Month: March 2022

I'm an admin assistant in a company with lots of other offices, an admin assistant in each. We have 5 out of 14 of us leaving/retiring. I'll be the most senior when the others leave, and I'm also at the next-to-lowest paid. My supervisor has been “trying” to boost my pay. To be fair, I did get 2 pay raises totaling about $3k this year. Now here's my problem: I used to be the one who volunteered for extra work (no more). I'm also expected to train the new admin assistants in other facilities (remotely). I'm also doing work for corporate, and I'm covering an empty position in another facility (remotely). I asked at a staff meeting who would be supporting the other admin assistants when the 3 most-senior employees retire. The answer was me. No other admin assistants volunteer for anything. Some even refuses to do parts of the…

So recently I’ve been asking my manager for a pay rise.. I work in customer service and have a qualification in my field and have been told continuously we’re looking at it and we will see what we can do which I understand somewhat as I work in a corporate company and my manager can only do what he can do and I trust he’ll bat for more pay as he’s a good guy. Anyway.. I let it be as I enjoy my job and Ill help train some new starters.. Having a chat with them I find out they’ve started on a wage £3,500 more than me baring in mind they’re 7 years younger, 0 experience in my field and have to be trained up. Done some more digging and find out his interview was done by the heads of the company as his family are very high up…

I’ll go first. From a billion dollar bank industry, “Thank you so much for all of your hard work and dedication during this pandemic. We are experiencing record profits! In appreciation we will be buying pizza on April 2! “

I dropped out of high school in 1987 and got a job doing landscape construction. I learned how to drive tractors, dump trucks, skid steers. It was basically farm work. It was really hard. I’m 6 feet tall and back then weighed about 145 lbs. I was not strong. I felt like Conan the barbarian on the Wheel Of Pain. Hard physical labor through 100 degree humid temperatures into the late fall and freezing snowy days. I still remember how desperately hungry I was all the time. We’d have eating contests at lunch to see who could pack down the most 12” hoagies in our half hour lunch break. We started at 7:00 and ended at 5:30. Most of the summer was 6 days a week. Over time I became friends with the guys at work. We had a “soda” machine at our shop that was stocked with Budweiser. On…