Author: Olivia

What dumb shit is your company doing?

Long story shorter I've been in recruiting hell Is a 6 round process to get a job about 2,000 miles away from me The recruiters are all over the world which I've dealt with many times but here's my huge problem. The whole process has taken well over 60 days They set the final interview two weeks ago for today. The email was in mountain time so I promptly replied all trying to confirm what time I needed to be logged in because I've only ever lived in central time. No one ever responded to my email but I did speak to a recruiter this Tuesday who asked me to login at 8am central time. So I'm all logged in only for a recruiter to login and say well we mean 10am your time please login then. Then he asked if I responded to the email to ask and if…

This happened a few months back, but still currently in the same situation. I recently graduated my Physical Therapist Assistant program (2021) and was lucky enough to find a job about 5 minutes from home. Everything was working out perfectly, I liked my job and coworkers, etc.. In September of last year I started having strange symptoms I’ve never had and I eventually had to go on FMLA in late October. Originally, this job was through a contracting company for my local hospital, during this time the contracting company ended its contract with no warning and the hospital then hired all therapy staff that were laid off from the contracting company – except for me. Since I was still out on FMLA, the contracting company I was working for decided that there was no other jobs close enough for me and outright terminated me. Ending my health insurance at a…

Hello everyone. I need some advice. Got fired few months ago for finally standing up to my “boss” during one of our 1:1. The issue was excessive micro-management and constant power plays from his side. This is a guy who was previously my co-worker whom I did not agree with very often – which visibly made him upset on numerous occasions. Now, I'm interviewing for other jobs and I always struggle to find a good explanation for why I “left” my previous job. I tried telling the truth once, immediate red flag and interview was cut short. Thoughts?

Obviously people have brought up this idea before, but with the constant barrage of corporations poisoning our minds, bodies, and land that have come to the forefront in 2023, I think now is the time to discuss the possibility of a grass roots general strike. It's more likely than ever before that one can happen thanks to the ease of sharing information and the absolute shamelessness that corporations have publicly shown as of late. Not expecting the responses to me to be pretty, but I have faith in the goodness of people deep down.