Month: August 2023

My wife never has PTO. She’s required to use up a 2 hour minimum whenever she wants off. She is scheduled 7-3:30 (has daily mandatory overtime) M-F and if she has a doctors appointment at 4 she has to put in 2 hours of PTO to get done at 3:30, when she is scheduled to be done anyway, but it doesn’t stop there. She also has to use PTO until the rest of her team go home. So if she leaves at 3:30 and the rest of her team work until 7:00 she has to use 3.5 hours. She’s had 2 real vacation days this year and is now out (close anyway), everything else has been appointments. I had some issues with a vehicle today and am 2 hours away, stuck in the twin cities. She put in for getting done at 3 (she started an hour early so they’re…

Howdy, first time posting here but I have seen a lot of advice about how business ducks over their employees. And now I have come to this. So my brother has been looking for work and applied to Walmart and their Indeed Website said $17 an hour for meat cutting. But when he went into the interview today he found out it was only $15 an hour and that they struggled to hold onto employees, 2 red flags right off the bat. He's going to get the job but isn't thrilled about being lied to, our mentality is better something than nothing I suppose. I was wondering about the legality of lying about the pay just to get the interview. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

I've worked at my job at a company that is a gov't contractor for almost 10 years. The contract is usually an initial year with x amount of follow on years. Usually, when a contract year ends I get a bonus. This year was the end year of a multi-year contract. I want to leave the company. However, if I hold out long enough a bonus will come through, though it could be another month or two. The company wants me to stay on for additional years on another contract and are assuming that I am going to be doing so and have no clue I'm contemplating moving on. At this point I don't think I'll be staying on, as said company is below my standards for professionalism in many ways, but the pay is very good for me, but still not worth the emotional toll it takes out of…

I still can't wrap my head around it because of how effective the gas lighting was. Over a month ago I was promoted we went from hourly to salary. Great! The company looked at all the overtime I had been taking to complete my work and calculated how much I should get for my salary. Over and over again I was told what a great opportunity this was, and what a great increase in pay this will be. Not only that but they were expanding my team so we would have more people to distribute the labor so we wouldn't have to put in so much overtime. Awesome! Pay raise, and less work! What a great deal. Well weeks went by and my pay never changed. We haven't filled additional roles either so it's just been business as usual with the promise of back pay on the next paycheck that…

Let's start from the beginning, my husband works from home still luckily. However his company, that he has been with for about 6yrs, keeps pushing him to come back to office, and he's told them thats fine but if he works at the office he leaves at 5pm because we live an hour from his work and we only have one car since the pandemic (couldn't afford both payments), if he works from home he doesn't mind working overtime.. They backed off the in office bs and since May he has worked from 8am to 8pm almost every night, and occasionally on Saturdays, averaging about 50 to 60 hours a week. He's the only one in his department working this much, everyone else leaves on time despite a massive load of overtime available. Which like I said he's happy to so long as he can continue working from home. However,…

I worked hard to earn a degree. I have very high aspirations in my field and when I graduated I graduated with a 4.0. I was so excited to start in this new field, IT. Bright eyed and bushy tailed and eager to learn, grow, and develop. I was contacted by a decent company and offered an amazing position. I read the job title and was under the assumption that my manager was a top level technologist ready to take me on and showed me the ropes. I had dreams of all the stuff I would learn and competencies I would attain. I was so excited to start work and start learning and understanding the IT environment and what it entails. During the first 6 months my manager gave me very little actual work to do. I was really puzzled. Literally about 20 minutes of work for an 8 hour…

For the record I do have a bad sleep schedule, so I am usually 1-2 minutes late for work and because it’s a very toxic environment that doesn’t pay well, I typically don’t care I’m a few minutes late. But I just think it’s hypocritical he’s mad at me for being a few minutes late, when he’s been coming in at 10 am this entire week. He even called the office at 830 to make sure I was there on time! Like why get so mad when you’re not even following your own rules?! He literally disappears for hours and no one knows what he’s been doing, he’s not working that’s for sure. He’s also been caught doing illegal drugs in his office too. I just cannot with this place lol. It’s a shame all the work from home jobs are going obsolete because I’d always be on time for…

Sorry probably just a shitpost I guess. I was originally writing this as a response to a comment lol… ​ People act like they have the right to go out to a restaurant but then stiff the server or the delivery driver. I read this stuff on another subreddit. “having the right to eat” is different than “having the right to be served like a lord”, Or delivering a pizza on their personal trusty steed to their highness. The “right to eat” in the country is like, being on food stamps, not eating out. I guess your idea of “enjoying small pleasures” is having others serve you. See my idea of “enjoying small pleasures” would be like… a cup of coffee and sitting outside and listening to the birds or something, or watching a movie in the middle of the day. these small pleasure could be the difference between someone…

i feel like a lot of discussion around work is centered around the fact that it is supposed to be miserable? some people think it's literally punitive; if it sucks it's your fault for not getting a better one. like, there's such an overwhelming facade — how are people still cool with the facade?? it's 2023 and i read a post on here the other day about how someone was acting “”childish”” and “”entitled”” for sitting at a desk with a window. i mean my god, we're all human beings, allegedly! at what point are we going to stop caring about this? and the WFH discussion is insane — it is impossible to gain any headway, because all the standard office drudgery is married to the sort of corporate bullshit language that dominates these discussions. maybe the most important thing isn't productivity! maybe being comfortable at home and getting distracted…