Month: July 2023

I’ve been working as a domestic worker for a single family for 8 years now. Pay and benefits are great, but my bosses are rather toxic ppl. I’m rarely addressed and when I am, it’s usually for purpose of ritual humiliation and mockery. My work was never reviewed, or given any feedback (except negative when they find an opportunity to do so). Basically I feel like I’m working in a vacuum. I’m solely responsible for technical maintenance and hygiene of their 20K sqft home, plus additional properties. They haven’t fired me yet, so I guess they are satisfied with my performance (in their way.) It’s a “new money” millionaire family, they’ve inherited family business and now just skimming off profits and living off stock market dividends. They have at least a 10K other employees who are severely underpaid (from what I overheard). As much I’m enjoying my salary and benefits,…

I’ve seen a lot of posts about wage theft regarding being “on-call” to answer emails, calls, and text messages from supervisors and coworkers. I want to be non-confrontational since I just received a promotion but I feel as though I should be paid when answering emails or messages on days that I’m not scheduled to work. How do I go about this or am I wrong since answering these communications only takes a couple of minutes? It would feel silly to clock in to respond to an email but all the minutes I spend will add up significantly after a few months.

Is it bad? I want to learn new things that I don't use in the area (I don't have the software to use) but that are related to what I do and are important in career development, during the time I have nothing to do. I stay at work from home most days and I have my personal pc nearby, I could even do the Teams trick of having a meeting with myself and using my pc but I don't think I'm doing anything to have to hide it, besides not being practical to switch between computers. The only thing is that I want to use the courses I bought and for that I'm going to use my personal email to log in, which I don't even think is absurd, since the company even offers udemy for employees but I don't want to have to do it there. But tell…

I've applied to over 200 jobs by now, trying to get a remote job that pays at least 13 to 15 bucks an hour. I don't live in the US, and I've applied on every app and site. With my biggest get so far being a phishing email. I need a better job than what I have now, like, almost half of my monthly salary goes to medical expenses and I earn less than 7bucks an hour. So I really need the help.

So i found a workplace on indeed and wen applying it asks for the gender. Im not sure how they think this is correct. And also how is this going to effect my application. What do you think?

Sorry for potential grammar mistakes English is not my first language. I started a job at Mac Donald’s to pay rent a few months ago, I absolutely hate every second of it but it’s my only option for now. Usually when a public holiday is near they would ask everyone if they’re ok working on that day and since I despise that job I would always refuse to work on public holiday. This time they simply didn’t ask and me and now I’m finding out that my day off is going to be an 8h shift instead of going out with friends. I wouldn’t even be mad working that day if that was for a good cause, if my job was useful but it’s not. They decided to make money on that day and I have to work for them on a day I’m not supposed to and I don’t…

I want to make clear that I am NOT endorsing or supporting any form of violence. Now that that’s clear; people are slowly becoming homeless and the “American dream” is dead for the majority of the workforce below the age of 50. Meanwhile the 1% is so outrageous wealthy that they couldn’t spend all their money even if they tried. At what point do we as a society get tired of hearing “Let them eat cake” and pull out the block and stockade? Do we wait until the number of homeless exceeds the number of those with houses? Do we wait until starvation is a day away instead of a week away? This post is not meant to incite violence, I only mean to ask: at what point does outrage become action?