Month: November 2022

Just curious because that’s what is happening to me now. It basically means you can’t take annual leave as you’re already ‘off’ but you then have to work one day. So there’s no way to get the whole period off. Now I know I am lucky compared to a lot of other jobs to have this time off, but this was something that I considered when deciding whether to work here, considering there wasn’t much of a pay bump. And this job has its own challenges and so far I’ve been very stressed out here. So this seemed like a nice perk. But yeah, my manager has just informed each of us takes turns, a day each, to check that no urgent requests come through etc from clients. So it’s not really a day off, as I’ll have to constantly be checking my laptop. What if I had planned to…

For some context, I began delivery driving this month because I’m a college grad struggling to find meaningful career employment after a couple years and hundreds of applications. I needed a source of income to just survive… I have credit card debt building from living expenses, school payments soon, I want to help out my family financially, and I want to be able to afford to buy Christmas presents for my loved ones, and most of all I want to stop feeling completely worthless for doing nothing with my life when everyone else my age are starting their careers. It’s not an ideal position to be in, I‘ve been working a lot of unpaid internships hoping to get a job doing research/policy in non-profit issue advocacy but haven’t had any luck. However, I’m grateful that I have a roof over my head and my family has a spare old car…

Long story short. I worked at Blockbuster and a coworker and I had swapped shifts. Which turns out we were operating on an old schedule. I had covered a day that she ended up actually being scheduled for and she covered a day that I WASN’T actually scheduled for. Which all came to a head on a Friday night I was out with friends and got a call that said I was due to come in to work and at the time I had only seen the old schedule (unbeknownst to us) and I was scheduled for Thursday. Manager confirms that I was operating off of the old schedule and was actually scheduled for Friday. My replacement had come in on Thursday and even though I was scheduled they put her to work anyway. So I tell the manager to give her a call to cover my shift since she…

I'm so fucking tired of having to prove myself over and over again to fucking incompetent management who have no idea what they want with the company or how they want to achieve it. I'm here to do my fucking job per my contract. I am not in an executive position where I would have to push the company forward, I am a regular employee that should execute whatever the fuck it is needed to be done. But instead I have to constantly suggest improvements, give ideas, and other corporate bullshit. Well I've had enough. I am tired. I want to go to work, do my job, and go home to my family. I don't want every day to be a competition, I just want some peace. So I am quitting. It's not like they will care, but at least it will give me some peace of mind.

I had a long sit down conversation with my grandmother over the Thanksgiving weekend. She's almost 90, and is part of the “silent generation.” Anyway – we were talking about work, and she told me she joined the workforce officially as a payroll clerk in 1951. She was an “old maid,” who had not gotten married when she was young, and didn't until she was almost 30. She made .75/hr as a woman in 1951, the minimum wage. She says there was no reason she could not have supported herself on that .75/hr, because her expenses would have been much less than her income, as even rents around here would have been around 1/3rd of her minimum wage income. We got started talking about it, because she told me she has seen some of the wild requirements for jobs these days, and wanted to tell me she had never even…

So my boss just called screaming to ask why I wasn't coming in. I have had the same schedule since I started and any time I have needed or been asked to adjust my schedule it was very well communicated about with my chef. Well, everyone put in their notice to leave in December. Someone else made the schedule and changed my days and nobody told me. I get a notification an hour before any shift and when I got one today I immediately called to let the manager on duty know my wife is going in to her job where she makes more and takes care of family benefits. She was understanding. Ten minutes later the top guy is calling me screaming and demanding why I'm not coming in. I tell him everything I already typed. He continues to yell asking why I didn't say anything sooner. I told…

Using a throwaway because my coworker is on here. Coworker and I started having concerns about the Equal Pay Act. There’s a history of former male employees getting paid more than women for the same exact job. I have a pay gap of $10,000 and hers is about $5,000. We both outperform the men in relation to this which has been confirmed by higher ups. We don’t have HR and I’m not interested in bringing the org down with a lawsuit. Our work is important and it would only hurt the community to have the org go under. Long story short, we brought this up and requested raises. I spoke with our ED for literal hours about this and he denies unequal pay is occurring. He compared our letters to a child writing a letter to their parents for a Christmas present. I had to straight face this but ended…