Author: Olivia

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Background: I was working for a small company that administers 401k retirement plans. I’ve been there since June, and back in December I landed a government job on condition of passing a background check. I passed it. I made the mistake of letting my boss know that I landed a job and should start late February/early March. She took it alright and I’ve been transparent with her about every step of the process, like the background check. 4 days ago, Monday, she hired my replacement. That’s fine and dandy because I told her I’m more than happy to train whoever replaces me. Today she asked when I expected to start the new job. I told her again, like I’ve been doing, that I expect to start February or March. She said she can’t afford to pay us both to be up there. She then proceeds to fire me. Told me…

Total compensation. Including stocks, etc. Having a minimum wage that is constantly being devalued due to inflation won’t work. A law like this would force companies to rethink their compensation model while not “de-incentivizing” profit.

I'm a licensed teacher. Postgraduate professional licensure. Two Master's degrees: My first thesis an excerpt of a novel that ended up being represented and requested for consideration for publication by HarperCollins Children and three imprints of Penguin Random House. Despite the rejections that followed, having written something that editors at imprints of the biggest publishing conglomerate in the world would consider worthy enough to take the time to read is still an accomplishment (I'm working on editing based on their feedback and trying again, btw). My second Master's thesis was formulated on a theory I created that impressed my department so much that it is now being used as teaching material for a number of classes at my alma mater. I spent two years as an Adjunct English Professor. The rest of my history basically affirms to me how I was antiwork before I even knew what antiwork was. I…

I am 31, I have been applying for work for 3 months, after my gardening business got destroyed by the rate interest rises. I found nothing, I ended scraping the bottom of the barrel and taking a chance on a reasonably paid merchandising job. I ignored the red flags, the usual bullshit, “need you to be a fast learner”, reviews about past employees saying they werent trained and had loads of expectations put on them and management got pissed when someone who hasn't been trained didn't finish all tasks. I'm sitting here in a Cafe, with the pink Floyd song money, blarring on the speakers, the universe is taking the piss haha. When I had no work I was depressed, I had time to ruminate. Now I'm working at a crap company I'm feeling worn out and pissed off, I'm not even getting trained. I fucking hate how 2-3 jobs…