Month: March 2022

You are giving your services for a price/wage. If the company doesn’t offer you what you want, they will have to find someone else. You are in control of your price and demand. This is capitalism!! Don’t let the main stream media control the narrative of socialism and communism. Lower to middle class workers are just using capitalism for their benefits. If you want to be taken seriously, change the narrative.

I work 20 hours a week at a bar, and i’m very strict that i stick to this amount of hours maximum as I’m studying for a degree too. i’ve already done my 20 hours for this week, and someone called in sick today – so my manager messaged me asking if i can come into work for a few hours tonight. i straight up said ‘sorry i’ve made plans already and i’m not on the rota today so i can’t work.’ i don’t have plans but i don’t particularly want to work as i’d done the last two nights. she didn’t take it well and said something like ‘you know it’s good to be dependable sometimes’. excuse me? if i’m not scheduled to work then i won’t work, it’s not my fault someone called in sick, i do my job right and no one’s ever had an issue with…

Does anyone know if there’s a way for employers to omit tips to the ledger on the Toast Operating System? I don’t want to accuse my employer of anything, I just feel like I’m going insane. I had the evening shift at a coffee shop I work at. At the end of our shift, we check how much in credit card tips we pulled in during our shift and take that from the register. We check this using the Sales Report through the owner’s login, which we are told keeps track of all sales, no matter who is logged in to take the order. (Whether or not this is how we’re supposed to do it, this is how the boss wants us to do it.) At the end of the shift, before all of the regulars checked out, I had $14 in tips. When all of the regulars checked out,…

We’re in Missouri. A friend of mine is an aesthetician and started at a lash studio 3 weeks ago. Today was their “official” graduation but management told them because of a couple snow days they would be in class until Friday. One of the managers had talked to my friend previously advising her that she was the only one meeting standards and if that kept up she’d be the only one graduating as they’re required to pass at least one person. Well the owners called all of them today and stated that none of them were up to standard and they were all being fired effective immediately and they would not be paid for the 3 week training. This all seems highly illegal and frankly pretty shady. What should she do?

So, my boss have no boundaries whatsoever. For contedt, I work 9-5 desk job, not shift work, but I often get texts like at 10 pm, and one time he texted me at 2 am. Last week he also asked me what is the best way to contact me outside of work hours cause I rarely reply and internally I was like um yeah that's deliberate duh. BUT ANYWAY. Today he was like you have to be accesible AT ALL time when you're at work and straight up told me to bring my phone to the toilet??? Like bro what toilet was my sanctuary Edit: I am from a country in Asia without a strong employee protection law so there's nothing I can really do about it and also by boss I am talking about THE boss here. Like the ownee of the company. I work directly with him kinda…

My job gave us a pizza party last week for exceptional sales throughout February, and then the next day told us they're shutting down the warehouse and moving production to Mexico. They are least gave us almost a year in advanced notice but that's their hard cutoff, people will lose their production line job throughout the rest of the year as parts get moved. This whole country is a pyramid scheme.

I grew exceedingly poor (homelessness/true hunger). I had my daughter at 19. When I became a parent I decided I had to do better than my parents. I went to college but dropped out with 18 credits to my bachelors after leaving an abusive relationship and having to choose feeding my child over school. Still I always worked ridiculously hard. Always being promoted at work. Finally my daughter was old enough for me to invest time into a career. I took a low paying job 45 minutes away to get my foot in the door. Then I worked really hard. I was promoted 3 times in 4 years. I thought I had made it to place that I could be comfortable. A lack of raises (I receive exceeds expectations on every review but we don’t have COL raises or merit based raises) and rising costs have put me back into…

While power and property are some of the biggest, control and limiting your free time are the biggest reasons. By forcing you to commute into the office and having near 100% control of you while there, it limits your time and ability to do anything else. This includes looking for other jobs, comparing your salary to market averages, talking with friends, coworkers, or family about jobs and compensation, and interviewing for other jobs. Working from home gave so much freedom that it made people realize they'd been living in a cage for their entire lives. Need to take a call from a recruiter while WFH? No problem! While in the office? Impossible. Taking interviews or applying for jobs during lunch or breaks is a breeze at home, but you can almost never do so in the office. As most jobs and recruiters will do everything between 9 and 5, that…