Month: April 2023

I haven't really read anything on this topic, or studied it fully, but it's just a thought I've had. So, imagine a restaurant. The owner pays for a building space, and all of the necessary equipment to run the restaurant, and then decided he needs to hire 10 employees to keep it running. What if the owner made a deal with all of the employees where a certain percentage of profits would go toward reimbursing the owner for his initial investment until he was fully reimbursed, and a certain percentage of the profits would be placed in a savings account so that the restaurant could save up for future renovations and new equipment and things like that. But, all of the rest of the profits would be divided equally between the owner and all employees depending on the number of hours that they worked. Would this be a sustainable business…

I hate working but I still like to consume things. I still use Doordash, I go to fast food places at odd hours, and I like to be able to go to a store at hours that are convenient for me. I could not be a consumer of such things without someone else possibly being miserable at their job. Does anyone else struggle with this or even think about this?

I do IT contact work, I generally prefer full time work but a decent contract can pay well above a full time job even when you factor in benefits. But it can also be exploitive, I have to be an incorporated company which really just strips away a number of workers rights but this one took the cake: getting the job: the agency that I found this job through pulled crap right from the start: – I actually had the job offer but they said “the client cant afford the rate we discussed, we need to cut it by %20. which was below market rates. – its common practice to pay contractors monthly, so its 30 days, after I had the job I found out when looking at their pay schedule that it would be 30 days plus 45 days until the first pay so 75 dqys until my first…

As the title says. A buddy of mine found a better job and is leaving his current company of 8 years. He put in his resignation letter and everything has been cordial. The letter they sent him to sign says “terminated” on it. I advised he didn’t sign and to bring it up in his exit interview and to contact the labor board. (Company in California)

I haven't even been with the company 6 months yet, and before I got hired I made it very clear that I couldn't do early shifts. It's pretty much impossible for me to even get there. The boss of course initially seemed understanding and scheduled me for the later shifts – and I'd always show up on time and be told how good of a job I had been doing. Never had any issues as far as I knew. Then the boss started saying that I needed to show up for the early shifts so I could “see” the rest of how things functioned. I made it clear again that I really cannot do early shifts as they don't work with my schedule. The boss insisted it'd be a once and done thing, and I begrudgingly came in on my one day off for the early shift. Of course, no…

I work as a manager for one of the largest specialty retailers in the country (rhymes with Keytar Jenter), and despite inflation and major growth in terms of sales, our merit raises went from 3.5% last year to 2.5%. And there seemed to be just a random decision to make some employees completely ineligible despite their good performance reviews. I don’t even know what mine looks like yet, but considering I’ve been here for 18 months with no raises I’m sure I’ll be very thrilled to find out. Now I have to tell my full-timer that despite exceeding sales goals and maintaining great relationships with customers, he’s not getting a raise. This is complete bullshit

I work for a large pharmaceutical distribution center and today they slapped everyone in the face with their BS. As a person that fills special orders, “Case Picker”, we have the most physically demanding job in the warehouse but thankfully only work 4 days, 10 hours a day. Over the last few weeks our case pickers have dwindled from 10+ to only 5. Today is our last day of the work week and they tell us to cancel whatever we are doing Friday and work mandatory OT because we have too much to do. IMMEDIATELY AFTER he tells us the company is “trimming fat” and has to fire 22 people in the next 2 weeks. So we have too much work and they decide to randomly fire 22 more people. Case pickers are already the least appreciated and they want us to stay motivated and pick 1,000 boxes a night?…