Month: July 2023

I've had many jobs (retail, hospitality, graphic design, package delivery, desk jobs), but I've finally moved into the tech sector. It's been… interesting. I'm paid a living wage for my area and my team is actually diverse. I thought “things would be different” at this job from those 2 points alone, but there's definitely been problems. I thought the company's product (software related)had a lot of problems that haven't been fixed in the time I've been there, nearly 2 years. Figured I was just imagining things, these things take time too, right? Found out from a coworker that recently quit, who had a higher position, that basically the company is building on new parts and letting the broken ones rot. Never letting their engineers truly stabilize the product, like a ship they keep building on while the original parts fall into the ocean. Part of my job is to report…

At work, they put a notice saying that if we clock in before 8:50 am they can and will correct our time to 8:50 am. I had clocked in at 8:48 or 8:49 because mind you there wasn’t any verbal conversations just a note by the time clock. So at the end of the pay week I checked my time and all of the days I had clocked in at 8:48 or 8:49 they had all been fixed to 8:50. I haven’t checked our handbook . But is this legal?

I work for a franchised tax business that owns multiple spas throughout the east coast. Recently, I brought up health insurance to my coworkers and found out that no one is offered a plan despite their 40+ hour work schedule. My conversation about how everyone deserve rights, even the right to healthcare stirred up some curiosity and one of my coworkers did some digging with their accountant and found out that our employer is fishing over $2,000 per head to the IRS instead of offering health insurance. Is there anything that we can do to at least fight for their right to obtain healthcare? I recently quit my position but I would like to advocate for them if I can.

The title is exactly what happened. I was interviewed, and in the interview process I explained how I’m a full time student. I explain to them what medical track I’m on, and when I’ll graduate undergraduate, and I told them that my course load is heavy. I ask them how this will work out since I’m a full time student, and the hiring manager says they’re flexible. They tell me they’re flexible with scheduling and that they have many college students, and they mention nothing about working 40 hours or this being full time, so I think everything’s good, if I potentially get hired. Weeks go by and I thought I didn’t go get hired, but I was told by the recruiter that there was another process of getting references, and I do that. 2 days after that I’m sent an offer letter, and a pre-employment date where I make…

When r/antiwork first popped on my feed I was severely turned off by the radicalism but over the last year or two I have had a shift in views and feel like I did harm by advocating for a more moderate approach. There was a good episode of “Behind the Bastards” that addressed the movement and really opened my eyes to the method hidden in the madness.

Long story short, I am annoyed by just existing. I am stuck in this weird point of my life where I want to do more in my career, but cannot because I have debt I need to take care of first and I need full-time job in order to survive. Right now, I work as a paralegal in smaller law firm studying for bar exam (have an LL.M. degree here in the U.S. – an Immigrant in the US). It is really hard for me to realize that I have to start working from scratch to prove myself. My long wish is to go to a great law school and become a civil right attorney or work as a judge, but cannot go to law school to do a full-time JD because I cannot afford it due to high tuition and need to take care of my family. I just…

My team and I have all given up on asking for help resolving issue items. So there are issue items that have been sitting around, some are new and some are years old. Today, my manager sent a message to the whole team. If we don't correct the issues soon, they will have to have the other managers find dedicated time to support us. I don't even know how to respond.

It makes me so mad. His exams are extremely stressful and time consuming. He doesn’t get any free time, literally. He finishes work, eats something and studies until it’s time to sleep every single day. I can tell it depresses him. Furthermore, his exams are such that it’s fairly normal to fail one or two however, failing is devastating nonetheless simply because of the sheer amount of effort and time that goes into it. It sucks that employees are treated like this. All that effort and it’s not showing up on paper. He might as well be back in his graduate role. He has to work so hard just to have the same purchasing power he had back when he was making £10k less.