Month: May 2022

We were visiting my wife's cousin and her family, 3 generations live together for the sake of brevity: boomers, Xers and a zoomer. Zoomer we will call Z is in college and had just started a new job part time. She had been working in a bar but found the hours too unsociable and hard to reconsile with her college load. Also they had a tendency to change her shifts of ask her to come in and cover. Z's new job is going well, a store, and Z is working there about a month. Z gets her shifts a week in advance with the roster posted in the back office and it is shared via messenger. Suddenly Z finds she's being told to come in on different days, extra shifts. She refuses. Says the roster in the office says these are my hours I've made plans accordingly. Her family cannot…

I agree with a lot of the philosophies here, many people are indeed overworked and underpaid, exploited and taken advantage of. But what I don't understand is the promotion of “doing the bare minimum”. As much as many of us would like to be able to just relax all day and still get our basic needs met, it seems to be unrealistic to me. If money disappeared tomorrow, we would still have to do some form of work in order to survive. Before money existed, we had to work in nature for our survival, whether we were hunters or gatherers. Would life truly be better if money was out of the equation? I have to work, I don't have a choice – I'm also aware that if I wasn't working and my basic needs were met, someone would still have to be working to create those provisions. Someone has to…

Looking to go remote. I’ve read a lot into it over the last year and it seems like a lot of companies are making it permanent. I’d love to go fully remote and work from home. However, I’m currently and have always been in hospitality management (restaurants, hotels) and don’t have formal IT training or knowledge. Are there any good remote jobs that don’t require you to be an IT expert? Also, if you know of any good companies that would be good for my background please let me know!

Uber eats sent 8 drivers for the same order today and this is a semi often event wasting 7 peoples time and gas

Per month, not per year. Also state how many jobs you currently work please (ie.: 2 or 3 or 4 etc) I'm considering working a second job, I work a full-time job nowadays but I only make 1,3k EUR after taxes which is not a lot (my country's a european shithole so…)

My dad owns a small plumbing company. Divorced when I was very young, and he was an 'every other weekend' dad (3-4 days a month, half-assed, drunk, financially supportive but that's it). Worked & learned the ropes in high school spring& summer. After high school, I wasn't the maturest person and made some mistakes (legal & educational). Big falling-out, our relationship went from Icy to bad. Got into culinary and kissed plumbing goodbye in 2002ish! Until 2015, I'm between culinary jobs and have kids of my own. He asked me to come back to the company, because he wants to keep it in the family, he's in his 60s & he needed young employees ASAP. Since then, I've been a great solider, marched jumped appeased ECT. I've even obtained two professional licenses in the industry! One of them is a plumbing license (very very very very hard). I need my…