Month: March 2022

I worked for a charity in a shop in England. In a large city, during the covid pandemic. During that year of lockdowns, we barely made sales. People weren’t coming out and with the restrictions on the amount of people we were allowed into the store, most weren’t going to stand outside and wait. Fast forward to the final lockdown (I don’t remember dates anymore) we were informed that we were to get a new area manager. Awesome, not a problem. The last one seemed supportive and helped, couldn’t see why this one wouldn’t. First day we met her, she belittled me (the manager at the time) for not doing more to bring in sales between the lockdowns. After I explained that the footfall was low (I had proof) and that restrictions on numbers allowed in was also a factor, she basically told me I should’ve ignored them, allowed people…

Has anyone here successfully negotiated less pay for less hours at a salaried position? Hear me out as I explain. I’m looking into changing jobs, but an ex-coworker referred me to a position I think I’m overqualified for. Fortunately, ex-co was kind enough to disclose her salary. She makes close to what I make now, even though I’m way more experienced. Ouch, but also I’m happy for her. It’s gotten me wondering if anyone has tried working less hours at a job in exchange for an overall lower salary. I’m trying to figure out how to explain: Ex-coworker makes 50k. I believe I could make over 90k, but I also don’t want a leadership position and I’m ok with doing moderate work for my skill set. I wonder if I could get paid 75k and work 32 hours a week. I have not done the math on this. I’m just…

Work is bullshit. If I had more time I'd just labour for my family anyway but I'd get more sleep and have more time to cook in my traditional methods instead of top ramen and burger king. I'm good with kids, good with the elderly, have a lot of around the house handy skills, and I'm pretty good with cars. If I didn't have to work I could spend more time caring for kids, for the elderly, and getting better at my practical skills. I'd even have more time to start speed running my favorite game. This isn't just conjecture this is exactly what happened first 2 months of the pandemic. Anyway fuck work just let me labour for my people and chill otherwise.

I work minimum wage part time in the service industry. Turns out my coworkers who started after me are making $2 an hour more than I am. In short, I'm livid about it as it has been going on for a few months now(that I know of). The only reason I could guess why is because we serve alcohol and I'm only 19, which means the only thing I'm not legally allowed to do is pour the drink. And if that's the reason, I think I'm gonna lose it because I do just as much work, if not more, than some of the 21+ coworkers. Thankfully, my boss seemed genuinely surprised(he's not in charge of payroll and was also hired after I was) and promised he would have that changed. Moral of the story, talk with coworkers about how much you're making. It the only reason I found out.

I started my new job in early January. I had been looking forward to it for months, considering I applied almost a year ago, shortly after completing my Master's. The interview went great and I couldn't wait to start. Things fell apart before I even started. To start, I found out I wasn't going to be paid the correct amount of money. Yes, I know this should have been a dealbreaker right away. As someone with a qualifying degree, the website said I would make 70K/year in my location. Coming from a retail background, this was about four times what I had been making. Then, on a call with HR shortly before my start date, I discovered I would actually be making just under 40K/year. We then spent several weeks trying to figure out what the issue was. Long story short, I was eventually told there was no way to…

The rules in the Netherlands are as follows. adult: When more than 5.5 hours are worked per shift, your employee is entitled to a break of 30 minutes. If you are 16 or 17 and work more than 4.5 hours, you are entitled to a half hour break. You are also entitled to extra rest periods. I am 17, work shifts from 17.00 to 22.30, I don’t get an half hour brake, I don’t get any actually. My work doesn’t do shit with the feedback we give them, can I contact a union or something? I will leave this place within a month or so, but would like to leave it better then when I joined.

I applied for a construction company, I've been doing construction most of my working life. My resume is well suited to the job and it's not very hard work, like at all. Anyway the interviewer started asking me the standard questions and then he asked how old I was (not legal here in Canada to do) and I told him (I'm in my late 30's). He said that he normally doesn't hire people that old but is willing to give me a shot. I accepted the job offer and will not be showing up on Monday because fuck that toxic shit.

Right now almost everyone I talk to doesn't seem to care about how working class people are struggling even if they're working class themselves. One of my co workers at work is so dismissive about working class issues even though he is working class. When I tried telling him that people shouldn't be forced back into the office because of gas prices being too high, his response was just go out and buy an EV. Which is such an ignorant thing too say, EV's cost an insane amount of money, have a shorter lifespan, have poor range plus long charge times. The only way its even feasible to own an EV is to own your own property so you can charge your car at home or rent a luxury apartment with EV charging. I don't even know how we're going to be able to make any progress towards fighting for…

So if you live along the east coast of Australia you know how bad the rain has been. At the school I teach at half the roads in are flooded and the school feels like its half underwater. Naturally the principal closed the school to all but essential staff and children who for whatever reason can't stay home. Teachers were allowed to stay home and teach their classes online like we did during lockdown. However my departments boss is a power tripping asshole. She insisted all of us come in because if she could make it so could we. She lives up a hill 5 minutes from the school. Some of us live on the otherside of flooded rivers. I decided that I wasn't going to risk the roads as my car isn't 4wd and is in no way designed to get through water. I got called with her screaming…