So I just finished secondary education at a trade school, and now am certified to work in kitchens as a pastry chef. I had been working unpaid at an establishment while finishing out hours required for my degree. I worked under the understanding I would be offered a job. And to their credit I was offered one. But it’s less than 10/hr even though I’m one of two chefs there and I also do counter service. The minimum wage in my state is $15. FML
Hey everyone. I just started a new job at a security guard company. I was hired part time which is what I requested as I'm going to school. However, I'm currently scheduled over 50 hours this week and the next. My supervisor is ignoring my calls and I'm just wondering if I have any options besides simply quitting. Also are there any laws in the US about calling employees when they are off the clock? I ask because my supervisor texted me at 10:00 last night and got onto me this morning for not calling him when he “told me to.”
In 2022 me and my dev partner left our jobs to make games together. We had both worked at Niantic, Facebook, and Google. We just posted our first game Chief Emoji Officer on Steam to be wishlisted!!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287350/Chief_Emoji_Officer/ It's about the rat race, tech culture, toxic positivity, annoying coworkers, performance reviews, and other fun tech stuff. It was a long journey getting to this point, we saved up a ton of money, and decided to make a low-scope game just to get started. We hope to make a bit of profit in order to do the next one, and then the next, so we can have creative freedom and not get back into the political BS of working at big corps. https://reddit.com/link/11du9xl/video/4bb65broauka1/player
Had a job interview today which actually turned out to be just a pre-interview screening. Because of the storm, my interviewer, who was the HR person and had nothing to do with my department or position, told me she didn't have her camera on because of WiFi connectivity issues. So I was talking to a blank screen for about 15 minutes. Immediately, I could just sense the tone of this woman not being interested in what she was doing and she just read off a list of basic questions that I'd heard a million times before. “What do you consider one of your strengths?” “What would your manager say about you?” “What would your superiors say about room for improvement?” etc. etc. Once we finish, she seems to immediately want to sign off and honestly, when I was answering, I just felt it going in one ear and out the…
I don't know if this story fits this sub but here it is anyway. A few years ago I worked for a small-ish business (maybe 30 employees, front office staff and back of shop staff). It was my first year at this place and I had already gotten a lot of ~iffy~ vibes from management and HR. So one morning, during the daily meeting, HR announces there is MANDATORY anonymous survey, and that we all had to complete it on our shop login and send it to HR. “But don't worry! It's totally anonymous, no one will know who said what. We want honest feedback.” I rallied my crew around the idea of everyone just filling out the survey on my login and submitting it. So it looked something like “I dislike the rampant nepotism between HR and Management” “This place sucks and every morning commute is filled with a…
I guess I'm just venting. I, like many other people, have realized that tipping expectations have gotten truly out of hand in the last year or so. Gone are the days when you tipped just for service: now even some self-checkouts ask you to add a gratuity. I'm acutely aware of the fact that most people are paid a sub-living wage, especially in retail/food service. But I also refuse to be a part of the expansion of something as unethical as tipping culture. I tip servers because I have to. Their wages are literally built from tips, and that atrocity has been legally enshrined in the form of tipped wages. But when it comes to the idea that I should tip non-service, non-tipped-wage people, two thoughts come to mind: What exactly am I tipping for? And much more importantly, if we allow tipping everyone to become the norm, I promise…
Jobs should be abolished because jobs don’t care about you and don’t value you. Also people can easily be replaced on jobs. Also people can be harassed and attacked in jobs.
Hey all. I’m finally leaving my shitty job at a small business, but my former boss seems to have it out for me. She was contacted by a job I applied to and asked for a reference, which she completely tanked by saying I was hired under x condition and didn’t complete it. (Very) long story short, my ex-boss is a narcissist. For the last 6 months, she has been hyping me up to others and tearing me down to my face, she gaslit me on the regular, and she refused to send me anything in writing (presumably to keep the gaslighting). I shouldn’t have allowed this new job to contact my old one, but I was afraid it would look bad if I didn’t wow them to. Anyway, my ex-boss did not adhere to the employment offer that I signed, and refused to pay for a certification that she…