Month: April 2022

My coworker in Taiwan was earning 25$ an hour which equated to 3,000$+ a month as a teacher, but he left to go to work in America in January for a job at Amazon at the same rate or 26$ (I forgot). However, I am reading so many posts about being fired, laid off, and being paid at unsurvivable rates. What am I missing here? I thought wages are going up to attract workers. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans' fast food, local stores, and other businesses paid everyone 10$ an hour to attract workers. Foreigners from around the world went there to make that money. I was earning 12.75$ as a manager at McDonalds while finishing my degree there, so is this shortage in specific areas? Are these high wages paid to ONLY certain positions?

Hi all, please excuse any formatting issues as I’m on mobile. I have a question that I feel only this community can answer. For context, I’m starting at a company I worked for previously. My original hire was done with a referral company, which provided its own benefits package and had some guidelines as to how many days you could miss and how long until you would be hired or let go. The company ended their partnership with this referral agency before I left. Now I’m back, and all the hiring is done within the company. It wasn’t until a girl was fired for missing 3 days within a 3 month period did I find out that they are still practicing this 90-day temp period. This was not disclosed to me at any time. Not in my interview, offer letter, follow up information, or orientation. I was never given these…

I know you all will just hit the “get help and support” button. I’ve called all the hotlines and the sentiment is nice but there’s no real help on those. I’m in a shitty marriage and can’t afford to leave, I can’t afford rent in my area not even with roommates. I got what I thought was my dream job last summer, i was hopeful and the pay looked decent (started at $10 over minimum wage). Well the paychecks started coming and after daycare (split with my ex), parking and gas there’s literally no money left. I did talk therapy but couldn’t keep up with the cost for that. I got on antidepressants and those seemed to help for a month or so but the effects wore off. How is this okay, how are you people surviving? Cause I don’t feel like I can keep doing this, I really don’t.…

I had been working at the same place for almost 5 years and I didn't learn anything or make any personal growth other than learning how to write an email professionally. The work I did there and software I used for them was far from universal and really could only be applied to them. It was a fight to get any descent pay raise there and after which was still hardly enough to pay the bills. The company was organized like a mess and the whole time I worked there I always felt like I was their lowest priority. After having educated myself in my free time to actually have useful skills in the workforce, I am finally starting work somewhere new where I can continue to grow my skillsets and am being compensated at a rate which matches how I value myself. I just wanted to post about this…

Let's start with the fact that I am not from USA and I am neither the resident. The way I see your problems about work and money is that you don't need raises. The problem is not that you don't get enough money, the problem is that housing is so overpriced that you aren't able to buy any or event rent anything with current wages. Also don't get me wrong but I am on the side where I think that you aren't supposed to live in comfortable and big premium house or flat when you are alone with the lowest wage. Next problem is the cost of healthcare. Healthcare is the most important thing in all of that, because as long as tax payers are in good condition they can provide more tax money and live better. But yet, your government refuses to take control of it for everyones (but…

I'm in Canada so things are a bit different here. I'm just really frustrated that in order to become a police officer, firefighter, EMT, teacher or work just about any decent job in the public service here you need to have a lot of relevant work experience and even then it's no guarantee. Public servants in Canada are generally paid better than their private sector counterparts and keep getting raises despite the quality of service never increasing. Seriously, good luck getting cops to take stalking or rape seriously here or getting child support enforced. The schools aren't any better here. If you're poor or working class they discourage you from going to university. It's sucks because if you're someone who genuinely wants to do those sorts of jobs you're out of luck but if you're just looking for money and are willing to play into the bs you have a…

I am a cautionary tale. Yesterday was my last day at a job I worked at for 4 years. During that time I never took a vacation because my job was too essential and to be away for more than 2 days would throw things into chaos. I took PTO days here and there, often adding a day to a holiday weekend, but I never took 2 consecutive days off or even 5 days in a row. I let them make me believe I was so important a vacation was impossible. Finally, I had enough and found a better job. The only upside is I’ll be cashed out for over a month’s salary from all the PTO I have saved! Take your time off. Use it or lose it applies to more than just the PTO days.