Month: July 2023

Felt inspired to tell this story by a comment talking about the binary natures of customer reviews being split between 5/5 or the worst thing ever. Back in 2017, I worked at McDonald's. Corporate for all the Canadian branches wanted to change the image since they wanted to capitalize on that 18-30, starbucks-y type demographic. They introduced things like artisan coffees, larger bakery selection and “Guest Experience Leaders” I was hired and made the primary GEL for weeknights. My job was to clean tables, get condiments, open doors, get confused for the manager and take the shit, and get reviews. I was supposed to get reviews by bribing customers with shitty coupons and bakery items we were about to throw out. The problem is they wanted 5 perfect reviews a night and most people didn't want to do them. Sometimes I'd get people to do them and we'd get a…

I’ve worked in kitchens my whole life. Fine dining in NYC and LA. Everyone I’ve worked for has been TOUGH and I’ve always been too nice to say no to anything. I’ve worked way more hours than I’ve liked and let these POS chefs manipulate and gas light me into thinking everything is my fault and I’m not good enough. Almost 8 years later and I manage a kitchen but I’m burnt out. I need a mental health day some time so I don’t go crazy. I can feel it affecting my mental health more than ever. But the thought of calling off or “letting my kitchen down“ looms in my mind and gives me anxiety. I know I should put my health first but I’m struggling to. I’ll take any advice I can get. Thank you.

Need suggestions, brainstorming for a little pump up strike playlist. So far I've figured out which NIN songs go on the playlist but I'd like it to be insanely long. Any ideas? I'll be adding to it for about three weeks

Following my previous post about commission theft, I wanted to know if it's illegal to modify currency exchange rate to their advantage? In my case they had to pay me 20% of 1500€ which makes it 300€. My currency is 1€=50units. So it should be 15,000 units paid in my currency. They counted 1500€ = 1500units which makes it 1€ =1unit instead of 1€=50units and paid me 300units instead of 15,000units. So is this legal? Changing 1€=50units to 1€=1unit so that they pay me less? I want to know because I don't see a section about it in my country's workers' rights act.

idk what i want to do i dont have good work ethic left alot of jobs fired from alot have depression dont want to work yet need to do something in life would like to travel mabye live overseas

For the past 6 months, my off days have been Sat and Sun. Before that it was Sun Mon. My boss told me on the 28th, that starting July, my schedule would revert back to Sun Mon. I told her I couldn't as I have another job during the weekends. She got mad and said “Ok. I understand you have you another job. We need to talk in person moving forward and with signing paper next time, if you saying you don't remember. It's my bad to trust people without signings paper. Next time I will keep in mind. I can not promise keep you Monday through Friday if you can not back to what was your schedule as we agreed was temporary. I will let you know about it when I'm done with July schedule. Thank you. ” We stopped talking after this text. The temporary thing is a…

It's a washroom management company, so we empty used sanitary product bins, top up soaps, air fresheners and install dryers. Last year's pay rise was not very good in this high inflation situation (3%) and we lost a few staff members because of it (team of 12, 2 retired, 2 straight up quit). Since then the workload increased on the remaining staff and one older staff member got a hernia. Then another had a crash in their van (down to rushing). Now there are just 6 of us trying to cover 12 positions. The firm is struggling to hire and when we do get a new staff member, they leave pretty quickly due to the workload. When I floated the idea that pay needs to increase to make the job more attractive to potential employees, the boss's response was “can't afford that”. Now I'm no math genius, but he's saving…

I work at a very small independent cafe, we hardly make £200 some days, and the days are very quiet. I am on my own all day. I have started having more smoke breaks, eating their food (most of it is thrown out on wastage anyway) and reading books during my shift. I know there’s no cameras but what are the likelihood that there would be hidden ones? Based in the UK

Seriously, when did words like “employee” and “job” change to “associate” and “role”? Language around work has subtly been changed to subconsciously create a more equal relationship between employee and employer instead of transactional (how it actually is) and we all kind of accepted it… or more like it was forced on us… But my question is, when did this actually happen? Its like I blinked and now companies had switched to this language. It feels like a Bernstein bears situation.