Month: April 2023

I work at a school and my co-worker got tired of our work place since we can't do all the things we're supposed to be doing, so she's been hired by another school. She's working full-time, but will be replaced by someone who's going to work 75%. Together with our third co-worker, also working 75%, we'll be 2,5 full-time workers, working with 40-60 kids aged 6-12. The school breaks will be the hardest (it's kind of a daycare kind of thing) when we have to fill the schedule with so few working hours. I've already told the co-worker who's leaving that I won't be working for 1,5 person, I'll work for one person like I've always have, and if they want more, they'll have to hire someone full-time. At the end of the day, you get what you pay for. I've applied to universities since I want to go back…

So, long story short I have worked for someone for over five years, and this person has hired me four times and fired me four times. Each time I asked for a raise, they denied me and said I got one when the minimum wage went up. They did give me a dollar extra when they rehired me for the 4th time, but that was hardly an increase considering that the amount of work I was doing for them was almost equal to the entire job – as in, I basically did almost all of the work for them and was basically the only employee they had. All of the work entailed keeping in touch with old clients, gaining new clients, answering all emails and voice mails, doing the sales reports, helping with the tax reports to a degree, cleaning up their main office, doing all paperwork needing aside from…

So we've all read about companies treating people like shit in here, but the question has to be asked, what company policies would make an acceptable workplace within the constraints of the capitalist system we find ourselves in..

I work overnight, and I’ve noticed the person I relive from duty doesn’t work so when I come in, I have to pick up the slack. She purposely does this, then jokes about how fucked I am as she leaves an hour early everyday, yet when I leave 5 minutes early with no work needing to be done, I will hear something about it Well, since the new girl started, I have walked into a shit show everynight. I only work with one other person and they scheduled the laziest person possible. I really don’t want to come in to pick up the girls slack, then be behind all night because the lazy POS doesn’t want to work. I have 1 call in left, even if I’m fired I wouldn’t care, should I thug it out or just call in

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Yeah, I don't know why I thought this post would fit here, but in a way it's the most appropriate post for this sub. It's funny, five years ago, I dreamt of moving to the United States to pursue the American dream. I came to this country with nothing but $20 in my pocket . After five years of an uphill battle to “try to make it”, and after going through probably over a dozen soul-sucking jobs just to get burnt out and have my soul drained (then consequently fired), just last week when I yet again lost my job I figured this is the last straw. I am not going back to look for another one. I'm not going to ask for money to be able to pay rent, something that has gone up and up dramatically year after year. I've just had it. I would either end my…