Author: Olivia

I’m still heated after today. To start, I work at a call center where we get annual performance reviews with our supervisors and determine how much of a raise we will get. On average, raises would be between 35-60 cents (sometimes $1.75 if you hit certain initiatives). Even for someone who is a lower performer, they at least get a quarter and then some. Me? Well, I got a 10-cent raise…… Why? I had a supervisor last year who was by far the least professional leader I’ve ever worked with. For the whole 9 months, I worked with him he was never available to reach out, our ‘coaching’ sessions would be him talking about “implementing call center behaviours” without even trying to help me with issues to improve on. He would make crude jokes all the time and is rude to the other agents. When it comes to performance reviews,…

I’m a cart attendant. As you can imagine, working in a parking lot that is coated completely in ice is difficult and dangerous. I don’t ask for help because I already know damn well that my supervisor doesn’t care to give me any. But today, my supervisor not only forced me to work out in the most hazardous terrain I could possibly work in as a cart attendant all day without help, but two minutes before the store closes they demanded that I further put my literal ass at risk, just so they could have the peace of mind that I didn’t spend two minutes not working. And then to rub further salt in the wound, literally, they told another employee to salt the sidewalk, because they didn’t want anyone slipping and falling when they leave. No boss of mine has ever made me so face-meltingly angry in the 10…

I'm not sure if this belongs here but I'm honestly stunned at such a huge increase in less than a year. I am almost certain that the people still working the same position aren't getting a $5 raise. Even though it wasn't intentional, I see now that it literally pays to job hop, sometimes.

Today at work our HR manager proudly told us that it was Employee Appreciation Day for our hotel and what they did for us was to bring all of the department heads to a baseball game while the employees worked. I feel so appreciated right now.