Month: August 2023

I'm an international engineering student doing a two-month voluntary internship at a Fortune 500 company. They promised a 10,000 monthly salary for voluntary interns, which is significantly higher than the 2,500 typically paid to compulsory interns. However, after the first month, I only received 2,500. I reached out to HR, and they claimed they couldn't offer voluntary internships to foreign students. Despite showing evidence of the initial offer, they registered me as a compulsory intern. The HR person who promised to correct this situation left the company, and my salary issue remains unresolved. Living in an expensive city on 2,500 is tough, and it's affecting my well-being. I've invested time in this company with hopes of future employment, which is essential as I need a job to stay in the country after graduation. Going back home isn't an option due to a difficult family situation. HR told me it's my…

I work adjunct remotely for a small community college. The last email I received from the department was May 12th thanking me for turning in my grades. The semester started Monday, and I have received not one email, or phone call, or text message. I sent an email on Monday morning asking if they still needed my services or should I assume I was relieved of duty without notice, and have received no reply. What I did receive, 5 hours after the email was sent, was a notice that a digital course had been created. So not only do I NOT have confirmation if I'm teaching or not, I have a course they are expecting me to set up. I guess in case they have the enrollment they won't confirm with me? I don't work for free, no confirmation, no teaching. It's called basic professionalism.

Hopefully this is the right place for this. So, I work in fast food and my manager has been having personal issues lately, and has been having meltdowns at work for the past 4 or 5 months. We have gotten into it several times where he has literally threatened me physically. I have never said anything because I know he is going through something in his home life and have felt like it would eventually pass and he would level out. That hasn't been the case. The type of stuff he has been doing has been getting out of control. He yells at customers, he goes on the headset to yell at customers in the drive thru when I'm the one doing drive thru, and then I have to deal with the angry customers afterwards. He also yells at fellow employees and slams things around when he's upset. With the…

Sad stories of mistreatment, ignoring, and likening to slavery fill the online posts. Picture this: What if everyone, with or without a union, teamed up to stop working for a single day? How could we make it happen? We often talk and support one another, but what if we harnessed this energy to plan the biggest work strike ever?

So my work just anmounced mandatory saturday overtime. However people with kids arent forced to come in. How does that make any sense? Not to mention how many times i see parents call in due to their kids being sick or something yet i got written up for 7 days off in 14 months due to a medication making me sick.

Hey all, work a production welder job where for every minute you're late you don't get paid for 15 minutes. I don't think this is legal but I'm so exhausted by the end of the day I don't have time to see if this is legal or not. I'm in Ontario, work 630-5 with 2 young kids at home. Yes I'm already looking for a job (preferably an apprenticeship) but as with everyone else, having a rough time getting the interview.

What a life. I'm absolutely miserable. Every day I want to scream how much I hate this. I'm not even employed – I got laid off from a job I didn't particularly like, so now I'm fighting to get back into some other job I don't particularly like. Every day… just refilling forms from my resume, getting ghosted, or not passing interviews. Just so I can… what, have my soul sucked out of me from a mediocre job? Why am I doing this? Why do I have to fight so hard for something I don't even really want? This is the life? Constantly fighting for employment? Even if it get a job, its not going to be my forever job, so I'll have to be thrown back into the shitter of applying for jobs again. I HATE APPLYING FOR JOBS. How can I be competitive if I hate the whole…

My mom has worked as a teacher for about 3 decades now, she enjoys it but I know it exhausts her and it's obviously not lucrative. She would constantly come home exhausted and have no energy to do anything, go to work sixk, and always put her work above everything else. I was talking to her recently and she was telling me how two of her favorite coworkers are retired and she's eligible for an early retirement, but won't take it because then insurance will be too expensive. I've gotten into discussions with my mom in the past about insurance, and she is a firm supporter of privatized healthcare. Her only real argument is that her “taxes will go up” and she's not willing to pay more than she already does. There were years when I was a teenager that my dad and I didn't have health insurance, because it…

This is not about attacking the idea of a living wage. Or that regular people need to have time off. Absolutely not. Everyone deserves the ability to take days off and rest. But financial reality is financial reality. To be able to live people need multiple streams of income. That one singular job isn’t enough. You need to have multiple jobs or sources of income. You can thank the Federal Reserve for creating this kind of insidious form of inflation. It’s literally destroying our country and the economy. The ability for regular Americans to save, have a life, buy a house, plan for a family and a future. All of that is being decimated by this cost of living crisis. If you can’t afford to feed yourself how can you imagine feeding two little kids? Life is very difficult for millions of people.