If they tell their children about how they fought for better working condition and how union played a major role in that, maybe people wouldn't have been so easily manipulated by the anti union techniques. Mayber we can be the generation that teaches kid about the labor laws and union, histories behind it so that they'll be better prepped when they start working. Bc of course, the schools wouldn't teach that
Month: April 2022
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This is something that people who live in first world countries will never understand. It sucks having the same skills (and sometimes even more) than an American/European professional and only get to be paid $3-4 dlls per hour, with not benefits, not social security, just get nothing in exchange. I'm Mexican, young woman, bilingual, just recently graduated from law school. I've already achieved some work experience on international business and American business law, and guess what, all the jobs I've applied for only offer $500-$600 dlls per month with no benefits, 8-10 hours of work per day, no holidays. These American companies believe that just because I'm Mexican I deserve to be paid less, like they do not even offer benefits and treat you like if I should be grateful for talking to them. It's not fun being exploited by all of these international companies that treat us like a…
Original post here: So a few days after I posted that I got offered a job as an Admin assistant at a big financial firm… for nearly double the salary. Like. I am making as much as the legal assistant that has been there for 15 years. I started this week and I really love it. My manager is amazing. It took about 4 months of looking for jobs with a recruiter but I’m finally gonna be able to pay of my credit cards and maybe stop living paycheck to paycheck. It’s wild. I have a BFA in Creative Writing from a random public university. But that shitty law firm looked amazing on my resume I just wanted to update folks since my last post blew up. Stay strong cause someday it can get better.
I am looking for advice. I started this new job, it’s good pay, benefits, and the manager seems really great. But I got a tentative job offer for a federal job. So it has a lot better pay and benefits. Should I keep my manager in the loop and tell him about it? I’m leaning on taking the federal job but I know it’s just a tentative offer. I only want to tell him because he seems great and I feel like he deserves to know. But, I also don’t want to tell him just in case I don’t get it in the end due to it being a tentative offer.
The Great Resignation is making it hard for United States Federal Government to keep low-level positions filled. Back in the middle of January of this year, the President signed an order making GS1-GS3 all $15 an hour minimum. A GS 1 Step 1, the lowest grade on the GS payscale got a raise of $7,760 a year (Rest of the United States locality pay rate) when the President granted that $15 minimum. He didn't do this to be generous, he did it to help the payroll processing center do its job. Because local minimum wage laws required $15 in many municipalities across the country the federal government was not in compliance. Instead of making the payroll center figure out the pay for thousands of individual employees based on where they live, the President just made a blanket decree. He had to do this because Congress won't do its job and…
I abruptly lost my job months ago due to some absolute bullshit. I want to be cross but I was taken advantage of there and being mistreated due to my boss's stubborness and ego, so I'm glad I'm out. But going from $$$ to nothing has taken such a big toll on me that I wasn't ready for. I can no longer even afford to feed myself anything other than instant noodles. I can't dip into my savings, I can't help out with bills anymore, and I'm tired of being marked a freeloader when I'm doing everything I possibly fucking can. I've applied to every open position possible, on Indeed, LinkedIn, ziprecruiter, even contacting employers directly, even ones where I know Jack shit about what I'll be doing until I get there because they say they're urgently hiring anybody no experience needed. A lot of jobs I can't apply to…