Month: April 2022

Quitting a bar job once and had this comment after telling my manager I was leaving. I wrote on the back of a coaster (beer mat) I quit and signed my name. I was told they filed it away.

The last time wages stagnated to the level they currently are, it was the European Dark Ages. The only way the Europeans came out of the Dark Ages was after >33% of the population died, allowing peasant workers to have their wages more than double as labor became a scarcer commodity. The question: Would you support a similar depopulation event to fix the current labor/wage issues plaguing all of modern society? Why or why not?

Hi guys. Thought this would fit in here. Sorry in advance for any mistakes I'm posting from my mobile So my younger brother (23) applied for a role back in October to work for a council department in the UK on a secondment basis dealing with complaints. He has a lot of experience dealing with complaints ( he doesn't stick to jobs very long as he wants to earn the most he can get ) He was successful and has been doing the job for over 6 months now. No issues with time keeping or quality of work etc just sailing along. He received a call from his manager asking how he is finding the role and wondering if he would be interested in the role on a permanent basis and for a pay increase and still remote working with an occasional day in the office which he was more…

I’m gonna have to start job hunting again soon and I feel like asking my interviewer how much they make is good? Like first off, I don’t wanna work for anyone that isn’t willing to talk about it. Second off, if I could explain it as “I want to know if I can have a future at this company and what I could promote or raise into” it’s like actually good bc then it shows I’m down to be in something for the long haul ? I’m not in a big rush to get hired so I don’t care if this causes me to not get a job but if I can look one interviewer in the eyes and say “If the person HIRING me makes POVERTY wages, this company is definitely not one I want to work for and you shouldn’t either” it’ll be worth it. If I could…

I mean when you work from home, or at the office. How do you look busy while slacking, enjoying some spare time? Bonus question: how do you ward off your workaholic/micromanaging boss? A quick Google search will say to give them even more updates (which is exactly what I HATE doing). What seems to work is to simply do the least work possible so they go bother one of your colleagues, the more you do the more you're fucked basically

Some background first, I worked at a car dealership in the UK and had been there for almost 5 years at this point. At the start of lockdown the director sent us an email explaining that if we had covid and could prove it with a positive test he would give us full pay for our mandatory isolation period. I had 6 weeks off at the beginning and was on the furlough scheme. I came back to work like they asked and worked through all the lockdowns no questions asked and was made to feel fortunate that I had a job still. Fast forward 6 months and we are still in a lockdown and I started to get symptoms of covid, no taste or smell and a horrible headache. I informed my boss whilst at work who advised I get PCR test. I booked the test and immediately went to…

So my manager is retiring or moving to the head office for his last year. We still don't know yet. The manager position will be vacant and his boss keeps asking him if I would be a good fit. He keeps saying no and I know it's because I'm not old, I'm 29. I have been doing the manager duties this whole time (KPIs, client meetings, facilitating audits… etc). I dont get it anymore… I have been here since it's open and know the system better than anyone they could get. Our clients always commend me in public emails and it's still not enough. The worst thing is I do these duties for my boss and get nothing back.

I work a day job at a local restaurant, a “small” business owned by a family that also owns several other establishments in the area and is incredibly well off. I was promised $16 p/h not counting tips, and am being paid $13.50–which, after asking around, seems to be the case for almost every other server on the job. On top of this, we're constantly being verbally berated by the owners and their family, the kitchen is filthy and dangerous, the tip-out system they use ensures they get away without paying their cooks a living wage, and they're constantly asking us to over-extend ourselves beyond our job descriptions–to which I always say “I don't get paid for that.” I finally snapped when they started threatening me, saying I would have to pay out of pocket if I messed up an order or forgot to charge someone for an item (highly…