Month: April 2023

European based company with a branch in the US. Small outfit with no HR or anything along those lines. Highest ranking employee is the local VP. Employee moral in general is low given and overall lack of trust by head office. Local VP decides to hold a competition every week where he will “vote on” the best dressed and those with the best hair. Argues because he is gay that it’s nothing the women in the office need to worry about. Wife has ignored this entirely and continued dressing office casual. Have told my wife to see if she can ever get proof of that or his comments via email and immediately call him out if he ever makes a negative comment to her. It’s clear it is not something in line with the head office. That said, there’s a clear history of head office covering up past issues without…

Hi! I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this but I’m very angry and confused about what to do. My job considers full time 32 hours a week. However, I just took a look at our next few weeks for schedules and there is a week where I am only getting 18.5 hours! I have a baby and I can’t afford to feed us both on that or pay bills. I’ve been there longer than the majority of the staff, who are scheduled for that day! For that week I have the lowest amount of hours. I’m barely making ends meet with my 32-35 hours a week, is there anything I can do if this schedule isn’t changed? Currently, all they tell me is to use my PTO time to make up the hours I’m missing but I don’t think that’s something they should be forcing…

For those that live in the U.S. over the last few weeks, I've been starting to see a trend in gas prices creeping up again. All I can say is ugh! It's bad enough that food prices are still rising. Over the weekend, I went grocery shopping. In particular there's an item I usually buy where I noticed the price jumped way up to a disgusting amount. Over the past few months l've noticed a price hike with that item. It's just a simple health snack. It seems like my grocery bill keeps going up each week little by little and I don't buy anything different. Do I stop driving and starve? Geez!

I work at an elementary school – I am not a classroom teacher. I am an hourly employee. I clock in and out every morning/afternoon, and for a 30 minute lunch everyday. Is my principal allowed to tell me I cannot leave the property during my lunch (when I am clocked out)? I am in Virginia, if that matters. This message was sent to all staff today, “Staff members are not permitted to leave campus during the instructional day without prior administrative approval. This is to ensure student supervision and the safety of all. This includes going to 7-11 or any other errand, even during your lunch break or resource. If you have a question, please see Mrs. R or Mr. C.”