Author: Olivia

I just got off the phone with my dad and my heart is breaking in two. He has worked at the same company (rhymes with Ficron) for over 40 years. He started on the production line and worked his way through promotion after promotion until he was two positions removed from the CEO. This is a man who came from nothing, from poverty and no education. He dedicated his entire life to this company. Whatever they asked, he was there. Nights? Sure. Travel internationally 50 weeks out of the year? Sure. My dad had to miss so much of my childhood because of work obligations. Two weeks ago, he was forced to lay off multiple people under his management. He would never admit it, but he cried night after night. He told me the guilt of sending someone home and telling them to figure it out made him feel like…

As the title states I work in retail where we’re open 7 days a week. We get a schedule for 1 month at the start of every month: On the Feb schedule (it stretched into the first week of march) I was scheduled off for the weekend but have worked the 8 days before Saturday. The new schedule was released on Tuesday afternoon and I am now scheduled on all weekend with my next day off at the end of next week. (15 days on total without break) What are my options here… I know I have the right to refuse the schedule change as I was not informed with more than 96-hours notice as required but how do I bring this up to my boss?

Hi all I’m playing around with an idea to help improve transparency in workplace wellness for employees, specifically in small and medium sized businesses. I’m envisioning a tool that allows employees to voice how they’re doing physically, emotionally and intellectually (can be done anonymously) and gives managers a view of how the team is doing/if they need to change their management process. It would also gives employees the ability to see how they’ve been doing overtime. I’ve seen a lot of issues of burnout with friends and family at work so this issue is close to home and I want to throw my time/energy at this problem. Looking for reactions to this idea: 1. Is this something you believe would help your team’s culture? 2. Is this something you would feel comfortable using? 3. Do you believe your manager would want to use a tool like this? Appreciate any feedback…

I worked for a small company for 10 months. My boss would routinely call me 'Colin', referring to the character from What We Do in the Shadows TV series. If you don't know, Colin is an energy draining vampire that makes people miserable. For several months my boss would bring up this Colin thing throughout the day. Whenever new people came to the office he'd introduce me and then segway straight into literally pulling up clips from the show to show how much I looked like Colin. It got to the point where he asked me if I thought he was being a dick calling me Colin, and I politely said that yeah, he was, but it was no big deal (I did my best to take it as work banter, though he would never take any banter back). He relented on it for a couple weeks and then it…

Just ranting and opening this up to anybody else who wants to vent. I've expressed my burnout and mental health decline to my boss, supplied with some solution, only to have him half-heartedly realize this is the biggest contributor to my performance. I had been a valuable asset to the team for my first couple of years before I began shutting down. Now I have a client that we recently signed who's not helping my mental health at all. Her attitude is that she's better than us because she's the one paying us, and despite another colleague and I wanting to fire her (as my employer once proudly boasted we do), our only solution is to schedule more face time with her and that her complaints are valid. I'm on my way out at the end of the year but don't know how much longer I'll be pushed aside like…