Month: March 2022

Just wanted to share some of the notes I took during a meeting with our CEO: Just discovered that the company is creating a document to “suggest” how to dress at the office. There's a table with “Appropriate” and “Inappropriate” over Pants/Skirts, Shirts/Tops and Shoes. Please tell me that this is not normal and will not become a common thing. Said that contractors are a “necessary evil to save us from the shortage of candidates”. Ok, I'm a contractor for the last seven years. I don't know how to feel about this and I would drink but it's not Friday yet.

I've been watching stuff go down for a long time. I've seen both political parties bicker…. I've seen Republicans preach no regulation and trickle down economy….about how regulation hurts companies (Democrats have a whole other load of problems, neither party is good we need them abolished but that's neither here more there). Point is all that stuff is bs, corporations are not people, they do not do the right thing, they will not do the right thing as that isn't as profitable, and ceos would rather get their big paydays. At this point one of 2 things need to happen. We either need a rework of our labor laws, force them to give PTO in actual amounts, mandate if they are allowed to contact us on our off hours (they shouldn't be allowed to), actual adapting minimum wage, pay caps, etc and make the fines come not from the company…

I teach high school so I often dabble in short term Summer jobs for a few weeks just to fill the gap and enjoy a bit of variety. Given the trajectory of the pandemic Airlines have found themselves understaffed for the upcoming travel surge and they are spamming every job board with postings. Out of pure curiosity I applied for two of the seasonal jobs (listed as starting at 150 hours *total* for the whole summer with full travel benefits which seemed too good to be true) ​ The application involved two hour long multiple choice 'assessments' that asked a variety of the same questions over and over and over again… 1.) Will I follow ALL of the rules without thinking for myself or questioning anything I'm told to do 2.) Will I always show up to work and work as many hours as they tell me to regardless of…

Just sharing this as a reminder that if a person acts like a piece of shit, they don’t deserve your time. Also, if you’re a racist, just admit it and fuck off into a hole by yourself. I got hired as a “part time” onboarding specialist for a small website that connected babysitters with families. I was told in advance by the friend that recommended the boss was “intense” about masks and vaccines. As in she didn’t believe in them. I had already taken issue with this so I was wary but it was supposed to be 4 hours a week work from home. So I get my first assignment: contact recent sign ups and help complete their profile or review their current info for and “weed out” any undesirable candidates. Already it was shaping to be about six hours of work that day, two over the previously promised 4…

This is a minor thing and I'm just venting. Just had a scheduled call, calendar invite and all, with my supervisor to “discuss” the results of my recent evaluation. The entirety of the call was “Pony, your evaluation score is X. Good Work. We will discuss in further detail in our (ALREADY SCHEDULED EVERY FUCKING WEEK) regular meeting.” I get into a flow when I'm working, so if you're anything like me you know a small thing like this is disruptive. Now, 10 minutes before this call I have to divert attention to it to make sure I'm not late (read:early) and prepared for the discussion, which I absolutely assumed would be in depth. Why.

The idea of paying people based on an hourly rate or for a fixed salary is too easy to exploit. It assumes that employers are virtuous and will give raises at a rate comporable to the rate of inflation. As we all know, businesses are anything but virtuous. Hourly rates turn your time into a commodity and are all balanced for workers to maintain the 40 hour work week status quo. It's reductive and forces the worker to prioritize spending time at work rather than trying to live a fulfilling life. With this in mind, a yearly salary sounds like a nice alternative and it's often used as bait by recruiters looking for employees but is just as a exploitative. I know far too many people who have been hired on for salary positions only to wind up being required to put in 60-70 hour work weeks. I think if…

I thought that the controversy with Better (dot) com would've caused people to not do this, but apparently my (ex)job just missed the memo!! Me and 93 other people just got fired from Colossus (formerly known as Dvinci) via a zoom meeting. Me, several people from my training class (because I just started THIS MONTH), and many other employees were told that we will be let go due to budgeting concerns and cutting costs. This is my first time actually getting fired, let alone like this, and I'm not entirely sure what to do. Please let me know.

I go to work, clock in and clock out, all of that, but I get my pay stub this morning and what do you know? Not even enough to cover my rent. I called my boss and they literally just forgot to put in my hours for some days, I looked at my last paycheck, also missing money, I did use some sick time but our sick time is paid so I still should have money for those days as well, and if they can’t get it to me by tomorrow, I will have absolutely no way of paying all of my bills, not even rent.

I've been hanging around this sub for a little while and thought this'd be the right place to ask. So I work as a delivery driver and I get a set wage + tips. Recently though, the boss has been having me only work the counter while other drivers take the deliveries and the tips. With this situation, I'm making under minimum wage. How do I go about getting the pay that I deserve?