Author: Olivia

I’ve been working at a company for about 6 months now and they just started to do layoffs in the last week. We went from ~110 employees (including a lot of temps) to about 60-70 employees and all of our temps are gone. Everyone I’ve talked to has said I’m good and they’re going to keep me around cause I do good work. I’ve just never dealt with this kind of thing before so I was wondering if I should be looking hard for a new job cause I had planned to be here a while but then this started happening. Overall the company doesn’t seem to be doing a lot of business but they’ve been saying we’re going to be very busy ‘soon’ since I got hired so idk what to believe. Anybody’s experience/advice about something similar would be great.

hello all, posting this through a throwaway I had recently joined a startup (around 4 months) ago Last month, I was told that there is going to be a salary cut of around 60% i.e I will receive only 40% salary of what i was promised until things get right for the startup just to add, i might also be given additional unrelated to my profile – job responsibilities over the period of next few months I dont want to burn bridges with them but its not feeling right to work. can you guys please suggest how do i go about it, and should i resign if at all and how to go about it without burning bridges.. im really confused and want opinion from people who have some experiences dealing with similar experiences. Im young (21-24) tiq

But when I talked to the assistant manager last week, they said that they don’t have any say in hiring and that it’s all the GM. Is this all a ruse to pass the buck, so I don’t get hired? The GM’s bf is a manager elsewhere and wants her to not hire me, for petty reasons. But she has seemed like she wants to be fair to me. He’s a controlling nutcase, but I feel like I shouldn’t let him stop me from finding opportunities. He’s just mad because his ex liked me after he dumped her.

I’m a mid-level manager and I typically eschew the BS “motivation” or “inspirational” stuff managers do. The managers under me always send them Monday emails and morning emails and Friday emails with quotes and whatnot to staff. We are fully remote. “I hope you feel invigorated today. I just walked my dog 3 miles and saw a bird eating a worm. I hope today you can catch that worm for yourself. You are amazing!” Stuff like that. I just made that shit up right now but I could paste that into an email and they’d eat it up. Recently they’ve banded together to ask why I don’t respond to their emails because I’m their leader and they would like my support with their staff. I think it is silly and not motivating to their staff. They should just the themselves and that’s sufficient. What do you all think? Are these…

So, I am a part of a 2-person team who deals with reception duties, it consists of what you would expect really; calls, emails, letters, ect. It's usually a pretty simple job with little going wrong. Well until today. We operate a switchboard phone line, where the majority of calls for this sector the company come through. We figure out the best place to send the caller, to deal with whatever they've explained to us, then put them through. Today, out of no where, caller after caller would call back saying how they've been on hold for an excessive amount of time, from 10-30 minutes, usually the wait time is only a couple seconds as there should be a lot of people on each line we can send a call to. So, we have a look, and it turns out literally everyone who should be on these lines, are instead…

I think there have been some discussions on here before about how much people are paid versus how much money they make for their employer. Seems like it was a bit low. What if there was a standard formula that estimated the average amount a worker in a particular position generated minus overhead (all costs but labor) and that employee was paid at least 50% of that net money generated? Interesting as a concept, though of course all sorts of games can be played with estimating profit, as record companies, movie studios and other places that pay royalties or part of the profit have proven. Somehow, things that generate tens of millions of dollars never quite become profitable (even after they pay back the initial investment.

i work at a restaurant 20 hours a week, i make enough to pay my bills and do recreational activities. But friends and family say i NEED to be working 40 to 50 hrs a week to “keep my mind stimulated”. I tell them the same thing every time they bring it up: “sorry i dont want to spend nearly 75%of my life working, only to have fun when im 65 and brittle” but why are these old people tellin me i need 40 hrs. Did they just grow up doing it so they expect every generation born after to do it or what ? Cuz these are the same people who say “theres a labor shortage” no shortage, we just dont wanna work for people who treat us like shit.