Month: May 2022

A bit of a background, I've finished my bachelor about 14 months ago and live in the Netherlands. My study's salary would roughly start between 2300 and 2500 euro's per month. Now I've got this problem. The company I'm working at is great in terms of flexibility, WFH, people and opportunities (in contrary of what I mostly read here) but there's 1 important thing lacking, salary… When I started out we agreed on a 2K monthly payment for 40 hours with an extra quarterly bonus of 1000. However that bonus system was horrible and I felt like the company used this as a way to pay less to me. Long story short but at the last minute they came and said: yeah sorry it didn't work out, better luck next time. At the same time I'm doing all the marketing activities alone because there was nothing. I had to set…

Used to work for a company. Company itself wasn't that bad. Honeslty, the job itself was amazing. The only problem is that it's 72 hours a week, 6 12's going non stop. 6 12's is fairly standard for the company and the industry. Most employees in that position worked on the road, would work a month or two then go home for a week or two. My particular position was a permanent job, and ran on average nine months straight, this would vary based on the weather and production. Couldn't run in the cold, so if quota wasn't hit we'd have to shut down anyways when the cold snap hit. And if he hit a certain level of production, we wouldn't be allowed to run anymore. When that lay off hit, we'd all get unemployment and some time off with our families. Every year, the company would try to get…

just wanted to vent, i’m tired of being disrespected. i quit my job after two shifts cooking at a fast paced casual dining chain. in my opinion i’m overqualified for the position, i’ve worked fine dining for many years but i wanted a step back into a more relaxed job. boy was i wrong. making $10 less per hour, the kid training me was a brainwashed 19 year old and my manager was a corporate drone who kept waving laminated paper in my face of corporates methods for doing things. she just about had a meltdown when i refused to do perform tasks her way as apposed to how i’ve been doing them my whole career. the micromanaging and being treated like i was an idiot was too much. the final straw was after scrubbing the entire kitchen top to bottom for two hours ( extremely unusual for one person…

I started my first “real job” in my career in October 2021 and I was finishing my Ph.D. It started out hybrid and I was coming in 1-2 days a week, remote the rest. The CEO of the company (~120 employees) sent out a company-wide email stating that now that Covid is getting better, they're considering officially implementing the hybrid work schedule into the company policy. He sent out a survey and asked us to email him or schedule a meeting to talk with him to discuss our thoughts. My supervisor asked me what I thought about it and I said I would like to continue to come in as needed 1-2 days a week. She said she recommended 4 days a week “because it is good to be seen around the office” and “there is just something about being in the office that you don't get working from home”.…

I'm a mom and so I was working full time (+overtime) overnight shifts so I could stay home with my one year old during the day and a sketchy cash bartending job on weekends. I was constantly exhausted and after tax and union fees my 15$/hour was more like 11 and the overtime was not worth it. The bar was so dangerous id be the only person there with a bunch of scary, drunk, fighting men but I hit my limit when one of them brought a gun and threatened to shoot the place up. I decided this life was not worth it, couldn't enjoy my time with my son and I was putting my life and health at risk. I resigned from both last Saturday. On Sunday I thought I'd apply for some other bartending jobs just to see what happens, I only applied to places within 10 minutes…

I run a small company in India. At first I was inexperienced and thought paying employees lesser was a good strategy because that was considered good business by my peers. Very quickly I realized this was a terrible idea and it's just going to hurt the company in the long run and there was no way I could retain people if they hate me. We hire freelancers mostly and I now always pay them the fee they ask for without negotiating. We value the time they give us and we make sure they're happy working with us. I've hired people from the US, UK, Spain, India and lots of countries. There have been times when the company was running low on funds and I've borrowed from places to make sure our contractors and employees are paid on time even if there's nothing left at the end of the day. Don't…

“And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.” – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels