Author: Olivia

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…

These are juggernauts. They have been set in motion like a freight train where not even the engineers can slow it down or change its direction. It powers toward profit directed by a set of Corporate Minutes which makes it illegal for corporate directors to do anything other than put the financial interests of the corporation first. Not even a CEO could get in its way. They become an entity unto their own. Germany found success by limiting their corporations. They realized that the economy performs exponentially better with a multitude of smaller companies than with a handful of juggernauts. So they developed Rhine Capitalism, where when a corporation is looking too big for its britches, the government builds another corporation to compete against it and then sells off the shares to the private sector. They regulate and tax corporations heavily and i suspect they would do more to limit…

So I went to work – my boss is awful he’s in charge and has work experience. He gets paid more to make sure people like me do our jobs. He’s such a dick cause he’s always telling everyone what they have to do. I think it’s bullshit that someone like a boss can tell me what to do. Im I not entitled to just show up and get paid? Why do bosses even get paid more? Just cause they have work experience and more responsibilities is a bullshit reason. I’ve had this job for almost a month and I should get paid the same as my boss, we both have to work full time. Why don’t I get paid for my commute to work – not cool. It’s definitely something that should be law. Works is a waste of my time and I want to sue my company for…