NPR interviews Rev. William Barber of the Poor People's Campaign about why the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up in more than a decade. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191034086/14-years-ago-the-federal-minimum-wage-was-raised-to-7-25-an-hour-it-hasnt-change
I work as a cable technician, starting out I make around $20 an hour. Work isn't horrible, to be honest, it's the best job I've had out of all 12 or 13 jobs I've had over my life. It is physically demanding and I have fears of destroying my body and whatnot in this field as my family has a history of arthritis and chronic pain early on, I already experience this and I'm in my early 20s. In the long run, I want to work to live, but not kill myself doing it. I could rent in my area, but it seems like a waste while I'm living at home as I want to own a house. 20 an hour is okay but not nearly enough to live comfortably on my own, I'm working on finding someone to move out with. Does anyone else work in a similar field?…
Like the title says. I am a diesel mechanic for a small trucking company. Been here 3 years. They helped me get my class A recently. I really have learned a lot here. But they hired a new manager about a year ago. He made me shop supervisor last October when they hired two teenagers still in tech school. Including my manager there are only 4 techs. Ever since the promotion he just sits at his desk all day. Talking to his girlfriend, scrolling through tiktok, does his work as far as putting repair orders into the system but dicks around on his phone for at least half the day. Otherwise he expects me to deal with everything in the shop. All drivers come to me with complaints, the other 2 techs come to me for all help and their next tasks. Everything that goes wrong in the shop is…
Why do places that know they rely on adults to run, like coffee shops that need people in when kids are at school, pay so little? It doesn't help that the place I applied through had the job posted for $11 an hour. My sibling works here and makes $11 an hour (though they lied and said sib was making $11.50.) Do they think we can't see how much we're making? HR literally shows you how to do that during orientation… Do they think we're dumb?
Don’t know how people study full time and work 5 days. I’m getting anxiety about my uni studies right now. I don’t wanna drop classes cause then that’s gonna push me back graduating another 6 months when I’m already behind on schedule and have pushed back graduating 12 months already by not completing many classes the last 2 semesters and I don’t wanna not drop them but end up failing them cause I’m over whelmed with working too much. Idk what to do. I’m feeling overwhelmed. I already struggle with adhd so everything is already overwhelming without factoring this in. I’m dreading going to work tomorrow. I have lectures all this week and they’ve rostered me on 6 days this week. And if I cancel shifts I’m made to feel bad. I honestly just feel like saying fuck them and ghosting. I’m having a mental breakdown. I do this with…
Please remove if this doesn't really fit but I feel like I've seen similar posts here before so I thought I'd look for opinions. I am currently a trainee and have started working on a project that won't finish until next June, if not later. My current contract finishes at the end of September but my department head is personally interested in keeping me on in a temporary position, i.e.6-8 months with possibility of renewal, to continue on the project, so I've been told I shouldn't worry about job continuity. But I am also an expat, meaning 1. there's no real future for me with them because only local citizens can have a permanent contract and 2. I need work contracts, etc. to stay in this country, meaning if it doesn't work out, I am unemployed and a bit screwed, while for them business will go on as normal. Of…
Worked at a race facility for about a year, maybe 2. A few months before I quit, there was a huge management change. Old manager who trained me and “took me under his wing” had left for better opportunities. New management was a mix of promotions from within and some being “buddy buddy” with other management who were already there. Buddy buddy guys, came in and turned the place upside down. Being as they were just friends with others, they had no idea what they were doing. No idea about the facility, about general rules to racing etc. Just plain incompetent. A few months in, I was I guess, one of the senior most employees left there still. I knew the place inside and out and could run high level events by myself. But I was treated like shit by the new buddy buddy management this entire time. I was…
If you want to get mad about tipping culture, use that anger to help us servers get better pay. Advocate for us. It isn't our fault that our literal lives DEPEND on tips and it isn't yours either. It's our awful employers that think justifying 3 dollars an hour with tips is acceptable. I hate being a server but it's the only available job in my area. Half of your tips don't even go to me. They go to the government through taxes. I want a livable wage and so does every server. I'm not an IT specialist, or a nurse, I cook and clean and serve. I'm aware it isn't as hard as other jobs. But I deserve a livable wage and so does every other server. We all need to collectively strike against waitress wages and abolish them. No more tips. Just a livable wage. I don't want…
So I was fired from a landscaping job about a month ago because one of the managers hated me, and I need a little revenge. One of my options is to egg one of the bathrooms in the parks we maintained, or the other is to basically text my old boss saying that he is a worthless piece of shit and he’ll never amount to anything in life. Either way I need to prove that they will not get away with this and it’s not like they’ll give me a good reference anyways so might as well burn bridges while we’re at it
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