Author: Olivia

I’m leaving my current employer, as a restaurant manager after Monday. I’ve taken a lesser position with more benefit at a non competitive company. I’m currently in tears, because for the past ten years I’ve been an advocate for them. I’ve given everything to make sure their needs are met. But this job has been killing me. I mean that in the literal sense. I’m down to 140 lbs, I haven’t had a day off since December 25. I’ve told the big wigs that they need to pay more. But still I’ve been bled dry. I need a change. I will not die for this company. But who is going to look after my people? What fresh hell am I offering them to? I hate what I’m doing to them.

I work in education with Pre-K. Typically I am support staff which means I cover lunches and provide support… lately I have been put in a class all day where the child bites, kicks, screams and another child as well. I wouldn’t mind it as I love to help/ do my job. However they have begun leaving in there for the whole day. It is to a point where I am exhausted, the kids are a huge liability and I spoke to admin… “It was (insert principals name’s ) decision but I will speak to her and see if some days we alternate you.” The next day and weeks I was given a schedule with only my lunch as the period where I was not in the class. The other person who also holds my position gets to cover all lunches and floats through, teachers complain he/she does not help…

I've had a reddit account for the better part of a decade, but have only recently (in the past year or so, and only because reddit start sending me digest-style listings of things I might be interested in, which resulted in me reading more across the board(s)) actually started taking part in posting things on various subreddits… After reading some of the items on here, it's made me wonder if I should post my own story as a contractor… I was doing freelance work for a company with a very nice product idea for about 2 years solid, as a front-end engineer… They had an original product that had an admin management dashboard, and then a secondary launch attempt of trying to update said admin management dashboard, which flopped, and then they decided they wanted to try a React.js re-launch of said admin management dashboard, and a buddy of mine…

I want to first say I’m not advocating for this bill. It is a resolution to abolish the IRS by making all current tax code void and instead setting up a 23% federal sales tax. Everyone here talks about the rich paying their fair share. Well here is a perfect opportunity to do so. Sure prices go up a few cents but having more money will help out overall.

Back in the summer, we took a two week vacation to see family, and my wife properly relayed the days she would be gone and, properly, put in the PTO request. It was approved. Today, however, she was told that there was a mistake made by someone on the team, and as a result, no PTO was utilized. Now she's being given two options: surrender the PTO equivalent that she's accrued or pay the company back. She was also told that this was her fault, not the company's, because she could've checked to make sure everything was right in December. Not back in the summer when the person whose job it was to enter it apparently entered it wrong, but December. She came home in tears tonight and is frantically looking for new positions elsewhere, even thinking about a month break because of the stress that other factors at work…

For some background, Im a 22F and started working at a local restaurant a little over a month ago. Today I was called into the office over a “suspicious question” I asked the manager on duty. I asked this guy what time he ends up getting home and also what time the restaurant closes. Honestly I didn’t think much of the question I asked, but it was a huge red flag to the manager, who then accused me of having intentions of robbing the restaurant. I was so shocked I didn’t know what to say, so I had to explain that I didn’t mean anything negative by that question. Its not like I asked him what’s the code to the safe or where he keeps all his keys. I just don’t get it and I feel like I could just be getting discriminated against. Is there anything I can do…

I run a small business, and I wanted to share some numbers with you. My wife and I are pretty liberal, and we pay our employees pretty well. I have about 3 full timers, 2 of which are hourly at 19, and the last at $22 (MI). There's a reason for the difference, and it's not important to this discussion. The rest of the employees are 17, 16, 15, 14, around that ish, and there is about 16 of them. At that pay range. 2 of whom needed health insurance, which I am subsidizing because 2 people isn't enough for a group plan. Each shift is 6 hours long, and since the teenagers have school during the day, some of them only work half shifts to bolster the busy times, so imagine the average 16yo employee works 3 3-hour evening shifts and 2 full weekend shifts. I'm giving you all…

I was an assistant manager at a gas station. At the end of my shift one night I had bought my roommate some nyquil from work when he was sick, but we realized he needed dayquil instead, so I went back to refund it and buy the right medicine. When initially purchasing the nyquil, there had been damage to the packaging, and the GM had discounted the item prior to my shift. For proof of discount, we put a little pricegun sticker on damaged items. So there was a sticker denoting the new price on the nyquil, specifically for any cashier to see upon refunding. But when I came back to refund it off the clock, the employee running the register that night didn't see the sticker, and just scanned the item, hitting the refund button and giving me the msrp amount back instead of the discounted amount. A note…