Month: August 2023

I work for a multi-million dollar sports stadium, technically I work for a company that subcontracts to the sports stadium and hires laborers I barely make 20 cents more than minimum wage an hour which after union dues are paid I end up making less than minimum wage an hour. It's also less than what they told me I'd get paid in the interview by 50 cents an hour. I've worked there 3 weeks and I'm still looking for a better job but there's not much in my area that work for me with my disabled child's appointments and my full-time School. I was supposed to get paid Friday I did not get paid though. I log into the app where I've been clocking in and clocking out and somebody in HR refused all of my clock ins and clock outs for that week. I immediately called HR and was…

The top three stresses in life are Health, Money and relationships. All 3 play into each other. Money stress causes poor relationships, it also puts us in a position to not be able to invest in our health because let's face it. The high-quality tools and resources we need cost more than the low quality as the world was designed to keep us sick. Sick people are a huge profit. Sick people also are controllable since we are in survival mode just trying to make it through. Stress of any sort is the number one cause of disease. When we Are stressed and sick we are not at our full potential usually being toxic to the people around us therefore the relationships fail. Imagine being in a position where you are properly educated on how to achieve true health so you have the knowledge and tools to reverse any health…

I feel so conflicted right now. I work as an unarmed security guard for a local agency, and as of lately my main site assigned to me was paying me $23/hr and I was working there 5 days a week. I wasn’t making the absolute best money working that site but It good enough for me to survive. I live in the Seattle area, so I’m sure my fellow locals know how expensive it is to live here. Anyways, I get a text from my supervisor today saying that the contract for that specific site ends TOMORROW, and that all my shifts have been removed the schedule. They then offered me the least desirable site, for the lowest pay available from the company ($17/hr)…for two days. I can’t live off that, I’m barley surviving as is. What the fuck man? This really throws a wrench at my schedule/ pulls the…

Whether or not it makes sense, it would be great to know who to talk to in order to gain some insight as to how a company would realistically have people happy to spend their work day there as opposed to somewhere else. I'm an employee at a company and I don't necessarily like the “culture”. Its a good job with decent pay for everyone, everyone gets along well and its pretty casual but it seems like people are giving notice more and more often. Is the answer simply more money? Or more time off? Is there a consulting firm that I could make an inquiry to to review our company culture and provide feedback? I understand no one wishes to work and would rather not have to, but in reality we all still need to eat. I would like to create a culture here that is the best option…

I like my job, but not my pay. I told this to my boss, he tried to get me a raise, but wasn't able to. So I told him I'm going to look at other jobs and he said he didn't blame me. Found a job, interviewed well and last week, I got an offer for 15% higher pay. I gave my boss notice and he told me to wait so that he could talk to his boss. 3 days later, they came back to match the pay. I figured the new job wasn't exactly my dream gig so I chose to stay with my current job at the new rate. When I told the recruiter that I'm declining their offer, she basically accused me of applying for jobs just so I could negotiate a pay raise at my current job and that it's unethical for me to apply when…

I work for a pretty small city University that will go unnamed. I've worked with a student office on campus that is a pretty integral part to how the campus operates for students and outside visitors. We are very understaffed (even moreso during our summer, when we cut the staff in half outright), and our new manager is very slow in bringing on new hires. Most of that is caused by the corporate hell that lives above him, an office that answers to the president of the university, oversees staff (as well as student staff) and manages payment for their offices. The fiscal year supposedly just ended for this office and they have been recently trying to “rehire” the staff, a process that just involves a few sheets of paperwork for everyone to pretty much put a few signatures here, there and everywhere. Very simple process, it would seem, for…

Today at work I was shown a new app that I can use to text with coworkers (it protects information). I declined the option to install it to my personal phone and my advisor responded by saying “You just don’t like to be available”. I then said “no I don’t outside of office hours”. This is an ongoing trend, as my advisor devotes his life to work even when he is not being compensated. He has no life outside of work. I think he resents that I have strict boundaries with leaving work at work. I don’t even form strong work relationships, I completely separate my home life and work life , which I have also gotten negative comments about. He is older and has a mindset that people should live to work instead of vice versa. As I left I began getting myself worked up because it has nothing…

My specific situation: I am working in a very commercialized city and I am probably going to be laid off. This was and probably might be my best paid job in my early career, and I will most likely have trouble finding another company who is willing to pay that same amount of money for the same level of expectations from my role. At least for a short while until I get a few more years of experience. I have looked at other similar commercial or large cities, near me, and the roles are at least $5,000 less in salary than my current role. I could probably barter the offer, but I assume these companies usually make up their minds about the pay for a role, and would immediately reject a candidate if they ever challenged it. Other than that, I've also considered switching industries, but I either got to…