Month: July 2023

worked in a Kelsey's restaurant in a different city for about a year. I've always been good about my attendance through my working life but this place had pushed me to the limit. It had been a toxic work environment created by the general manager and owner running the restaurant in two different directions and talking crap about each other. And I had even had an arrangement with them for a fixed yet unofficial salary. Basically so I could work overtime and not get paid the overtime pay. That way they would give me more than 40 hours. But after about 6 months working 6 days a week and an entire month even working 7, I wanted five days a week. And defycluld have fulfilled my 50 hours within five days. But my general manager who was very toxic, wouldn't give me 2 days off a week. At the time…

I have been thinking about this alot lately. Im living in Turkey and working in a company based in Turkey. As might some of you know Turkey have one of the most inhumane working hours around the globe, maximum of 45 hours a week. Everything evolves around this, you can only get payed overtime after this is achieved, even after that, it is only if you can. No hourly wage is determined, highly open to elaboration mostly ends up with employer being right. It is already too much having to work for 45 hours in a week, and developed countries with 36 hours of worktime going forward and trying 4 days of work, Turkey only gets worse about the subject as echonomy worsens. Shouldn't we have some sort of globalized syndicate, or something like it that have enough force to provoke employers for better working conditions? Isn't that already a…

What is this? Is this literally just a doomscrollfest where we all post about how awful working life is in this world? Don't we already know that? What actually happens in here? What are we going to do? Why don't I see more people asking these questions? I understand the truly overwhelming state of problems people face, I have personally experienced them, and will do so again. It really feels like very few people have any energy to fight, like everything driving any indignant rage either has no guidance, objective, or has no real willpower behind it. I see this in my generation, in the next generation, and it will be in their children too. Does anyone actually want to do something? Do you have ideas about what could be done, if we mobilized this sub? I understand that taking to the streets is both foolish and pointless, but this…

I see this far too often that some of want change and are ready to fight for it, but only through peaceful measures. That isn't possible We are not only enslaved by wages and lack of rights, but are told to do things peacefully while they destroy the Earth, separate families, poison our food, hoard housing etc etc etc the list of misdeeds under capitalism is too long. How can you peacefully protest and wait every other year to “vote smarter”? How many petitions do we need to sign so we can have economic freedom? It's clear. They don't want us to have shit. It's easier to keep us oppressed when we're not burning down their city-blocks worth of residential property they don't live in, or us collectively striking on work or labor. It's too easy to bully the kid who's told to just ignore them We have to fight…

This is just a little rant about my awfully low paycheck this month. We have a different currency, so it's gonna be higher number, but in reality it's smaller (1€= 23 of my currency). So, my base is 35,000 and 29,000 is what I normally gets after taxes. That's my base. This month I have 50 hours overtime from on-call shifts (getting 1/3 of my normal hour rate while on-call). I went on work trip to two countries (over 4K kilometres with car. Each trip I drove 16 hours in total) One of the trip wasn't even planned. I just went to work and was told I am goin on trip. I was gone 5 days (2 and 3) And my pay? I was expecting 38K and today I have received only 31,000. That's about 75$ for extra 50 hours of work and 5 days of driving…. And this month…

I just started working for this company that hired me to be their bar manager. They are trying to be a different type of restaurant and bar then what we have in the area. My issues aren’t just with how they are handling tipping, but this is where I will start. So for instance “tipping” isn’t encouraged but “allowed”. We have one of the paragraphs at the bottom of our menu that states “we pay a living wage and blah blah blah this is why everything is expensive.” My bartenders and bar backs were asking about the tips because they regularly see 2 big ass beer steins full of money, yet are being told “tips are split”. The cash tips are all taken by my bosses to be split up and the credit card tips too. My thing is the TAXES for credit card tips and how can the be…