Month: April 2022

So it's Saturday, I've worked overtime throughout the week already and everyone has to come in for some extra work today. Now I usually take the bus to work during the week and it works out fine. But on the weekends the bus doesn't run. So I would have to walk to work which takes at least an hour to an hour and a half. I told him that it isn't worth my time to walk for 3 hours on my weekend to go to work. But he promises that I can stay as long as I want” and “I'll get paid for it too!” No boss, you don't understand. I don't want to come in at all on my day off. My freetime is vastly more important to me than work.

I Have a family trip coming up soon and I would be leaving the country for a couple of weeks. When I told my boss about the told me I had to tell them a lot earlier like a month in advance I told at least 3 weeks ago already. There is also a lot of events coming up soon and a gala but I would be gone during that time and they said if I go they can't take me back at all . I would like to know your guy's opinions on this?

9am-10pm was for prep/setup/takedown of a work event. I offered to come in for the morning to help clean the venue. When she came into the office with her pup, I jokingly said “I can’t leave now” and boss literally said “that was the goal”. I don’t work there anymore but jokes on my boss, I couldn’t even do my work anyways because her pup had to pee every 5 minutes.

Have you guys been seeing an increase of this term “built in overtime”? I've got a decent gig, only work three days a week with minimal responsibility but I'm always keeping my ear to the ground. I've been seeing more and more offers with this term. When I ask about why this is seen as a positive selling point, all communication stops. To me it just advertises an understaffed position where you will be expected to work way more, giving up more and more of your time to make what you should have been making for a standardish 40-hour week. It seems pretty laughable to tell me that base pay is 65k but some net 85k after probably having to toil doing the jobs of two people or more. So, I usually ask if instead of built-in overtime maybe we could exchange that for profit sharing or stock options…. That's…

Looks like this might be a strike. I heard they're hiring scabs already. Case's current contract offer: *mandatory 12 hour shifts (not currently allowed in the current CBA) *mandatory Saturdays (believed to be indefinitely, current CBA is only 2 mandatory Saturdays in a row) *$2/hour raise over SIX (yes 6!) years *elimination of the two for one callouts. That is you can callout of work for two days and only attain one point on attendance There's probably more, but for a competitor of John Deere, this is disgusting compared to Deere. Hopefully they stay strong and strike.

My SO just got a verbal warning for having a sinus infection and missing work. Had a doctors note and everything but the manager did not care. Why do companies even „offer“ these benefits if it‘s practically criminal to use them? Any advice or anecdotes?

/r/1099 is dead, so I am asking here. If you know a better sub to ask, please let me know. I am in the state of Missouri. I am working as an appliance repair person for an appliance repair company. I will call them Appliance-Repair-Co for this thread. When I started with Appliance-Repair-Co they gave me two weeks training. (during which they paid slightly less than minumum wage–claiming that independent contractors are not subject to wage laws) So a day at work for me is about 10 service calls at customers homes to diagnose and repair kitchen and laundry appliances. Appliance-Repair-Co has an office and takes phone calls from customers, then dispatches me to the customers home. Appliance-Repair-Co provides me with a two phone apps; one to manage the dispatch, and one to collect payment (square). The only business Appliance-Repair-Co conducts is repairing appliances. The only work I do for…