Month: April 2022

This week, rumor has it 2-3 employees are gonna be quitting and two people have already quit. So of our team of about 12 people, about half the people already quit or are gonna be quitting (as per the grapevine) in about a two month time frame. I know why, because the amount of work is unreasonable. Fortunately the manager is trying to hire more people, but with each person hired, it's offset by the amount of people quitting. And it's hard to find qualified applicants, or at least that's what the manager says. Anyway, the guy who I work with (we split the tasks we're responsible for) is gonna be resigning this week, so all his work is gonna come to me. By the time they replace him and get the new hire up to speed, that's gonna be months worth of time. So I'm gonna be having a…

Due to the pandemic, the state I live in announced a government funded bonus of $1000 for workers in my field. Initially, it was due to be paid out some time between October 2021 and January of this year. I was ecstatic. I live paycheck to paycheck, and this would give me much needed financial security. My company finally told us we would be getting our checks at the end of the month. However, it will be for $660 and taxed. Fortunately, I'm full time, because they are giving part timers half of that. Unfortunately, I just put in my two weeks, and in order to receive the bonus, I need to be employed the day of the payout. My last day will be FOUR days before the payout, and my boss just informed me I will not be seeing a dime of it, even though I've worked here for…

If I'm required to be at work by a certain time but I'm not allowed to clock in till 15 minutes after or something. Can I sue for that? Because it's wage theft. If so how much would I be able to sue for?

I work at a recording studio, which often requires me to work nights and weekends. My partner is going through a really difficult time emotionally and I know it would help immensely to have me by her side through it, but I’m not sure how to do that. I don’t have the money to quit, but finding 9-5 style work in my industry is very difficult and pivoting industries also seems like a daunting task. There isn’t a point to this post, I’m just feeling lost and angry at this fucked up system