Author: Olivia

Will they listen? Not likely.

So I work at this extremely small company that creates covers to protect cars in car plants as they’re going through the assembly process. As a sales and marketing coordinator I assumed it would be a lot of marketing more so than sales because they had virtually no internet presence. But then it becomes clear that’s largely a pee on role to take some of the work away from the President… so whatever. A few months back they bring in an outside sales guy as a consultant and figure they want to hire him to be outside sales. That guy kills all my marketing initiatives. All of a sudden all the sales dry up. I keep making calls but there’s not a lot here to do (no one is committing to purchasing the products; and most is done with outside distributors anyways.) Last Friday, see that they’re hiring for my…

My office has been working super hard the last 9 months, harder than any neighboring jurisdictions. To thank us, my boss is giving us bonuses for the first time… but changing the way we’re paid. We’re no longer guaranteed step increases in pay or cost of living adjustments. Instead, pay will be determined by our evaluations and performance. We are going to have less paid time off. They’re taking away a week of PTO. If they cut my hours, they won’t have to cover my health insurance. Today, I prepared an email to my boss and HR. I want changes in writing. I know there’s nothing I can do because it’s an employment agreement, not a contract in the legal sense. But I’m also not taking this lying down. I will badmouth them to everyone who will listen. Employers should want to hire the best for the job (I know,…

When restaurants add service fees or auto gratuity to make their employees whole, everyone goes up in arms saying “just raise your prices” to pay them more. This argument never highlights the fact that prices would have to greatly exceed the price of the fee because the restaurant would have to pay payroll tax on those wages (essentially doubling the cost of the wage). If the goal is 1) have employees get more money, 2) keep prices reasonable, and 3) keep the restaurant in business and therefore job available, then I have ZERO problem with this approach. Honestly, I would rather have restaurants call it out, “20% will be added to every bill”, so it’s not sneaky and the earnings of the employee are not dependent on why willing customers are to give (getting rid of the free rider problem). Profits in the restaurant business are notoriously small so raising…

Hi, this is just going to be a rant, but I'm also interested on other opinions on this. I only work part-time next to my studies, but it is very important to me to be able to live by. I had a really bad half year with IBS, constant pain, going to the doctor, taking all kinds of medicines and it's still very much going on. It also made my immune system much weaker. Last week, I got really sick out of nowhere, basically spent an hour commuting to work just to get fever on the way and instantly come back. Then I had a really bad week. My grandpa got very ill one day and he is in the hospital since, not sure if he will make it out… The next day I got the call that my grandma passed away. It hit me very hard, since I was…

So this past monday I tested positive for Covid on two at home tests. I even took a third one from a different brand to be sure. The symptoms hit me like a truck so I never made it to the Dr. My sister assured me I'd be paid for the state and didn't need a test from the Dr to prove it so I was like “okay cool” . Now I'm back at work and since I'm sort of HR for my job (I wear many hats we are a very small business so I take care of backend stuff including what a normal HR person would do but with no formal training) I'm realizing the Covid forms I'm finding require a Stay at home or quarantine test from a Dr… I was home all 5 days with the assumption I was going to be paid and so I…

The hiring process for entry level jobs is, personally, very invasive with background checks, questionnaires and drug screenings. But there isn’t a whole lot of statistical information readily available about the corporate operations. Besides employee reviews on job search websites, where can someone gain access to information regarding company revenue, turnover rates, workman compensation payouts, injury reports, osha violations? I would bombard the hiring manager with these question, but like most managers they too stupid to know. Companies have to go digging around in my urine to see if I’m qualified to serve burritos, but where can I go to see if they are worthy of my burrito making abilities? OAN: start stealing stuff. your money has no real value. And you are valuable without money.