Month: April 2023

Hello friends, I have questions about the legality of my employers decisions. They are currently offering me 1 dollar below minimum wage for the first 90 or so days of employment. 9 dollars an hour compared to 10. I have never heard of this being a thing until this job. For some context, the state is Florida and the place of employment is a restaurant similar to chipotle. We do receive tips but it’s only at the register and frankly no one tips. I’m not sure if this is legal for an employer to pay below minimum wage for the first 3 months of work. I am also below age 18 but above age 16 so not sure where that leaves me. Thank you.

My area manager got very angry when I switched out some keyboards “M” and “N” keys in our office. So I stepped it up and printed some pictures of my P&D manager and “placed them”.

In case it needs explaining… Let’s say I have 2 weeks of vacation days scheduled starting next week and I’m currently working. Let’s say I’m moving to a different country at the end of the two weeks, and will be using those two weeks to get packed and sell stuff and whatnot. I fully intend on not coming back to work at my current employer. Once I quit, my health insurance terminates. I don’t want to quit beforehand, because what if I get hit by a car or something before moving? I don’t want to mess with having to purchase health care outside of the employer-provided health care I currently have. It’s way too much to have to deal with on top of all the other things I’m dealing with trying to move to another country. This is all a hypothetical question, of course.

Okay, fellow redditors, I'm looking for some help understanding if I'm getting played at work with my PTO v. work schedule. ​ Background: I'm working as a salaried employee with a modified 9×9 work schedule (I get 1 Friday off every other week, work 8 days @ 9 hrs/day, 1 @ 8 hrs/day. The standard for a salaried employee at my office is 8 hrs, 5 days a week. So over a 2 week period, I work 80 hrs, like a standard salaried employee (on paper, you know how it is). ​ When it comes to PTO spending and accrual, I accrue PTO at as a salaried employee at a standardized rate – no change based on my modified work schedule. The same rules are applied to my PTO schedule as my work schedule, where a Friday is marked in my PTO management tool similar to a weekend, and one…

I'm at my breaking point. I live in a 3rd world country going through a very rough period. My work doesn't have value, merely 400 USD a month for a frontend dev job + Python automation role. I work 9-6 every day without any raises or improvement in conditions. I am stuck at my pay range and seniority range (junior dev, which is to be expected though) because the company doesn't want to increase expenses, they just sacked 5 employees the past week alone. Can't get any other job, sent over 1000 applications for months, only to get a couple interviews that led nowhere. Pure ghosting and disrespect. I have experience and have studied many languages, frameworks… The market is too rough it seems, or I'm just missing some quality. I can't afford to live alone, and for what? To spend my whole salary surviving, anxious, alone? I have no…

The largest well known lingerie company is outsourcing a lot of the departments at the call center and only have us three month notice. They will probably try to fire everyone to avoid giving them the small severance they are providing… I hated the job anyway but Now I have to figure out something new. I wanted to get away anyway. Greedy companies