Author: Olivia

I am a full time employee who has worked for my company since 2016 with benefits. Open enrollment ended and in my employers health portal I show as being covered with my 2023 plan (I did upgrade to a better co-pay). I got a call from my doctors office saying I am no longer a member and that I need to get my insurance updated to continue with them, which confused me since I can SEE I have insurance. After talking to my company’s HR department, it looks like last week there was a server issue that prematurely terminated benefits for several employees and I was one of them. I was not notified and I only found out by reaching out to them myself. I do not have benefits right now, so appointments that I have scheduled this month actually are not scheduled and I need to have those reinstated…

HR sent me an email today: ”We are pleased to inform you that you have met the eligibility criteria to receive an increase in your salary. Effective January 1, 2023, your salary has been increased by 0.369111485%. …. Thank you for the contributions you have made to advance our mission.“ Not sure what’s more hilarious, calculating the actual amount per month or seeing all those digits. Obviously rounding things up to 0.37% would have bankrupted my employer. Knowing this “windfall” (

My mom has been going through a lot. She's getting divorced and then she got in a really bad car wreck and is still on medical leave from her doctor. She also works for a temp agency so she has no benefits other than a paycheck for working. She was finally able to start working on Monday. Gets a call saying she's fired for being unreliable. Due to having more medical appointments and being on restricted hours. This just sucks. I just want her to be OK.

This was the advice given by an industry mentor lmao. He also said stuff like “work is my wife”

i’m about to graduate college and i am looking for an entry level job that i can cruise in. this means that i can work remote and won’t work much overtime. what are your suggestions

My place of work is in Portland, Oregon which is a state that requires consent to record audio. They’ve recently installed ring cameras around the building, they’re also in a place where they can record audio from the customers as well as employees. We know they’re recording us because one of my coworker (who is a manager) was talking about quitting because of how they’re treating us and they came to talk to her about her statements against the company, they also told her they heard her through the cameras but told her not to tell anyone. I also talked shit about one of the owners and they gave me a write up for poor performance coincidentally the next day. It’s just wrong that they are retaliating because we talk like normal human beings about our place of work. It’s also extra sickening because they’re running a kids indoor play…

Hello. I’m nearing 40, and I’m fairly positive I will have to find another job this year because I am moving out of state. Despite being 99% wfh, they will not excuse me from commuting when requested or expected. This is because of fairness to other employees (which is fair to them in this one instance so I get it). I cannot commute 5+ hrs on a whim in the middle of the week, nor do I want to. So I’ll have to leave. I have to be honest though: I am scared shitless at the idea of starting over. Despite arbitrary bullshit and my hatred of office culture, I’ve been at this company full time coming up on 9 years. I’m close to 40. I had a major surgery last year (fully paid for thankfully, another great thing about my job). But thinking about what to do, what I…

I’m at a crossroads and seeing the disgusting capitalist in me come out. I’m not sure which way to go. The company I currently work for (a certified B corp) claims to operate on values that, in part, align with mine. Our clientele comes from all walks of life, but skews wealthier at my work location because of the neighborhood we’re in. Management, including that directly above me, is annoyingly bad and both culture and morale are on a downslope. My job is incredibly fast-paced and leaves me without much energy for other things or people in my life. Without going into more detail, the good no longer outweighs the bad and I’m looking for a way out. I’ve landed a couple of interviews at small businesses that operate in the same industry, though are distinctly targeted toward the 1%. I’d be charging 3-4x the price of the product I’m…

A couple weeks ago, right before Christmas lmao. I called off twice in the same week, telling them that I was feeling sick, which I was, but apparently no one else (in my workplace) had called off even a single day throughout the year, so I got fired. Point being, I’ve been relying on Grubhub for income, but the app (along with other food delivery apps) have been going through a dry spell, leaving a bunch of drivers without enough pay. Today, I have less than $10 in my bank account and have passed my credit card limit. I would basically be homeless if it weren’t for my parents and friends. But I’m tired of being a wage slave. Was being a wage slave worth earning $700 a week? It really wasn’t. I’m glad I only lasted a month because the lack of freedom I had was unbearable. I would…