Month: May 2022

So I’m so sick of all these posts i see everywhere now, on FB and other subreddits about wfh, like “time to stop milking the cow and get out of your jam jams and go back to work.” People that are going to slack off, will slack off in the office. My one coworker used to sleep at her desk, watch baseball, and Amazon shop all day (though she eventually ended up being let go after 2 years). The remote people that were hired that didn’t do anything, we figured it out quickly and they were let go before a month had passed. If your job has deadlines and work you can’t goof off. For example, during the peak of the pandemic, we were so overwhelmed with work that we were all regularly working 60+ hours a day. There was one month i worked like 21 days straight at like…

I (21F) am a full-time student with a part time job serving on weekends at a small bar. I pay for most of my own expenses and even save towards some tuition in the summertime. For reference, in my state the legal minimum wage for tipped employees is $5.58. My boss pays me and the other servers/bartenders $5.50 per hour. Tonight after being told how hard I worked and how much money I made him (which I see on my server report every night), I was told I should tip out the bar back because he was bussing our tables, as is part of their job. I also bus my own tables when I’m not serving. For reference, when I worked that position I was paid $11 an hour. Last I heard the guy the hired after me made $12 an hour. I fully agree that he should be paid…

My partner is looking to leave his job and move into a new position (hospitality) they are putting pressure on him to start working ASAP and will draft a contract when he starts, that doesn’t sit well with me I work in education and it is standard practise to sign a contract and have a start date first! Also they want him to start before the area manager goes on holiday wtf is that about! It’s a good job and good pay but maybe I’m just paranoid! Im in the Uk fyi

My partner interviewed at a small/medium-ish company that runs a website he loves. Hit it off great with HR, interviewed to meet a team member which went great. Interviewed with ceo that called him “ideal candidate”. Turned down other interview offers to do two technical interviews. Five total interviews and they didn’t even have the decency to let him know they were know longer considering him. He stopped reaching out and has given up hope on the job. I know it’s not the most damning behavior on here but just insane how candidates have to go out of their way to treat everyone they meet with the utmost respect, while they get treated like garbage and with no consequences.

Today my mom came into work and her boss asked her to come to the back room because she had a “present” for her. Once door was closed she told my mom she was fired. My mom asked why, and her boss said she had a dream that a woman named **** (the name of my mother's dead mother) told her that she should “let her go”. My mom called out her bs and explained to her boss how offensive and rude she was being. She asked what the real reason was for being fired, and her boss told her she couldn't say, but that there were several reasons. That was the end of conversation. My mother has put in 4 hard years of work into this business and had legitimately no reason to be fired. She is also a struggling single mom with four kids at home.

These billionaires/kleptocrats benefit from a legal and political system that doesn't recognize social murder or corruption as crimes, allowing them to get away with crimes against humanity on a daily basis. No, they aren't “earning” their billions in wealth, they're just in a position to punch down, enslave, gaslight, and socially murder the public without recourse, and they've lobbied to make it illegal to fight back. Like slave owners and dictators, every billionaire/kleptocrat represents crimes against humanity that people are gaslighted, beaten down, propagandized, and abused into not be able to even articulate let alone fight back against. Oligarchy/kleptocracy is an abomination of a system and collective way of life that no one should tolerate. Billionaires/kleptocrats should not exist.

Throwaway account. A little back story I (24M) worked as the lead project manager and estimator for a new development construction company. I start the job at 20 years old doing filing work for minimum wage but worked my way up and started doing all take offs, estimates and project management/coordination at the company. About two years in I got a raise to $25 an hour or about 50k a year which at the time I thought was good money. I am located in a big city and average pay for someone in my position at similar companies is about 70k-120k. I didn't realize this until a few months after my raise so I decided to wait a little to ask for more. When I did ask for more about 8 months after my raise I was told that “now is not the time to be giving raises” since the…