Month: May 2022

My “new” job (started 1 month ago) has just notified me that instead of an hourly wage they will be paying a “per customer” wage. Initially, I was told I would be paid by the hour but now they say I will be paid per appointment. Some appointments get cancelled or rescheduled and I will be paid half the rate for those. I am required to be available for the entire time I have scheduled with them so I can not have other jobs to do during that time. I just found this out today and I am devastated as it will make a big difference in pay and therefore my ability to keep my (modest) home. What to do?

TLDR: New boss won't give my mom 6 weeks off and claims its against company policy, even though previous managers allowed it. She won't quit, is there anything she can do short of not taking the vacation? My mom has been working at Tj Maxx for over 5 years now. Last month marked the start of all new management. One manager in particular has an obsession with fixing the store and its policies because the old managers were supposedly to 'loose'. Previously she worked a set schedule every week- this new manager schedules her with different start and end times and claims that the old managers were just doing her a favor. Next this fucker tries to force my mom to become a coordinator, mind you, she basically already does all the work of the coordinator, but she does not want to work weekends so she said no. Fun fact,…

There is discourse surrounding Bob's Burgers and whether the protag can be labeled as Working Class or Petite Boujie. One side says that Bob is working class because he sells his labor through cooking and he doesn't own his means of production (he rents his shop and his equipment is loaned). The other side says he's Petite Boujie because even though he works, he also has employees through his family, and he still owns a business. How do we make the distinction between small business owners and workers, or is it even important as a distinction at all?

So my job is about to be changed against our will because of corporate bullshit. I work at a call center doing tech support for phones. I just started working here maybe 3 months ago doing work from home. Nothing too fancy, help old people figure out how email works and all. Today my boss calls me and says “your job will no longer be available after 2 weeks. So we'll be transferring you to another job. It will be a 2 dollar pay cut. If that is ok then we'll get started on the transfer. If not then we will give you a severance and you can drop off the equipment at the office”. You know, the ultimatum, it's pretty common. Unfortunately I can't afford to lose my job and I can't afford to lose more pay either. The reason I'm subscribed to this subreddit, folks.

We're expanding our engineering group by a fair bit. I've been with the company near 6 years, everyone else has less than 2 years tenure. I just came across the posting for the new engineers we're hiring, to do the same job as me, but for about 20% more than I make. How do I handle this situation. I do like my job, and would like to stay, but it's insulting to know new hires will make more than me. Edit: grammar

Out of about twenty underpaid workers (nursing home) nobody has reciprocated any grievances about low pay/poor work conditions and minimal care for the poor elderly people who live there. They just sort of get a far off stare when I try to start a discussion and that’s it. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. What makes people just passively accept poor working conditions and not even discuss it? Is it fear, complacency, obliviousness, or something else? My company has an astounding turnover rate so I know people aren’t happy there. Just surprised everything is so systematic and nobody seems to have anything to say about it.

Throwaway because I might be violating some clause in my NDA, idk. So I work in sales and my whole job is basically scripted. The scripts were written by the training manager from one of the franchises and the other franchise owners hire him out at a consulting rate to train their salespeople. Now every week all of the franchise locations hop on a zoom call with the training manager to go over our numbers and he has the lowest performers practice/rehearse their scripts to see where they’re messing up. I already think this is kinda a waste of time and the owners money, the training manager basically says the same 5 things over and over that don’t help improve sales at all. But today he suggested we all pay him $100/month for “additional training” on the scripts. What should I do? I really don’t want to pay the guy…