Month: April 2023

I’m a real estate photographer and editor for a company, the editing is done from home. I was getting paid to travel to my photoshoots, they also pay for rentals and would pay for travel time. Today I got an email saying they would no longer pay for travel time anymore. Am I getting screwed here? I’m in California. Edit: Just found this on google, seemed like California had special rules: “”For employees who work primarily from home, their home is considered the workplace. That means if you are required to travel to some other location by your employer, all time spent traveling to that location should be paid.””

Aside from the fact that there's already a rule against low effort content, AI chat bots are essentially glorified predictive text algorithms. At best, they're only able to determine what is true by guessing based on popularity and recycle existing ideas, and at worst – no, still the best they can do is spread shitty ideas because the literal best they can do is to take someone else's decent idea and randomly combine it with other decent ideas and hope that somehow you get a good idea by randomly mixing two mediocre ones. They contribute less than nothing to this, or any, conversation. By actively robbing people of the need, desire, or ability to form coherent ideas on their own, they necessarily make the average participant of a given conversation dumber.

Fuck the performing arts wages, seriously. I got offered a contract with a company in my field as a new graduate. The total hours of rehearsals on the job schedule is 60 hours. I live roughly an hour from the rehearsal space, so it’s not including my 2 hours commuting each day (30 hours total). The contract was offering $175. $175/60=$2.9 per hour Factoring in the 30 hours of commuting, plus the time spent to even learn the part (~20 hours, if I’m fast), it would be $1.59 for every hour spent. But then, I mentioned I have scheduling conflicts due to attending my college graduation. They hid the updated payment in the bottom of the contract. $100. $100/60= $1.67 Factoring in the ~110 hours of time needed for this gig, it’s 90¢ an hour. I’m so fucking frustrated with this field.

I work as a host at a restaurant (regional chain). There are 3 positions during lunch: the seater, coordinator and cashier. The cashier is basically in charge of take outs, to gos and phone orders (including Doordash/Ubereats) The seater takes people to their seats and helps buss while the coordinator basically greets guests and assigns seating in accordance to what servers need tables. Both of these host positions receive a fixed hourly rate of $16. Every host is trained on seater and coordinator but sort of have to “earn” their way to cashier. The caveat is the cashier actually gets paid a base exponentially less, the federal minimum wage of $7.25. They sell you on this “promotion” by saying you will make tips and end up with more money overall. However, given that people rarely fucking tip on takeout (not to mention all the doordash we are in charge of…

I'm fuming as I type this. I just finished at a job where I put in SO much overtime, paid for things out of my own pocket (a broke NFP and I really believed in the cause), never claimed for my travel expenses like running around doing various errands using my own petrol/car. When out internet went out for a week and it took forever to find a solution I was the one who hooked up my own data so that they would still have an internet connection and could still operate. I didn't get a pay rise in the 2 years I was there despite my performance constantly being praised. Last June I took 2 weeks leave and I get a text this morning from my ex CEO saying that the accountants found that my leave for 'July 2022' wasn't entered in which means I was overpaid on my…

Look, I understand in some huge metro areas this could be a pretty big deal, but this job is in Richmond, VA and well…it's the ONLY benefit listed! If I show up and there's not a place for me to park, you must have enough people already…come on, embrace remote work companies! https://preview.redd.it/ghufpb6kdjwa1.png?width=523&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=8a1d1f5f9f669814eedcae11907e9f674e55c3c7

Hey all! I'm hoping to track down a video that was posted on here a while ago (not sure of date). The video was an informational piece (maybe a TED talk) of a company who had developed a form of neuroimaging tech (EEG) that employees would wear during the work day. The data collected via the EEG systems would determine when employees needed a break, needed to work harder, or deserved a 'reward'. Does anyone else remember the video I'm describing? I would love to get the link to the video if possible. ​ Thanks!

I graduated with a bachelors in Mathematics in December. Today after 4 months of searching, applying, and hoping/struggling I finally got a PART-TIME, MINIMUM WAGE job and I feel so mixed about it. On one hand I can’t wait to finally be doing something and making money, but it’s very bittersweet as I still will not be making enough to pay for health insurance, car insurance, etc.