Month: August 2022

I was a Chef at a bar/restaurant that was established from the ground up. I had gone to my first interview, and at the second one I had to prepare food for the owner and their friend. So, I do that and during the interview we discuss the salary. They asked which I preferred and obviously I said hourly. We agreed upon 25$ an hour. After that I sent them a text message asking how many hours they were expecting of me. I told her 50 hours is easily doable (again I was under the assumption it was hourly). They agreed to those hours and that salary. The day I started the GM told me the owner was going to discuss my salary with me. In passing the owner says “Im going to put you on as salary and I'll take your hourly and base it on 40 hours” My…

So my husband has a lot of experience with the food industry. A good portion was at a major pizza chain. They’re hiring for managers he’s put in an application and had an interview on Friday. This guy that interviewed him was apparently a newer general manager. He told him starting pay was $14 an hour. Not great. What he’s making now elsewhere as a regular employee no management expectations. Then after my husband starts asking more questions this guy revealed the truth. He has decided shift managers get bumped down to normal pay if a higher level manager is on staff (which is usually half the shift) and he also wants 4 hours of the shift to be delivery driving for that lower pay as well. When asked about well how would you clock in for that this guy says you just clock in normal and HE goes in…

I am in Australia. I called in sick to work today as I've had a sore throat, cough, runny nose and a pounding headache all weekend. I've been to the doctor who has given me a medical certificate for the rest of the week off as well as antibiotics as they suspect it's bronchitis (I have been testing negative for COVID.) I let my employer know, and they asked if they wanted someone to drop my computer off at my house so I could work from home this week if I felt up to it. I work in a department with currently only myself and one other employee, as well as another employee who works half her days in our department and the other half in another department. I know we're short staffed, I feel incredibly guilty but I really don't want to be pressured into working from home even…

So yeah my other half and I work at a big UK pizza company.. £9.50 an hour, long hours but overall pretty laid back jobs we have. The area manager is scrambling for staff for another local store which has just had lots of notices so he approached my other half 3 times to see if she wants to be the manager at the other local store. She kindly said no as she didn’t want more responsibility (our current manager ages by the day). Yesterday he came in and pulled her aside and gave out some massive corporate pitch promising her this and that saying an amazing opportunity to take on the responsibility as manager etc, she gave in and said she’ll think about it. He jumped the gun thinking that she was in and changed her rota immediately to the new store. Today she found out her pay increase…

I'm at a loss. I was on a contract gig that I was told I would be continuing on with, and then the very last shift of the week when I still have two weeks left, I get an email saying I'm fired. I hadn't even been through three hours of my shift yet. I'm really depressed. I actually liked my job – did well at it – and I still ended up getting treated this way. Don't give anything more to your company than you're otherwise compensated for. They WILL not care.

I work for a hotel management company that owns four different franchises from three different brands (Choice, Hilton, and Marriott). I work at the Choice location. Our building is very old and is quite literally falling apart. The third floor is bowing inward and definitely needs to be redone because several guests have complained because when you’re in those rooms, you can actually feel the slope of the floor. Our kitchen is tiny—basically just a closet with a 3 compartment sink and a convection oven. Our furniture is out of date. The locks on the doors don’t always work (in that they won’t UNLOCK when you use the key card). Despite all this, we have better reviews, better scores on our reports, AND make more money than the other properties combined. As a company, we are on target for our best year ever, and our property so far is responsible…

So I've been working at this retail location for about 3 months (can't say what company they prohibit social media posts naming them) I applied for full time and when I got the job I was hired for part time. I've barely scraped by with the 25~ hours I was getting, then two of my coworkers and the assistant manager quit within a month and I got loaded up with 35 hours for about the past month. The hours have been nice, I've shown up for every shift on time (called in sick once in my first month, and another day my assistant manager sent me home after which i was blamed for leaving) done my work to the best of my ability and not left my duties unfinished. My manager hired two new people, one of which has been working for a week and is getting fired for calling…

I started a new dishwashing job at Chili’s and I honestly don’t think I can come in today after the ruckus yesterday. I’ve been a dishwasher at other places but it has never been this bad. They didn’t have a dishwasher all day so when I came in yesterday (my first official day with only one day of training) there were so many dishes that they had to bring carts to sit the dishes on. One server saw this and still asked me to empty out dishes for her even though that part is her job. I came in at 6:00 pm and left at 1:30 am and washed dishes, pots, and pans non stop with no break. I asked the manager for a break and he said you can do that when you’ve made a dent in the dishes. It was so bad my hands have horrible carpel tunnel.…