Month: May 2022

I’ll try to keep this short and sweet with giving as many non identifiable details as I can. I shut my direct marketing business down earlier in may and decided to do some small business social media/ sales consulting on the side, nothing too serious. While searching, i ran across the number of an old customer I had sold product to before. He asked me to come see him, and when i got there he laid it on the table- he had a cool gig running a cannabis delivery service, and that he needs some serious help, someone more tech oriented to help him with his day to day. He mentions it’s full time, asks what I want to be paid, and I jokingly say my skills could pay me $50 per hour, but i’m cool being an employee for 20. “Everyone wants 20, let’s do 18 for now and…

I'm paid a salary and it's the first time I've ever had a salary job. Always been paid by the hour. Is it legal for my employer to not pay for days that I miss due to sickness or mandatory quarantine for covid? I always thought that was the best part about salary, you never had to worry about your check being less. I would much prefer to be hourly and get the chance at overtime but my new employer doesn't want to pay hourly for whatever reason.

I work as a Certified Nursing Assistant in a nursing home doing 12 hour shifts. The job is quite strenuous and never ending. Today was a mess for a plethora of reasons like them taking our chairs away because it looks bad if families see us sitting down in the hall. However, the worst of it was working in a closed off 84°F hall wearing an N95 mask while several patients had the heater's on in their rooms. Most of the day I was able to get through by taking my mask off for a couple seconds in between tasks. Going into the last three hours of my shift I felt so hot and there was nowhere cool to go. I also was shaky, no matter how much water I drank I was always thirsty and sometimes I felt like I wasn't getting any oxygen under that mask. I ended…

I'm at a loss so here I am. I am a department administrator at a small company that employs between 50 and 100 people. Not sure of the exact number. I live in a major city in the Portland metro area. It is my job to manage the scheduling of residential jobs that net around $2000-$3000 of revenue a pop, sometimes more, usually not less, jobs take one day. Since it is a niche service, I also often explain what it is that is actually happening to the sometimes ignorant client. In order to do this, I learned a great deal over the past year I have been working, while coming in the door knowing nothing. I also follow up on and track the bids for those jobs, and reports that are sent for appointments that do not lead to jobs, and ensure that everything is being stored and documented…

My team has been informed that we will be moving to the hybrid work model, going into the office a few times a week. We are being gaslit about the reasoning and labeled “difficult” for questioning this decision. So… can anyone recommend some passive aggressive or sarcastic (but not inappropriate) office/work decor? We will rarely be visited by anyone in management so I am looking for something subtle that won’t be blatantly obvious when someone DOES come by.

This really does not seem fair at all! Yesterday I woke up and my breasts were really sore and tender so I decided to wear an undershirt instead of a bra since that felt a lot better. After about an hour at work my boss came up to me and told me that I was making customers uncomfortable and that I should know better than not to wear a bra to work. He then wrote me up for it and told me not to let it happen again. I was so pissed by this. When is it anybody's business if/when I decide to wear a bra? How is this effecting my work or anything else for that matter? Would a customer really care about that? Would love to get your thoughts and advice. Seems a bit sexist to me! dina

Hi. I've never been a social person, but since COVID I've really let my social skills go. I met some friends for dinner this evening, and I just couldn't help but ask my friend who is a manager at Starbucks about her position on unionization. It was absolutely tragic to hear every single bullet point from the union-busting handbook come out of her mouth. She made an impassioned case for how hard she works and how terrible her conditions are, yet remains absolutely convinced that a union would make everything worse. She even claimed that unions are known to murder managers who don't cooperate. Our discussion grew heated, and her husband basically told me that I was attacking his wife by advocating for a union. I feel horrible that I made her upset, and I understand that its not my job, so not really any of my business. I was…