Month: July 2023

I have been late a handful of times, mostly 15 minutes, but a couple of 45 minute late arrival times. Honestly, I was just not feeling the job. I work with troubled kids and one of them sliced her wrist in front of me. The kids are sometimes rude and waking up to that can be hard. But trust me, I know that the response with the most leverage behind it is: this is your job, you do what you gotta do, this is what you signed up for, and you can always walk away. A lot of times, this feels like a mentally manipulative response because, of course, you “can” walk away, but the it's not the results of that will always work out for you, and I have been looking for another job, but I don't want to quit. I want the conditions to be better. It is…

Hi everyone. I’m a housekeeper at a motel. When I come into work I’m given a checklist of tasks and when I finish them I ask if there’s any more work for me to do. My boss typically schedules me 10-3 but often I’m only given work that keeps me there until 12. I’m in MA and heard from another housekeeper about a law (454 CMR 27.04 1) that if I’m sent home early they need to pay “show up pay” and pay me for three hours regardless. That has never happened. I was speaking with another housekeeper and our boss has been doing that for her. I just wanted advice on how to bring this up to my boss (preferably through text because I don’t like confrontation). My boss is already very passive aggressive to me and I don’t want her to be nasty to me over it but…

I'm in college. I wanted to work during the holidays, but they don't want me anywhere. They call, say they will get back to you, but the phone is silent. It's hard for me to find a job because of health problems. I would prefer to work from home, but the only remote offer is a call center, where you have to humiliate yourself to make money. I'm still financially dependent on my parents and it just depresses me.

Don’t know if this is quite the right story for this sub, but figured I’d post it and see what everyone thinks. This happened a couple of years ago. My boss owns several stores. Where I worked which was about a 20 minute drive from home, I delivered construction material. One of the other stores they owned that’s in the town I live in, delivers house hold stuff like appliances and furniture. And important to note, where I worked, we closed 1 hour before the other store. They seemed to think that because I lived in the town as the other store, I’d drop everything to help them out. That afternoon closer to 1pm, one of my coworkers told me the other store phoned, telling me I had to help with a delivery in their last few hours, past the time when my store closes. I send a message to…

Or am I just mentally ill

I am suing my boss for wrongful termination. This week we have a trial.., but I happened to see my boss being extremely happy today. This is different from the expectation I had. I thought the company would have done something to her by now (such as suspension) after seeing what she has done to me. I have all the evidence of her wrongdoing. The company did not care. EEOC told me to forget about EEOC and move on with my life until they call me a year later or so. My lawyer said we will have a good lawsuit, but the way company allows her to continue in her position makes me believe this may not be true. What is the meaning of lawsuit? I feel like nothing will change as no one cares