Month: April 2022

For context, I worked for the American Red Cross for two and a half years as a Phlebotimist taking blood donations. I loved the work and I loved my coworkers, but the job was rough, especially during covid. It's well known inside the company that the Red Cross is a great humanitarian organization UNLESS you're one of their employees. As an employer, they are awful. Bad pay, insane hours, deliberate understaffing, shitty managers, the works. When I finally had a gut full, I quit at the same time I sent out a 3800 word email to everyone in the region blasting the company and how it treats its workers. HR made a big show of doing an “investigation,” bit, of course, nothing changed. Well, now the region I worked in is considering going on strike, because when the union came to the table to discuss a new contract, the company…

I’m a first year college student applying for jobs over the summer. I’ve never worked before, or have done any sports. I am not close with any of my old club teachers from high school. There’s pretty much no one I can think of who I worked with professionally able to vouch for me. That being said, all of the jobs I’m applying to ask for like 3 references (even if it’s for a barista position or something). Can anyone here be my reference? I’m sure we can make up a role, I’m really desperate since I have student loans lol

It’s a Tuesday, so there’s a good chance you worked today, are at work, or have to go in soon. What are you thinking? Feel free to complain, whine, rant, rave, etc about anything below

I know the experience is similar all accross the world but being from Central America as the main breadwinner for my small family of 2, dealing with rent, loans and horrible work environment trying to job hunt to improve my life condition is crushing my soul bit by bit. I work in a call center (we dont have much variety of well paying jobs around here) and even though i reached a management position my growth opportunities have been truncated due to shitty structure. This in tandem with a horrible environment thanks to incompetent leadership has me looking for jobs but I cannot apply to pretty much anything locally as i would never get a similar pay to what i have (due to commitments its very unlikely i could take a paycut) and remote options on companies from outside my country set the bar to unreasonable highs even if i…

Is because too many workers imagine themselves as future owners. I realized this when I spoke with a casual friend of mine who is in the Coast Guard. He was opposing worker protections like paid time off, paid sick time, required justifications for firing, and so on. His reason for opposing these things was because 'he' wanted to be able to hire and fire as he liked and that 'if anyone didn't like what he was offering, well they should just go somewhere else'. But he does not have a business. He's full time Coast Guard, he has no plans on starting a business and no skills that would let him start one. When he leaves the CG he'll be a regular employee. But because he imagines 'himself' running things, he's imagining things that serve him better in that scenario. After speaking with countless other conservative opponents of reforming the…

I am a TV station manager for a very small TV station. I love it. I manage a small team and I get to produce video content that is seen by tens of thousands of people. I'm also a journalist and news anchor. We wear lots of hats here but I love it. But I'm paid $15 per hour. I have 14 years of professional experience in this field and a BS in journalism. I'm used to making so much more, but there are no other stations in my area. My boss has made it very clear to me he never intends to pay me more, and he refuses every idea I come up with that involves us both making more money. He wants to be the only one making any money and he thinks I should have to live on poverty wages because of my age. Totally bizarre and…

So normally in Tuesdays we aren’t very busy. Its one of the only days except mondays that we are 3 workers in take-out (my working station) instead of 6, because it isn’t usually busy. Today we had a supervisor come in to check if the restaurant was in working order. No big deal right? Wrong. Corporate decided that they’d literally pay people to call in to give me and my other coworkers more work to see how we would handle it. We had so many calls, and so many orders we weren’t able to keep up. We’d get screamed at by the real customers, because we weren’t fast enough but we had the workload of a friday, where normally we are six but we were THREE. Our managers told us they were disappointed, and that they would take 15% of our tips because of this. I’m beyond PISSED. We are…