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When you go to work and make negative money.

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Contractors don’t get paid during the holidays.

When you’re a contract worker the holiday season is typically the most financially straining time of the year.

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This is what they do

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“Corporate greed”

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There’s no such thing as unskilled labor

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Should I tell my manager all the different ways someone cpuld steal from work

My mind wanders during and Ive noticed how easy it would be to steal something. Theres no cameras watching us, barely anyone in the back during openning and closing, etc. Would there be any reason to bring this up or no?

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I don’t think the US economy reflects people’s real interests or talents at all.

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PTO-Handbook says 14 days, boss is saying only 10

So my employee handbook states that we get 14 days off a year, with that exact verbiage. My boss is saying that because we technically get “2 weeks off a year, those include weekends so we should only be accruing 10 business days off a year”. According to the employee handbook, shouldn’t we be betting 14 business days off a year is this standard? Mind you, I’ve been with the company 3 years.

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Massive layoff coming?

I've been working for a rehab facility for the past 7 months. My first paycheck half of it was delayed without reasoning. A few months later my coworkers and my paychecks were delayed for about a month. I've heard they're behind on rent on the building and the houses we let the clients stay in. The past few months I was informed that the company is going to merge with a bigger company. Two weeks ago my boss was laid off but the ceo is telling everyone he just up and quit which wasn't true. My boss texted me saying that when I'm ready to look for another job let him know and he will give me an excellent referral. The ceo was supposed to show up today to my job with the ceo of the bigger company. The ceo of my job backed out today and it's just the…

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Just tried calling in to work: they won’t let me

So I'm going through a bit of a depressive episode and became completely exhausted 4 hours into my shift yesterday. I asked my manager to let me go home. Irrelevant details and I go home. Today I tried calling in sick and they won't accept the call in. Mental illness is still an illness, right? (Major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder)