Month: March 2022

It has finally dawned on me that jobs are so much better when the culture is great, no matter how bad the work is. – I’ve always worked Maccas and Supermarkets for the past three years as i’m only 17. Recently attended Basic Traininf for the army in my country and had to come home due to an injured anjle (although they’ve garaunteed me a slot on the next training in June.) Now that I got back this week I got right into job hunting for the next few months, ended up landing a job at a cardboard printing factory. It is a 5am start til 4pm and I bloody love it, 5 days of 11 hours yet still offered to work a 6th shift of how good the culture is. I only get $18USD (converted) a hour although after 40hrs I get $27 a hour for the remainder although…

I work In private Healthcare and as of this month, there is a new incentive. A list of employees who have made it for every shift without a call out in a month,are entered into a draw to win a prize of a certain category. Which changes every month.This is in an email EVERYONE sees. .. Wtf.. a little tone deaf? Seems a little innapropiate.

I see working as a matrix, you supposedly work to get a better life but all your progress is reset by taxes, all capitalist society wants from citizens efficiency and doesn't give shit about mental condition. Even if you do something you like you're forced to do it for the rest of your life, almost never getting a chance to try something new.

For context I'm 23M a few years ago when I was 19 I got my first job at a hotel as a server for there restaurant. I did that for a few months when the head engineer offered me a job at higher pay and he'd train me. I took it and he fought with the GM to allow me to get the position. He trained me and was a very kind boss. After a couple years I had gone from the 9$hr to 10$hr because (I was being trained according to the owners) and my boss who was making 20$hr told me he found a better offer for himself and that he was leaving. They never found another head engineer so the role fell to me. I eventually got boosted to 13$hr and was taking care of taking inventory, making lists of what tools I needed and interviewing for…

I am a nurse at a large metropolitan school district. This year, because of COVID, our work responsibilities basically tripled. We have all been working long days, staying sometimes 2-3 extra hours because there are not enough hours in the workday to get everything done. This is unpaid time, of course. (I even did work from home while I had COVID myself, also unpaid since I had run out of sick time, because I am an idiot.) We get lots of thanks from management, but no bonuses and no retention incentives, while they accept our free labor. Well, because enrollment has dropped dramatically, we are losing funding and nursing FTE is being slashed. So we are now being told to ask our individual schools to buy up our time – basically fund a portion of our FTE. They actually gave us talking points to present to our building leadership to…

It does not pay your rent for your bosses to be nice to you. It does not afford your future for them to be woke while raking in BILLIONS 1,000,000,000,000. Those are the digits they see on their paychecks. What about you? Lets cut the bullshit and fight for our god damn wages. Edit: to be clear, niceness shpuld be expected not appriciated

Commutes are a mandatory part of maintaining a job. Nobody lives next door to their job anymore, and this was done on purpose. If you can't prove that the position requires in person availability, commutes should be paid for, or at least compensated. If they won't even give a cost of living adjustment, they can pay for the god damned gas.