works in the cubicle across the aisle from mine will say some racist or prejudiced comment. Most weeks it will be about the younger generation, but it will occasionally stray into sexism or racism. He recently spent an afternoon upset about reparations to the black community for slavery. During that conversational tantrum he said things that made me embarrassed to be the same species as him. One of the lesser offensive things he commented was about how “they would spend the money on liquor and drugs.” What are some options for how to handle this? I’ll mention I’ve tried questioning his comments to oblivion (“why do you think that”, this upset me more, so I am trying not to engage with him directly). I’d prefer not to be the whiny young member of the small office (

How do I politely say- I don't write cover letters? If you want to know about me read my CV. A potential employer reached out to me to say they liked my CV but want me to write a cover letter stating why I want to work there. I want you to pay me for my work, decades of knowledge, and experience.