Month: April 2023

I used to manage an amazing pub/restaurant back in my old city. It’s a 16th century coaching inn that had recently had a multimillion pound refurb. I more or less got on with the owner but I knew he could be a bit of a tool so I kept my eye on him. I hired all the staff and worked closely with them, they were all 18-25 and I was early to mid 30’s at this point so I saw them as kids that were my responsibility. I genuinely liked nearly every member of staff I ever hired and wanted the best for them. …. Here’s where we get into it – every week I’d input the hours my staff worked and send it over to the gaffer to pay. One day about 5 years into my tenure he told me he was taking over that job, obviously alarm bells…

I worked for a pizza delivery place. I was never given a new uniform. I was told I needed to buy one off ebay if I wanted one because they couldn't afford to order new ones. So, my hat was given to me by another driver and my shirt given to me by an ex-employee I had to take both home and clean them because they were covered in animal hair. I got a new better paying job and when I went to get my last check I was told I needed to turn in the hat and shirt or I wouldn't get my check. The same hat and shirt I had to bum off other people or buy from ebay out of my own pocket. Instead of driving the hour home and back for the hand me down uniform I called my old boss. He said she was being…

I don’t even follow this sub but it pops up on my feed from time to time. I scroll through…but, it’s just depressing. I want to tell you that there are decent business owners out there that treat there employees fairly. The majority of my employees work 40 hours and 4 days a week. It fits there schedule. They get done what I ask of them. I pride myself on hopefully having provided a work-place where they can thrive and earn a solid living. My office is in a LCOL area, my lowest employee makes 56k. I have ~75 employees. I don’t preach the “this is your family” bullshit. Because it’s not. We all know why you are here…to provide for your families. I get it…the average tenure is around 8 years, the last few years have been tough but we made it through. I’m an early 30 millennial. I’m…

So i work in an unnamed fast food restaurant as a closing shift lead, and recently we had a mass firing/quitting and my whole night crew has been switched out for 3 latinos, who speak very very little english but enough to explain things if i take it slow, and 3 latinos who speak no english whatsoever. and i dont speak Spanish well enough to form sentences. I have no real problem with the language barrier except that if they mess something up i cant tell them what they did wrong. i cant give them new tasks because they dont understand me. and the list goes on like that. My question i guess, is having a full crew that doesnt speak english under a manager that doesnt speak spanish allowed? We dont have any handbooks but im pretty sure we have to have “Clear, Concise, Communication” in a kitchen and…

Bit of a vent… I work in the UK for a large company. Not really high up in the company, but probably classed as very junior exec level (65k salary + bonus). Based 99% at home, and have pretty flexible working so long as it aligns with priorities. I.e. if I need to start late or finish early then I can, so long as it doesn't significantly impact something else. Since I started we were always required to comply with the working time directive, and the way we did that was every week we just logged a “general” number of hours – say to the nearest 15 mins per day – into an informal system, and that was that. We've recently moved to a different section of the company though, and they use a full blown COTS time management system. So now we've been asked to “clock in” and “clock…

Some of my peers who worked in the public sector are working a second job to cheat the system at the same time. My question is, wouldn’t their employer know?? I know retirement plans are all connected for the public sector. Just curious how others are keeping it a secret and able to balance. One job is enough.

If we want to solve the housing crisis, we must build as much high-density public housing as we can. Single-family neighbourhoods and free-market ideology is at the root of our problem. Housing should not be an investment, and property values should be as low as possible. Real estate investors should be punished. Neoliberal privatisation and deregulation has been a disaster in general, but especially when it comes to housing. We need to completely reverse course.