Month: April 2022

I work at a Domino's Pizza store in the UK as a delivery driver. The job is fine, you deliver pizzas, wash dishes, fold boxes, it's super simple and it pays minimum wage. It's a “zero hours contract” but since the shop is constantly under staffed because of high turnover, they're actually fairly decent when it comes to getting hours. I was rota'd for a Saturday shift and on the Tuesday prior found out I would be attending a first aid training course for a new job as a first aider (better hours, better pay). I put in the Facebook group looking for cover for that shift but nobody responded so I thought nothing more of it. The next week I was working, the assistant manager asked why I didn't come in for my shift (she is younger than me therefore actually gets paid less than me so god knows…

When your employer is leveraging 'harder work' out of you while dangling the carrot of increased wages… there will likely NEVER be a ceiling to how hard you must work to earn their approval or that raise 'Harder/more efficient' work is a metric with no upper limit. We are already the most efficient workforce this world has known and yet our wages keep most of us from wealth.

am I a horrible employee for putting my two weeks for working in the company for 3 years and never called off sick also worked for 2 months straight when the lack of employees. the manager gave the book keeping position to someone who only had 4 months wirh a week off and hand no experience in book keeping. I have a math degree and I have experience in book keeping from previous jobs. I feel hurt and I don't know what to do. I was raised to always to my best to show worth but my manager is a woman and she want to give woman the right to move up in the world. She doesn't care if you have experience. She only cares that you are a woman.

Retail   California   37 years old   Electronics department, closing shifts (4PM-1130PM), 5 days a week   $15 an hour —> $15.30 an hour due to review   My review said that I met all goals and expectations   I am recognized both by my peers and general management as having great customer service and communication   Two weeks ago, because I don't get my freight of products finished before the end of my shift, they started reducing me to 4 days a week   I ask if I can have my 5 days a week back during my review, mentioning my great customer service and product knowledge   Answer is no, unless I can finish all my freight   My store is high theft, and high traffic, so there is always lots of customers who need my help   My focus is always to make the customer feel…

My whole life I was working very hard and I put myself under a lot of pressure because I thought “I wouldn’t make it” or never even have a career at all. I finished high school with good grades, studied and even though I often felt like I’m not good enough I graduated with good grades. I gained my first working experience overseas, and when I returned to my home country, I made my masters to get more specification. Scored a job a few months later in a company that I thought matches my ideal: its as sustainable as it gets in this day and age, doesn’t belong to a mega corporate and is very LGBTQAI+ friendly. For the first two months,my boss didn’t pay me the salary we’d agreed on when I was employed. In fact it was 400€ less than that. The(original) salary is average for my city…

So I quit my previous manager because frankly she was shit at managing and knew nothing about the job. As well as being an arsehole. I saw the new job ad for the vacancy I made and she's written the responsibilities out wrong. No, they haven't changed, these are just mistakes. Do I message her on LinkedIn to tell her?

Just had a reference request for an employee who is moving on, few standard questions, then there’s this: “Number of days of parental leave days taken in the last 5 years (18 years for a disabled child) and specify in respect of which child this leave was taken.” Are they even allowed to ask this? I have a child with some issues that require some appointments etc to deal with and I know this employee is in a similar boat. Can they even ask for this information and potentially discriminate based on the response?