Month: July 2023

I've read all the latest posts of this sub. What I understood from all this is that the USA isn't the land of dreams anymore. Most young Americans live paycheck by paycheck and struggle to survive and feel so exhausted and tired, working so hard for nothing. Workers rights in general seem to be much worse than most countries of Europe and most bosses do whatever they want. Inflation is unaffordable and there's no free healthcare or higher education. How do you stand all this ? What's your plans for the future?

Before anything, long time lurker & first time poster. Also obligatory on mobile, so apologies for formatting. Will do my best. Apologies as well for length, looking for advice I think? And if this type of post is t allowed, just point me where to go. Brief backstory: Worked for a national plumbing company, and was laid off a week before Thanksgiving. Couldn’t find a job, until roughly April. So I’m currently in a bit of a pickle, and I think it’s really starting to get to me. After getting laid off back in November, I struggled to find a job for literal months and it was ridiculous. I ended up landing a job with a company that does hot tub repairs, dishing out a measly 40k/yr salary (I live in SoCal) and was being ran ragged for it. Driving anywhere from 5 miles, upwards of 600 miles a day…

A coworker today answered the phone but told the person she could barely hear them. Next thing, she's yelling into the phone “I can hear you, you don't have to yell at me! Well you yelled at me first!” No matter how rude or loud a customer gets with me, I try to stay calm and collective or just get a manager….

it’s been a while since i posted on here (mainly because my job isn’t a hellish worksite anymore thanks to university standards & union rules) but nevertheless upper management continues to astound me on how stupid they are all, considering they get paid 6 figures to make the ‘best’ decision. my supervisor has been showing signs of getting burnt out for a couple of months, like he’s been here for 15+ years, starting from the bottom and working his way to a supervisor position. Him and one other supervisor are the only ones who have been here for more than two years. They’ve gone through 20+ supervisors in the past FIVE YEARS. my supervisor is absolutely the sweetest thing and really is looking out for the people under him (knows realistic expectations and doesn’t want us to work harder than our wages) at my annual review he finish the meeting…

So it is said do what you love and you will never work a day in your life. Well I’m in college for my passion. Media production. And I needed a job to place scratch in my pocket. Well I ended up at a local restaurant. That is yellow and black. You know the one. Well my co-workers were. Well let’s just say not my favorite people. Aside from a few. Now I told them going in I can only work 3rd that’s it and well they switched me to 2nd. Now I wouldn’t of minded. But again full time college student folks. And this new hours started to afffect more then classes. My home life as well I rent a room and have two awesome roommates. And I have been slacking on my half of the chores. Ever since my new hours. And my roommates. Understand. But that’s not…

I work as a student worker at a university through the engineering department. We often get a lot of packages for students and faculty. We get about 10-40 packages a day. My job role is the front desk and I’m responsible for processing packages. The problem is that our system is done on paper. The fiscal staff emails us paperwork that lists the person’s name which is the recipient of the package. The name on the package does not list the recipient, but it has the name of the fiscal staff since it is ordered through the department. We are given a part order number on the paperwork which is our reference to finding the package associated with it. We have to look through the label and packing slip for the PO number to match the paperwork. It’s our only way of figuring out who the order goes to. The…

No joke at all. I was prompt, always willing to work OT, etc. The shop itself was very prominently Nepali immigrants, the in-house supervision (two guys) were both Muslim, no problem! Until I heard them talking about the “ridiculous white Christian” that always works over. Im not kidding, at all. I went to HR who also happened to be the plant managers daughter, she stated they were basically immune because they’d kept the place running for so long. I was suspended after reporting it. I quit, and went to pick my toolbox up and was sitting in the lobby, the door opens and the HR woman walks out with both of the supervisors and says “Oh, look who’s here to help you with your tools!”. I wish that I was more aware of the world when this happened. Alas, it’s been a decade since and the company went under shortly…

So Friday yay! Cant wait for the bloody weekend. Upon checking my account today, I see my monthly, hard earned commission NOT THERE!!! I am in sales doing calls everyday. I have been consistently hitting my commission to earn $1500 (pre tax) every month. Last month was no different, I actually performed BETTER! But to my shock, there was no commission on my check today. I will be bringing this to my manager ASAP when I log in, but I have no idea how to corporately say “fuck you, pay me”? I feel pissed because last month i did DOUBLE the work of other employees getting paid the same. And I wonder if they got commission today……. Feeling overworked and burnt out only to get stiffed on something I earned feels like ass 🙂 Someone give advice how I can get them to pay me what the owe me!