Month: April 2022

I've been on my country's version of welfare, centrelink/jobseeker for almost 2 years. My resume is filled with 8+ years of experience in retail with small amounts of managing to boot. I never wanted to work. Bad experiences with customers have ruined my drive for any role involving them and it also ruins my chances of getting a job in retail. I've gone to psychologists for issues revolving around work and the actions of customers, I've tried to develop a healthy outlook of people but I feel as though it hasn't worked. I usually explain in interviews about the volatile nature of people or customers that I've served and explain how I deal with them but it's taken as a negative outlook in the workplace. How else am I suppose to respond to abuse from customers? Happily? Do I lie and say I love customers and people? I don't, I…

I always get stumped when interviewers ask me this.

How can a casino which makes about $100 million a year only pay their employees $5 an hour? Isn't this illegal??

I’m thrilled to see the push for better working conditions spreading through the workforce, be we NEED to apply this to teachers, too. I am paid an abysmal salary despite the fact that I am expected to work 60 hour weeks and have a masters degree. I have no break (my classroom is always open to students, so my lunch and prep are spent eating and doing lesson prep while helping at least one of my kids), and I am scrutinized by literally the entire community no matter what I do. I have to teach over 120 students a day. This would be hard enough on its own, but I also have my multilingual and disabled students to support with little aid from the school. I have to be a therapist for my kids who have nowhere else to go. I need to be a parent. I provide food, hygiene…

It's in the title. Stop working, and stop buying stuff. I don't know what would happen to the world if that happens, but it'd be a sight to see

the title sounds so dramatic but the more i think about it the more true it is. i work for a retailer which offers a tailor service. the salespeople pin slips onto the suits for the alteration people which could just be stapled onto the clothing tag (some staple, some pin). they use push pins for this. i need to write on the slips and need to be very careful not to jab myself on the pins bc salespeople leave them sticking upwards almost. then, when customers come to collect the altered clothing, i must bring them the clothing and remove the pins and slips etc. hope this makes sense. basically, i’m concerned because a lot of staff members (myself included) regularly prick their fingers on these pins. it’s unlikely that other staff members would have blood borne diseases but they could and then several people couod be pricking themselves…

I work in the tech industry at a company that is trying to cut costs. The yearly average merit increase was 3%. I just learned from the executive assistants that our C level employees get lunch ordered in and paid for by the company every day. Our highest paid employees do not have the living expense of food. This is after learning how they get $200+ cars to and from the airport 15 minutes away. 1000s of dollars are spent on these two perks yet are never mentioned when we speak of cutting costs. I once mentioned maybe they should get an uber and the looks of disgust I received were palpable. When I make it to a year or two here, you know I am leaving.