Month: August 2022

Sitting here in a leadership meeting and can’t help but to roll my eyes at this. They start by talking about making sure everyone who wants to work overtime has the opportunity to do so. Then go on to complain about how their total overtime hours are going up and there’s too much premium pay coming out of the budget. This place is a serious joke. They want all the extra work out of the employees they can get, but God for it they have to actually PAY for it…

When I was in my 20s, I worked at a gas station. My starting pay was a nickel over minimum wage and went up by less than a dollar over four years. Timesheets were hand-written, and I didn't know how closely my boss was monitoring things to see how accurate our self-reported times were. It was a small place, such that only one cashier was on duty at a time. So my shift wouldn't end until the next shift showed up, which could be early or could be late. So I developed this concept in my head called “timesheet karma,” where if I showed up a few minutes early or worked a few minutes late, I would not report the extra time and thus not get paid for it. My logic was that if I built up enough of this karma, I could be forgiven if I ever showed up…

On mobile and my English has never been the best, I now work in internal recruitment and recruit nurses. Big boss pulls my team and I into a big meeting about our timekeeping, early starts, late finishes, long lunches, going to the gym midday etc. I try to explain that unlike other sectors nurses don’t go near there phone 9-5 (they are usually with patients) typically most our day is admin, email, development etc and the early starts are to get the night staff on the phone and late finishes the day staff. The long lunches, midday gym, late start for late finishers early finish for early starters etc and whatever Is so that my guys have a work life balance. Big boss doesn’t like it, insists 9-5 like everyone else, my team and I just laughed and said ok (whole team malicious compliance) no one worked before or after…

Hello reddit I'm in a bit of a pickle and thought I'd start here and just put my story and situation out there so I can try and gauge how effed I am and see if anyone can help. It's been a hell of a past 2.5 years and I'm still struggling to understand how so much time has gone by and how I got so behind. Heck if nothing else maybe writing this down will help me work it all out in my head easier… but here goes: 2019 I'd been working for a family member in the construction field about 5 years doing wire pulling and alarm installation and making around 2k a month – just enough to pay bills and still occasionally buy a nice thing. I lived alone, had low car payments, reasonably low expenses and a struggling but existent savings account. March 2020 the pandemic…

Here's some background. I'm a 19 year old woman who can't afford college and just wants a job so I can get gifts for my family on the holidays. I've been looking for a work from home job since January because I've been out of work since December (previous job sucked, they made me work for more than 10 hours a day for $13.00) Now that it's getting closer to the end of the year I'm stressing over finding a job and have been just throwing my decently put together resume around trying to get some sort of job but guess what? ALL OF THEM WANT MORE THAN 2 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND A COLLEGE DEGREE! The freak? Why the heck do I need so much experience and a collage degree to make 10-15 dollars an hour?! I know for a fact that people don't go to collage just to…

I know quiet quitting really just means acting your wage but I’ve been doing less than the bare minimum (only takes about 2hrs out of the 8 I’m paid for) for months and no one’s noticed. For context I’ve had this job for about a year, and my boss has hated me from the get go. When I started I was super enthusiastic, working long hours, and going above and beyond in every way. Even then he would yell at me for the tiniest things and I never got a single ounce of praise or a single thank you. It was soul sucking. The past 3-4 months I’ve been doing less and less. At first it was just moving to doing only my job and not extra work, but at this point I’m barely even doing my job. I just can’t bring myself to care. I do the very bare…