Author: Olivia

Tl;DR I was basically told I quit my current employer because I didn’t show up to the shop this morning ready to work after I told them I did not want to work out of jurisdiction and they fired me without firing me. A little information: I'm in a union and apprentices have the right to not work out of jurisdiction if they don't want to as per the contract, and I've also worked out of jurisdiction before and it didn't end well. So it’s a long one get ready. I’m a 5th year electrician apprentice in the IBEW (a union for those don’t know) and I was terminated today because I didn’t show up to the shop this morning ready to work. Three weeks ago I was at a commercial job that ended and the shop pretty much had nowhere to put me so I was off for a…

I work at one of the largest tech companies in the world, maybe the largest, I won't name the company but if you're paying attention it's a really big deal. They pay us good, it's like over $20 an hour and you don't need an education, the job is to sit there and monitor tools and notify the engineers when something needs fixed. It's pretty much the easiest most well paying job you could ask for in the modern day with all benefits you could think of. 12 hours, 3 days on 4 days off then reverse. I hate working in an office for someone else's profit. At the same time the level of work while not physically intensive at all is quite mentally taxing, you need to be smart and engaged. I've realized I kind of just want to exist and not beholden to the schedule set by my…

The company I work for is going through what its calling ‘modernisation’ reforms. That mainly consists of working practise changes for cost saving, rather than actually modernising or bringing in new tech etc. Had a meeting today with my manager where I was told the numbers of Team leaders is being reduced. These roles are being downgraded to the rank lower, a pay drop of 9k… The selection process is being done on juniority to the business. So unfortunately a colleague with 6 years in the business, myself with 10.5 years and another colleague with 13 years are all being downgraded. Time to look elsewhere