Looking for some basic help, my boss is holding a free clinic day for our community and is expecting all of us to donate our time regardless of the fact that it is during a day I’d normally get paid. I live in Ontario and am having a hard time finding whether or not this is something they can do, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction on who to talk to?
I work as a security guard and I work 2 posts at my shift. One I'm just sitting at a desk letting people in if they forgot their badge or other guards who need to go to the bathroom. My second one I am at a parking garage counting empty parking lots each hour until I go home. I already trained another guy yesterday to do the work. The owner of the garage is not at work today so I'm probably going to sneak out at 3:30 instead of at 4pm. I'm currently moving to another security post which I hope is a laid back sit down type of post. So it look like it is hopefully going to be pretty easy. I'm just going to keep doing my new post until I can find a new job to do instead of this.
If you choose to work for someone who won't even give you the minimum, you are in an abusive relationship and you should walk away. If you have to work, there are plenty of jobs in the sea. You deserve at least the minimum. Don't be the shill for the exploiter. These “employers” need you. Make them pay. Sub-minimum wage jobs exist only because people are willing to work them.
If we did away with tips, which is a good idea imo, you’d still be paying their wage. Example; my friend did away with tipping at her small restaurant and upped the prices. One item is $10 more. Perhaps price increases wouldn’t be so significant everywhere, but people seem to think restaurants will take on the burden of less profits to raise wages. They won’t, and in many cases, they probably can’t. 90% of places will pass on the cost to you. This isn’t directed at people who just find the tipping stuff nerve wracking; I get it, I’m socially anxious too. Edit: given that I’m a bartender, I tip very well. This is directed at some people in this sub that don’t want to tip at all (which I see a lot of, for some reason)
Hi, I have been an assistant to upper managers for the last eight years of my life. The last three, has been working for an assistant manager who at this point, I've lost a lot of respect for. The level of micromanaging, controlling, autocratic fuckery that happens every day is driving me absolutely insane. Today, I spoke to the staff who I supervise about envelope types and what we would do with them and I was called into the office about how I shouldn't be teaching staff about the envelopes and how that is his job and I have over stepped a boundry. The envelopes. Envelopes. Those pieces of papers that are folded and glued and do nothing but hold other pieces of papers. I couldn't talk to staff about envelopes. I also can't talk to them about the keys, the computer mouse pad, schedule (this one is a bigger…
So, I’m at work, I’m second operator on a production line and we’re training a third… so they go to lunch together… training operator is gone for an hour… comes back and instead of letting me go on lunch, decides that product needs to be loaded, so I let him load… takes 45 minutes. My first operator still isn’t back yet, I text him and he says he’s stuck in traffic, but on his way back to work… it’s been an hour and a half at this point since he left. The guys working production at the end of my machine need a break, so I let them go on break and run the machine and watch the production press by myself until they get back. I’m freaking pissed, they’ve both been off the line for at least an hour and a half at this point and I STILL haven’t…
Every employer asks irrelevant questions and is not the least bit transparent about the challenges of the role – they sugarcoat the existing problems and use bait and switch techniques to get you in there only to find out its a dumpster fire.
How do you answer this interview question when the real answer is: because my manager is threatened by me and he’s hellbent on breaking my spirit.
My bf got a job interview so I looked up the company and the position on Glassdoor and was happy to see that it's a high paying position. I sent him the link to the page and he was confused because when he opened the link the same position on the same company for the same location had a much lower salary range listed. He opened it on his computer too and got the same results. He's logged into my account so it's not even that it's a different account. We are in the same state but about an hour drive apart. So the only difference is the browser probably reading the location. Still pretty shocking since the difference in avg. salary that he sees vs. what I see is 50k. That's a huge difference and I'm confused why Glassdoor would do that.