Author: Olivia

I work as a critical care flight paramedic/RN. I have been with our program for over 4 years. We had a entire new management team installed about 2 years ago with the promise of big changes for the good of everyone, pay being one of these items. Things have gone from bad to worse, micromanaging, unprofessional and aggressive communications, shift and base changes. In the last year, 14 people have quit, which is a large percentage of our staff, probably close to 40%. I finally had enough. I applied for a job at another program several months ago. This program could be described As a “sister program” and they communicate frequently with management at our program. I was the only candidate with experience in the job, all others were entry level, no flight experience. I received a generic letter stating I wasn’t selected for any of the several open positions.…

for preface i live in utah and i have the MTHFR (C677T) gene mutation, which i assume not many people know about. in general it messes with my hormones, mineral levels, ability to intake and break down vitamins or medicines (mostly NSAIDS). because of this i experience daily headaches that can transition into weeklong migraines, IBS like symptoms, anxiety and depression, aura sensitivities, and a number of smaller things. i am having trouble getting my employers to believe me when i need to leave work early, which i try to make a rare occurrence. unfortunately me and my partner, who also has some health issues, work at the same place which has made the managers hold our absences against one another. we are both looking for other jobs, but i have this issue at every job i have. in highschool i had to take my stack of test results into…

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I mai ly just want to let some steam off about the situation and get just a couple replies back on if I'm right to do what I think… Im a supervisor in a small general store of about 10 staff. Drugs obviously isn't something to be bragging about but a 19 year old assistant thats been with us (for too long imo) is doing my nut in and my manager will not talk to anyone let alone him about it because she is too socially awkward to mention it. Ive done many drugs myself when I was 16 – 20ish and now I'm almost 30 I'm just fed up of hearing this kid at work bragging about what drugs he's been doing, he openly says he is still tripping from whatever pills he had the night…