Month: October 2022

For me it’s enough to cover Rent, food, transportation, healthcare, (should be a public service,) emergency fund, vacation, and retirement. That should be a basic right for everyone.

Found a sales job for a laptop subscription company. The job is quite simple. Open up shop, wait for customers to come until end of shift. Due to the majority of people wanting to actually own instead of subbing for hardware (me included), most of the time I was basically just sitting there waiting for the day to end with the occasional customer interested in out stuff, and the pay is quite good. But when my manager came, he told me that I have to do some telemarketing stuff as well to bring in more customers. I have to share ads from their FB pages and contact random numbers asking if they are interested in our service. I don't mind if customers come up and ask me questions about our service I have no problem explaining to them, but I'm not a big fan of actively reaching out to random…

“Tell me about a time you were the leader of a team, and you were faced with a challenge that was so difficult you thought it would be impossible, but you ended up leading your team to victory?” the last 5 entry level job interviews I had all asked this question. Best answer I had was So this one time I was playing Fortnite with some squeakers. And they were really bad. I thought forsure we were gonna lose. They both died to grenades early on. But I ratted the fuck out of the closing circle and 360 noscoped the last guy to get a win for our team.

My boss was supposed to pay me for September on 30th sep and hasn't paid me yet (14th oct). He now isn't replying to my texts or calls asking for my money, and my message asking about my overdraft fees was left on read yesterday. My bank account is overdrewn and I'm at my wits end. I know that the customer has paid him. Sorry about the formatting, I'm not much of a writer at the best of times. Does anyone have any (uk) advice for me?

Everyone else is striking. Post, rail, teachers (teachers are voting on striking today – majority will vote yes) Is it poss to have a nation wide retail strike? Obv we're all in different companies but I can't imagine we're not all struggling with cost of living. Is there any news of this? Has anyone started organising? If not – how can we start?

So basically I had a second job. Minimum wage was raised in Germany and he didn't raise our wages even though I reminded him. I worked 7 hours + 1 hour unpaid break. But I didn't get to take the break since I was the only one in the store. So basically one hour stolen. Then I quit. He was okay with it, thank god. He was always a little late with payments but my last payment came on the 11th this month, even though it should've been there on the first day of the month. I reported him for the minimum wage thing. I also tried to report the break violation but the woman basically told me they couldn't justify an investigation for that. If I stole anything from him I would be investigated but not the other way around? No one cares.