Month: July 2022

Hey everyone, longtime lurker here on the sub and I was wondering what you all may think of this. I work as an AGM for a hotel making 35,000 salary. The stress of the job is wholly not worth it, but it pays the bills and there aren’t many other options as far as work nearby with everyone having open applications but nobody is hiring. My General Manager here at the hotel was recently fired for “many corporate infractions” (basically they stood up for themselves) and now I’m stressed about potentially losing my job next to set an example to the team that everyone is replaceable. I’m so tired of working salaried hours and getting stuck barely being able to eat.

So i had to call off work today because i was ill this morning due to bad anxiety (which is literally from this job) and unfortunately i had a morning shift scheduled. This is probably common but my workplace likes to have us call 2 hours in advance to your shift starting, which i knew of course and apologized profusely when i realized i called an hour and a half before my shift. My boss was so livid about this for some reason, she chewed me out about it and i tried to explain i had just woken up and was quickly very sick…its 8am like what does she want from me lmao but she pulled a “The customers will never care about what your reasons are and the customers are always here” like what??? it just rubbed me so wrong, i quickly ended the call mid chewing outing and…

I live in a very rural area, in a very small town. We get an almost excessive amount of summer tourist traffic(think tens of thousands of people from June through August) thanks to the nearby Boy Scout camp that's relatively well known in niche circles. My manager is a great person, but she's old and should be retired. The next logical manager is also up there in age but is in slightly better physical shape. After those two retire, there next choice for manager is from one of like three shitty cooks who can't be assed to even make sure the kitchen meets health codes and that everything is properly refilled. My manager's boss is actually a decent guy. He's just in charge of like four different buildings because his granddad owns the little strip. Now, one of those things is closed and being turned into a gym, one is…

Like, seriously? “Guys, don't get mugged by big pharma?” Fuck off.

I started a new job 3 weeks ago and my manager was very adamant that we would get either a direct deposit or a physical check Friday (2 days ago). I still have not been paid, and at this point I have reached out to 3 supervisors and have not heard back from a single one. I have bills due tomorrow, I don't know what to do. I've emailed, I've called, left voice-mails, texted. It's been over 48 hours and I don't know what to do because I need that money to pay my bills, I'm going to end up with late fees because of this.

I work at the second largest ISP in the United States. Busting my ass off everyday, I carry around an 85lb ladder, climb up 30ft telephone poles, bake in the hot sun, go into crawl spaces, under decks, and into peoples sweltering attics. All this, and I cannot afford a place to live. What’s even the point? This is a true blue collar job, it’s a trade, and I can’t afford a one bedroom apartment without being rent poor? My family tells me to just stick with it, it’ll get better, but how do I stick with it when I might not even have a place to live in the coming months? I dragged myself out of homelessness for this? Grueling 7:30am-8:30pm days? And. I. Still. Can’t. Afford. A. Place!!!! What the actual fuck is this country.

It does not matter if you're 16 or 70, if you've got to go just go. At worst you should let someone know you're going. We are providing our employers a service by spending literal lives. We are not students or prison inmates and they're not our parents. I have ibs-d which means I have days where I might need to go all the damn time. Some days I'll spend an hour or more sitting on the toilet while my guts are trying to flush out last week. Thankfully I'm damn decent at my job and my boss understands (I got really lucky boss wise). Your health is way more important than their profits. Holding it in to often or to long can and will eventually damage you.

I worked part time at a chain store. 2nd shift in and I’m closing and when we are all done we go to clock out and the manager tells me that they have to wait to get picked up (they can’t drive) and I need to stay with them at the store because there is a policy of a minimum of 2 people in the store at all times. So I said yes because I wasn’t doing anything the rest of the night and hey more time. But they told me to clock out and that’s where I was surprised. I didn’t argue as they said it’s the rules, instead I chose to stay and ask them more questions about how the store’s management runs things etc. So apparently all of the store management is aware of this practice that only this one manager does because they don’t have a…