Month: March 2022

I'm never actually given time off the clock, unless I make my own time, by working faster, to read up on background knowledge that is actually important. I'm only weeks in and Death by PowerPoint is really showing itself because I'm the hand by which those decks are made, but you will never know of it. I'm seriously wondering about the differences between an intern and an assistant. I don't know about you, but having to borderline order full time staff around is really alarming to me. I'm really sick of my hourly rate hovering between $5 and $8 when everything you can't/won't/don't want to get to, is quasi my responsibility because there's only so many warm bodies to go around. I've been doing real work with no real pay for way too long now and it's starting to get to me.

I’m a training manager at a very popular Tex mex fast food chain. I’m training to become a certified manager on duty. The training shifts are opening shifts. I was scheduled today to open with another recently trained manager. They did not show up. I have no way into my building. Called a separate crew member to bring some keys to get me in but that person is off. So now I’m 30 minutes behind opening schedule, short staffed, and I’m still training. I have about a week to perfect this manager thing or my pay drops $5 an hour. I came in as an external since I had experience prior to this job. In fact this job offered me the position after only coming in for a w-2. If your breakfast burritos come out a little late today guys, I’m sorry

One day you'll be taking your tiny 5 year old kids to school to be watched by strangers all day. If you don't take them everyday 5 days a week they will come and threaten to take your kids. The system is designed so you make as little as possible. You have to work so much you can't spend more time with your kids and you do whatever they say because you're too tired to fight. You're just trying to stay alive. And while your children are in school, what they're really learning is how to do what the people in charge say. To not talk unless they say. To sit and work all day. Stay in line. Take breaks when they say. Go to the restroom when they say. Sit where they say. To take home work, so you’re never really free. All so your little baby can grow…

So this happened pre-covid. I worked for an educational institute for international students. The owners of the school inherited a lot of money and had a number of businesses and this school was not really their top priority. So as the young manager I had freedom to do what I wanted as if I owned the place. We started with a dozen students but as time progressed we started getting bigger and bigger. We were able to build a team with fantastic teachers and created courses no other school had. The other businesses of the owners started failing and this school became their only profitable project. I was getting a lot of pressure to keep increasing profits to fund their other projects. Mind you I was on a 50k managers salary while they had just bought a $13 million house. While there are a lot of dodgy schools, I was…

I’ve been a stay at home Mom now since the first lockdown in 2020. To help my husband with bills and for extra cash I have been working an AWESOME catering gig 3-4 days a month since august of last year but it’s now the “slow season” for catering events. Since I’m not scheduled to work another event there until April 30th, I thought maybe I should see if I could pick up 1-2 shifts a week at the old dive bar I bartended at pre-covid. I thought about applying somewhere better but the thought of going through the new-hire process at some new place just sucks. I’m not a big fan of this bar, the customers aren’t very nice and there’s a lot of drug use in the bathrooms and back patio. I had to kick some idiots out at least once a week when used to work there.…

I seriously don't understand. Corporate employees are like “why are people leaving?” Because you cut our hours and some of us have well, ya know, BILLS TO PAY JUST LIKE YOU DO! I'm trying to get more training so I can get more hours but, it just seems harder than necessary to get hours. Like do you want me to be happy with where I work or no? And you say you need staff, yet you are cutting hours. I really don't understand the logic here, if there is any. If you want people to be happy, pay them fairly and so they can afford to pay bills and go do fun things, and give them HOURS TO WORK! It seems that if there are budget cuts, a position will get cut or scaled back. How about actually going through everything and getting rid of unnecessary stuff that costs money…

I have a new concept, instead implementing DST at 2:00 AM on Sunday night, which has to be one of the most useless ideas of all time, my idea is that we implement this at 3:00 PM on Friday afternoon, thus “springing forward” to 4:00, making it generally time to leave work. This way, instead of screwing ourselves out of limited personal time, and more importantly sleep time, we just leave work an hour early on a Friday, because, well, who cares! Who's with me???

My sister is with the union and has (sometimes crippling) mental health issues. She needs to be in counseling at least once a week. She works 8am-5pm mon-fri though and can't take a day off every week just for one appointment. She also doesn't have a set lunch time to be able to schedule it then. How is she supposed to take care of herself? I've tried searching their policy, but can't seem to find any info beyond the strike that happened. Is anyone part of this union and well versed in its policies toward this? Please help, we have a long history of depression and anxiety in our family and she is suffering needlessly.

Until the necessity of tipping goes away, please ensure you're tipping your delivery drivers. I had worked in the food delivery industry for several years previously and the most frustrating thing about it was how poorly I was tipped, especially when compared to restaurant workers. Most places that offer a food delivery service hire drivers that have to pay for their own fuel. With gas prices being astronomically high, pleasure ensure you're tipping well to help out.