Month: April 2022

(Description of an injury) This happened a few months ago, but this is one of those main “why do I still work here?” stories. (It's the fact I need the money btw.) I work closing at a daycare center. The only staff here at closing are me and one of my managers. Kids are out at 6:30. I'm technically supposed to have until 6:45 to clean my room before I need to be out the door, but manager whines and gripes if I'm not ready to leave by 6:31, so I have to wipe down, take out trash, and set up the room for tomorrow while watching the remaining kids. Usually when we're down to one to three kids, manager brings them to sit at the front desk so I can clean faster, even though that's against policy, but we're so understaffed that there isn't even at least two teachers…

Unions are important. It isn't perfect, but there are serious benefits to being in a union. It also helps to have upper management that actually values their employees. This isn't to brag about my job, it's just to emphasize that these are the things that increase employee productivity, moral, and ultimately profits. I also had to take a huge chance with it and in the end it's worked out well. When I started working for this company I was hired to split my time between two departments. I was offered a decent pay rate. It was obvious I was excelling in one department and doing OK in the other. So, they inquired if I wanted to move fulltime to the department I was excelling in. Only thing with it, was because of the union moving to the other department came with a 12% pay decrease. I put a lot of…

Can they do that and is it 'normal'?

TLDR: Pharm tech, worked for hell on earth pharmacy that treated me like a robot and escaped to a wonderful new job. Mean pharmacist from hell job now coming to work in the new awesome pharmacy. Scared to death she’s gonna ruin everything. Ok! So, a little backstory, I’m a pharmacy technician that used to work for Walgreens. It was hell there and I have never felt so dehumanized in my life. It’s like the moment I started working there, terrible shit happened. My partner got diverticulitis (an infection in your lower intestines) and was hospitalized/ had to go to the er several times before he eventually had 2(!!) of these infections as well as a foot of his colon removed. Of course because of this, I had to miss a lot of work and one of the times he got discharged, work wouldn’t let me leave to help him…

I just need to vent, I'm at my wit's end. I work in a regional grocery store as a cashier, part-time, as they never hire cashiers full-time, but they have as work as close to full-time hours as they can get. They regularly have me work at least six days in a row, and have completely inconsistent hours. At least once a week, they have me work a clopening shift, closing the store at 9 PM and coming back in at 8 AM. And every week, they come just short of working me 40 hours, which absolutely should not be happening at a part-time job. And there is a union here, but they aren't a part of my store, and appear to be in the company's pocket in any stores they do work with, so do absolutely nothing to help anyone. With how irregular and all over the place my…