Actual conversation I had with a colleague over chat this morning: Colleague: Hey, the meeting you have at 12pm, is that lunch or an actual meeting? Me: Yeah, it's my lunch break Colleague: OK 2 minutes later: new meeting invite from 12-1 with 10 other people on it Seriously?
This is what the hiring manager in my organization just said. They’ve had the job open for a year. A year. Why? Cause they want to pay 2019 hour wages. Nobody applies and when they do schedule an interview they get ghosted. The position requires $3-5 more an hour now from what I’m seeing. The boss would have to bring up the two other people that same rate cause they are underpaid but comfortable. And they won’t do it. It would cost them probably 15k total to have a happy dept. Coincidentally, 15k is what our CEO spent on meals at steakhouses last year. Can’t stop the big guy from eating. He’ll get the message when the walls come crumbling down.
I had an interview and it was boring honestly. They talked the whole time and didn't even ask me questions. But meh, at least it's something to bring income in. They surprised me when they told me they have “interview exercises” for me to do that they would be sending to my email. I get an email with 2 exercises to do, and was told that I should do them in about two hours and leave extensive notes as to my judgment and decision making (Excel files). I'm in accounting so that means they wanted to see me manipulate numbers across several documents and make all of these calculations. I did the first one, looked at the second one, and said hell no. It's just so much work for something that is a MAYBE. I felt like I was back in school doing hours-long homework. Nah, it would take more…
Tipped workers seem to get incredibly offended if you suggest that tipping is immoral cause restaurant owners should pay their workers a living wage without having to depend on tips. I think a lot workers assume that if you complain about tipping, it suggests that you don’t tip and that you don’t wanna tip in general. The point people are trying to make isn’t that we shouldn’t have to tip, it’s that employers should pay their workers more, AS WELL as us willingly giving tips. Not either or. If employers start paying waiters more, I will gladly keep tipping cause restaurant workers are giving a personalized service. So I will support the movement to give restaurant workers a higher wage and I will keep tipping even if their pay increases.
Obviously the main issue is our wages. People WANT to work for a good paying job. People would work better if they were paid more. When are people gonna decide that we need to teach the elites that we are done? If wages kept with inflation we should make 25+ per hour. Mfers are paying us 10 bucks an hour to break our backs. When are people gonna do something?
This entire thread is giving me life. This is a bit long but I need to get it off my chest. I was recruited to this new company from my old one to build a very difficult and politically sensitive program. I was told from the beginning that there was a good chance that it wouldn't work, so it would not reflect poorly on me if things didn't work out. I have two bosses, one is amazing and the other was the one who recruited me and was previously a friend and I am absolutely done with her after this. For this program, after she got into ONE argument with one of the groups involved, completely bailed on the program, leaving me to sort out everything. I was living with my dad during COVID and the only reason I managed to get through all of this was because of him.…
there was a post in here the other day that had this quote and boy, do i relate. i work 40 hours a week and sometimes i feel like i would SAVE money not going to work and i am so tired. i was on break at what is about to be my former job trying to buy some snacks and food for my dog (without checking my account first) then realized a bunch of bills had come out at one time. so i had to put some of the stuff back. went back to my desk and continued to play/watch ads on Klover for an hour for points towards a cash advance. but everyone knows payday loan apps usually end up costing more than its worth. then after asking some family that i have asked to borrow from before for gas money to get to an interview, (they couldn’t…