Month: March 2022

I hate it, especially now in the time of perpetual short staffedness. I hate begging people to stay for overtime. I hate it when they feel guilty for saying no. I hate that I feel guilty when I tell them “no problem, life comes before work” because I don't think my bosses would like me saying that. I hate denying vacation requests. I just hate it. I do truly like where I work and my immediate team is pretty good about being flexible and working with people for time off/leaving early but working for a larger corporation, there's only so much we can do before our department gets in trouble. I do what I can to personally boost morale (ex: I put out fresh flowers in the break room every week) but I'm living paycheck to paycheck too so there's not much I can do besides have a positive attitude…

I set my location to my town and hit 15 miles from there. For some reason it keeps showing me jobs across the state for $16-$20 an hr And I'm an experienced machine operator It's just ridiculous Maybe I'm doing something wrong and if I am I hope someone teaches me

Vent warning. I work for a company that has been fully remote since covid. I’ve loved it. I get my work done but since I’m home, I get to do laundry, walk my dog, whatever. As long as I get my work done I’ve never worried about how else I spend my time. We were recently informed that our employer is installing ActivTrak on all of our computers. I’m flabbergasted. I know there’s a few people they’ve had problems with, but why not settle it with those employees? How does anyone in HR think this is a good idea, to micromanage employees down to the key stroke and screenshot of activity? It’s not a security worry, they admitted it’s to see how much work is actually being done. If that doesn’t ruin morale I don’t know what would. Anyone have experience with companies who have done this? How quickly should…

I live in Nevada and it was made illegal recently for employers to ask about salary. I want to know how would I refuse to ask about salary to an employer if they asked me about my pay?

The place I work for has a pretty bad track record when it comes to taking care of company vehicles. Granted, it's a 24 hour 3-shift work environment so everything gets thoroughly used and abused, but things are getting ridiculous. This week we had to use a vehicle with no running lights and one working headlight for a mandatory road trip. In another state …at night. It's not the only car that has problems, but it does have job specific equipment mounted on it and so was the one vehicle needed for the job. You'd think they'd take better care of something like that. And before anyone asks, yes, I can refuse to use vehicles but it hasn't happened where an alternate vehicle isn't available yet. Yes, the boss knows about the many and varied vehicle issues. Things still be broke.

My (32F) older sister (46F) for whom I buy birthday gifts (while she gets me nothing/says nothing/doesn’t even call/completely forgets), who has discouraged me from doing what I actually want to do when I have an idea, who now that I have a real estate license (well it lapsed because I am too broke to pay the board fees and realize I hate real estate) wants me to give her free real estate advice while she buys a house in LA, who when I had a medical emergency didn’t even offer to loan me the money for part of the treatment, while my mom (not her bio mom as we are half sisters) gives her money when she visits, who literally wrote a scathing letter to our younger Gen Z brother who is interested in her field that she will NEVER help him. Well, to answer her question, there’s a…

So I had a interesting day on Wednesday. I usually just keep to myself at work and now trying to find other employment since my job decided to not give raises due to inflation. At my worksite we already had 5 people leave and from other locations people are leaving as well. The work load has been piling up more and more by the day, for myself and those who have decided to stay *I'm doing the bare minimum because I don't care if they fire me at all now*. One of my Co-workers that I really like *nice elderly lady* called me on my work phone in tears… she kept telling me I don't know what to do, I'm going to be cut off my medication, and I'm losing my health insurance, I can't afford it anymore. She kept telling me the amount of work we are doing isn't…

Curious what everyone thinks. I work for a large global conglomerate and they have globally standardized pay “bands”. This is a fine structure but it really is detrimental to some employees depending on where they live. For example our NA HQ is in Cincinnati, but some employees, depending which brand you work on, live in New York or Baltimore. But there is absolutely no cost of living adjustment to our salaries. I was moved to New York about four years ago from Miami and fought really hard to have my pay raised to reflect cost of living changes as well as dramatically increased tax rates. Couple all these issues with insane inflation that they don't recognize and people base din NY especially are leaving due to non-competitive pay. We can't even hire people because the global pay standardization won't allow NY competitive salaries, even when our NY based competitors clearly…

I’ve said this since I was a small child, that we are all little more than slaves. Of course we are not chattel slaves, treated as literal cattle that can be beaten or killed. But wage slavery is very similar Our options are 60 years of forced labor or starving to death in the cold. We are constantly propagandized that we are ‘free’ yet we will spend a vast majority of our waking life toiling The only freedom we have is we are free to starve and freeze to death whenever we want I’ve read multiple accounts of real chattel slaves saying wage slavery was in fact worse, because they were still toiling but they now had to worry about rent and food. Frederick Douglass wanted to abolish wage slavery after he was freed. Yet people get offended when I say wage slavery is horrific. So am I wrong for…