Month: July 2023

At the end of 2021 I was planning on moving out of state after living in Los Angeles/Southern California for 20 years since I was 8. I was in the process of being laid off from my previous role, and was thinking about the next steps. As I was finalizing my plans to move, I was contacted by one of my old coworkers at a huge multi-media conglomerate that one of our print vendors I had worked with pre-pandemic was looking for an account manager. This is a huge print vendor, known nationwide and has international offices, and I guarantee you that as long as you're not a hermit, you've seen stuff we've done in your mail, at the store, at Trade Shows, Comic Con, Las Vegas, you name it. I told them a salary that would keep me in California and allow me to keep up with the cost…

I have a good, solid, full time job. It’s got it’s ups and downs, but it’s generally pretty laid back. Recently, I got an opportunity to travel internationally for a family event. This is a once in a lifetime kind of trip. I would be gone for 6 working days in total. The dates are during a semi-busy time of year, nothing the team can’t handle, but our year end inventory falls on one of those dates that I’ll be gone. My boss is requesting I make it back for that date (leaving me only 3 days to spend in another country). I told them this is not a possibility and that I need the full 6 days. I’m not sure where to go from here. This trip is extremely important to me. I’m one of their top employees. I work hard, and I never ask for this much time…

Yeah, you read the title. It isn't illegal to hire new people. It isn't illegal to pay them less. It is also not illegal to give them my shifts. I have been with the company for a very long time and I have “grandfather'ed” a high hourly pay. The new employees make two thirds what I make (the company posts their starting salary on Indeed). It is all legal and nothing I can do.

I work for walmart as a receiving associate for the last year, but I've worked for the company for 9 years. I get the same pay as a cart pusher or stocker despite me being legally liable on the count of me using walmart's money for deliveries, checking in guns, and lottery tickets. Managers around me do not know how to do my job, which is an entry level job that requires a drug test and a background check but the level above me (a team lead) requires none of those things and they get paid 20 an hour. There is never a right time for a break or a lunch due to the lack of training or concern of the managers here(they have left a vendor waiting for 2 hours because they arrived before I clocked in). I'm tempted to leave due to the lack of parallel responsibility to…

If health scores have to be posted, why not labor law violations? It would certainly allow employees to further understand what they’re getting into. And it puts the onus on the employer to explain how they’ve improved or fixed their issues.

Hi, I've been through irritating conversation with my boss today at work and I want to share. First of all, the company I'm working for doesn't pay the overtime. I'm actually fine with that, because we're really rarely asked to stay longer and when we do, we always have an option to deny if we have some plans. Also, if we actually do stay longer, we count by how much and leave earlier by the same time another day, so it all evens out. They don't make problems about leaving early in those cases. Second of all, I'm commuting to work with two other coworkers. We all leave in a town around 30km from the company so it's cheaper to share the car and save the gas money. Result of this is, if I leave even 15 minutes later, I have to go for a train, for which I have…

According to the gradual changes prior to 1940 we should be working way less than 40 hours by now. Why hasn’t it changed?

I took a new job last year that was a slight pay cut from my last job in exchange for “unlimited PTO”. Now several months into the job, we’re all told it’s now limited PTO…and it’s less PTO than I had at my last job. So now I have a job where I make less money and get less time off. There was no question or lead-up; they just announced it in an all hands meeting as a matter of fact. If you’re Director or above, you still get unlimited PTO, but that’s not me. To be fair, some people were abusing the hell out of the unlimited PTO, but I wasn’t. What, if anything, can I reasonably do? I want to ask for a pay raise since they changed the terms of my compensation (I’ve always been told that PTO is a part of my compensation) without my agreement,…

A while back I worked for a testing lab (during Covid). I had early morning and late nights. My commute to work was 20 minutes but averaged 3 hours home. I drove through dangerous condition including a major un-plowed highway after a big snow storm. I eventually began to have serious joint and muscle pain with serious exhaustion. Thinking it was muscular, I had a note and approval from my boss to leave for Physical Therapy. I managed to identify the symptoms and correlate to a recent fishing trip and was officially diagnosed with Lyme's Disease. I caught it early enough to completely treat it, but over an extended time. After a note and correspondence with my boss, I was given the OK from my boss. I'd still go in, but would be allowed to leave about an hour early to beat the bad traffic. I'd sit in traffic in…