Month: September 2022

I applied for a new job about a month ago. Pay looked good, and I had been unemployed for almost 2 months at this point. I go in for the interview and it goes smoothly. Up to now I wasn't too worried about the job, but now I'm beginning to question even starting my first day: 1. At the interview, B (boss) asks me if I am OK with starting out with $13.50 instead of $14.00 if within 2 months I can begin getting paid $14. That's fine, why not. 2. After waiting almost 3 weeks for my background check and drug test to arrive, I'm asked if I would mind working for $12.80 an hour. Once again, I'm pressed, but agree as long as our original agreement is honored (I get $14/h after 2 months with the company) 3. Find out 6 days ago that they forgot to send…

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Hey guys. I just wanted to share a story with you about my recent experience relocating for a job. It's bad. It's also quite long, so buckle up. TLDR: I left my job of almost two years, drove across the country for another job. When I arrived in the new town, the apartment hadn't been represented accurately. It was disgusting and run down, and I broke my lease the next morning. Found an apartment complex while driving around town with one unit left, which was exactly what I was looking for and I took it. Started the new job, things were fine at first, then boss turned out to be an insecure micromanaging psychopath. Took his bad days out on me, insulted me, humiliated me in front of my coworkers, reprimanded me for making a pun. Told me where I could and couldn't park in an unmarked lot, what music…

-Manager/shift lead is on there because they're the only one that actually said yes. Rotates roughly every two months. -Consistently the shift that has the toughest time to staff. -The only shift that does not end at the time the schedule says. -The only shift responsible for making sure the store is 100% clean before leaving. -The only shift you will never get a break, nevermind a lunch. -The only shift responsible for making sure everything is stocked before leaving. -If anything goes wrong in the morning, it's because the crew last night didn't do something they were supposed to do. -The pay is the same as someone who opens or is midshift

I work on the bar of a restaurant in the UK. Tips are shared between all staff, so any money we’re given by customers has to go straight into a cup behind the bar, to be distributed with everyone’s paycheck each month. Since I started working there, I noticed often the manager will ask members of staff to take money from our tip jar and use it to go buy emergency supplies for the bar, like lemons or whatever. It’s also used to top up the till if it’s down at the end of the night. One time I asked the assistant bar manager if any of that money is ever reimbursed to us or if it’s just gone. He just laughed. Is this normal? Today during our lunch break, I was telling a new hire about this, and one of the restaurant girls tells me that management straight up…

I was about to write that my theory is that most workplace leadership is perfectly happy to let things get chronically toxic, cause then the staff will never be able to cooperate long enough to organize. But then I remembered how toxic the unionized workplace I left last spring was, and how supportive and positive trauma bonded relationships can look from the outside. What a mess.

I worked as a dishwasher at a popular restaurant in my town that required really heavy lifting and nonstop walking from 3pm to sometimes 2:30am. I'm pregnant in my 3rd trimester and I couldn't keep doing the heavy lifting as it isn't good for the baby and evertime I would work the long shifts my feet would swell up and hurt really bad. I could've put in my 2 weeks but physically and mentally I just couldn't do it anymore. My boss was really nice though and I just feel horrible about it. I feel like I fucked them over. I told him I was quitting and he tried to get me to work my last few shifts but I told him I couldn't, then he tried to guilt trip me into coming in anyway and wouldn't take no for an answer. Maybe it's my hormones but God, I feel…

I work at an emergency vet and one of my managers has been getting on my nerves, always tiptoeing the line of outright insulting me, but today, she thought to give me instructions while we were incredibly busy. I did not stop what I was working on to look at her, but I did answer. When it seemed she didn't hear me, I answered again. It seemed she still didn't hear me, so I said much louder, “I said yes!” I didn't even think I'd done so in a rude tone at all- I was just very busy. But she began scolding me about how I wasn't looking at her and wasn't making eye contact and I was being disrespectful, like she was talking to a child. I told her I was busy and had thought she could hear me, but she continued to yell, in front of everyone else…