Month: April 2022

Today in a work meeting it was stated we were only supposed to work 4 hours one day instead the usual 6 hours. This was only told to us today. Even though the day in question was a over a week ago. Apparently those who did work the 6 hours had to get approval. This was NEVER mentioned to me and I worked the 6 usual hours instead of the supposed to be 4. In the work meeting with all my co-workers there too it was stated to me that I could possibly not get paid for my 2 hours because it was not “approved”. I got heated and went off. We use work logs and I can easily prove I worked it. Once I defended myself, with all my co-workers watching on zoom too; the guy mentioned that I will get paid for it thankfully. And that it’s on…

Just got a call from my manager saying the company wants to end my contract. I’m in the hospital for two months at least for health reasons. It is illegal in my country to fire someone during their sick leave. They won’t make me sign anything until my sick leave is over I’m sure. The reason is “lack of experience” and “negative feedback from clients”, I have yet to receive proof of the latter. I have only received exceptionally positive feedback in the past. I just don’t understand. I’m guessing it’s cheaper to replace me. I feel used. I don’t know if I can and want to fight this.

I work at a family owned restaurant as a second job on the weekends. I usually work 11AM-11PM on Saturday and the same hours every other Sunday. We are severely understaffed and everyone is working themselves to the bone. I am the only bartender in the restaurant for the entire weekend, but this works to my favor money wise. I can usually make the equivalent of my entire full-time paycheck in a single shift. We have a liquor license that will allow us to serve until 12:45AM but our hours have always been 11PM close because it's a family restaurant and we don't attract a lot of young people. Every single other member of staff aside from one of the owners leaves at least an hour before me at night, including the manager. Anyway, she comes up to me the other day and says “Hey good news we can stay…

I’m a server right now and I enjoy where I’m at. Managers are cool and understanding. I make decent money too as a college student. But I would like to be a manager. When I’m older and get more experience it’s something I might do. I’d want to be the best manager possible and truly want people to enjoy working for me. I’d give them plenty of PTO. I’d make sure they had good pay, free meals etc. I’d also just be fun to work with. I believe if they spend a good portion of their time to work with me why not make it fun and enjoyable. Because if they like working there they might tell their friends and I get more employees and makes everyone else’s lives easier. If I have more employees then the other employees don’t have to work as many hours. If it were up…

For context, I used to be a person that “didn’t give up” on jobs or people or anything. I grew up a Friends denomination church as a child (an insane offshoot of Quakers), leaving really only in my teens. Through this church and my family, I was trafficked most of my life. I didn’t know any better, I just thought that was how life was. I worked for family in factory conditions, at “gift shops,” I was a surrogate in some bizarre pregnancy ring when I got old enough, I danced at clubs when I was very much underaged, worked at A Seventh Day Adventist summer camp in Florida one year, and probably more that I can’t recall. I am slowly uncovering memories that I’ve repressed and it’s giving me a new perspective on life. I don’t know how much education I got as a child, but somehow I managed…

So I was on vacation the week of 4/4 through 4/8 (plus the weekends before and after) I came back to work this morning 4/11 at 7 am to find concerns left from 4/7 around 2:50pm through the weekend. Now this is not the first time I’ve been left with the other shifts work. I usually answer the weekend concerns Monday morning because we don’t have a weekend operator, but this… the midday shift has all of 5 jobs. Answer the phone which she lets ring on end, answer concerns which clearly she does not do, arrange air meets for drivers that she constantly ask for help with, send out messages once a day to drivers with what are called placard pick ups, and make sure everything stays assigned on route. Most of this messages and assigning task have been outsourced and we just make sure it gets completed. So…

My senior manager was covering down for another manager who had to take care of something else. I decided to support him before going on lunch because I knew that if I did not, it would have failed. The employees that we have are new and they miss a lot of days so they did not really understand how to do the tasks at hand. Which is fine, I’m just glad they are here helping. They made a few mistakes and my boss told me something to the effect of “this happened on your watch and you could be accountable for this”. I thought to myself, I should’ve just taken my lunch and let the customer not get their stuff on time lol. I’m not mad, because I’m trying to quit ASAP. This is the highest paying job I’ve ever had but they toxicity is not worth it. I can…