Month: July 2023

This sub has just become “I just got back from Europe and USA sucks” or “I'm a European and I've heard that the USA sucks” The US isn't the worst place for workers rights, Europe and Canada are not much different. Get mad all you want and downvote me to hell; but you're comparing visiting country's versus living/working in one. I have friends in Europe and Canada and they struggle with the same shit us US citizens struggle with. If you want to talk about rising prices, ask and Canadian about their housing situation and how 90% of people cannot afford to own their own home. Or ask Europeans about their fuel bills the past couple years. Yea USA has a lot wrong with it and that's what we want to change here. BUT blasting these comparisons without true facts is absurd. I saw one post about how big cities…

For some context: this is my first job working part time at an ice cream place over the summer. When I received last week's paycheck I noticed it stated that I worked less hours than I thought I did, so I went into the time clock app to double check my hours, as people make mistakes and I believed my employer maybe accidentally made a mistake while adding. After making sure that I was right, I asked my boss about it. She then went on to tell me that she doesn't count minutes, only hours. Meaning the days when I was clocked in for 6 hours and 49 minutes for example would be rounded down to 6 hours. By doing this I effectively lost 4 or 5 hours of pay for the week. My boyfriend, his dad, my dad, and my other friend all told me that this is incredibly…

It's late Sunday evening and I've just checked my work schedule. For reference, I have been working as a leader/camp counselor at a before and after school program/summer camp for 5 months now. The schedule showed the name of a person who, last Friday, slapped a 12 year old boy on his arm after filming the boy's behavior and threatening him with calling authorities (he was pretending a stick was a gun and refused to stop). Being that I am a leader and not a director or even an assistant director, I called my higher-up to explain everything that happened, asking what the next steps are. He said not to worry about it and to have all the kids gather for a meeting to clean up… What does that have to do with the kid who was just physically assaulted by a staff member?!? Overwhelmed, I let three of my…

I started applying for remote jobs for a few months, that obviously didn’t get me anywhere. I went as far as applying for jobs that paid $15/hr (I used to make about $40/ hr) and I was getting nothing. I started thinking well obviously this must be becuase remote work is extremely concentrated and what not. I started applying for onsite and hybrid roles, literally from customer service to what I was doing before I was laid off, but I’m literally not getting anything. Im also noticing entry level doesn’t really mean entry level, u need 2-3 yrs of experience in that field and that’s so confusing. So is this just a me thing?

This is kind of a reverse post as usually I see this question about USA Healthcare. I have a possible opportunity to move to London for work in the near future. However, two things I am hesitant about is that my salary will be significantly less and needing good healthcare as I have a chronic illness I need to be monitored for. I am not familiar about UK Healthcare system and would like to learn more. I have it good compared to others who post here regarding health insurance. My insurance only costs me $130 a month and my out of pocket is nominal. The most I will spend a year is $3500 and that is only if I need a surgery or am hospitalized. That money is also set aside each year in a pre-tax account so I never have to worry about coming up with the funds. I…

“What is this gibberish?” “How do you make the words sound so appealing like that?” When asking someone to submit a design for a digital project, here's how you shouldn't respond: “I don't like it.” (They didn't provide much instruction to begin with on the direction of the project) “That's what she DIDN'T want” (They didn't tell the designer what kind of graphics they should stay away from or what the larger vision was) “I'm going to send this to xyz person (who you are not familiar with) to see what they think.” “I forgot to tell you I asked xyz person to also submit designs for this.” “I think I'll have you work with this person on this project. We're having a hard time gaining customers. Maybe you can help.”

Hi everyone. I've come to this sub-editor to ask a question about people who I hope can give me a decent perspective: I have the opportunity to move to Canada to work from the UK. My husband is a scientist who has a good government job here (environmental sector) with good government benefits including around 30 days of paid vacation. His hesitation about moving to Canada and working there is that he may have to work in less favourable conditions. Are there jobs in Canada where be can work where employees get good working like this? The government? I'm interested in all answers. Thanks.

I have to give them 1 month resignation before I can quit. What reasons should I tell my coworkers that I quit? The real seasons are so I can get other job. Originally I plan to quit once I get a new job but the longer I stay the more I feel mentally drained. Staying at home with no job is also mentally drained too, but at least I can use my free time to prepare for other jobs freely. I don't want to tell them that reason though.

Before I started working at my company, I was promised to get more responsibilities and a new job title after a short period of time. What I lacked was mostly knowledge of their products. I started working there mainly because of the future function that I should get. I wanted to make everything specific in terms of dates, objectives etc but it was not really possible for them. I accepted it and started working hard. After a year I got a function that is in between from where I started and the function I should get. I worked for some time in that “in between” function and in a meeting with my bosses they let me know that I am doing good work but lack experience that is why they will fill the function with someone else. I expressed that I am not happy about that but I did not…