Month: July 2023

I currently work for Allied Universal in Jacksonville. Gods, I know. Was a mistake. But they were the only ones willing to hire me at the stage of life I was in. I've been with the company for two and a half years now. However, a few events have begun to pop up that makes me think that AUS is shutting down, or at least is shutting down operations in my area. We've lost security contracts to local, and dare I say more competent, security companies. Half of our vehicle fleet is gone. Even the fleet service company we had dropped us cause our credit went into the toilet. Now my boss is doing a very illegal thing by getting rentals and going around, putting them in guard names instead of in the name of the company. I don't know what I should be doing? Should I try to leave…

I don’t feel comfortable taking on the financial burden of renting a new apartment, because my job is so boring I can barely stay awake to do it. It’s weird because my job is “safe” and “stable”, but renting would eat like 50%+ of my post tax income and it just doesn’t feel safe to rely on a job I absolutely hate when I’m not even able to save money. It’s like I’m working this uber boring job, just earning enough to pay to keep working this boring AF job. I’m not actually getting anywhere with it, i’m so bored and disengaged I can’t muster enough to try for a promotion or anything. There’s like a 0% chance i can find something else that pays as well, with my BA in english i feel stuck because I’m earning a subsistence salary and it’s so fucking boring I’m like emotionally and…

In short my workplace offered a monetary incentive for achieving targets that they would tack onto your monthly salary. We work with customers, so any target achieved already depends on how the client feels on a given day. The target is relatively hard, if you are just short of reaching the incentive target you're entered into a raffle of X amount of money against the rest of the company so you're still “possibly getting something”. The actual incentive money is a good chunk for a pretty low salary. They really didn't expect people to perform this well within the first month of it being introduced, because they are now scrambling to find technicalities for why certain people don't actually qualify for the money. It's yet to be seen if and how many will have it taken away but feels rotten af.

So I'm sitting here next to my SVP brother for a fin tech banking SaaS firm, on his headset in a meeting. Family together after Holiday. They are talking about a payroll company for which they consult, and he just informs then that he's “supposed to discourage them talking about wages” then says there I've done that, and shuts up. That means it's either in the policy manual or in the customer's contact. That's CLEARLY NRLB violation on the former, or torturous interference with contractual obligations (like legal compliance to the government) on the latter. All employers are fuckers.

So I was making 25hr and it was my 6 month review because that's how long I been with the company only six months and I got a 5 dollar raise for my review. My 1 year review is in December and I'm thinking of asking for way more 45hr to ve exact because I feel that's what I'm worth and my hard work shows the 5 dollar raise I got felt like an inflation raise should I let my boss know this about my raise and how I feel about it what you guys think???? I'm in California as an I.T technician

At the end of 2021 I was planning on moving out of state after living in Los Angeles/Southern California for 20 years since I was 8. I was in the process of being laid off from my previous role, and was thinking about the next steps. As I was finalizing my plans to move, I was contacted by one of my old coworkers at a huge multi-media conglomerate that one of our print vendors I had worked with pre-pandemic was looking for an account manager. This is a huge print vendor, known nationwide and has international offices, and I guarantee you that as long as you're not a hermit, you've seen stuff we've done in your mail, at the store, at Trade Shows, Comic Con, Las Vegas, you name it. I told them a salary that would keep me in California and allow me to keep up with the cost…

I have a good, solid, full time job. It’s got it’s ups and downs, but it’s generally pretty laid back. Recently, I got an opportunity to travel internationally for a family event. This is a once in a lifetime kind of trip. I would be gone for 6 working days in total. The dates are during a semi-busy time of year, nothing the team can’t handle, but our year end inventory falls on one of those dates that I’ll be gone. My boss is requesting I make it back for that date (leaving me only 3 days to spend in another country). I told them this is not a possibility and that I need the full 6 days. I’m not sure where to go from here. This trip is extremely important to me. I’m one of their top employees. I work hard, and I never ask for this much time…

Yeah, you read the title. It isn't illegal to hire new people. It isn't illegal to pay them less. It is also not illegal to give them my shifts. I have been with the company for a very long time and I have “grandfather'ed” a high hourly pay. The new employees make two thirds what I make (the company posts their starting salary on Indeed). It is all legal and nothing I can do.