Author: Olivia

I have grand visions of starting a business and would put a focus on how we treat employees. Essentially changing the way the American workforce is traditionally thought of (company first). I want to embrace the concept of we work to live, not live to work. What policies would you like to see? Some ideas are listed below… 4 day, 32 hour work week Work from home full time Company holiday 2-4 weeks in the summer Transparent salaries, including job postings Executive earnings cap (using a factor of median pay for all employees, i.e. 5x of $70k) 6 month parental leave (moms & dads) Surged salaries = Bonus pay for those that take on additional responsibility for someone out on parental leave

Don’t get me wrong, I have no desire to work there anyways but I have to because I want a new apartment so I can get out of the shithole area I live in right now. I have been sick a lot for the past few months of working there. I injured my back, had two infections after my wisdom teeth surgery and I have been very sick with flu a lot. I get it, it almost seems like I’m lying but I’m seriously not okay. My boss was thinking about firing me because I have been sick a lot and I am feeling sick again. She said to me that I can’t keep taking so many sick leaves. Fuck this. Yay great I have to go work sick and I deal with over 200 customers a day! I feel so bad because I don’t want to infect the customers.

I’m ok with some immigration but at the same time I realize that the more people in the USA competing for jobs will give us less power and leverage over our employers. Particularly in the service industry and shift work, so much of our leverage comes from worker scarcity. Curious if you all think the same way?

Me and everyone I work with is quiet quitting. Anyone else on this sub know anything about crown?

I started a job 4 months ago that has super toxic leadership and the business owner picks on me specifically and targets me in meetings. I loved my supervisor and she was the only one who had my back but she is now leaving in 2 weeks. 2 months in, this place fired this guy and then gave me all of his work with no raise (it is a completely separate job than what I do). And now with my supervisor leaving, they said “until” they replace her it’ll be “all hands on deck” (aka me doing all of her work as well). I’m fucking terrified and am having nightmares every night about when she leaves. There will be no buffer between me and toxic leadership and she was the only person who had my back, who I could go to for support when I was being bullied by the…