Month: April 2022

Applying psychological pricing to min wage, we can totally afford $29.99 an hour!

This morning my boss pulled me over and basically said someone complained about having to tell me multiple times to go back over my work or have someone else do it…I do my job very well and was never ever told to go back over my work by anyone and pretty much threatened to put on a shit crew doing even shittier jobs like wtf it's bad enough I'm severely underpaid but now he's making shit up..as soon as I get my licenses and wheels I'm out of this shit show

HR has a really bad rep (understandably). I never really wanted to work in HR but pandemic hit and I needed a job and ended up moving up to HR BP. My job is annoying a lot of the times with admin stuff, but the bulk of my job includes bolstering employee engagement. I don't affect their pay and I don't fire them (their general managers can override me on everything). I generally fight back against firing people if I can and try to work with leaders to make sure they know how to be decent to their employees (giving feedback, coaching, treating people consistently). I handle investigations, help with onboarding, guide employees on filing for leave of absences, etc. But I feel icky whenever I tell people I'm in HR. I don't really do anything bad I dont think, its the connotation. I love working with the employees and…

Both the employee and my parents are immigrants from the same poor country and get along well. But even then my parents have been paying her 11 dollars an hour when sometimes she sells hundreds of dollars of profit a day. My recently raised her pay to 15 and I thought “barely?” I felt sick

Gonna avoid being too specific for reasons. I used to work for a company. Fresh after graduation I took a job in an office somewhere because I needed income. It was a processing job. Honestly, it was the worst job I've ever had. And yes I'm including when I did fast food and retail part time while in high school. My processing job was a very intensive one that was very detail oriented and high volume. On our team specifically in that department. There was one data entry person, and two processing people. (In addition there were part time assistants that were tremendous helps and people in other areas that also did other portions critical to the roles) When hired, I was to be one of the processing people. Let than a week later, the entry person on this specific team put in their notice. I was told “okay, well,…

I recently quit my job after dealing with a lot of b.s. for the past 10 years. It was one of those situations where they would constantly dump more responsibilities on me without any kind of raise. It's a small company so they would run a skeleton crew but try to compete with the big boys on productivity. Eventually it got to the point where I was doing 3 peoples jobs and they relied on me too much. They were extremely picky people and impossible to please. I finally blew up and told them I'd been miserable there for years and I couldn't take it anymore. I found a new job that day with higher pay and less responsibilities. The atmosphere is so much more relaxed, I felt like I could finally breath. After I quit, the person below me quit when they tried moving some of my responsibilities to…

I am truly burnt out… I just didn’t know how to face this fact, but I am 🥲 My boss knows I’m struggling and rly have a lot on my plate. But she told me and my old manager are planning for me to pick up on some new things. I guess it’s in lieu of my old manager’s maternity. Yes it’s good exposure but damn. How much more of myself am I supposed to give? (I can work until 11pm, 12am easily and still barely making a dent to my work/back log) Just how much more is enough? If I’m already struggling then I don’t want to imagine the amount of work I’ll have to deal with down the road. Is the mental stress even worth it anymore? I no longer have the capacity to read, to get through my skincare at night… to do anything productive after work…