Month: July 2023

I’m a Dutch guy with astma and a back disc hernia atm waiting for surgery. I always loved America, I have family and friends living in the west coast and I try to visit as often as I can. I’m in love with San Diego and always wanted to try to immigrate and live and work there. Until I followed this and multiple subreddits about the working and living conditions of Americans. I have a severe case of asthma which means I need to medicatie daily. I pay the minimum for that here in the Netherlands. I also have a hernia for the 2nd time. Both times I’m unable to work for more than 4 hours and being a total of 14 months in sick leave that have been paid in full by my employer. The surgery that I’m getting is not crippling me financially, it’s only costing me about…

Hello everyone, Can you help me find a good excuse to not attend a seminar dinner that is scheduled to finish at 1 am? I need a reason that cannot be questioned. I don't want to spend time with my shitty boss and coworkers who have been annoying me lately + i live far away.

Tax Cuts are some of the most popular welfare programs out there. It helps that unlike other welfare programs, these measures don't get periodically maligned by think tanks and the like. But as noble as tax payers funding the rich sounds. I think we can all agree that means testing are always necessary for some reason. We don't want the wrong types to be getting a benefit. According to theorists, the intention of Tax Cuts is that we want the economics to 'trickle down' so how about we add means testing to make it trickle faster? First we must make sure that the recipient of a tax cut actually needs it. We could measure the number of people actually being employed by a rich person and if require that this number is high enough before giving the tax break. But we also want to make sure the rich person actually…

Long story short, Our new boss left a high quality, high paying job for a new position at our corporation. He had been in his position a long time and did good work. First week in, he was complaining that employees aren't loyal anymore. He just didn't get it. They leave on a moments notice for more pay, benefits, anything really. Two months later our company laid him off with no notice, after just two months, and outsourced all of our jobs to a cheaper third party. He now understands why no one is loyal anymore. He's lost his job, his career, and the has nothing to show for his hard work, just like the rest of us. I feel bad for him, but it's just the new normal. He gets it now. Loyalty is earned and no one is earning it these days.

Long time listener first time caller. I want to preface with, my job is 90% great boss is pretty laid back, schedule is usually good, and more importantly the pay is nearly double what I used to make. I work as a parts salesman for a dealership (previous job assistant store manager at an Autozone) my pay is entirely commission, based on the gross profit of the entire department which works out pretty well to around 55k. But my annoyance is more to do with holidays, we’re open Monday-Saturday but we each get one day off other than Sunday, but for some reason when a holiday (like the 4th) comes up and our department is closed I have to work Saturday as though I had taken Tuesday for a personal day. My boss explained it as “we’re not hourly so we don’t technically get paid for that day so you…