Month: April 2022

The pandemic has been nice to me. My very traditional employer with mandatory 40 hours on site became more flexible with working from home. This is required even though I'm salaried. To get an idea of the stupidity, we would need to regularly take conference calls at night on our time and we couldnt even count it towards our 40… Anyway, I immediately began embracing the change. I love how effective I can be from home and never have to see my coworkers. I also feel encouraged to work harder to finish early so I can do whatever with the remaining time rather than idle in the office. Its been great. Ive hit all my metrics and actually saved the company roughly $5M in improvements. The job is insanely easy in my opinion and being successful isnt that impressive. A lot of my coworkers on the other hand go in…

My kid works PT at a local home & garden supply store for a smidge above minimum wage – just typical clerking and restock duties. Helping customers load their purchases is an optional activity for employees, not expected…but I have a polite kid. Sometimes customers tip, usually not. Last wknd they had a big sale on large bags of topsoil and mulch – my kid loaded arnd 200 – 25 lb. bags into various cars and trucks. Out of many, many customers ONE person tipped a whopping $2 (one who bought 20 bags). The area of the store is fairly affluent … it’s not like they can’t afford to tip. Really pisses me off … people are such jerks. Young & able doesn’t mean at everyone’s disposal… this is one of many reasons for this movement. Any ideas for getting them to tip and tip adequately? This is a first…

So I’m curious what you guys would think of this and what my next steps should be. I sent an email to them and am awaiting a response. I’m a male teaching assistant (soon to train as a fully qualified teacher) and I care immensely about my work. I genuinely believe we should treat kids with the same respect and humour as you would anyone else and apply sternness and authority when needed. That’s my entire philosophy. The kids I worked with loved me, especially those with special needs for the simple fact I would make them laugh when all the other teachers would be pretty serious. Some would make jokes but I think they could tell I was normal and they liked me for it. This isn’t to say I was always relaxed, I could be quite the angry teacher if anyone crossed the line, but it worked when…

Basically what the title says. I’m 42 (will be 43 this month), I’ve been working since I was 14 and in the restaurant industry since I was 15, during summer vacations in HS I would work two job (by choice my parents didn’t force me, I just liked the money), I’ve consistently worked 50-80 (often more) hours a week since becoming a manager in my early 20’s. I owned my own restaurant for 5 years, where we actually paid our employees a living wage, treated them with respect, and had fun while doing it, we served at least 150-300 homeless folks dinner per week, I helped two employees get out of student loan garnishments, and paid a deposit for one employee to get into a house. Not saying all that to make myself look good just saying that it is possible to do good (for the community, employees, and the…

She should have taken a vacation and then quit. But no since she worked there less than a year and was kind enough to leave her shitty workplace with a 3 week notice instead of taking a vacation and bouncing, they legally weren't obligated to pay her the 3 weeks of vacation she accrued. So now she's out $1600 she was expecting. Why are there so many laws to protect businesses but not the workers. I hate this country so much.

I spent about 20 years working in human services in various capacities at various places. Crap pay, crap working conditions, deteriorating benefits, mostly requiring a 4 year degree. “No one goes into this field to get rich!” Or pay bills, apparently. After consistently being top in the state in all measured metrics when working my cases, being chosen to consult with (for no extra pay) the corporate software developers to refine their overpriced crap product and make it usable, and just trying to maintain impossible expectations, I eventually had a full on breakdown. I requested emergency leave, expecting to use the 10 weeks of leave I had banked. My supervisor reported that I quit instead. I somehow successfully applied for SSDI (I had initially applied hoping for denial to reinforce an EEOC complaint I had filed against my former employer). About 2 years ago, my world imploded. I panicked and…