Author: Olivia

I’ve been at my job almost two years. I was only supposed to stay a year. I tried to change my availabilities due to my declining health and my boss freaked out because we’re a small team and if I don’t work Sundays, she has no one. So she screamed at me over the phone, accused me of rumours she’d heard and insulted me. I was shocked that a manager would speak to her employee that way. My bf was in the room and heard the call and he was disgusted at her lack of respect and professionalism. She told me I couldn’t change my availabilities without a doctor’s note which just plain isn’t true at all and called me lazy because I don’t do more than my every day task list during my shift (minimum wage = minimum effort). When I told her about my health problems, she completely…

He has been out of the office all week (I believe he may be sick and/or working from home) but he has not answered any of my questions or time sensitive requests. I am not sure if he is upset at me or is just busy. Yesterday all he said is he was not near a computer to review something. Am I getting the silent treatment?

So I walked out of my job a few days ago, and I emailed my supervisor that I will be going home and taking the day off yesterday to figure out if I want to stay. When I came back I got an email from HR saying that because I walked out I basically quit .. I emailed back saying that i didn't resign and I will be in tomorrow unless they fired me. So they just called me and keep saying that because I walked out I quit the job. I asked if it's in the handbook but he said “it's every companies policy”.. I'm tryin to contact lawyers but all are busy this morning Should I show up to work tomorrow?

So my work has a wellness program that rewards PTO for a certain amount of ‘wellness’ actions taken during a period. They have now stipulated that none of these activities can be done during work, including online training (that is all slideshows about improving workplace relations). As I’m trying to game the system and put in the lowest amount of effort for the PTO reward-is there a way to automate clicking through a timed slideshow? The information is almost pointless but it makes you wait 2-3 minutes for a slide with 2 sentences on it before allowing you to proceed to the next slide. If there’s another place to post this, or different search terms I can use to find an answer, I would really appreciate that. I wish I already found a solution that I could post here, but so far I’ve only found results on how to create…

Watching my company's quarterly meeting and thinking there should be a drinking game for this (not actually advocating drinking alcohol at work, just blowing off some sarcastic steam here). Take a drink every time… ….the CEO talks about how the company made SO. MUCH. MONEY. this quarter again – yet employees didn't get raises or bonuses at all in the past year …the speaker not-so-subtly shits on remote work, remote workers, or how they really need to start coming into the office …speaker tries to “pump up” the crowd to lackluster, scattered applause ​ Anything else to add??

My organization (a hospital, the kind that endlessly advertises all the do-good work they’re orchestrating on local television stations) is notorious for underpaying long-term employees. I’m a program coordinator at my organization, been with the organization six years. They just hired another program coordinator. I’m 99% sure she is making more than me. Would it be totally crazy of me to ask her if she’s willing to tell me her pay rate? I would tell her up front that it is TOTALLY LEGAL to talk about pay, and that I promise not to mention to management who told me. I know a lot of people would just tell me to leave, if I feel so underpaid. But I have a pretty bad anxiety disorder that makes me terrified of job interviews! I also have a mostly nice manager, flexible work schedule, slow-ish work pace, and generally friendly coworkers. This is…

Most often I see quotes like: “If you want to succeed, be prepared to be alone.” Many say that you need to educate yourself and exclude rest, parties and gatherings with friends. But I have a question… How do people live who do not study anything, go to parties, do not work anywhere and, as it were, burn their lives, but at the same time rise from the very bottom? (I’m not saying that I’m right, I worked at least once, but after another failure, I needed time to recover). Perhaps some of you are one of those people.