Month: February 2023

I found an asshole recruiter in the wild this week. The problem wasn't the recruiter, it was what the company was looking for. He contacted me Tuesday and said the job was so hot that he needed me to talk to him Wednesday (yesterday). Didn't give me the name of the company (not unusual). Sure…. Rick. So Rick calls me. Gives me the position description and what they are looking for in a candidate. I match all of them. Then he gives me the name of the company which I immediately Google and find out that the job pays $70k LESS than what I am currently making. So I immediately stop him. Thanks for the call Rick but this job is posted for $70k base less than what I'm currently making. (And people….I'm not making a quarter mil a year. The job just simply pays THAT LITTLE). The reason I'm…

I guess I just need some advice… maybe words of affirmation or encouragement. I don't really know. I was just fired from a job that I wasn't even at for more than a week. They let me go because I violated the attendance policy because I missed two days of work for dental work (root canal and deep cleaning) that I have a doctor's note for. I would've postponed it but my dental insurance expires on the 28th and I would've had to have been employed by the new place for at least 3 months before I would be able to get on their insurance. Needless to say, I told the dentist to go ahead with everything and get it out of the way while I still had insurance. Now I'm out of a job and in full blown panic mode because I have absolutely no source of income. After…

I have a Bachelors in Criminal Justice, 7 years experience in retail, 4 years experience in corporate and bank security, worked for CPS for 7 months (was my planned career), then have done 2 contract jobs the last year. I keep getting stuck into the $17-21 pay scale, and have not been able to break out of it. I have experience working remote with technology, as a case investigator/contact tracer, and as a CSR, and transferable skills from my career that can apply to a lot of “entry level” roles. Yet I keep getting stuck in this pay scale and turned down for better work. I feel stuck.

Since my employer did not care about adjusting my wage for inflation i came up with a new concept. Work time inflation, in principle it is very simple. I signed a contract in a year, let's say 2020 for 40h and a salary of 40k. Obviously I don't care about the 40k but about what I can buy from that money. So if my purchasing power in 2020 was 40k and in 2023 is only 35k and I don't get a raise i reduce my work output accordingly. After all we trade productivity for purchase power, and money is just an interim to measure that. So since I did not get raise i work 5 h less to get back to my initial wage. I think this is a very fair concept, especially considering that some Inflation is desired by the system. But since no one seems to care to…

So at our job, our business pays us a double time pay if we work 7 days in a row during a pay period, however we just got our paychecks in and it does not show that we received any double pay whatsoever, looks like all of the double pay hours that we would have gotten were turned into regular overtime hours. This is despite the fact they told us we would get double pay for working Saturday and Sunday like it has been for the last couple of years. According to one of the employees I work with they said they had got an email a day ago saying that they will no longer be giving out double pay. Is it legal to change your hourly pay rate after you had already worked those hours without prior notice of the change?