Author: Olivia

After being on leave for 3 and half month from November til now. I was told that my 40 hours shifts are filled and now If I want to return back to work I will have to do 16 hours. I made sure to keep in contact with HR and in January I wanted to come back but I was told I couldn’t come back without a doctor note and that my position will be held for another 90 days. I get there (today) and they tell me I haven’t keep in contact with them. (Which I did, there were texts messages, I sent doctors note thru email. )They were going strictly off of phone calls which I only had the information of me calling them,they never called me. Never left a voicemail but we’re adamant that they did. I told HR, that I wanted to come back in January…

The reason I am posting this here, is it took a long time to get to this point, but at the end of the day, look out for yourself first. No matter how much your company works for you, there is a chance that another company will take care of you better. Use every opportunity you can to better yourself, not the company you work for.

I’m still testing positive though I do feel better. The problem is I have bad lungs (asthma) and I feel like it’s worse now. My job I am a janitor but we all pitch in to snow shovel. It’s a massive area Now I probably shouldn’t have been shoveling snow period once I found out how bad my lungs were all these years ago but I won’t ever do it again. Boss told me it’s in my job description after I emailed him (still out with COVID) that I won’t be shoveling anymore. I am a person who never says no at a job unless it’s dangerous. Now I feel like this is dangerous. I’m hoping to get a doctors note before I go back in and have to call this disability number at my job (university). Not sure how that’s going to to but worse comes to worst and…

How do we change laws? I understand the governmental process, but realistically how do we do it? It would be nice to have thirty days off a year plus sick time similar to most countries. We used to be able to petition the government, but Biden's administration deactivated that option. What can we really do? I feel powerless in a way. No direct path to change. Thoughts? I would like to get something going.

I just want to say thank you to everyone that works in a restaurant. You have to it so rough. You bust your ass for the populace to feed them their meals and get shit on with low hourly wages, you deserve more. I was in a restaurant having lunch and watched the owner scream and berate a pregnant waitress to tears. I felt so bad for her. I got up, called the guy an asshole and left a $100 bill on the table I didn't even order yet. You hard workers deserve a fair wage.

The title sums it up. I work in insurance and although my job is in a good field, I want to kill myself every day I’m in the office. My managers are extremely dry and hypercritical and there’s absolutely no positive reinforcement. I look around and everyone looks miserable. Some of these dickheads can’t even be bothered to say “good morning” back to me. I try my best, but fuck, man, corporate America and American work culture is just trash. We get 10-15 vacation days a year if we’re lucky, NO mandated parental leave, shitty benefits (if any), and no pensions. And they wonder why people don’t want to be “loyal” to the company that wouldn’t bat an eye if they croaked. I guess this is just a rant. Anyone feel the same way? I can’t do this for 50 years, I just fucking can’t.