First of all I'm a residential plumbing apprentice I've been doing this job for almost 2 years now and its been crazy hard on my body for starting 16.50 and now 21.50 CAND$ Now onto the problem, 2 weeks ago i was moving a bathtub up a flight of stairs and because of the height of this tub, to get it threw the hallway i was lifting at a very weird angle and i hurt my lower back very bad and dropped the tub, then having to crawl off the stairs and get a ride to the doctor. After the check up i was prescribed some muscle relaxers and told i just needed a week and a half. My boss wanted to know when i could be back and needed me asap so i told him what i was told. “a week and a half if you can come…
Month: March 2022
Me – me Coworker – C For context, I am a part-time employee and have been for two years as I'm currently in college. I still don't find this to be a valid reason, if it is the reason, for me not receiving a raise in my pay. My coworker makes a little bit more than I do, but he's full-time, and he's been there a few months longer than I have. Recently, a new employee came into our department, and he's an objectively good worker, but he's still learning. The topic of wages came up, and it turns out he makes the same as my coworker that's been there two years AND is full-time. Of course, C and I were both upset about this and went to our boss about receiving more pay, and he was also upset because he didn't even know. He went to HIS boss,…
Seeing posts about people wanting to get better offers and others suggesting faking it. That does work well. But we as a group can do better. Any of us can willingly offer to write offer letters for you and help you get better pay and benefits. These companies help each other out in all the ways they can. Why shouldn’t we do the same. Comment below if you’re willing to help create offer letters for people that want to get better pay or find better jobs.
Every job I've had has tried to guilt trip me by asking me to be a “team player”, but it is ALWAYS one sided. They want you to be flexible for them, but there is no reciprocation. I just got a job in January that had decent reviews on Indeed and Glassdoor so I was hopeful that I finally got a job with decent management. Nope During the interview, the interviewers handed me an application with stations and hours. I was told to fill it out according to my availability and I signed up for the two stations closest to me (one is 20 minutes away, one is 35 minutes away). By the way, on Indeed they said they were urgently hiring at both of these stations. I go into the interview, everything goes well, and they unofficially hire me. Then, they look at my availability and try to pressure…
TLDR, job lied to me about salary, I found something much better, and put my notice in. The verbal abuse that I endured for the next two days was horrific, and I didn't come back for the third. Shit like”why didn't you tell me you were looking for a job?” “Because you'd just fire me”. “Well I can just fire you now.” Fuck that guy. Took two weeks off and started my new job yesterday.
Why not? Here’s his policy on overtime: Overtime during the work week is always unpaid. However, if I consistently work at least 2-3 hours of weekday overtime, then I can work overtime on the weekends. However, when I work overtime on the weekends, the first 5 hours are unpaid. Only after all that will I begin to be paid for overtime, which is only at the same rate as my base hourly rate. I said “I’ll think about it.”
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Was almost denied a $30 tip.
I'm a pizza delivery driver atm and delivered a massive order close to $300 USD, they wrote in a $30 tip (Very generous!). When I had to enter that tip at the end of my shift, the system told me that the tip amount exceeded what was allowed. So I had to call up the company support line and have someone manually change the amount I was allowed to enter, then we had to restart the system for it to take affect. I entered my tips and cashed out, then we had to restart it again! So it would go back to the normal “limit”. Absolutely outrageous. I still can't figure out why the company would even put a maximum on these. It doesn't stop people lying about tips, all it does is waste my time and potentially make me lose out on what meager money I can make.
I'm happy to see the world band together against one of the many modern dictators. However, with every corporate entity making headlines for pulling their product, movie, or service out of Russia is just comically reminiscent of how they throw up a LGBT pride-logo in June (which they hide from the Russian market). I fail to see why anyone should regard Disney as saintly for pulling theatrical releases from Russia while they were simultaneously chill with filming 2 miles away from a Uighur concentration camp in China.
So for brief backstory the last few years I've worked restaurant and warehouse jobs with terrible employers and terrible conditions. I had a dream Job for about 9 years in the fire department until I was forced to resign due to my substance abuse and legal issues (DUI) about 4 years ago. These last few years have been brutal. Long hours, insane schedules, poor conditions, terrible benefits all for low pay; less than a living wage pay. It's been very difficult having have had my dream job and now this. I will say and own up that losing that dream job was 100% on me however that still doesn't make going from that to this any easier. Over the last few years I've jumped from job to job each one with hopes of being better but never really being the case. Fast forward to today I'm working in a warehouse…