Month: April 2022

So I (24m) started my first server job about 2 weeks ago. I gave them my availability, and they took that as me wanting to work every single one of the days I said I was available. I did a single, and 2 doubles in 3 days to finish my training. So I’ve had about 5 or 6 shifts as an unsupervised waiter since then. Tuesday, I had an incident and I cut my lip open pretty badly. I didn’t realized how bad it was until Wednesday morning. I go into work and around 2 o’clock a guest was like “Hey man… you have like, blood running down your face…” I excuse myself, run to the bathroom and see that there is blood obviously running from my lip to my neck. I look at the cut and it’s a lot worse than I thought. I held a piece of paper…

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I was working at a law firm for the past 2 months, today I get to the office and they tell me I am being let go, along four others. I ask if I've done anything wrong, If the two lawyers I work directly under complained about me, anything. They tell me no, I've done everything just right, completed all work as needed, but they needed someone with more experience. Experience?? It's an entry level job, I am not even out of college yet they pay me the national minimum. And it's not like it's my first job, I've had two other internships before, but in smaller firms. Sure, I had to learn to use the system, and of course I made mistakes in the beginning, but isn't that to be expected from anyone starting out a new job? Of someone still a student? Two months in, and I was…

Just this week I tested positive for COVID and it hit me pretty hard. I only work weekends because of school so Saturday through Monday is my normal schedule. I called my manager to tell him what’s up the other day and how I won’t be able to work this weekend, not just because I’m sick but also doctor’s orders, I have to quarantine for a specific amount of time. He then tries to guilt trip me into coming in because he has no one to cover me and to just lie because “the doctor will never know you came.” I then say that it’s not just mild symptoms that I can deal with it’s pretty bad and I most likely won’t be able to work. He responds by telling me to call everyone to see if they’ll take my shifts and if I can’t then I’m shit out of…

I submitted resignation for my role as a student assistant more than 2 weeks ago. HR is now claiming that student assistants are classified differently than regular employees, contrary to everything I can find on the University's HR site and CA Labor code. This will result in an approximate delay of two weeks in receiving my final paycheck. How much of a chance to I have in filing a labor dispute with the State against another State entity?

Think about it. We have enough clothing on the planet right now that we could probably conceivably clothe the planet for a half a century. Don't need anything associated with clothing production or sales for at least a half a century. Does any more home decor really need to be created in the conceivable future? Certainly much, much, much less. We need toilet paper, doctors, people to work at water plants, electric plants, we need paper (although much less than what is actually produced). We need teachers. With as much crap as we have already in existence, what jobs actually need to be done? Most people are just working to have jobs so they can survive. A lot of this just doesn't need to be done. When will we actually be able to benefit from the work and innovation that has already put in?