Month: July 2023

My husband was fired from his job in January of 2021 after 10+ years, because we got Covid and he was down for the count for like a month. 2 weeks ago, out of the blue, one of the higher ups sent him a text, asking him to reach out because she hadn't talked to him in a year. Yesterday I found his old job being advertised for $5 more than what he was making when he was fired (this is the 3rd time since he was fired Ive seen it advertised). My husband was a construction manager. He took the job at 19, so he wasn't aware of the real value his work and position had. When he was fired, he was making $17/hr. It's been a year and a half and they're realizing they can't get anyone else to do that job for less than 30. I told…

Hi folks! I've been with my org for a few years now. They've had some missteps, but for the most part are decent. They recently put out a revised conflict of interest policy requiring “staff act in accordance with duty of loyalty to the organization”. I'm sorry, LOYALTY? Loyalty is to be earned, not enforced, and orgs should be loyal to their staff and not the other way around. Tomorrow there's a meeting where they will be presenting this to us to sign. Any thoughts on how to respond in a way that I both keep my job, and get this changed for other folks?

“Hi OP, I didn't realize that your vacation request was all unpaid time off. Goal reduction is given for PTO but if you are taking time outside that there will not be a reduction. Also, I don't want to get into situations where people are taking time off solely to get a reduction to their goal. If you want to take unpaid time please fill out this leave of absence form and Joanie and I will review it. Thank you!” ​ As clarification, we had a 1:1 and discussed that the request was put in for unpaid time off but to fill as many hours as possible with what was in my bank at time of approval for that check. I requested 54 hours off in total but had about 19 PTO in my bank. We had to cancel our vacation but was considering keeping the time off anyway.. just…

Other post got taken down, just going to copy-paste what the review I posted mentions to save you all the time of a full story. Honestly ridiculous that managers can still get away with this. “While Silent H offers good food and a nice atmosphere, I would strongly suggest dining elsewhere for the reasons below. Unfortunately, management has taken it upon themselves to make the lives of their employees miserable. When dining out, you would expect your tips to be distributed among those who are working hard to make your experience great. However, management has taken it upon themselves that their salary is simply not enough, giving themselves a healthy share of the tip pool! In addition, many support employees (in black and white) are making as little as $30 a week in tips, while many servers have an inflated percentage of tip out to compensate for the management’s share!…

To keep this short, my fiancée was not feeling good a night she was scheduled to work because she is pregnant and she is going through more than just “Morning sickness”. The manager then told her she needed to pick up a shift and come into work to get the hours she missed and scheduled her without asking on a day she normally doesn’t work. Something just seems off about a pregnant woman not feeling good and can’t come into work, furthermore telling her she needs to come in to pick up another shift to re-gain her hours. Looking for your thoughts and what you would think about the situation.

Currently working a job that I dislike greatly. Coworkers are racist and very political while I sit at my desk in silence/feeling uncomfortable 🙂 I have been looking at jobs for a couple months. Gone through many phases of either applying to everything I can or the downing periods of applying to a couple a week. It seems most job postings out there are scams. Most “opportunities” in my area are showing pay starting at $15… Not ideal at all as I would like to at least make the cost of living. Does anyone have a luck with a specific website or tactic to find a job that doesn’t have scummy factors? I have just moved my remaining savings into my checking account to make ends meet. Not that I need to defend myself but I don’t spend my money recklessly enough to be struggling this much. It’s almost like…

Yep. The past month or so has been getting increasingly more awful here, a place where you both live at and work for. One of my coworker friends got a gun last night, and before someone came out to help us with talk therapy today, corperate started throwing us a pizza party before 11am. Our friend died. This morning they already got the humane society to sieze his pets & have been getting his property removed off the lot. It hasn't even been 16 hours yet.

Here's a set of laws that should exist because it's common sense and would help nearly everyone. This is U.S. specific, because that's where I live. These aren't meant to be set in stone, each one is just an example of a strategy that I think could be effective. A lot of the details would have to be discussed and tweaked prior to implementation. Which is a funny thing to say about some hypothetical “laws” that I'm making up for internet theory-crafting. Any living space (house, apartment, condo) that has nobody living inside of it for longer than three months, triggers a 10% Hoarding Fee each month it remains unoccupied. This helps keep housing costs reasonable and prevents a lot of exploitative bullshit. Wealth greater than 100 million dollars is taxed at 100%. Providing HUGE funding increase to the government, which could be used for All welfare systems are abolished…

The CSUEU is fighting for student worker rights as well as many others. If you are a CSU student at any campus, please sign this petition in solidarity as every student is a potential student worker. The CSU has increasingly leaned on its student populations as a supplemental workforce, and will assuredly increase in use during a strike period. Petition for better conditions and help avoid a strike! Even if you do not intend to work for the CSU, these issues do and will only further impact your educational pursuits.