Month: April 2022

And I couldn't be happier. The contract was terrible. I work for a grocery store chain that's across 5 midwest states. They were only offering a 50 cent raise, $1 for Sundays, despite other locations from the same company around the area having a higher starting wage. I'd only make $11-11.50 despite being directly under management (I supervise up to 12 cashiers at a time, manage breaks, and solve any customer issues that don't need to be escalated to a manager. Currently make $10) If you had 10 hours of a working day in your availability, they could schedule you those 10 hours instead of picking 8 of those hours without your permission. They were raising how many years you had to be there for the third week of vacation from 5 years to 10 years. Cutting benefits, raising the age to get a pension, just every part of it…

We spend our lives in unjust authoritarian relationships with managers. We stand on our feet all day, put up with terrible coworkers, hurt ourselves, kill ourselves, work 60 hour weeks and don't get paid enough to survive. We have to take it and take it and take it in the modern workplace. But the one glistening democratic right we have amidst it all is the right to up and quit. People justify and defend capitalism endlessly due to the fact that no matter what's happening, workers always have this right. It's a supposed right to be free and right to choose where one wants to be in life. Supposedly, you always have the right to quit. Yet so many times when we exercise this right, our bosses are nothing but miffed. What's the mentality of a boss that is mad when a worker exercise is a basic democratic right and…

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Have you guys seen severance? I think you would all like severance. It’s very satirical about modern work culture.

i got a new job recently and have access to my team’s shared file, where i saw hiring information including my application material and a background check. i looked at it and found they didn’t contact any of the references i provided but just googled me and had links and info on everything about me they found (i have a unique name) i kind of expected that these things happened in the hiring process but it’s weird to see. they even felt the need to include my grandfather’s obituary in my “bio” like i don’t really see how that’s relevant but ok!!! guess it’s public info now!

I work as a CNA (certified nursing assistant) in Oklahoma. The rehab facility where I'm currently at hired me without my license because they had a program where they trained you while you worked for a slighty lower pay. I have more then enough hours to pass the state requierments and did the testing at the facility. The facility was supposed to send our paperwork (me and the other aides) to the state licencing board so we could get our certification number. It was taking a very long time and eventually the facility realized they sent the wrong paperwork. They have the correct papers now but they are refusing to send them unless we sign a 2 year contract. I've been here for 4 months and this is the first time a 2 year contract was brough up. There was no issue before with sending our papers but now they…

(Some items edited for anonymity purposes) Below are next steps in the interview process.  I would like to schedule your 1st Interview for XXXXXXX.  Please let me know if you are available that day to interview with the CEO and XXXX (Manager you met yesterday).  I will reach out to you later with dates for the other interviews with the CEO. Here are the next steps in the Interview Process: 1st Interview (1.5-2 hours; 1st Experience/Skills Interview)  2nd Interview (1.5-2 hours; Possible 2nd Experience/Skills Interview if needed, also with CEO) 3rd Interview (1.5-2 hours; 1st Values Interview – review our Core Values, also with CEO) 4th Interview 1.5-2 hours; (2nd Values Interview – further review of our Core Values, also with CEO) Assessments/Tests Application – Will be sent separately (please complete it before the 2nd Interview – 2nd Experience/Skills Interview) Skills Test – Attached, we will review it by the 2nd Interview.  (please complete it before the 2nd Interview – 2nd Experience/Skills Interview) StrengthsFinder Assessment – login below (please complete it before the 3rd Interview…

My boss and others say this to me all the time. My job does not control my life and I have a life outside of it. I will clock in at the time you scheduled me and clock out when my scheduled time is up. Work does not own you. Live your life