Month: September 2022

This isn’t my firsthand experience, but a friend of mine’s daughter got a job somewhere that advertised $18 an hour – a lot to her. Advertised as $18 with an asterisk, confirmed verbally as $18 during interviews. Officially paperwork says $16.25 or something. She’s going to end up just taking it, but she’s understandably pissed. What do people even do in these situations? Obviously talk to the management and ask what happened, but when they give some flippant excuse then what? I’m just frustrated on her behalf. Like what young adult in college wouldn’t still take $16 an hour right now, of course she will. But there’s no way to reprimand an employer for tactfully lying without screwing up the opportunity. Is there anything that can be done or do they hold all the cards as usual? US, California, btw. I assume there’s some way to file some toothless complaint…

On mobile, sorry about the format. It was a bit longer than I thought it would be. Tldr at the bottom. An hour ago I quit my job as a freight company customer service admin. When I first interviewed for the job I should have taken it as a red flag. They barely spoke about my CV or my work history, I think they glanced over it and saw that I had a forklift licence which made me a better candidate than some. In stead of talking about my work experience they wanted to inform me that they are a like a family, a rag tag bunch of kids who like to banter. They said if I had thick skin I would work well with them as customers can be angry. I slightly expected that having thick skin would also apply to the work place but wasn't 100% at the…

My boss started this “Fun work game” via email to get to know your coworkers. One coworker gives some fun facts and the others have to guess who the coworker is. Not enough people participated so we got an email from the boss saying “participation is a part of teamwork and teamwork is part of the core value section of your annual review so let's all participate” Glad this “Fun game” turned into a threat that we will get bad annual reviews if we don't play.

Last week I helped my sister move apartments. She used a moving company, and for $750 she hired 3 workers for 3 hours. The start time was between 8-9. At 830 they called my brother in-law. Due to the loading dock not being prepared they started at 9. It took them 15 minutes to ride up the elevator. We had moved all the boxes to the elevator to speed the process. I noticed only two workers. I was told the other guy never showed up. Fast forward, they moved only 20% of the stuff, broke 3 pieces of furniture and left the boxes on the loading dock of the new apartment and the hallway of the old apartment. They refused to work past 11 even though 3 hours would have been 11:30 One of the workers stayed behind and my sister was thankful he stayed with me to help. She…

Just had to get this off of my chest, sorry for the rambling. I hate that I have to be separated from my fiancée for 8+ hours a day to survive. I wish I could work from home or something, but I can't, I'm not skilled enough for a job that can fully support us. I miss her terribly throughout the day, but unless I can land a wfh opportunity sometime soon, I'll be stuck constantly being away from her. It feels wrong that a majority of my life will be spent away from the people that mean the most to me.

Hello all, so I’m new to this page and I’ve been lurking for a day or two and I have to say I’m confused. At first I thought this was a page for complaining about ridiculous standards and rules at work, but it seems to be more of an ear the rich kinda deal. And my most important question is; what do y’all want? Like in your ideal but realistic world how would work work. In a realistic economic structure of course. We all know that we can’t change an economic system that is so heavily leveraged that if a a few things collapse the world will end lol. Have a nice a night!

If this question doesn't belong here, please let me know and (if you can) direct me to a more appropriate subreddit! I'm currently working as a “temporary” worker for a staffing agency. We spend 90(-ish) days on a trial period before being made full, salaried employees. I have been here for over 90 days now. After talking with some of my coworkers, they informed me that I will probably need to request to be made a full employee. I should get at least a $2/hr raise, which I may have to fight for. I'm noticing some red flags, but this job is good, the pay is enough to live on, and the schedule would allow me to finish my degree. It's worth it, at least for now. The red flags are that they've previously told my coworkers they can't discuss their pay (obviously false), they have fudged dates on when…