Month: December 2022

I work for a department store, and the section I work in, we make commission, so sometimes we have to work 6 days instead of 5. Note that I have worked six days in a row twice and I’m burnout and exhausted. So I called in this morning and I told my manager I wasn’t gonna be able to come in today. She asks why, and I said I had stuff I had to do today. She says that’s not a good enough reason and that I should’ve done the stuff I had to do on my day off, and she says she has stuff she has to do every day but she still has to be at work. And she said she’ll tell the store manager but if I can try to come in, I should. So after all of that I’m definitely not coming in. I feel like…

Why do people make a big deal about skipping office parties outside work hours? Not everybody enjoys being drunk with loud music making small talk, I’d rather have some me time or personal time with friends/family! It’s about time people live and let live! Who agrees?

Classifying a worker a “subcontractor” is clearly a tax loop hole And while I’m all for not giving More money away in taxes it does seem ‘unfair’ to push that burden onto the “worker”. A Subcontractor bills their own rate. They determine how things will get done and usually make their own schedule and hours. They get paid per ‘project’. They pay all their own taxes and insurance and workmans comp. An employee (in my experience) comes in everyday M-F and is usually paid hourly. They do not dictate their pay rate nor when and how things will get accomplished. They do however get paid sick time, sometimes vacation pay, and are having their employer pay a portion of the taxes, and the insurance/workmans comp. The employee is also eligible for unemployment as a social safety net…vs the subcontractor who is on their own….and who can also be “fired” at…

I've been in retail for the last two years. In april of this year, I quit a job I had been at for a year and a half. I was making 17.13/hr, I was a supervisor in the produce department and I could not stand it. Coworkers were terrible, boss was terrible, work was stressful. There were only a few people there that made it worthwhile but I just knew I had to move on. Couple months later I started at a new place making 18. Just a regular grocery clerk, I kinda jumped around helping different departments and my managers caught on to the kind of work I could do. A few months into this job, one of the department managers quit so they offered me his job, which started at 21.50. They told me in 90 days I'd get another raise, now 90 days have passed and yesterday…