Month: April 2022

My job has travel time to and from the job sites but we aren't getting paid until the after the first hour. It's pretty problematic since most of the people are being given work with less than one hour travel time. Yo further explain: If my job is 52 minutes to get there, I do not get paid for it. If the job if it's 61 minutes getting back, I get paid for 1 minute. This translates into me missing full time/overtime every week. But who do I go to for help fixing this? Older members say that a labor board got involved and fixed it but then the company did it again. Help?

Ill try to keep this short. I work at a Papa John's. Basically the managers/owners of the store are all related, and they give eachother preferential treatment. They are all dumb and have no idea how their store is run. They are barely literate. They are SO lazy, but have somehow convinced themselves that they are the only ones who arent lazy. They contradict themselves all the time, and they purposefully sow seeds of conflict to keep the staff divided. And worst of all they are all just pathological liars. EVERY time someone in the store has a doctors note, my manager WITHOUT FAIL claims that she has had that illness and she was fine and still came into work. Literally she claims that she worked through cancer, chemo treatments, MS, diverticulitis, and a burst appendix. She claims she has a growth on the side of her head that every…

I'm a scientist, working for a university and get 40 days.

I have a friend in shambles crying because she went on her tenth interview this year and realized that some of this companies are stupid as hell. The latest interview was for a warehouse manager position for drum roll $20 an hour to manage 3 supervisors and 100 employees. This was on top of the mandatory 50 hour weeks. The job interview before that specified $22-25 pay range online. She shows up to the interview and gets told it actually is between $16-18. We live in California. They also said she could work from home but in the interview said it would be on-site only. Two interviews before that, she got sexually harassed by a creep manager. That scared her. The rest of the jobs only paid between $15.50-17 and were retail or entry level office jobs. I feel for her and anyone looking for a job. How is everyone…

So I work as a leasing agent for this company. It’s a new company in the area and for the most part it’s pretty decent, they just took over last year.Management has played a key role in why this complex has had an extreme amount of turn overs in the last 5 years with office staff changing every month and a half. In 2021 alone they have gone through 20 leasing changes, they have come and go and it all points to management at the end somehow nothing is being done about it. I recently just got a write up for “not doing my job properly” even though we’ve been understaffed for a while and it’s a 900 unit complex with only 2 leasing agents currently in office. I’m expected to do everything, from leasing apartments to putting in service requests, to walking and cleaning units, to cleaning the office,…

Just thought I would share some of the crap I have put up with being employed. At my first job (retail) I was told by Management that I had to work most holidays “…because you don't have kids and everyone else does so they should be off.” Well no I didn't have kids but I still had a family. At my 2nd job (corrections) it was a very toxic work environment. Firstly, it was mandatory overtime. You could be getting ready to leave and a Supervisor would say, “Someone called in, you're hit” and you had to stay another 4 or even 8 hours. 16 hour shifts were common. Never knew if you were going to stay 8, 12, or 16 hours when you went in for a shift so planning anything outside of work was impossible. I got on the bad side of the higher ups because I made…

This is going to be a long vent post, but I might as well explain my situation: I'm 27 years old, I live with my parents, and can't really see a future. I used to think I was suffering from depression for many years (I did get an official diagnosis about 5 years ago) but now I'm starting to think that there isn't really anything wrong with me at all. I did not choose to become an embittered, shut-in and a loser. I feel like the world has made me this way. I completed a Bachelor's degree at University in August 2018 (I majored in Classics [Greek and Latin). To be honest though, while my parents were amazed and overjoyed by my accomplishment, to me–it just drained me out of all my energy and sent me down on that downward spiral. I absolutely hated University. It was simply too chaotic…

I work at a construction company where we get paid per job we do. My boss takes advantage of us as much as he can, buys us the cheapest equipment and vehicles he can get away with, and is impossible to reach when we need something. BUT I’m usually making around $40/hr because of the way things are priced. I love it, my coworkers are great and love it here too. We all hate the boss with a passion, but we’ve all been here for many years. We don’t need pizza parties and dumb shit to feel appreciated. We need a good wage. That’s all everyone on this sub is asking for. Just a fair wage.

I had an interesting experience recently during the application for a job I applied to on a job site. Just for the record I am currently employed. So I applied to a position for $20K+ more and got an initial phone screening with the HR manager. Everything goes well and he told me he highly recommended me and was going to let the CFO know to bring me in for an interview the following week. A week goes by and nothing. Ok. So I reach out via email to the HR manager on the application status. He tells me ” Sorry the CFO has the person he wants but if that doesn't work out maybe we'll bring you in.” It was just worded strange..so another week goes by and the HR person sends me back to back emails ” Can I bring you in for an interview urgently?”….nope…not going for…