What more do we have to lose? It kinda feels like that analogy “to boil a frog, you do not place a live frog in boiling water as it will jump out, you place a live frog in slowly heating water and it will boil to death” We are told “we live in the greatest country in the world!” But all I see is 90% of people locked into wage slavery, and 9% aspiring to be the remaining 1% Generations before us fought and many died for a living wage, and at some point I think (hope) they may have gotten it, today on average we make just enough to survive at best. Slowly, in little steps we have seen housing cost rise exponentially, wages lie stagnant, and the rich get richer. Why is it that the bank will approve crippling student loans, but decline home loans when you pay…
Month: August 2022
I work full time and I’m a full time college student. My job has great benefits but it’s also a non profit so the pays not the highest. It’s also working with school age children, and jobs that work with children just don’t pay that great. I love my job and I get PTO, sick pay, insurance paid 30/70 and life insurance I don’t pay towards. They completely cover it if I die. They also pay part of my college tuition. These benefits are why I haven’t left yet even though I only make $15 an hour. Well I’m having a baby and my SO and I have to both go back to work after our maternity leaves end. But child care cost are just so outrageous that everything I’ll be making will go straight to having someone watch the baby just so we can both work. It’s ridiculous. $200…
I’ve never used reddit before, but my buddy told me I could sue him for around 12k for public humiliation or shame or something. I was just coming here because it seems like you guys know a lot.
I'm am absolutely fuming, it's not happened to me but to my wife who has been calling me in tears because of this POS. She works as a chef, gets paid minimum wage (UK) and worked there for 2 years after getting made redundant through covid. They have been treating her poorly from the start and getting worse over time. She's the only female in the kitchen which I'm guessing is the reason. She had enough so started job hunting and got a firm offer today so handed in her notice. Nothing in her contract mentions a notice period so she put in the legal notice of 1 week. She then gets called aside by the owner who then lays into her, insulting her, calling her a “disgusting employee” among other nastiness. He then has the gall to insist she works for a month and that she's owes it to…
Hi all, So as the subject line says. My boss isn't happy that I'm not working excessively to complete tasks i.e. not coming into work early or finishing late or even taking work home with me. I come in I do as much as I can during my hours then I leave when my contractual hours have ended. After a 1-2-1 meeting yesterday, he mentioned that he had an observation that I have a tendency to procrastinate, I responded by detailing my workload and how I manage that. Which he then gave some pointers on how he helps manages his work load. Without the document giving any context to what the procrastination covers, I am uncertain how I should approach this with my boss. How would you deal with this?
This is so long, I’m sorry… I took a week long, long-overdue (nearly two years overdue) vacation from July 29 at 5:00 pm until August 8 at 8:00 am. The week before I went on this vacation (which was approved and everyone knew about for months) my Boss’ Boss emailed me and asked for help in planning a surprise party to celebrate National Professional Engineers day (August 3). I told her I was be glad to order the gifts and make sure a space was reserved but other than that I would be out of town. She seemingly ignored this because as the week progressed she continued to email me about the party. I ordered gifts. I reserved the room. I reminded her again that I would not be in town for any of the other tasks for planning the party. She responded with an okay, but continued to ask…
