Month: October 2022

Sorta off topic, but can we have a discussion on why charity/food banks etc are not that great I will make it clear that i don’t hate all of them, but I don’t like them in lieu of appropriate gov services and incomes. Also the recipients are often treated as if they should be grateful for whatever they get and made to feel bad about themselves

I have been out of work for a while because I was fired after a car accident and I’m struggling and I know one of the ways people get jobs is through LinkedIn but people won’t look at accounts that have almost no followers or connections and so I was wondering if I could promote my LinkedIn here

So I’ve(m24) been a teachers assistant for special needs classes at the elementary level for two years now, this being my second year. We were having a great year at the school I was originally brought into when I was informed I was being moved to another school for “reasons” and was told that they didn’t know if it was permanent or temporary. Started at the new school yesterday and today the principal called me and the special needs director (the woman who moved me) for a meeting this morning. The principal basically belittled and dressed me down for not knowing the rules of the school and for “hurting the librarians feelings” for talking to another adult while she was teaching and “distracting the children”. I was also told I wasn’t doing my job in the classroom even tho I was given no instruction for when I got there and…

My place of employment is operational for 24 hours so there’s 3 shifts. On November 6th the overnight shift will work 8 hours but only get paid for 7. This is in the contract because they believe it makes up for overnight workers getting paid for 8 hours when it’s daylight savings time, when they only work 7 hours. 3rd shift workers who have been working at this facility for years smartly planned in advance and requested vacation on this day. Consequently, I’m a second shifter so I’ll be forced to work 3rd shift as well for mandatory overtime. I’m 100% going to call out that day because it really just feels disrespectful to have my time wasted like that. I get paid $20 an hour so it’s actually not that huge of the deal, but at the same time, don’t waste my time!

I know it's a given nowadays. But it really REALLY hit me at work today. My supervisor is relatively cool. She wants us to do good and encourages us, and is also right there with us at recognising the BS. Today, we had some higher ups come in. I don't know the full situation, but apparently one of them looked at some of our stats for the morning, picked out the person that was there early, and because her time wasn't where they wanted it, said she had to be moved departments. Supervisor had no say in it, it was done. Problem is that the one they moved is one of the few that can do early shifts, and she normally is a very good and hard worker. Right now, however, she has a foot injury which makes her times look worse, and his way of looking at it doesn't…

Title says it all. They expect you to “be prepared” to contribute on Monday. That means working on Sunday night or before 9 am on Monday. The Friday meeting is supposed to be “team building”. An abusive boss proves everyone about what they’re doing this weekend. All cameras are off and everyone is silent. It feels like the scene from that movie where al Capone walks behind everyone eating at the table laughing and cracking jokes. He’s twirling a bat and if anyone laughs to long…splat. So no one says shit. This is after no raises, beginning a campaign of micromanagement/tracking hours, and threatening people with layoffs. AFTER posting record revenue and profits. It’s marketing so there aren’t a ton of great jobs until January. Maybe enough to squeak by but I got a family so it’s hard. I’m trying to plan out as much pto for the rest of…

I was working part time at this machine shop since 2019. I found out I was making $3-5 less than every one of my coworkers including other part time employees that hadn’t even been there as long. The only person who wasn’t making more was a new hire that started off as the same wages. I quit after I found this out, has anyone else seen something like this?

I work as a shift lead at a chain coffee shop (not starbucks) and literally the only day we close is Christmas. On thanksgiving and Christmas Eve we have to stay open until 4 pm. I live in a college town so all of my coworkers and I are in our early 20s, we all are away from our families so it’s just a random decision of who gets to go home for the holidays and who doesn’t. Or who asks for days off first and who’s too late. I hate the upper corporate assholes who decide that we must be open practically every day of the year and the two days that we actually can close early, it hardly matters because it’s only a couple of hours early. The way our online scheduling system works is that once two or three people request a day off, nobody else can.…