Month: April 2022

I don't want to give any concrete details here, but I worked at a pizza place in a college town where I made slightly above minimum wage and without any notice I got a phone call today informing me that the owner is permanently shutting down the restaurant effective immediately. My manager, who is actually really nice, called me today in tears. She apologized profusely, telling me she only was just told by the owner, who we will call Johnny for the purposes of anonymity. Johnny was a piece of trash since the moment I started there. When I got hired he told me two things: 1: After two months of work I could expect a 50 cent raise. 2: I would never be asked to stay later than 3:30 AM. The restaurant's liquor license said all customers and employees had to be out of the building by 3:30am, regardless…

Company had an all hands meeting and apparently people had been discussing their wages and the boss didn't like that. He mentioned that we should be doing it. I tried reporting it to the NRLB but the complaint is not anonymous and your name will be sent to your employer. Even if they cannot open retaliate against you. What's really stopping them from doing other shady stuff?

Requested days off in 3 weeks. Policy is two weeks prior. Union job, just cause state for termination. Got an eval meeting request for the day prior to days off. Boss hates me, team hates me. I do incredible work though (customers we service (other staff members) love me. No failures at the job. Evals are on yearly. This one is 3 months early. Want to hear how you think this meeting will go and why this was scheduled the day prior to the days off. Seeming out of the blue.

In 5 years all I got was a burn out and an online yearbook, because you know printing would cost money.

Work steals every ounce of my energy it feels like leaving none for myself. I end up losing any will to create or ability to laugh or have fun for hours sometimes and i feel like it holds me back from having any extracurricular endeavors….how do i get over this ? or work it out? in the back of my mind i always feel like “fu** i gotta go to work tomorrow” and it just ruins the rest of my day because its true..sidenot i have adhd idk if thats why i feel this way or not

It’s unfortunate when institutions feel this is the optimal way to balance the budget. I’ll be fine and using this opportunity to find something else fresh and new. Any words of advice and rights I should be aware of? I’m not a teacher. I work directly with district events and the performing arts technology. I was on tenure track to be tenured for Day 1 of this upcoming school year. Last day of existing contract is end of June. Edit: spelling