Author: Olivia

My boss has to seriously the worst leader I've ever worked with, which is astonishing because at first he was pretty cool. But when it comes to working on a critical project, he acts like he's completely insane. He asks for things to be done in 1 hour that take like 2-4 hours, and when advised about using data sources prone to error, he doesn't care so we do things the wrong way then he wants to know why the data is inconsistent/incorrect. Doesn't trust anyone on our team to do their job. I spend 3 hours cleaning/putting together a 500k dataset only to find out he had his own copy of the data that he took previously and made all these changes to without telling anyone, not even me, and then randomly brings us back in later and sends over his dataset he did who knows what with, and…

I went over 2.5 hours (well, it was 4, but our time clocks are another issue) to fi ish a project for the CFO. My boss told me to ask CFO if I could get paid for it. When I did, the CFO looked genuinely confused, like she had never heard of the concept of overtime before. That's a good sign. Used the time and blew in today, obviously

This is mainly for my own curiosity after seeing so many posts listing it as a job perk or sales incentive etc. How often does your company put Pizza Parties on instead of raising wages? (or making improvements etc) How much pizza do they actually bring in per person? Going to run some numbers highlighting the difference between what bosses think staff want vs what staff actually want.

So my roommate works at McDonalds and over the course of a year and a half he was able to earn a promotion to be a pit lead. Two months ago, management moved around some of the equipment. This however left a sort of pallet in the working path of my roommate. My roommate warned management that it posed a serious injury risk to him. They did nothing. He hurt himself in a minor way several times. Management did nothing. Then on 2/18, my roommate hits the pallet and suffers a severe injury to his left knee and is left barely able to stand or care for himself. The truly laughably infuriating part about it all is that even even on the night of his injury where the entire staff wanted to call him an ambulance because he was in so much pain he could not get up off the…

Several months ago my work got everyone in the office a Patagonia zip sweater or vest with our logo. I assumed it was mine to keep because there was no contracts or any notices that said it must be kept in the office, returned, etc. I gave them a 4 week notice and my last day is tomorrow. I just received a letter from them that if I don’t return the jacket that they will withhold my last paycheck. I thought I was leaving on good terms but this just seems petty. Is it legal?

I wasn't sure where to post this but hopefully people here will have some alternative money making ideas. I'm on FMLA right now for my depression and I'm supposed to go back next week. And while the first couple weeks of no work was great, my brain has plunged itself into despair about going back. I'm 25 and work full time as an office clerk for a healthcare company. The pay is…ok. Definitely could be better. I make 18/hr in a high COL state. The job isn't too hard but with my depression I can barely cope. Yeah I'm in therapy and on meds. No I don't have a degree besides high school. I could leave but my savings already bareley exists. I'm getting married to my husband next month before my birthday so I'll have health insurance through him. He makes 70k a year but has private student loans…

I just read on here (I think) last night that if you get put on a PIP, run, it’s the last thing before they fire you. In my experience with this company, that has been true. But I don’t want to leave. I have had plenty of bad managers over the years, and I’m still there and they are not. I have worked there for more than 2 decades, which is really good for someone only in their forties I think, and the people there have always been my family. It’s a pretty good company, a household name, and employees are paid decently with good benefits, though not as good as they used to be. The tasks on my PIP are not difficult to achieve, just very time consuming, and 2 of them could be a full time job on their own. My problem with making progress on those is…