Month: April 2022

So I work for Fry's Food and Drug, owned by everyone's favorite company, Kroger. I work in the curbside pickup department, fulfilling and delivering customer orders to the parking spaces. Yesterday I worked a 4-8p closing shift. When I walked in, there were already customers who had been waiting an hour (our goal is 4 minutes), so I immediately went and starting working my ass off to keep up and get things flowing. During they day, and especially after noon, we begin closing procedures, most importantly we fill shopping trollies with totes, and then we fill each tote with 2 bags. 12 trollies, 9 totes each, 2 bags per tote. This and many more tasks are very important to ensure morning crew gets a good start. Do the math, its a lot of time consuming and repetitive work. Well, by the time the night of sheer chaos and disorganization was…

So I come in to work the other day after a ridiculously rough day and my boss and gm are discussing how this one guy is sick so we have to pick up his slack and I’m like why is he even here if he’s sick and they brush me off. So we start our shift and he’s hacking and seeming generally very sickly and I keep getting more and more heated about it. Especially after he told them the night before he was not well and wouldn’t make it in the next day and they still had him come in. Anyway so as I’m working with this sick guy I lose it and March to my bosses office and am like hey guys I can’t work with a sick person all night (I have a child and get sick really easy) I’m gonnna head home. He blows up on…

Almost 6 years ago I started at big tech as a little. After 4 months I was hired on full time and several weeks later I got put in as a lead for the swing shift team. They offered a $1 raise as a new hire and a temporary 10% for being a shift lead. At this point I had 15yrs of semiconductor experience, 10yrs of training experience, 7 as a safety coordinator, and all 15 of those years I was repairing and operating multimillion dollar modules that tested microchips for defects. Decent amount of experience that should’ve gotten me more than I was making. Fast forward two years and I got a training coordination promotion, no raise but a very real pay-cut to the tune of %38 due to losing 10% lead and swing shift compensation differential. Two promos in two years, not bad! Huge pay-cut? Apparently necessary for…

I started a new cook position about 2 weeks ago and its been a disaster. First nobody on the application in the interview told me the entire kitchen staff spoke nothing but spanish which is a problem sine I speak nothing but English. Then the training was done by a guy who didnt talk to me and wouldnt let me touch or do anything because he didnt want me slowing him down. And now theyre trying to schedule me solo shifts that I'm clearly not comfortable with because my training was a joke. I have about 3 months of rent saved and I want to just explain that the position isn't going to work for me but im afraid of jumping the gun.

I've been serving for about 7 years now, and I've noticed some things about the military as an employer that are quite interesting when viewed with the understanding that the majority of servicemembers are somewhere right of center: Pay is transparent: if you know someone's rank, time in service, and if they have dependents, you can correctly assess their salary to within ~$200 a month. You can't be fired without cause, and that cause has to be clearly represented by a paper trail, and the whole process has to be validated by a legal rep The entire service gets a pay raise every year, and individuals get raises every 1-2 years for seniority, and additional raises with promotion. You get unlimited sick days provided a doctor signs off on it, and you don't have to worry about getting that doctor's note because you have 100% free healthcare. There is a…

Context: I’m in the UK and I recently got a new job (temporarily as I’ve just had my contract end as my previous company in the field I want until I can get something more solid) I need this job so quitting isn’t an option. I had an interview two weeks ago the induction this past week and start work on Monday. It’s a big company chain . From the start I made it very clear I cannot work on a Wednesday at all because I’m continuing to volunteer in my previous job role (it’s a charity) I had then been asked to come in on Wednesday morning just gone, by the new job, as I need to complete the fire training in order to work there. I told them it wasn’t possible as I made it clear I couldn’t work Wednesdays. I’ve made an exception to come in Wednesday…

Make it make sense. I feel so depressed seeing them walk out of here at 3PM today. Meanwhile I'm stuck here until 5. Fuck. Just looked at the job listing. Theirs is PT, but $22/hour and hybrid model. Maybe I should apply to that job instead, lol. Too bad they don't need any more… =(