Month: April 2022

I am SEETHING. I have noticed it and spoken to the baristas and I don't want to say what they're sitting on because I don't want them to get in trouble. Australia is NOT known for its “don't let people have chairs” work mentality. This is NOT normal for my usual coffee shops. I've written 3 letters now to the owners and still – no chairs. I've stopped buying coffee, especially since the uni just closed 2 shops, “letting the staff go” with 0 notice. 0. My friend is one of the baristas at the sister uni to the one I go to – and they whole ass just never told her that their contract was sold to another shop. At least she got a chair? I am f u m i n g at how my favourite people at the uni are being treated. TELL ME A SINGLE UNIVERSITY…

I'm in British Columbia for context. I started a new job at the end of January. Came at a great time. I was able to negotiate a better pay than my previous, as well as starting with 3 weeks vacation (which is the level I was at with my previous employer). I had 1 vacation that I had booked far in advance (booked last year, have a cabin on the island booked with friends) I told my employer when I took the job and booked that week off right away when I started. Since this place wants all vacation time in at the end of March (small company, need to plan so we are not left short staffed) I put in for a 4 day weekend in August, 1 week in September and 2 days in December (on top of my 1 week island trip in July) This adds up…

My last job was at what was basically a half call center, half secure warehouse for car titles being stored for banks and loan providers. Roughly 200 employees on site, and myself and a supervisor in another department are the only men I've ever seen there. Otherwise it's gotta be the number one employer of non-college educated women in my small community. I worked in the warehouse portion, walking back and forth, filing financial documents in boxes on 20 foot tall shelves all day. Mind-numbing stuff. One day, shortly before I left the company, we were short staffed and falling behind in the warehouse portion, so management co-opted a few ladies from the call floor to come in and help out, and had me give them a quick run-down on the procedure. I came back to where they were working half an hour later and saw a couple of them…

I've been diagnosed with golfer's elbow so using a mouse and keyboard is pretty painful. My job requires a lot of daily data entry but with the other chaos that goes on, I've left the data entry part of the job for the next shift. It's only a matter of time before my manager catches wind of this and decides to fuck with me (things like a write up, unfavorable schedule change, etc.) I do have a medical diagnosis but I'm not sure if I should talk to my manager first or take it directly to HR. Also what can I expect from the company once the accommodation request is official?

I work in Tennessee and just started as a bartender (as a side gig) and got my first check… a MONTH after training… and it was clearly $3.00/hr – we did two weekends (Sat&Sun) for at least 6 hours a day and no where on our paycheck is there anything that states $7.25/hr. Is there ANYTHING I can do?!?! PS it is a SEASONAL job, so it’s not year around. They hire servers and bartenders solely for the season, so we train for two weeks and then one day when the restaurant opens.

As much as I find the posts criticizing bad bosses/businesses to be vitally important, I would just also like to explain why I'm beyond proud of every one of you. A few years ago, I was working as a sous chef at a really nice little restaurant until September of 2020 when it closed (for non-covid reasons, the restaurant was actually doing pretty great). I made $15 an hour, and was perfectly fine with it because it was the restaurant I wanted to be at- I learned a ton while there and it was an extremely valuable experience overall. After the restaurant closed, I used my full time of unemployment to stop and reflect- I took certification courses in medical billing and coding (that was paid for by a government program that sought to get more people employed in the medical field), looking to increase my income and work from…

I went to college part time and dropped out. I used to put that I went to school 2011-2014 with credits up to sophomore level but on my last interview I had dropped the last part. The interviewer just assumed I had a degree because I went for 4 years and I didn’t argue. I ended up getting the job.