Month: July 2023

My wife(23) who has anxiety/PCOS/ and heart palpitations has recently been promoted to manager of a KY area Payday Loan office. Her office is part of a small strip of stores with the backs facing a small sheep pasture so the back storage area of the store gets a ton of bugs. The worst part, we believe a brown recluse laid eggs back there cause there has seen so many. They have been using Raid spray back there (almost daily) for over two weeks. The store doesn’t have functional A/C or airflow in the back so all the fumes either sit there or waft to the front when they have the front door open. She texted me saying the District Manager told her and her assistant to “just spray ourselves” when she told her about how many were back there and in the boxes. My wife didn’t fully understand the…

I've been with my job five years. I do make decent money to provide for myself and my little family. I have enjoyed my job for a long time. I work extremely hard and have good attendance. My coworkers and managers have had nothing but good things to say about me and my work ethic. The thing is back in early 2020 I made my interest of being promoted known to my managers. I have been in “development” since 2021. Moving all over the place learning various roles, taking on some projects. A spot that opened up almost a year ago in my department while i was in development for that position went to someone who had never worked my department before. I was told it was because she was 2% ahead of me in training. Ive seen other people who have gotten promoted never have to do what ive…

So I’ll keep this short but looking for suggestions. My wife works for a large retail pharmacy. Her grandmother passed away last week and they are having a service next Wednesday. She informed her district manager of needing time off but was told to speak with the person who makes the schedule because she wasn’t sure if there would be coverage. The person making the schedule says she cannot find someone to cover her shift. It’s only one day she would need covered. Her employee handbook says she can have 3 days unless unable to accommodate. So she is stuck working or switching with another pharmacist to cover her shift. I should also mention we have a mini vacation scheduled for the couple days after the following week. We are transplants so we would need to travel to the funeral.

Hello I’m an employer (yes I know I’m the enemy). I treat my employees fair. For the most part they are all okay with me except for 1. Just an attitude towards me. Doesn’t like me or respect me but I will admit he does his job well, that’s why I keep him around. Anyways, my phone is a bit old now and was low on battery. I saw an empty charger, so I used it. 20 minutes later that employee comes up to me demanding I pay for using his charger. He said I had no right to use it and I need to compensate him for using his charger. I didn’t say anything. I took me phone away. Am I in the wrong here?

This is my personal experience only Most places that have personal days, say they “prefer” if you schedule them in advance. Unless it's written in the manual, that it must be scheduled, it doesn't have to be. If you have a no fault attendance policy , you don't have to say why you wont be there. Unless you are actually sick and have a Dr note. You do not have to sign a write up, if you don't agree with it. Signing it means you agree with it If your workplace has a strict late policy, where 1 min late is an occurrence/ point : When / if you are late, make it with it. ( If you can afford too) Don't rush and be 30 min late. Be a few hrs late, because 1 min has the same point value as being 3 hrs late.

I've had this theory for years now. It came to me originally when I escaped retail work and got my first office job. You can tell how much a job values you based on the toilet paper they provide you. When I worked retail, first at Subway as a “sandwich artist”, then Target as an “electronic specialist”, then later as a manager at GameStop there were two things I noticed. First, all three companies treated me with contempt and were more concerned that I might be stealing from them than if I had the resources to do my job properly. Secondly, the toilet paper sucked. Later, when I got a cushy data entry job at Chase bank I noticed two similar things: my bosses were far nicer to me and the toilet paper was a little nicer. The more jobs I've had the more I've noticed a relationship between how…

Edit: This is not about me working these many jobs, I am talking about a DIGITAL MARKETING START UP i was hired in, whose founder doesn’t have businesses or people as clients, but is working in atleast 8 work from jobs currently (as digital marketing associate or more) at the same time, and passing over that work to us (her employees under her Founded company) to complete. I started working at a digital marketing startup (started by two women) in November last year, at first i was very interested to know how are they getting these American clients, maybe I can do the same in the future, but then I realised my employer was working as an employee in at-least 6-7 different companies at one time and allocating that work to us, whenever i asked them, are they not our clients? are we working under them? they said we are…

I developed some tetanitis in my right hand wrist. I have a desk job that is likely the cause. Before I file workman's comp report what are some pitfalls I should consider? I don't want to rock the boat but I also don't want the company to dick me over. Thanks!