Month: April 2022

By saying NO OFFENSE BUT IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO DO A DEMO (generic girl name here), THIS IS IT. You got the silver and he got the gold. Like who tf says that to someone.

I started a job a month ago with a company I've worked for before. I left their on great standing after 3 years as a sales associate, only left due to college. I came back, slipped right back into position with a quick update on a few things. Despite all this knowledge…I make 11.25 an hour in a bisy city. I.was heartbroken when they told me my hourly rate, but had no other jobs calling at the time. Now, I'm only getting 14 hours a week. What do I do? :/ Management isn't fond of me because I can't cashier (stated in my application before I was hired but she did try to have me work the register. Didn't go well). Help!

I walked out of my job Sunday after being blatantly disrespected. I called in sick Monday.. had the day off Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I no call no showed. I just text my boss that I quit today. Am I still in the clear for a “quit”? I didn’t get any calls or texts saying I was fired or terminated. I live in Pennsylvania.

Ok so I'm trying to send an email or something to staff from what will be an anonymous email address about our wages and a myriad of other problems at our work. I would like to find out how to get everyone's email that isn't management and fire off a something to maybe start a more unionized response to the issues at my work. I would rather not out myself in any way or form as of right now. I know that a lot of the people I work with in our company are left leaning. Help me stir this pot. Edit: I'm trying to get like 40-60 peoples email addresses I can't really talk to each person without someone screwing things up.

Company thinks the following is the right thing to do. We have a huge manpower requirement within short amout of time. So they want to hire people with the same or higher pay as the people who've been in the company for almost 5 years. But they won't do pay correction for existing employees. Also the existing employees didn't get a single penny as bonus for past one year. The catch is, all these new guys will do very basic entry level work and will spend almost 6 months getting used to the work. Whereas the existing employees have to work extra hard to fullfill the new requirement. When questioned about any pay increase or bonus for existing employees, they said this is how other businesses runs as well and no bonus or pay increase for existing employees.

I’ll share the story of when I briefly worked at Columbia, SC’s Which Wich. I only chose to work there as it was on the way to classes, and I liked the food. So, I applied on their site for an assistant manager position, and they interviewed me twice. At no time did they ever mention, until I was working there my first week, that they “only hire management internally” and that I was actually a minimum wage employee. I told then what I’d applied for and got a shrug in response. Next work shift they terminated me with no explanation. If I was slightly wiser, and reported that crap, who knows, the settlement may have made my total of three work shifts into a solid wage…

There was a time when being salaried was a step up in the work force. Those days are long gone. Employers now prefer salary over hourly. Ask your boss to convert you to hourly and count the seconds till they say “No way “.

I follow this group because I co-manage a food service company and previously spent 15 years being an underpaid, overworked cook; I want to change the standard in our industry. We service the Chicago market but are based in more affordable suburbs. so the cost of living can be particularly high, depending on which direction you live in from our main facility. We're currently paying $18/hr for no prior experience dishwashers and prep cooks with decent health/dental (company pays half for employee/zero for dependents), 3% IRA match, daily lunch provided, no PTO yet (we were close before covid but it was put on hold). We're very flexible, no pot throwing or angry management, not understaffed and give $50-$200 bonuses when employees go well above and beyond. It's not perfect but we genuinely try to be fair. There's a reason ive stayed and grown with this company, we put exceptional product…