Month: May 2022

I've been at home a couple years and I've been working during that times so i've had the fortune of avoiding bills and such so as a result I've managed to make up a significant amount in savings. My logic behind this was that if I'm moving out I'd 1. Want to live in my own property rather than on rent. And 2. Have enough in financial savings to where I can feels financially secure. I know so many people who left home at 18 or younger, jumped straight into rent and a basic minimum wage job and to this day they still live paycheck to paycheck and that to me is no way to live. I imagine what I'm doing now has become increasingly popular among younger people as they see the current state of the world as very unstable and difficult to live in. I'm lucky that houses…

So I've seen talk in this sub about companies adding on duties to roles after being onboarded, and generally I've seen the consensus be that that is bullshit and shouldn't happen. I guess I'm looking for advice on when you believe an additional responsibility is okay, or when that addition is just the worker being taken advantage of. To be honest, I can't really tell when I'm being taken advantage of. I'm neurodivergent and struggle with reading between the lines. I like to be a team player, but generally when I start a job I ask for a very detailed outline of what my role entails. I like structure, so when I get an add on it can frustrate me. My fear is that this anger is sometimes irrational, because I also don't want to be an asshole. But for example, I was very clear with my current job about…

I was wondering what could be done to advocate for the working class? I would like to collaborate with others to brainstorm some ideas to make this sub more productive. DM me if interested.

So, I used to work for a cable company (the one with the infamously bad phone reps.) But I quit recently and I figured this would be a good a subreddit as any to post the story. But here's what drove me to that point. When I started it was literally just me and my manager in store. That's it. That was August and thankfully now they have more people there, in fact I helped to train some of them. What bothered me most was that corporate never did anything to offset that. Having a Kiosk for bill pays would've done wonders. When we finally did get a couple more people there, there were constant changes to in store procedures (including the hours of the place) with no warning. No courtesy email, no text message, nothing. Just sudden change. My manager, for the sake of privacy we'll call him C.…

Obviously we know price gouging is illegal. If one business increases the price of a gallon of water to $10 we simply wouldn't buy it – but if all businesses increase the price to $10, we have no other option. Even if 9 out of 10 businesses increase the price to $10 the 1 remaining business will run out of stock quickly. Replace that $10 gallon of water with “a job with a livable wage” …