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Fr man, that Albert man was right

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Today’s ultimate anti-work hero.

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Recently resigned and…

So I recently resigned from my job and my last day is tomorrow ( Monday), I usually get paid at the end of every month and I just got deposited 1/2 of my check and noticed that payroll deducted about $300 from my check since I did use up my sick days at the beginning of this year since I was sick ( not from Covid) and I think they deducted it from my check without telling me nor giving the option of a payment plan ( they do offer a payment plan). The thing is I’m extremely broke, and need to complete paying my bills. And I’m angry that they didn’t notify me beforehand or give me the option to do a payment plan. I’m still working for them but not as a permanent employee but as a substitute. How can I handle this?

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Is anyone running into issues of getting ghosted?

I swear this has happened to me like 5 times in one week! I apply to the job. Company emails me back saying they like my qualifications and would be interested in setting up an interview with me, and for me to list out times I’m available to be interviewed. I list out the times and await their response and then….nothing…..wtf! Is this happening to anyone else out there, or am i in some weird alternate dimension where companies are trying to give me false hope just for the sake of torturing me?

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A question about unemployment

If I get fired for spitting on my boss can I still get unemployment? If it matter I'm in a right to work state

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Book discussion: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Anyone here read the novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell and fancy discussing it and its relation to the state we're in today? If you haven't read it, it's about the development of capitalist exploitation, just before the labour movement and trade unions really took off. The “philanthropists” are the workers who live in poverty with precarious employment, giving their health, time, energy and lives to support their corrupt bosses while arguing against their own interests.

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My current employer steals my free time

We have a time tracking system. Most of things can be tracked. But some are not: education 50% (so if you spent an hour you can track only a half of it), some Q&A meetings etc. Sometimes it’s not obvious. Lately I joined a meeting that lasted a half an hour to find out at the end it’s considered my “free time”. Why the hell would a team meeting be a free time?

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Am I getting paid enough?

I live in Utah where the minimum wage is 7.25 and rent that can range from $800-2,000 depending on location and such. At my work they pay you on what you know, you know how to sheet dough? Cook add a 1.00 to their pay, they know how to make pizzas and do prep and clean and do paperwork? Add X amount to their pay ect… I made $10 until recently when I got promoted to be shift supervisor. Now I make barley $12 an hour. Do you think I'm getting fair pay? Its just a pizza place but my responsibilities are now way more then they use to be. And rent here is still barley making it for how much I make.

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They threatened to fire me so I told them I quit. Boss tries to ”negotiate” so I don’t have to leave.

Read last paragraph if you want to wrap this up I been working at this high-end restaurant since New Year 2022. I pretty much walked out from my last two kitchen jobs because I was physically threatened at both jobs back in 2021. I was improving a lot when I started at this new place but one of kitchen managers left and now big boss has to step it up and do his job, which is causing a lot of problems. The old kitchen manager would get mad every now and then, but nothing unusual in my kitchen experience and something that could always be worked out if we communicated. The problem is that for the past couple of weeks I been working with big boss, and oh! I don't even know where to start. Every time I ask a question I get a sarcastic or rude response. Me: Steak…

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Sometime ago

Sometime ago I worked in a hardware store (not anymore) and I soon noticed that the schedules were constantly changed, after the 4 weeks in advance that they were made originally. Me takes the schedule prints it out and take it home 1 week in advance, after a few days its l get called on my freeday (Saturday) in like the middle of the day by my teamleader/manager asking where I am and that I was supposed to work the closing shift. I say I am free today I got the the schedule printouts, he checks the the old printouts from sometime ago on the wall and says you need to work, I remain firm and say no I got the proof in my hands at home, he walks over to the computer and checks the most recent changes and sees I'm in the right and someone else was supposed…