In my first post college job, I received a stellar review after a year of work and got a 12% raise and a 10% bonus. This was over a decade ago. Ever since then, the only avenue I've had to make more money is to hop from job to job. No one will give me a raise, it's not even part of the discussion anymore. Every time I ask for a raise, even just to keep up with inflation, I'm offered $100-$500 holiday bonuses, or told I can leave if it suits me better. I do data work, I'm solidly in the middle class. I don't know if there's a point to this post. I just had this thought last night and I had to put it in wiring. The last time I was offered a raise was at my very first job. Fuck.
Month: July 2023
Faked a “major injury that I can’t recover from” because due to an accident (which I really think is them framing me) my checks have to be cut in half because a dog ate a toy apparently on my watch and it’s 3k to remove it. Meaning I’d have to worn years to pay it off. After 100 hours of work in two weeks I was texted I’ll be paid 200 dollars due to this incident. I quit two days before I had to work again and she’s been spam calling me and calling me ridiculous. I feel bad for lying but I’m genuinely so burned out and I can’t afford to live off such little money, I didn’t want to say that because even if they tripled my salary I don’t want to come back. They said they’ll pay me Thursday but I doubt I’ll ever see that money…
Took a new job in a “very low cost of living” city about 2 years ago with a decent starting salary of ~$100k. This city typically shows up in the top 5 cheapest places to live in the US so I was hoping to finally buy a house. Fast forward to today and my pay has barely increased but everything else has skyrocketed. Seems that a lot of people are moving to the city seeking a more affordable lifestyle. I've been saving for a down payment but housing prices are increasing faster than I can save. More than doubled since 2021. I keep lowering my standards but the homes in my price range truly horrific. Mold everywhere, missing walls, major water damage… I felt like I finally MADE IT with my six figure salary but the American Dream seems less obtainable than ever. At this point I'm just hoping for…
I am one of the most reliable people at my workplace. We are already understaffed and people call out so often (daily! Sometimes for days or weeks) I am always called in early, asked to stay late, or work alone with no support. I can only do this for so long before I emotionally and mentally fizzle out and I HAVE TO “chuck a sickie” because I’M SO FUCKING TIRED! No I don’t have food posing. No, I don’t have covid, no I don’t have to rush my dog to the vet. All completely legit reasons to call out of work and no one bats an eye lid. No, IM FUCKING EXHAUSTED. My body aches, my brain can’t take any more, my nerves are shot. I had to waste a doctors appt to get a fucking sick note because I had to walk the fuck out of work today because…
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Nothing like mandatory overtime.
Oh you want me to try even less than I am now? game on!
Basically, my brother works for a pizza delivery place. An order came for the other driver who wasn’t there at the time(later found out to be sleeping in his car) so my brother asked his manager if he should go ahead and take the delivery and he said yes. So he took the delivery, then when he got back the other driver showed up and complained that he was stealing their deliveries and the manager told my brother that since he was stealing deliveries, all of his tips for the night were getting taken away and given to the other driver. Is that wage theft?
I work at a grocery store and every quarter, we get a bonus depending on how much money the store made those 3 months, and the bonus is a certain percentage. I am SEETHING because full-timers got a few hundred (one of them got $850), while me and other part-timers barely got $100 (I got like $80). I am TIRED of corporate treating part-timers like ABSOLUTE SHIT. part-timers cover shifts, help a LOT more, a lot of other differences than full-time who just do ONE thing. Why not just give everyone the same amount??? Part-timers could use that money too, it's not just teenagers working part-time!!!!!! I am SO fucking over it.
