Author: Olivia

I'm currently working a job where I get insulted on a daily basis by customers and get into arguments. I work in health care to be more specific. Told my manager and all she said was “that's how people are”. Yes it's customer service but holy shit, I've worked other jobs that weren't this horrible. I have been looking for work elsewhere and I have an interview today. If they hire me, I really don't want to give a 2 weeks notice. Can I do this? What can I say? That I'm just quitting because this job deteriorated my mental health even further? Or that I can't handle it? Some tips would be nice, thank you all.

My employer canceled my vacation time for end of this week/next week due to “lack of coverage”. They told me this yesterday. I work in a factory. What’s a good way to ensure they get little to nothing out of me next week? I already plan to work 8 hours and not one minute over, take long breaks, do as minimal amount of work possible, etc. What are some other good ideas? Of course my boss will be off.

Sorry for the format I'm on mobile. This is a Payroll/HR Software company, main color green, and has a little square icon. 🙂 Dont wanna name them just in case. I currently work for this train wreck of a company and there was a meeting the week of December 12th, 2 weeks before Christmas, stating that they're forcing only SOME of their employees to come back into the office fulltime. They stated that developers will still be able to WFH 3 days and in office 2 days while QA and others are forced to come into the office by Jan. 16th because “we're not having important conversations while WFH, but WFO will allow us to communicate better.” Like what? They've been ignoring us when calling them out on their blatant favoritism towards devs. They've been ignoring the fact that we're calling them out for lying to new hires when recruiters…

I hate my current corporate job and I've been trying for quite a while to find a new one (within EU, mostly targeting Croatia and Austria) and it's been really really hard to penetrate the wall of nonsense that are recruiters and so-called talent specialists. You see, I'm a theoretical physicist and I've been studying some of the most hardcore math you could imagine, things that reeeeaaally put my monkey brain cells to work. I was programming complex stuff on the side before I even got to high school and I've always been playing with electronics, building and repairing stuff, I'm usually very quick to learn and adapt to anything STEM. If you're a fellow STEM person, you already see the value in that, of course. But it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get that stuff across recruiters, they don't seem to understand that skills are transferable and that expertise in one…