Month: April 2022
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My manager is trying to guilt me to stay
A little bit of a rant, sorry if this doesn’t really make any sense I’m upset Im 16 and this is my first job. Honestly I only started this job because my mom wanted me to work there and I needed money. It’s a small local specialty food place btw. I’ve only been working there for like 6-7 months and in those months: – 6 employees quit – 2 got fired – I tried to quit once but got guilted into staying one day Plus the customers are so rude (elderly customers and entitlement don’t mix), and if I need something refilled or if I need to see if we have more of something I can never find any of the people who are supposed to do that (I can’t do it myself because cashiers aren’t taught where everything is in storage) I tried to quit and had my coworkers,…
To summarize, Americans and their brains are preoccupied with work much of the time. Throughout history people have intuited that such puritanical devotion to perpetual busyness does not in fact translate to greater productivity and is not particularly healthy. What if the brain requires substantial downtime to remain industrious and generate its most innovative ideas? “Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets,” essayist Tim Kreider wrote in The New York Times. “The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration—it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.”
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Brink of bankruptcy
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employer keeping tips
i had a job interview to be a server today and the person giving me an interview stated they would love to hire me. they then went on to explain the training policy, they stated that i will be given a quiz on the menu (ok no problem i’ve done this before) and the quiz would be broken up into 4 quizzes. one quiz per week must be passed to complete the training period. so theoretically if you pass every quiz first time every week it will be 4 weeks until you start making tips. they asked me if i was ok with that and i said “absolutely not” and thanked them for their time and left.
Ok, hear me out before down voting. In a fair market, not what we have now, landlords provide flexible housing that is free of certain responsibilities for the tenant. The landlord is supposed to: handle taxes fix stuff when it breaks replace old appliances call repair people provide building management hold certain legal and financial responsibilities and liabilities If a unit becomes unsafe and uninhabitable, the landlord is supposed to arrange for comparable temporary housing. This is a service that should be fairly compensated. The problem we have now is that corporate landlords are bleeding tenants dry of everything they can because housing is a necessity, and an open market will never be fair. On top of that, they barely do the things listed above if at all.
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Possibly controversial opinion
The concept of minimum wage should be based on providing a living wage to those with the least ability and the greatest need, (eg someone with only a highschool diploma and like 8 kids) so we can assure that EVERYONE gets pay that they can sustain themselves on.
