Month: November 2022

Hi ya'll been lurking for awhile and was wondering if i can get some feedback Im working a seasonal job at a christmas theme park for part time and on the 23rd i was scheduled for 5:30pm to 10pm so when it hit 10pm i wanted to clock out but apparently i need a shift manager to show proof of clocking out (we clock in and out on our phones) they let me leave at 10 but was given a verbal warning that i need to be flexible and likely will have to stay later every night than scheduled due to holidays ramping up (They also said the title of this post). Am i in the wrong for wanting to leave on time?

Upper management posted fliers about hosting a pizza lunch for us 11:30-6:30. I thought “Wow a lunch that actually considers it has employees that don't get lunch till well after 4pm!” Well fuck me because it was gone without a trace long before my lunch apparently. At least they stocked the fridge that has sat empty since partner (employee) appreciation month… Boiler plate: Fresh account to avoid company snoops.

I don't know where to post this so if this is completely wrong for this sub I apologize but I need help from the worker movement in general. Quick recap I'm 19 and live in Alabama I work full time for a bad wage but I don't currently have much of a choice. I don't know if it happened while at work or just my free time I've damaged my wrist and it's been damaged for 2 months since late September. Every day it hurts, I've bought some wrist braces and they help but I fear something is dangerously wrong. I work at a ice cream place and anytime I scoop or do anything I feel a harsh shiver into my spine and pain flare up in my wrist. I've looked up and wrist surgery is anywhere from 4-11k or something and I have nowhere near that money. What do…

I spent 20+yrs working basically every FOH role in a restaurant/bar/customer service setting. When COVID shut downs were first a thing & the only real career I had ever known was no longer viable I invested $16k in a trade training program for veterinary nursing. I thought i would find my future. I would find a career where I really felt I was doing something good. I was going to leave behind the partying, abusive, addicting lifestyle that is food & beverage & contribute positively to the world around me. (I realize that isn't all f&b jobs but 90% of the ones I've had) I completed my program in June & got hired immediately with the vet's office that I did my externship with…. I have never worked in a more toxic, dysfunctional, poorly managed environment. If this clinic was an insane asylum, the patients/inmates are running the show. Don't…

And I would like to organize. The owners take advantage of us, and they do everything in their power to not pay us. We do not get any type of benefit, not even health insurance for full time workers. This company makes over 7 million a year off of our backs and we barely make above minimum wage in our state. Last week one of the owners had said, “I shouldn't have given you a $2 raise, I should have given it to you in steps” like he was doing such a huge favor for that $2 raise UP TO $15/hr. They are cheap bastards, but I honestly love my job and don't want to leave just because the owners are penny pitching thieves. How do I start a union?