Month: March 2022

I work at a large manufacturing facility that makes drugs- so they have money. Our facility is just a small piece of a multi billion dollar conglomerate. Someone, somewhere, made a huge mistake and a folder that should likely only be accessed by payroll and HR is accessible to anyone with access to the “public” server. There is a folder on this public server that has all of the information of every individual at the site. I mean everything. I can look back years and see every salary, every allocation to retirement, every day off ever taken. Somehow it seems that nobody has noticed yet, since this folder is still publicly accessable to the approximately 1000 employees at our site. I've been creeping on this subreddit for a while and feel that it is my due diligence to let those around me know that there is an impressive gap between…

I’m 17 and have poor spending habits, so I’ve started looking for a new job. I’m browsing Indeed and there are listings for $13-$15 an hour jobs and they say they’re offering competitive pay. Minimum wage in my state is up to $11/h. Barely above minimum wage is considered competitive????? The area I’m in is also pretty affluent and last summer I worked a job where my till would come out to like $1500 a night just in cash. Counting it at the end of my shift felt disrespectful. I was making $9.50 so I’d get like $60 after tax after working my ass off and you’re gonna make me count how much you made that night??? I visited last night (it’s an arcade) and the games were like $2 a pop for 30 seconds. That was 20% of what I made hourly for just 30 seconds. If I actually…

Title says all. I was training a girl and she’s expected to get paid $20 per hour while I get paid $16. Not only is that infuriating to hear, the company new starting salary is $17 – $19 an hour. How can I ask for a higher pay without sounding salty? I have got written up before for bad work attitude and our contract states that we are not allowed to discuss wages. I do not want to get this girl in trouble. Pls help 🥲

i work on a sushi line, for context. ive been doing sushi on and off for about 3 years. we were just informed that any mistake, that cant be sold, will come out of the paycheck of whoever is responsible. no grace period or anything. i feel like this isnt necessarily directed to us on sushi (its just me, and my apprentice that work the sushi line, and we rarely make mistakes that cant be fixed.), but i feel like its coming from a place of frustration towards our one server, who routinely screws up ringing things in. i believe i can talk some sense into the owner/my boss when i see her next, she has respected my input on other matters so far, and very much values me as a hard-to-replace employee. im feeling very conflicted, because she has been a very good boss to me so far, going…

I love the idea of waking up to life that I could afford working 40hrs a week while also seeing success across generations and multiple cultures, here in the U.S (also in the whole world but let's keep it to U.S for now). But I think the economic model does not allow it. I would like if someone could provide me with their insights and feel more hopeful for a change. Here's what I see being impossible. Say, for the sake of easy math, the living wage (to afford a home, working 40hrs, a week vacation, medical access, savings, and retirement accounts for when we grow old, etc) came to be $50hr to start with. Now, if an individual today makes that, immediately he's living the dream but if everyone makes that, that $50hr becomes the new $10hr. Here's why I think so; Say corporate greed wasn't a thing at…

Every now and again when I read posts in this sub someone responds how they stood up to their boss/manager by laying out their rights as an employee. I was hoping to get some general employee rules/laws as well as wear to find them. I think it would help a bunch of people out to have general lists of these especially in this sub where most people get screwed over.

There are states with statutes that protect employees when they are talking about how much money they make. Here’s one from C.R.S: Unless otherwise permitted by federal law, for an employer to discharge, discipline, discriminate against, coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any employee or other person because the employee inquired about, disclosed, compared, or otherwise discussed the employees wages; to require as a condition of employment nondisclosure by an employee of his or her wages; or to require an employee to sign a waiver or other document that reports to deny any employee the right to disclose his or her wage information. Edit: this one is actually considered “discriminatory or unfair employment practices”

Long story short my brother (16) cane to me frustrated about a friend of his (16m) refusing to take a sick day off work despite not feeling well for the past week and a half because “if he calls out they don't have anyone else to work” I only know what I've been told by a third party (my brother) but both of us are pissed for our own reasons. Mind you both my brother and his buddy are still in school. If a business rests their wellbeing on the shoulders of a kid still in school, or on any one person for that matter, there's something wrong. Idk it just ticks me off, both between seeing how far this kind of stuff has become acceptable and between seeing how frustrated my own brother is. This seemed like an appropriate place.

Amazon specifically for me. God it feels weird being like “CALL ME IN AN OVERWORKED SERVANT TO PACKAGE MY 2006 TAMAGOTCHI MERCHANDISE TO THE DESERTS OF NEVADA!!