Month: July 2022
So many red flags
I’ve worked my ass off to help navigate my company through Covid including working 15 hour days, dealing with a host of employee issues, and still earn the bottom 10% of my work median pay grade (more than 10k below the average for my position). I definitely know I’m worth more but the stress of quitting and finding something new (uncertain) is the only thing keeping me – there are similar positions that pay even less but also a good few that pay more. Uhhhhh
I quit my casual job in Australia over email without notice, as i made a late decision to go back to university full time. The manager would now like discuss this regarding my notice over the phone. I have told her that we can discuss over email. Am i the one in the wrong here?
Working with toxic people has got the best of me. I work with grown men in a maintenance position and they gossip like the high school girls I worked with at a fast food chain. The only problem being that someone put in a good word for me and told them I’d stick around long enough to make it worth their time hiring me. What do I do? I’m tired of the arrogance and annoyances. I’m very soft spoken and just say “okay” and smile and nod to people. I don’t really like confrontation.
How I view antiwork
Hard work in society at large is seen as a moral virtue. Rarely are qualifiers added to this when they are it is about the job you hold. For an example: It is bad to work hard if your job is torturing people. What is left out is the dynamic between the workers and the boss. If you live in a society like the one we currently live in where the worker isn't adequately compensated. You the worker can work hard or not. By working hard you do not achieve your desired outcome: more pay. People might think working hard is the right thing to do because it benefits society. But this is not true by working hard while getting little pay you have helped to devalue labor ensuring low pay continues for future generations thus harming society. To combat this you take an adversarial position to your employer starting…
Ok maybe I am a whiny millennial but the industry standard wage for the work I do does not incentivize me to want to work full time. I had a full time job many years ago and it felt like all I did was work, commute and sleep. I worked six days a week; however, at the time I was alright with it because the pay was double than what I make now. Anyway, I haven’t been able to find a decent enough paying job, so now I work only “semi full time.” I make a very low salary but it is an industry standard full time salary. I was willing to work like barely over the minimum wage jobs part time, but I don’t want to work full time for a slightly higher wage. Is this ridiculous reasoning?
I work at a grocery/department store and it’s honestly not worth $12/hr. Sure I get ppto and pto occasionally, but my schedule as a closer (and the only closer at that) from 3pm to 12pm is pure agony. I have an interview for a new job on Tuesday, I go back to school in a few weeks, and I’m going to follow up with a job tomorrow, that makes 16+/hr. I am constantly berated by customers can’t comprehend why one worker can’t accommodate multiple people feet away, and threaten to attack me or report me to management (who hide until the store closes then come out like roaches) and I’ve seen so many people come and go, you would think I’m a revolving door. We literally hired 4 people on Monday and none have shown up past two days. They even gave a newbie a better schedule and she still…