Month: October 2022

I use this sub a lot just for reassurance because I don't trust my own judgment. I'm sorry if this post is silly for that reason. I recently started a job at a retail store. I made it clear in the interview that I wanted to only work 15 – 20 hours because I have another job as well. I was getting about 23 which is fine, but this week I've been scheduled 37 because I'm making up for one of the other employees who had his hours completely cut for school. I don't know if this is gonna be a long term thing. I didn't want to work this much at this job since I have another one. Is it bad to ask for this to be changed? If there's anything they can even do. We're already understaffed. I already had to talk to a manager once because they…

It’s so fucking competitive and my managers keep stressing me out, continuously stating they’re checking kpi’s etc. There’s so many articles stating how this creates anxiety but they just don’t care and yes, I could quit but we all know, easier said that done. Genuinely how do I cope?

I had a busy week at work. Which is not weird because we are somewhat short-staffed right now. What is weird is: We are short staffed because my company (specifically my team) has an incredibly high turnover. Four people have quit in the past 6 months (which is when I began working) and guess how many of them handed over their projects to me? You guessed correctly if you said four 🙂 All four projects that have been assigned to me had updates this week, which is why I was so busy. And when I say busy I mean BUSY. I mean “have something on your plate every second from Monday morning to Friday evening” busy. It's gotten so bad, literally to the point where when I was working on a task two more would pop up. It's become (obviously unpaid) overtime and short lunch breaks. It's fine and I…

Hope this fits the rules…etc. Thanks! Got a job in the same office as my wife. The sales guy was leaving and talked me into taking the job. Find out afterwards that what he said the job was and what I found out the week after he left were different things. Wouldnt have taken the job if I knew. (had a great Night Audit job I loved, but the money was took good) So crap hit the fan, small shitstorm and I thought things cleared out after talking to the owner, (threatening a labor suit if he enforced something in a non-existent handbook, etc). Well month goes by and I think Im doing good. Today he fired me. Made a list of things that were not true. (being at home for times outside of normal – I have cams, I have proof. I wasnt there, not making sales, or them…

My first job was at a retail clothing store back in 2016. I did retail for a few years and decided I was sick of it and then I went into the restaurant industry in 2019. Even though the pay was slightly better in restaurants I have been verbally abused everywhere I go by the general public. So much so that I don’t even feel like myself anymore. I used to be a people pleaser and I always saw the best in people but now every time I see someone walk into my store I can’t help but feeling a little scared. I’m now a pharmacy tech and I was expecting to like it more than my previous jobs but it’s just the same thing all over again. Constant phone ringing people yelling at me but at least my coworkers are really nice. I’m just so sad that everywhere I…

So here's the situation – hourly, non-exempt employee, asked by manager to work on company holiday to complete month-end work on time. Promised day off later to make up for not taking the holiday off. Question though – aren't hourly employees supposed to be paid double their hourly rate if they work on a holiday? If, instead, they're being offered a paid day off on a regular day, when they'd only be paid their regular rate if they were working that day, aren't they being under-compensated, by half, for working on the holiday? Shouldn't comp time for working on a holiday then be two days, not just one? Is this legal? In California if it matters.

My work is hosting a happy hour tonight after work at 5 PM. My whole team is going, AITA for saying no and going home to watch the new Halloween movie?

I love what I do. I'm a medical office specialist and I handle way more than my job description. I literally keep the entire office afloat, nearly single handedly. We are an urgent care with a primary care office. I'm the senior lead and one thing I handle is the whole building's record requests. I also help the primary care office with their patients, insurance, and more. We are not treated the same, however. Primary care gets an hour break. We get 30 minutes. Yes, that's 30 minutes for an 8 hour shift. I check in their patients, but they don't do the same for us. I handle all their records. They don't do records at all. I also handle labs, CTs, USs, and X-ray. I also handle emergencies all the time and our volume is way more than theirs. The doctors on the primary care side aren't the nicest,…

I think we could all have nice lives with many comforts, but we'd probably have to own fewer (but hopefully more durable) things. I think we'd still be able to eat out — but probably at more basic canteen style restaurants rather than very nice sit down places or a myriad of cheap delivery options. Something I worry about is that people in the West will adopt and advocate for “antiwork” ideals for ourselves while leaving out people in the global south, and some classes of workers in our own countries like farm workers and the many underpaid undocumented workers in the restaurant industry (US specific). The amount of resources we currently consume, and the ways which we consume them, absolutely contribute to the shitty work conditions most people face. I don't see how we could change working conditions on a large-scale level without also accepting that we'd have to…