Month: June 2022

Hi all, One of my buddies I used to work at Amazon with went thru some rough shit. He got fired for missing 2 shifts because he hurt his leg. He’s got flat foot but walking miles everyday pushing a cart made it worse. So he lost his job for asking for time off. So he has no money, Can’t get a job because he can’t walk, and can’t afford to fix his leg because he has no money.

My boss at the bar I work for wants the bartenders and servers to start tipping 3% of sales to expos/food runners … all of whom make minimum wage or more. We make $5.00/ hour and $2.83 respectively. Is it legal to force a sub minimum wage employee to tip a minimum wage plus one?

Started a new job today and honestly I haven't had a w2 in four years so I was anxious af. I was told that I would be placing orders for eyeglass lenses. Day 1 I'm listening to my coworker taking calls and she's legit talking like an optician. Doctors are asking for suggestions and asking about certain colors and polarizations. The whole time everyone around me is telling me not to get overwhelmed but I am in fact overwhelmed. I quit working at a bank years ago because of stress and I'm in a hole and desperately need money so I accepted this job but I'm so depressed. I've been having intrusive thoughts all day cause I can't accept that this is all there is to life. I don't want to do this but I need to see a doctor, I need health insurance, my pets need to see a…

So my hospital was bought out just before Covid, though the administration called it “partnering”. But we are all tired, perpetually understaffed, and in the wake of Covid it's all just gotten worse. Apparently people are scared of getting sick when you work around sick people, you which I get but just makes it worse when we have to do the same quality work but with that many less people. So on top of picking up mandatory, “preemptive staffing allocation” shifts (i.e. mandatory overtime) we apparently also need to join panels to discuss things like patient safety and satisfaction. Because of course after spending 4+ shifts at 12 hours a shift I want to come back and “participate” in meetings that nobody really will do anything about what is said. Such as pre programming our staff phones to auto dial the switchboard for a code so it's that much faster…