Month: May 2023

My siblings recently had a fight about what the cause of inflation (one thought it was corporate greed, other thought it was rising wages) and it got me thinking about the differences between economic policy in the US and Europe. I’m not quite sure if this is the right subreddit to put this, but I would like to come up with a list of economic policies to research and compile. Is there any work-related economic policy you wish your place of residence implemented, whether it be on the federal, state, or county/district level? For example, I would like to have the minimum wage tied to the value of the dollar.

I get shipments of pretty high value products. Well, this shipment was missing about $5000 worth of product from a supplier. I called our back office to let them know of the large discrepancy. They tell me “just mark it as there and it will arrive on another PO.” To which I said no. There's no way in marking $5000 worth of product as delivered when I didn't receive it, that's a huge amount, and this was only in a phone call not email where I'd have proof when my location is short the merchandize and money. So I marked it as missing. 3 days letter I get a call from some pissy back office manager yelling about it, but I STILL hadn't received any of the missing items. Absolutely wild, and my spineless boss wouldn't say a thing. Just “shrug it off'”

I've worked in manufacturing for the same billion dollar company for just over a decade, hitting 11 years next month. We are not union. I have been pushing for a union here since I became a permanent employee after my 2nd. I managed to get two card checks here, both which ended up failing. In all honestly, I've sort of given up the last couple years. Even as non-union manufacturing, we make decent pay and benefits here. And in the past the company always had very strict rules which were never broken….they were enforced by supervisors, managers, HR, etc. It was honestly very similar to working for a union company. For example you could never be fired for simply calling out, unless you went through quite a long line of discipline. Everyone gets 40 hours of personal time in January (this is separate from vacation time). It can't be denied.…

i think about harming every customer that is rude to me a concerning amount and i didn’t have these kind of thoughts prior. it’s recently been spilling to my personality outside of work

Hi guys Just a simple question for my Canadians, I was recently let go from my job on May 12th without cause and was told that as per provincial law that I was to receive my severance pay yesterday. I contacted HR and she said she will try her best to get me paid but payroll is pushing for next pay period and I need the money to pay my bills. Legally they had 2 weeks after my termination to pay me and haven't what do I do now ?

This happened a few years ago but thought it was super appropriate for this sub. The owner of my company, Craig, was and continues to be a complete moron. He hired me for a position (community manager) that wasn’t what I applied for or interviewed for (regional property manager) making 65k. Once this got sorted out I took over the right position but continued to make the same amount of money for 15x the work. I had just started in a new city so there was only so much stink I was willing to raise about this. I had a community manager under me making 60k + $50 a lease so it was fully in her potential to make as much or more than me. She managed 3 buildings, I managed 12 with 10+ staff. 6 months in I had taken over several new buildings and Craig recruited a community…

Just accepted a job at a factory. Same one my significant other works for, so I am somewhat familiar with their policies and benefits already. While reading over the official offer letter that details and outlines pay and benefits and so forth, I noticed that some of the policies about benefits and holidays weren't listed on the offer. With that being said my real problem in all of this is one policy that has to do with paid holidays off that are seperate from voluntary PTO (Christmas, labor day, etc…). There policy according to what my SO has told me is, you must work the shift before and shift after to be eligible for a company paid holiday. Seems fishy. Idk. I had planned on using 3 days of voluntary PTO along with the paid leave for Labor Day later this year for a small vacation with my family. Now…

Students' last day was yesterday. Grades were due Friday last week. I've spent the afternoons this week tidying classroom and prepping for summer school. We had to come in today, and so far I've been sitting by myself in my classroom browsing reddit for 2 hours. I guess I did clean my keyboard.