Month: August 2023

I have a company vehicle. Manager says the first 30 min of travel for the day and the last 30min of travel we are not to clock in and be paid for. If anything happens while in the vehicle I'm responsible. Is this right? Legal?

This has been years ago. Like late 1980's or early 1990's. But I see all kinds of stories on here of shitty jobs and just have to tell mine. I worked in a 24 hour grocery store and was the cheese shop manager which was part of the deli. It was a part time position that could of lead to a full time job. (Now I would fill in all over the store. I think I helped in every department and even the office when they were short handed.) Anyways, each department was only allowed a certain number of full time employees. So being part time I knew I wouldn't be full time unless someone quit or died. Anyways I noticed I was being scheduled 40 hours a week for 19 weeks and scheduled 10 hours the 20th week and then back to 40 hours a week for the next…

I know this is anti work. However, does anyone know of any companies specifically located in the PA or upper north region that are work from home and don’t require you be on the phone just data entry? I’ve been trying for MONTHS to get a job like this to no avail, but I may be looking in the wrong places? Not too sure. I’ve worked a few work from home jobs that require you talk on the phone for basically 8 hours straight and i absolutely hate it.. but those seem to be the only ones that are hiring at least from where I’m looking. Someone PLEASE offer suggestions. I just wanna type, listen to music and block the whole world out.

I applied to be a cashier full time at this store about 10 minutes from where I live and i got the call back for an interview, now I was under the full assumption that the interview would be held at the place I was applying to work at like every single job I’ve ever applied for. But as they are giving out the information they give me an address and I didn’t think much about it (there’s several of these stores in the town I live in so not uncommon to get the address) till I looked it up and it’s almost 3 hours away in the capital of my state to the division branch. I called them back and asked if they gave me the wrong address because it’s unreasonable to expect someone to travel 3 hours one way (6 hours total) with not even 2 days notice…

I understand that it’s a common practice for a manager to lose budget $$ if they asked for a certain amount of money and they didn’t spend it all. It’s incredibly frustrating as an employee to ask for a larger raise and not get it but then see a manager spend tens of thousands of dollars unnecessarily on hardware or software or contracts just so they can get approved for the same amount of money next year. Not only is it wasteful for the company, but it’s a slap in the face for employees. It says, hey we actually could find the money to pay you more, but we choose to needlessly buy stuff so upper management can approve of our inflated budget next year. Sometimes hardware/supplies are cheaper. Sometimes you are able to finagle a deal. Sometimes you have years you might need more money. But when it comes…

Like if they raise their prices along with the rising costs then all that is happening is they're increasing their profits by essentially paying their staff less.

I'm an older working American. I have mutiple college degrees, decades of IT and Supply Chain experience. I've been stuck in an hourly job that I took just prior to Covid. I've tried to get something better, no one wants to hire someone at my age, I assume. I am slowly sinking below the waves financially, on my current pay. In order to survive I filed for Social Security as early as I could. Companies complain no one wants to work. Companies lie.